Recent funding, licensing, foundation, and monetization news from across open source.
Broadcom VMware says it is donating Velero to the CNCF sandbox, a foundation move that could materially affect the Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery ecosystem.
The GNOME Foundation launched a new fellowship program to directly fund contributors working on the project's long-term sustainability.
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee voted to move Tekton up to incubating status, marking a significant foundation milestone for the CI/CD project.
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee voted to accept Fluid as an incubating project, advancing its standing inside the foundation.
CNCF accepted llm-d as a Sandbox project, positioning it as part of the foundation's push to support production AI infrastructure on Kubernetes.
LibreOffice has merged a donation banner into 26.8 development builds, adding a more visible funding prompt that may spark debate with users.
Canonical announced a Gold-level investment in the Rust Foundation, backing the long-term health of Rust and its role across Ubuntu and related systems.