Developer snacks for the weekend – smaller news of the week

In our delicious appetizer overview, we serve everything that didn’t make it into the news but we still think is exciting:

• With a new strategic plan, the Python Software Foundation (PSF) wants to determine the direction of the foundation for the next five years. A full draft is expected to be released in early June to gather community feedback. Building on this, the PSF would like to adopt the final strategic plan in July.
• The feature freeze phase for Python 3.15 started with Python 3.15.0 Beta 1. The first of four planned beta versions brings, among other things, lazy imports for faster starts and the new built-in data types frozendict and sentinel as well as a more powerful JIT compiler.
• GitHub has introduced Enterprise Live Migrations (ELM) as a public preview. With ELM, repositories can be moved from GitHub Enterprise Server to GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency (GHE.com) with virtually no downtime. The cut-over should be completed within minutes.

• The Wicket web framework has been released in version 10 and is now based on Java 17, but is also compatible with Java 21. In addition, Wicket participates in OpenJDK Quality Outreach to improve compatibility with both the latest OpenJDK version and early access variants. Wicket uses OpenRewrite to migrate from version 9.
• With version 3.9, Ditto improves the multi-client capability of the IoT platform: users no longer have to duplicate policies, but they can be grouped into namespaces. Authentications can also be organized via the namespaces.
• The blog RedMonk examined the distribution of licenses at Hugging Face. At the forefront are the permissive licenses Apache 2 and MIT. In the Creative Commons, the non-commercial cc-by-nc-4.0 is leading.

• On May 11, 2026, GNUstep celebrated its 35th birthday. The free and cross-platform software framework replicates the Cocoa macOS programming interface created from NeXTSTEP/OpenStep on other platforms such as POSIX and Windows.
• The web-based bug tracking system MantisBT closes more than 15 security gaps with version 2.28.2. The update also fixes some bugs and regressions and improves compatibility with PHP 8.5.
• Docker’s AI Governance is a central control system for AI agents. It runs directly in the Docker runtime layer and monitors, among other things, access to the network, the MCP server, file systems and credentials.
• Figma to Qt, a plugin for creating Figma designs in applications using the Qt framework, has been released in stable version 1.0.

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