The developers of NixOS have announced the release of NixOS 26.05 "Yarara" — the latest stable version of the distribution built around a declarative system configuration and the Nix package manager. This release will receive bug fixes and security updates until December 31, 2026, while the previous branch NixOS 25.11 "Xantusia" has been declared obsolete and will reach end of support on June 30, 2026. A total of 2842 […]
The ReactOS project has prepared a unified BootCD, replacing the previously separate installation media and LiveCD images. The new image combines the traditional text installer and LiveCD mode on a single medium. Inside the unified BootCD, the updated LiveCD mode now includes an option to launch a fully graphical system installer. The graphical interface is intended to make installation more accessible for new users compared to the long-standing text-based process […]
The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), overseeing the development of AV1/AV2 video encoding formats, IAMF immersive audio format, and AVIF image format, has released project AVM (github.com) 1.0.0, which develops the official reference implementation for the AV2 video encoding format encoder and decoder. AVM includes optimizations for processors based on ARM64, x86_64, and MIPS architectures, implemented using advanced instruction sets like NEON and AVX2 […]
Version 0.9.0 of the uutils coreutils project (Rust Coreutils), which develops an analogue of the GNU Coreutils package written in Rust, has been released. The coreutils package includes over a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. The aim of the project is to create a cross-platform alternative implementation of Coreutils, also capable of running on Windows and Redox […]
The committee managing the GNOME Circle catalog has approved new rules prohibiting the publication of applications generated using AI tools. The GNOME Circle provides a platform for hosting applications and libraries created by third-party developers using GNOME technologies, facilitating their entry into the GNOME ecosystem. Projects showing signs of AI usage for code generation, such as […] will no longer be accepted in GNOME Circle.
The release of MariaDB 12.3.2 has been announced, marking the first stable release of the 12.3 branch. The MariaDB 12.3 branch is classified as a long-term support release and will be maintained until June 2029. Additionally, MariaDB 13.0.1 has been made available, which is in candidate release status. The MariaDB project is a fork of MySQL that maintains backward compatibility while incorporating additional storage engines […].
Bart Piotrowski, who oversees the application catalog infrastructure of Flathub, has announced changes to the Flathub rules that prohibit the use of AI both for developing applications hosted in the catalog and for automating the publication process in Flathub. The rules apply to published applications, add-ons, manifest files, metadata, patches, build scripts, pull requests, and any artifacts created through flatpak-builder […].
A corrective release of the Exim mail server 4.99.4 has been published, addressing a vulnerability (CVE-2026-48840) that leads to the leakage of 16 uninitialized bytes from the process handler's stack in the client-facing IPv6 address information in the SMTP Hello header. In practice, this corrected leak may be exploitable alongside other vulnerabilities to ascertain memory layout in configurations with address randomization (ASLR). The issue manifests starting […].
The release of the Rocky Linux 10.2 distribution, which develops a free build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux capable of replacing classic CentOS, is now available. The distribution is binary-compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and can be used as a replacement for RHEL 10.2 and CentOS 10 Stream. Support for the Rocky Linux 10 branch will be provided until 2035. Installation ISO images of Rocky Linux have been prepared for architectures […].
The initial open release of Vigolium v0.1.13-beta has been published — a vulnerability scanner for web applications that combines traditional deterministic scanning with agent-based auditing based on LLM. The project is available on GitHub and is distributed under the GNU AGPLv3 license, while the commercial part is provided in the cloud Cloud Console, with the core scanner declared open source. Vigolium offers two main modes of operation: vigolium scan — standard […]
Security researcher Asim Manizada has revealed a vulnerability in CIFSwitch — a local privilege escalation in the Linux kernel and the user-space cifs-utils package. The issue affects the handling path of the CIFS/SMB Kerberos/SPNEGO upcall, which is the mechanism through which the kernel's CIFS client requests data from the user-space helper for Kerberos authentication when mounting SMB resources. The description was published after the linux-distros embargo expired; the CVE identifier at the time of publication was still […]
Another experimental release of Wine 11.10 has been published — a compatibility layer for running Windows applications and games on Linux, macOS, and other Unix-like systems. The release came out on May 29, 2026, and continues the development branch after the stable Wine 11.0. The main change was the upgrade of the embedded VKD3D library to version 2.0. VKD3D is used by Wine to implement Direct3D 12 over Vulkan, so […]