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With the increase in availability and deployment of open source software in personal and commercial environments, the Software libre initiative seems to succeed in its aim of putting an end to the predatory vendor lock-in. Especially, during this  period of economic recession the when IT products development costs are rising, open source software are fast becoming viable alternatives. This crisis has adversely affected the corporate budget's allotted for enterprise software and opened the gates for open source software to handle the contingency. The new IT-projects are inclined on customized open source software as favorable decision that allows to develop more with limited budgets. This has supported the cause of open source community that is striving for better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility and lower cost. There have been several grand events surrounding the open source community this year. We decided to discuss on 5 newest updates for open source community.