Most important events of 2020

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The final selection of the most important and notable events of 2020:

  • Transformation of the CentOS project. Decision to discontinue maintenance of CentOS 8 and turn the CentOS project into a testing ground for developing RHEL releases. Creation of Rocky Linux and Lenix projects to continue the ideas of classic CentOS.
  • Unify ZFS code for Linux and FreeBSD. Transformation of “ZFS for Linux” into OpenZFS 2.0 and the transition of FreeBSD to OpenZFS.
  • Mass layoffs, projects and services (Firefox Send, Firefox Notes) in Mozilla. Free floating of the Mozilla WebThings, Servo and Rust projects. Transfer of Thunderbird development to a separate company MZLA Technologies Corporation.
  • Blocking the youtube-dl and Popcorn Time repositories. Google and AMD have taken advantage of the DMCA law to block repositories on GitHub.
    GitHub approved the changes to eliminate unreasonable locks.
  • GitHub took over NPM Inc.
  • The ranking of the most high-performance supercomputers is topped by a cluster based on CPU ARM. NVIDIA announced the purchase of ARM.
  • Moving towards inclusive terminology. Mass withdrawal of projects from using the master name for the main branch in git repositories and renaming incompletely correct terms (master, slave, blacklist, whitelist) in code: Linux kernel, GitHub, LLVM, Go, OpenZFS, Bitbucket, Git, Firefox, Fedora, Google . Removing the Tiny Images collection.
  • New forks: Iceweasle Mobile – a fork of Firefox for Android. Xfce Classic is a fork of Xfce without client-side window decorations. VKD3D-Proton is a fork of vkd3d from Valve. KWinFT is a fork of KWin focused on Wayland Vim9 is a fork of Vim.
  • New projects: Beaker P2P browser. Radicle decentralized collaborative development platform. Monado virtual reality platform.
    Goals assembly system. Collaborative development service Git Forge from Fedora and CentOS projects. Eclipse Theia code editor. Safe-Linking protection technique.
  • Open source projects: Kiwi browser. Google has discovered an implementation of the M: N stream model.
    Paragon Software has released an NTFS driver.
  • Conflicts: Void Linux founder leaves and returns. Actix-web Rust framework repository is removed due to harassment.
  • Litigation: Dismissal of patent GNOME. SFC is preparing a lawsuit against violators of the GPL. Sonos vs. Google patent litigation. The dispute over Rambler rights to Nginx continues in a US court. Bruce Perens won a lawsuit with Grsecurity.
  • Copyright: An initiative to generate all sorts of ringtones to protect against copyright infringement. 520 new packages are included in the Linux patent protection program. Google established an organization to manage open source trademarks.
  • Licenses: Controversial Cryptographic Autonomy License (CAL) that led Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens to quarrel with OSI (Open Source Initiative). Joining of new companies to the initiative to change the terms of license termination for GPLv2 code. Decision to ship LTS versions of Qt only under a commercial license and consider publishing free Qt releases only one year after paid releases.
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