Release Radar · December 2017

It’s time to celebrate a fresh round of releases from our community—many of them 1.0s! The open source projects in this month’s Release Radar are supported by the Apache foundation and used by organizations like Alibaba, Spotify, and AWS. They can also help you build more efficient, beautiful, and robust projects.

Ant Design 3.0

Ant Design is an enterprise-class UI design language and React-based implementation used by Ant Financial, Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and more.

After 20,000 stars and 60 contributions, they’ve released their 3.0 version. Their revamped color palette and new component design will leave you eager to update.

Watch their repository or get the full story on the 3.0 release.

Symfony 4.0.0

Symfony is a set of reusable PHP components and a PHP framework for web projects that can speed up the creation and maintenance of your web apps. Used by organizations like Spotify and Drupal, their 4.0 release should make Symfony even more efficient and easy to use. 4.0 also represents 70 percent less code and fewer files and automates the most common tasks.

Watch the repository or learn more about the updates.

Netlify CMS 1.0.0

Netlify is a CMS for Static Site Generators. Its slick new user experience will have you excited to get publishing.

In addition to the brand-new interface features, their docs have been completely overhauled for clarity and now include sample code snippets.

Watch the repository or check out the release notes.

MelonJS 5.0

MelonJS is an open source HTML5 game engine that helps developers and designers focus on their games. Developers can use the popular tiled map format to easily bootstrap mechanics and levels.

And if you’re new to MelonJS, there tutorials and templates like Space Invaders and Platformer to get you started

Check out their repository or learn more about the latest release.

MXNet 1.0.0

MXNnet is a flexible and efficient library for deep learning that just released their full-fledged 1.0. The latest updates include performance improvements and a robust set of language-specific examples. The team just joined the Apache Incubator program, and we can’t wait to see what’s next for them!

Browse their repository or check out the latest enhancements.

ONNX 1.0

ONNX is an open standard for deep learning tools to interoperate, bolstering innovation in the AI community. Their 1.0 release with partners like Facebook, Microsoft, and AWS hopes to foster an open ecosystem for AI.

Visit their repository or read the AWS launch post.

Like what you see? Check out new projects from our Release Radars in September and October.

Written by

Vanessa Gennarelli

@mozzadrella