Quotero is a new open source DMS, released under the GPL. It is based on the Java platform, and its features include close integration with MS Office and Open Office, email storing, workflow designs, search on content and metadata, a clustered architecture, and more.

Current version is 0.4, and is already in active use. Version 1.0 is planned for september 2008.

As seen on Linuxfr.

Described as the easiest version to use ever, the Drupal 6.0 introduces significant enhancements, notably multi-lingual content support out of the box. It also introduces ajaxy features such as drag and drop menu arrangements, and new core components as OpenID support, and actions and triggers. This release also opens the door to CSS-only themes.

The Nexenta Operating System "is a free and open source operating system combining the OpenSolaris kernel with GNU application userland. NexentaCore is a minimal (core) foundation that can be used to quickly build servers, desktops, and custom distributions tailored for specialized applications. It is already used as the foundation for NexentaStor storage appliance."

It tries to bring the Ubuntu and Debian experience to OpenSolaris. In fact, the Nexenta Operating Sytem even wants to become the official port of Debian/GNU to the OpenSolaris Core.

This 1.0 release will be used as foundation for further Nexenta OS development.

"Grails is a dynamic web-application framework built in Java and Groovy, leveraging best of breed APIs from the Java EE sphere including Spring, Hibernate and SiteMesh". This release features content negociation, REST and JNDI support. Worth checking if you're developing a website on the Java platform.

This 8.3 release of Postgresql announced today includes several performance features like Asynchronous Commit, Spread Checkpoints and L2 Cache Protection as well as features useful for DBAs (CSV Logging, SQL/XML, ENUMs, etc). A look at the features matrix also show that other features made their way in the release, such as

• Autovacuum enabled by default
• Order by nulls
• loadable plugin infrastructure for monitoring the planner
• updatable cursors
• Full Text Search

The release has been announced on the development mailing list and features

• Xen Security Modules (XSM)
• ACPI S3 suspend-to-RAM support for the host system
• Preliminary PCI pass-through support (using appropriate Intel or AMD
  I/O-virtualisation hardware)
• Preliminary support for a wider range of bootloaders in fully virtualised
• (HVM) guests, using full emulation of x86 'real mode'.

KDE, the desktop environment based on the Qt libraries and available in all popular Linux distributions, has reached version 4.0. This is a major step in the development of the project. It is the first version based on QT 4, introduces hardware integration libraries (Solid), multimedia libraries abstracting the backend software (Phonon), a new desktop shell (Plasma), new artwork (Oxygen), etc...

Release 4.0 of the NetBSD operating system is now available. Highlights in the release announcement include "support for version 3 of the Xen virtual machine monitor, Bluetooth, many new device drivers and embedded platforms based on ARM, PowerPC and MIPS CPUs.".

NetBSD is known for its portability and cross-platform availability, and this release confirms this reputation: "NetBSD 4.0 runs on 54 different system architectures featuring 17 machine architectures across 17 distinct CPU families".

Lots of mirrors are available to download NetBSD from.

SugarCRM announced the general availability of Sugar 5.0, the latest of their CRM solution. It boasts new features such as a new Ajax email client, improved Dashboards with new charting capabilities, a new Metadata Driven User Interface, improved Access Control.

Note that the Open Source edition doesn't include all capabilities, as some features are only part of the professional or enterprise editions.

A new on demand offering has been unveiled at the same time.

Sun's PDF rendered, which has its origin back in 2003, has now been released under the LGPL license This is not a PDF generator. It is an all Java tool that renders PDF documents to the screen using Java2D.
Potential uses listed on the project page are:

JPedal, an other Java PDF renderer is also available, but it released under the GPL.