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Released January 2, 2012, FreeDOS 1.1 filled a long gap since the 1.0 release, refining package management and driver support without changing the project's core commitment to MS-DOS compatibility.
Released April 5, 2025, FreeDOS 1.4 updated FreeCOM, FDISK, and the mTCP networking suite, while deliberately keeping the same kernel as 1.3 until the next kernel version is fully tested.
FreeBSD 15.0's actual shipped feature set: 64-bit UFS inodes by default, MIT Kerberos replacing Heimdal, a native inotify(2) implementation, and the first release supporting binary updates via pkg.
The first beta release of Haiku R1 arrived on September 28, 2018 — a milestone that had been anticipated for years, marking the project's transition from alpha-quality software toward an eventual stable 1.0.
Released June 9, 2020, roughly two years after Beta 1, Haiku's second beta arrived as much of the world was under pandemic lockdown — with volunteer development continuing largely uninterrupted.
Released December 23, 2022, roughly a year and a half after Beta 3, Haiku's fourth beta continued the project's pattern of steady, incremental refinement toward an eventual non-beta R1 release.
Released September 13, 2024, Beta 5 closed out nearly 350 bug and enhancement tickets, added a full GDB 15 port, and brought USB audio device support to the system.
Released December 17, 2003, the 2.6 series brought in-kernel preemption, NPTL threading, SELinux, and support for far larger process/user counts — the foundation the kernel built the next two decades on.
Announced by maintainer Chet Ramey on February 20, 2009, Bash 4.0 added key-value associative arrays and several other features that had been requested by scripters for years.
FreeDOS reached its first stable 1.0 release on September 3, 2006 — twelve years after Jim Hall's original 1994 call to build a free DOS.
FreeDOS 1.3 shipped February 20, 2022, continuing the project's roughly five-year major release rhythm with an updated package set.
Released July 29, 2015 as a free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1 users, Windows 10 reached over 75 million devices within a month — a deliberate bet on rapid adoption over per-copy revenue.
Released to manufacturing July 22, 2009 and to the public October 22, 2009, Windows 7 refined Vista's foundations into a release widely regarded as one of Microsoft's most successful, eventually selling over 630 million copies.
FreeDOS 1.2 shipped in December 2016, refreshing the distribution's package set and installer nearly five years after 1.1.
FreeBSD 12.0 arrived on December 11, 2018, bringing UEFI+GELI installer support and a wave of toolchain updates.
FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE, published April 13, 2021, made ZFS-on-root the bsdinstall default — a significant shift for how new FreeBSD systems get set up.
FreeBSD 14.0 was released on November 20, 2023, as the first release from the stable/14 branch — what it brought and why it mattered.
On September 14, 2009, eight years after OpenBeOS began, Haiku shipped its first version the public could actually download and boot — as a live CD, something BeOS itself never offered.
Linux 5.0 shipped March 3, 2019, and Linus Torvalds was explicit that the jump from 4.x to 5.0 didn't signal any major architectural change.
Released March 14, 1994 at 176,250 lines of code, version 1.0 was the point Linus Torvalds and the community considered the kernel stable enough for production use.
Released March 24, 2001 at $129, Mac OS X 10.0 brought Apple's NeXT-derived, Unix-based operating system to consumers for the first time.
Released July 27, 1993, Windows NT 3.1 was the first shipping version of the from-scratch, Dave Cutler-led operating system that underlies every Windows release since.
Announced June 24, 2021 by Panos Panay and released October 5, 2021, Windows 11 brought a redesigned interface and stricter hardware requirements.