Linux Foundation Newsletter: May 2026

Welcome to the May 2026 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter. May is a big month for learning, certification, and career growth across the Linux Foundation community. The first-ever Mega May Cyber Boost is here, bringing a little extra arcade energy to professional development with savings of up to 65% on vendor-neutral training, certifications, bundles, subscriptions, and instructor-led courses across Linux, cloud native, cybersecurity, AI, embedded systems, and more. Offer ends May 20. Beyond education, this month’s newsletter highlights how open source is moving deeper into production systems across AI infrastructure, cloud native, energy, finance, cloud cost management, networking, digital trust, media, and safety-critical software. You’ll find updates on model inference, agent gateways, Kubernetes and observability, production energy systems, financial services infrastructure, responsible AI governance, and a busy global events calendar. Here are this month’s highlights: Training gets a May power-up: The first-ever Mega May Cyber Boost brings savings of up to 65% on Linux Foundation training, certifications, bundles, subscriptions, and instructor-led courses through May 20. Start with the full promotion or browse current training options — Mega May Cyber Boost , Linux Foundation Training LF projects keep powering AI infrastructure: PyTorch Foundation project vLLM delivered Day 0 support for DeepSeek V4, while LF AI & Data’s Agentgateway crossed 5 million downloads since the start of the year, showing how LF-hosted projects are becoming part of the operating layer for open models, inference, gateways, and agentic workloads — vLLM + DeepSeek V4 , Agentgateway 5M Downloads Open source is showing up in industry infrastructure: Across energy, finance, and cloud cost management, LF communities are turning shared code into production systems, from TenneT’s 10× faster grid security analysis with PowSyBl to FINOS’s open source fabric for high-performance computing and FinOps X’s focus on AI, SaaS, data center, and token economics — TenneT and PowSyBl , This Week at FINOS , FinOps Foundation Open infrastructure keeps expanding: Core projects continue to ship across cloud native, AI, networking, and observability, including Kubernetes v1.36, ONNX v1.21.0, eBPF security work, and practical migration guidance for modern platform teams. Read the latest releases and updates — Kubernetes v1.36 , ONNX v1.21.0 , eBPF Security Update Events season is heating up: LF communities are gathering across North America, Europe, and Asia, with Open Source Summit North America, the LF AI & Data Mini Summit, FinOps X, the Open Source Policy & Ecosystem Forum, DPDK Summit, and AAIF’s AGNTCon + MCPCon events in Tokyo, Amsterdam, and San Jose. Mark your calendar — Open Source Summit North America , LF AI & Data Mini Summit , AGNTCon + MCPCon Fall Events » Read on for even more news, research, and opportunities from across the Linux Foundation.