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Real, dated releases and announcements — verified against official sources, not speculation.
Accepted as an incubating CNCF project on March 29, 2017, containerd split out the core container-runtime functionality from Docker itself — becoming the shared runtime foundation much of the ecosystem, including Kubernetes, later standardized on.
Deprecated in December 2020 and fully removed in the April 2022 release of Kubernetes 1.24, dockershim's removal ended direct Docker Engine support in kubelet — a roughly 16-month migration window the project deliberately built in.
Started as a Deis project on October 15, 2015, Helm brought familiar package-manager concepts to Kubernetes — later merging with Google's Deployment Manager to become the Helm 2 the ecosystem would standardize on.
Founded June 22, 2015 by Docker, CoreOS, and a broad industry coalition, the OCI set out to make container images and runtimes portable across tools and vendors rather than tied to any one implementation.
Accepted on May 9, 2016, Prometheus became the CNCF's second project after Kubernetes itself — an early, deliberate signal that observability, not just orchestration, belonged at the center of the cloud-native stack.
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.
Marking a quarter-century since the June 1994 announcement, FreeDOS's 25th anniversary in 2019 brought renewed attention from Slashdot, Opensource.com, and Linux Journal to a project still actively releasing new versions.
On December 31, 2001, Microsoft stopped supporting and patching MS-DOS 6.22 and older versions — though DOS embedded within Windows 95/98/Me lingered in support for years afterward.
On June 29, 1994, a Usenet post to comp.os.msdos.apps proposing a public-domain DOS kicked off what would be renamed Free-DOS weeks later — a direct response to Microsoft's plans to fold MS-DOS into Windows 95.