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The Sovereign Fund has allocated 508,000 euros for the development of Flatpak

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The developers of the toolkit for building self-contained Flatpak packages have announced that the STF (Sovereign Tech Fund) has allocated 508,000 euros to fund the development and growth of the project until the end of 2027. The funds are planned to be used to remove platform limitations and create new XDG portals for secure access to external resources from isolated environments. Among the new features planned for implementation: A mechanism […]

Update of the Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS distribution

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Canonical has released the first corrective version of the Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS distribution, which includes updates for several hundred packages related to fixing vulnerabilities and issues affecting stability. The new version also addresses bugs in the installer and bootloader. The release of Ubuntu 26.04.1 marks the completion of the basic stabilization of the LTS release — users of the previous LTS branch, Ubuntu 24.04, will now be prompted to […]

Release of Bubblewrap 0.12, a layer for creating isolated environments

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A new version of the toolkit for managing isolated environments, Bubblewrap 0.12, has been released, which is used to restrict individual applications of unprivileged users. In practice, Bubblewrap is used by the Flatpak project as a layer for isolating applications launched from packages. Isolation utilizes traditional Linux container virtualization technologies, based on cgroups, namespaces, Seccomp, and SELinux. The project code is written […]

The sixth beta release of the Haiku R1 operating system

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After two years of development and a week after the project turned 25, the sixth beta release of the Haiku R1 operating system has been published. The project was originally created in response to the closure of BeOS and was developed under the name OpenBeOS but was renamed in 2004 due to trademark claims related to the name BeOS. To evaluate the work […]

Chrome 152 Release

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Google has released version 152 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free Chromium project, which forms the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium by using Google logos, having a crash notification system, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, constant Sandbox isolation, providing keys to Google API, and transmitting RLZ parameters […]

Release of the LibreOffice 26.8 office suite

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The Document Foundation has released version 26.8 of the LibreOffice suite. Ready-to-install packages are available for various Linux distributions, Windows, and macOS. Notable changes include: Different background colors for the top panel (Notebookbars) in different modules (Writer, Calc, Draw, and Impress). Category tabs have been added in the tabbed tool splitting mode. The ability to switch between tabs has been added in […]

The first release of mklinux for simultaneous execution of multiple Linux kernel instances

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The first public release of the Multikernel Linux project (mklinux-v7.0-mk2), which is developing a variant of the Linux kernel enhanced with the ability to run multiple independent kernel instances on a single physical computer without using a hypervisor and virtualization, has been presented. Each kernel instance has direct access to hardware resources and can be used to run separate isolated system environments. The first release is based on Linux kernel 7.0 and contains […]

Armbian 26.8 released, a distribution for single-board computers

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The release of the Armbian Linux distribution 26.8 is now available, providing a compact system environment for single-board computers powered by ARM, RISC-V, and x86 architectures, supporting various models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard based on Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale/NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa, and Samsung Exynos processors. To create builds […]

Release of the COSMIC desktop environment 1.7.0

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System76, the developer of the Pop!_OS Linux distribution, has released the COSMIC desktop environment version 1.7.0. Packages for COSMIC 1.7.0 are available in the Pop!_OS 24.04 distribution and are expected soon in Fedora, NixOS, Arch Linux, openSUSE, Aeyrin OS, Redox, and CachyOS. The code is written in Rust and is distributed under the GPLv3 (applications) and MPL-2.0 (libraries) licenses. COSMIC is evolving as a universal […]

Firefox 154.0.1 is available. Firefox 157 is set to include JPEG-XL.

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A corrective release of Firefox 154.0.1 is available, introducing six fixes: Issues causing slow access to saved passwords have been resolved, and unnecessary prompts for entering the master password to unlock the password store have been eliminated. A bug that prevented address auto-fill on certain websites has been fixed. An issue causing HTTP connection setup failures with local network devices without prior […]

The Linux kernel has turned 35 years old

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On August 25, 1991, after five months of development, 21-year-old student Linus Torvalds announced in the comp.os.minix newsgroup the creation of a working prototype of the new operating system Linux, marking the completion of the porting of bash 1.08 and gcc 1.40. The first public release of the Linux kernel was presented on September 17. Kernel 0.0.1 was 62 KB in compressed form and contained […]

Release of Vanilla OS 3 distribution, utilizing containers and atomic updates

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After two years of development, the release of the user distribution Vanilla OS 3, based on the Debian package base, has been published, going beyond a standard rebuild. The operating environment in Vanilla OS is mounted in read-only mode and updated atomically, while applications run in separate containers using a layer based on Distrobox tools. An unmodified GNOME is offered as the user environment, […]

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