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Release of Coreboot 25.12, an open alternative to proprietary firmware.

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The release of CoreBoot 25.12 has been published, developing a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS. The project's code is released under the GPLv2 license. This new version includes 680 changes, prepared with the participation of 110 developers. Major changes include support for the following motherboards: ASRock Z77 Extreme4, ASUS PRIME H610I-PLUS D4, Lenovo ThinkPad: T470s, T580, Siemens MC EHL: MC EHL6, Star Labs Starfighter: […]

Mullvad has introduced GotaTun, a WireGuard VPN implementation in Rust.

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The VPN provider Mullvad, which is developing the Mullvad Browser and providing infrastructure for the Mozilla VPN service, has introduced the GotaTun project that implements the WireGuard VPN protocol, written in Rust and operating in user space. The project's code is distributed under the BSD license. Mullvad has already utilized GotaTun in the VPN client for the Android platform and plans to transition its applications to it next year.

Release of the OpenWrt distribution 24.10.5

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The release of OpenWrt version 24.10.5 has been announced, developed for networking devices such as routers, switches, and access points. OpenWrt supports 2849 devices and offers a build system that simplifies cross-compilation and creation of custom builds. Such builds allow for ready-made firmware with the desired set of pre-installed packages, optimized for specific tasks. Ready-made builds have been published for 39 target platforms. Major changes in […]

Release of Lanemu P2P VPN 0.13.1

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The release of Lanemu P2P VPN 0.13.1 has occurred — an implementation of a decentralized virtual private network operating on a Peer-To-Peer principle, whereby participants are connected to each other rather than through a central server. Network participants can locate each other through BitTorrent trackers or BitTorrent DHT, or via other network participants (peer exchange). The application is a free and open source alternative to Hamachi VPN, written […]

Release of proprietary NVIDIA driver 590.48.01

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NVIDIA has released the proprietary driver NVIDIA 590.48.01 (the first stable release of the new branch 590.48). The driver is available for Linux (ARM64, x86_64), FreeBSD (x86_64), and Solaris (x86_64). NVIDIA 590.x is the twelfth stable branch following NVIDIA's opening of components operating at the kernel level. The source texts for the kernel modules nvidia.ko, nvidia-drm.ko (Direct Rendering Manager), nvidia-modeset.ko, and nvidia-uvm.ko (Unified Video Memory) […]

Development tools for the Aurora OS using Flutter have been released

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The company 'Open Mobile Platform', which develops the Aurora OS (a fork of the Sailfish platform), has announced the opening of the source code for the Aurora Embedder library and updates to the Flutter SDK toolkit, intended for application development for the Aurora OS. The Aurora Embedder, responsible for integrating the Flutter framework with the Aurora OS, was previously developed as a closed product and was distributed only in the form of ready-made Flutter builds for the OS […]

The system manager systemd 259 is now available.

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After three months of development, the system manager systemd 259 is now available. Key changes include support for the Musl standard library, the command "run0 —empower" for executing privileged actions without changing UID, dynamic loading of third-party libraries required by libsystemd, and ignoring configuration files by adding ".ignore" to the name. Among the changes in the new release: Partial support for the Musl standard C library has been added, enabled by setting […]

Firefox 146.0.1 update. Firefox will have an option to completely disable AI.

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A corrective release of Firefox 146.0.1 is now available, fixing 3 vulnerabilities caused by accessing already freed memory areas (CVE-2025-14860) and buffer overflows (CVE-2025-14861). These issues could potentially allow an attacker to execute code by opening specially crafted pages. Additionally, several non-security issues have been resolved: Increased text contrast in the sidebar when using […]

Release of OpenZFS 2.4.0, a ZFS implementation for Linux and FreeBSD

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After 11 months of development, the release of OpenZFS 2.4.0 has been published, advancing the implementation of the ZFS file system for Linux and FreeBSD. The project became known as "ZFS on Linux" and was previously limited to developing a module for the Linux kernel, but after merging with code from FreeBSD, it was recognized as the main implementation of OpenZFS and renamed. OpenZFS has been tested with Linux kernels starting from 4.18 […]

Debian is testing Debusine, a personal repository system in the style of PPA.

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The Debian project has begun testing the Debusine system, which allows the creation of custom repositories for distributing newer versions of software, conducting pre-testing of packages, or hosting additional packages that do not fit into the standard Debian repositories. Debusine is presented as a Debian counterpart to PPA (Personal Package Archive) repositories used in Ubuntu. The project is being developed by Colin Watson, […]

An open standard for describing 3D scenes, OpenUSD Core 1.0, has been introduced.

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The AOUSD alliance (Alliance for OpenUSD), overseen by the Linux Foundation, has published the OpenUSD Core Specification 1.0, defining a universal format and language for describing 3D scenes optimized for collaborative work on 3D content. The specification is presented as an open standard for creating 3D content and exchanging data between different 3D editors and platforms. Companies such as Pixar, Lucasfilm, […] have participated in the development of the specification.

The OSI organization has published a ranking of the popularity of open licenses.

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The Open Source Initiative (OSI), responsible for verifying licenses for compliance with Open Source criteria, has published a ranking of the popularity of open licenses. The positions in the ranking are calculated based on the number of page views of information about each license. The data is presented after filtering out bot activity. The MIT license leads by a significant margin, followed by licenses like Apache 2.0, BSD3, BSD2, GPL 2 […]

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