Version 5.0 2026-9-9
- NEW: Open Channels News launched July 27th, 2026, with host Robert Jacobi. Open source news streamed 2-4 days a week.
- NEW: Launched Open Signal, podcast/channel #5, commentaries hosted by our founder, Bob Dunn
- NEW: Open Channels FM Site Chat. Installed Jetpack Site Chat, Now you can ask anything across all our episodes, blog posts and pages. You will find the AI stat icon in the lower left-side.
- NEW: Open Source Champions, an added support for listeners to be able to support us and open source with profiles
- NEW: Exclusive profiles for our sponsors
- NEW: Adding series to four of our podcasts for their duration
- NEW: Added latest news feature to the homepage
- UPDATE: Starting a shift in content toward broader conversations. Philosophy, trends, and the bigger picture of what’s happening in open source and the open web today and in the future
- UPDATED: Added Jetpack AI Search for a more powerful site search.
- UPDATED: Omnisend continues as a sponsor for the third year
- UPDATED: A refocus of our YouTube channel dedicated to Open Channels News.
- UPDATED: Cleaned up and simplified the main navigation
- FIXED: A clean-up of content and images for episode and blog posts for consistency. Whew! 1,000+
- FIXED: Did the right thing, accessibility-wise, and eliminated a lot of centered text
- FIXED: Moved our sponsors to the top right sidebar on our episode pages
