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OpenBB V5 swaps AGPL for Apache-2.0 and cuts sixteen provider packages.

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◆Current state
OpenBB V5 ended the feed's five-month silence on September 30. The repository license moved from AGPL-3.0-only to Apache-2.0, the openbb metapackage reached 5.0.0, and packaging moved from Poetry to hatchling and uv. Eighteen directories were dropped, including sixteen provider packages, with one new provider, openbb-jodi. The release also adds layered openbb.toml config, OBBStream streaming, decoupled charting, CLI 2.0 and refactored API and MCP layers. ODP Desktop moved to v2.0.0 the same day.
◆Where it's heading
V5 turns the earlier trimming into an explicit reset. Removing providers and decoupling charting shrink what the team maintains, while spec-driven API and MCP proxies and code generation make the remaining platform easier to build on. The license change points the same way, opening the code to a wider set of adopters.
◆Prediction
Expect V5 point releases to fix breakage from the refactor, plus provider work now owned by provider packages. Whether removed providers return as third-party extensions is not stated in the entries.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1mo ago

    OpenBB V5: Apache-2.0 license, 16 providers cut, hatchling packaging

    The removal pattern of V4 becomes a full major version: a new license, new packaging and sixteen fewer provider packages. The move from AGPL to Apache-2.0 changes who can adopt the project more than any feature here.

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  2. 1mo ago

    Rolling auto-updater tag now points to Desktop v2.0.0

    The rolling tag that feeds the auto-updater now points at v2.0.0. Not a release in itself.

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  3. 1mo ago

    ODP Desktop 2.0 ships with the V5 refactor

    The desktop app takes a major version alongside V5. Its notes are a raw commit log of the V5 refactor, so what changed for desktop users specifically is hard to separate out.

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  4. 6mo ago

    Rolling pointer tag that feeds the desktop auto-updater

    Not a release — a permanent tag that always points at the newest stable desktop build and hosts the latest.json the auto-updater polls. It currently mirrors v1.0.2 and will keep re-pointing with every future patch.

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  5. 6mo ago

    Desktop 1.0.2 adds a Clear Logs button, drops shipped binaries

    A small post-1.0 patch in the same maintenance register as 1.0.1: one user-facing control in the log windows, an openssl bump, and removal of dll and dylib files from the repository. The desktop app is being kept clean rather than extended.

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  6. 8mo ago

    OpenBB V4.7.0

    The platform's most recent release keeps the removal pattern going — the Polygon provider module is gone — while adding Python 3.14 and Pandas 3.0 support and new data. A large first-time contributor list suggests the extension-authoring path opened in 4.6.0 is drawing people in.

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