What is the Release Radar?
Most open-source apps update quietly: a new version appears on GitHub, and unless you follow the project you only find out months later. This page fixes that. We track 250 well-known free and open-source projects — media tools, graphics suites, note apps, password managers, self-hosted servers, programming languages, developer tools and everyday utilities — and show their latest stable version at a glance, newest first.
Only genuinely open-source software
Every tracked project ships under a recognized open-source license: MIT, Apache-2.0, GPL, BSD, MPL and similar. Projects that switched to restrictive source-available licenses are excluded — or replaced by their community forks, which is why you will see OpenTofu here rather than Terraform. If a tool on this page says “open source”, it really is.
How fresh is this data?
The list is collected automatically every morning (around 08:00 in Central European time) when the site rebuilds, and again after every content update. Unlike our other GitHub-powered pages, the data here comes as a small ready-made file from our own server — so it loads instantly and is never blocked by GitHub's rate limits. Only stable versions are shown: betas and release candidates are skipped automatically, and projects that publish no formal releases (some mirrors) show their newest tag instead.
Why follow releases?
Three reasons. Security: many releases patch vulnerabilities, so an outdated app is often an unsafe app. Features: open-source projects move fast, and big improvements land every few weeks. Planning: if you host software yourself — Nextcloud, Immich, Home Assistant — you want to know what changed before you update your server.
Reading each card
The bold name links to the release page on GitHub, where you will find the changelog
and download files. The tag (for example v4.2.1) is the version
identifier, and the date tells you how fresh the release is. Click through before
updating a self-hosted service: the changelog warns you about breaking changes and
migration steps. Use the category chips to narrow the list — for example, only
self-hosted servers or only developer tools — or search for a specific project.