The European Open Source Academy (EOSA) has awarded Greg Kroah-Hartman the 'Excellence in Open Source 2026' award, presented by the European community for outstanding contributions to open source software development. Greg is responsible for maintaining the stable and 'staging' branches of the Linux kernel, serving as a maintainer in 16 kernel subsystems, including USB, TTY, and Driver core, and […]
On January 30, version 7.4.1 of the specialized Tails distribution was released. Changes include: OpenSSL updated to version 3.5.4, which fixes several critical security vulnerabilities (DSA 6113-1). These vulnerabilities may be exploited to compromise user anonymity. Tor has been updated to version 0.4.8.22. Thunderbird has been updated to version 140.7.0. Gmail authentication has been fixed in Thunderbird. A loading indicator has been added when opening Wi-Fi settings […]
Google has announced the renaming of the SQL analyzer ZetaSQL to GoogleSQL. The project is developing tools for parsing and analyzing grammar, semantics, types, data models, and functions for the SQL language and the GoogleSQL dialect. Notably, the GoogleSQL dialect allows for query joins using unnamed channels (pipes) and is used across various Google products and services, including BigQuery, Spanner, F1, BigTable, Dremel […]
A new version of Look4Sat, a satellite tracker for Android inspired by GPredict, has been quietly released. I finally found enough time between family and work to finish and release v4, which has been pending in the develop branch. Key changes include a completely redesigned interface on Jetpack Compose and Material3, a shift to using BottomNavigation, and support for adaptive interfaces for tablets. For now […]
smolBSD is an operating system built on NetBSD. It allows you to create your own UNIX environment in just a few minutes — from a single-purpose system (microservices) to a fully customizable OS image. The project website smolBSD.org states that with smolBSD, you can assemble and launch your own customized BSD system in just seconds. It is also easy to create […]
The release of the free boot firmware Libreboot 26.01 has been announced, which has achieved stable release status. The project builds on the Coreboot project, providing a replacement for proprietary UEFI and BIOS firmware responsible for initializing the CPU, memory, peripherals, and other hardware components, minimizing binary insertions. Libreboot aims to create a system environment that can do without proprietary software as much as possible […]
The developers of the Tor project have released Arti 2.0.0, the officially maintained version of the Tor toolkit, written in Rust. The implementation is marked as suitable for regular users and provides the same level of privacy, usability, and stability as the main implementation in C. When the Rust code reaches a level capable of fully replacing the C version, the developers intend to provide […]
The release of the distributed version control system Git 2.53 has been announced. Git is known for its high performance and provides tools for non-linear development based on branching and merging. To ensure the integrity of history and resilience against "backdating" changes, implicit hashing of the entire previous history is used in each commit, along with digital signatures by developers for individual tags and commits. The Git code […]
The release of the uutils coreutils project 0.6.0 (Rust Coreutils), a development of the GNU Coreutils package written in Rust, has been published. The coreutils include over a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. The goal of the project is to create a cross-platform alternative implementation of Coreutils capable of running on Windows, Redox […]
The developers of GNU/Hurd have reported significant progress in the development of the operating system. According to Samuel Thibault, one of the main developers of the project, GNU/Hurd has achieved substantial improvements in device driver support thanks to integration with NetBSD’s rump layer. Additionally, support for SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing) has been enhanced, allowing the system to make better use of modern multi-core processors. The port for x86_64 […]
A new version of GNOME Resources 1.10 has been introduced — a system monitoring application in the GNOME environment, which is now used by default, for example, in the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. GNOME Resources 1.10 adds support for monitoring AMD Ryzen AI NPU and other new features. Fixes: item names have been announced for screen reader applications; navigation through sections has been improved […]
Chris Mason, the creator and maintainer of the Btrfs file system, has published the review-prompts project, which contains a collection of scripts and prompts for configuring the process of reviewing changes in the Linux kernel and the system manager systemd, using AI assistants such as Claude Code. The package includes files to clarify the features of various subsystems and protocols, allowing the AI assistant to better understand the context during the review.