FreeDOS is open source software! It doesn’t cost anything to download and use FreeDOS. You can also share FreeDOS for others to enjoy! And you can view and edit our source code, because all FreeDOS programs are distributed under the GNU General Public License or a similar open source software license.
FreeBASIC released version 1.10.0 a few months ago - but we missed sharing the news. Congratulations to FreeBASIC on this new release. Read the full changelog for details. Download the new release from the FreeBASIC SF project. We also mirrored this version on the FreeDOS Files Archive at Ibiblio, under /files/devel/basic/freebasic
lDebug (that's with a small L) is a 86-DOS debugger that replaces the classic DOS Debug program. The latest version (release 6) is available today! The new version includes several cool new features and fixes bugs. Some features were suggested on the FreeDOS feature request tracker, including "style 2" and "style 3" alternative symbolic flag displays. Lists can be specified as words or dwords. The DT "dump text table" command can translate numbers to text. lDebug can read a config file on startup. More details are found in the mailing list announcement. Get it from the lDebug website.
UPX is a free, secure, portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for several executable formats. The new version 4.1.0 is a bugfix release. You can get the new release, including a version for DOS, at the UPX website.
Mateusz Viste has released a new text editor called Sved. Short for "SvarDOS editor," Sved is a no-frills text editor; it just edits text. It has a low memory footprint and is only a few kb in size. Runs on 8086-class machines with as little as 256kb of memory, auto-detects color and mono displays and unusual text modes, and supports multilanguage UI. Find it at svardos.org/sved
MicroWeb is a web browser for DOS! It is a 16-bit real mode application, designed to run on minimal hardware. Version 0.53 (released July 8) added support for 640x400 mode used by Olivetti M24, AT&T PC 6300, Compaq Portable II/III, and Toshiba T310, and updated mTCP library to version to 2023-03-31. Get it from the MicroWeb GitHub.
Leah has created dosfetch, a neofetch workalike for DOS. If you don't know neofetch, it is an open source system information tool for Linux, Mac, and Window. dosfetch generates a report of basic system information. MIT license, written in TP7. Find it at the dosfetch GitHub.