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Open-source developments interpreted for engineers: significant project releases, licensing shifts, and dependencies worth adopting, watching, or avoiding.

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Rolldown 1.0 ships a stable Rust bundler — and becomes Vite's default

Vite's new Rust-based bundler reaches its first stable release: 10–30× faster than Rollup, on par with esbuild, Rollup-plugin-compatible, and now the default bundler in Vite 8.

May 7SeniorStaff

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Open Source

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Redis is open source again — AGPLv3 lands with Redis 8

A year after the SSPL relicensing spawned the Valkey fork, Redis 8 adds the OSI-approved AGPLv3 as a license option and folds the Stack modules into core.

May 1, 2025SeniorStaffPrincipalArchitect

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