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Red Hat has announced the release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 distribution. Ready-to-use installation images have been prepared for registered users of the Red Hat Customer Portal (public ISO images of CentOS Stream 10, as well as free RHEL builds for developers, can be used for functionality evaluation). The release has been built for architectures x86_64, s390x (IBM System z), ppc64le (POWER9), and Aarch64 (ARM64). As […]
The developers of Ubuntu Linux have announced a change in the release composition of Ubuntu Desktop 25.10, scheduled for October 9 of this year. In the upcoming release, two new applications will be used by default: the Ptyxis terminal emulator and the Loupe image viewer, which will replace the previously included GNOME Terminal and Eye of GNOME. The Ptyxis and Loupe applications were previously included by default in […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2025-4802) has been identified in the standard C library Glibc, allowing execution of code with the privileges of another user set when launching applications with the suid flag. The danger of the issue is mitigated by the conditions under which it manifests — Glibc developers were unable to find any suid program to which the found vulnerability would apply. However, it is not ruled out that in practical use […]
Debian developers announced the transition of Debian 13 to a hard freeze stage before the release, during which the process of migrating key packages and packages without autopkgtests from unstable to testing is completely halted, and the phase of intensive testing and fixing blocking release issues has begun. The hard freeze stage is considered a necessary interim step before the complete freeze, which covers all packages. The complete freeze […]
An experimental branch release of the APT 3.1.0 (Advanced Package Tool) has been formed, upon which a stable release 3.2 will be prepared after stabilization. The new APT branch will be integrated into Debian Unstable and will not be included in the upcoming Debian 13 release. Among the new features: New commands 'apt why' and 'apt why-not' have been added. In .sources files […]
Microsoft has announced the opening of a toolkit that supports the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), allowing Linux applications to run on Windows. It is noted that anyone can now build WSL from the source code and participate in development. Among other things, Microsoft has started accepting fixes and new features for WSL prepared by community members. The code is published under the MIT license. […]
The release of the composite server Niri 25.05 has been published, implementing a tiling layout style method inspired by the GNOME extension PaperWM, where windows are grouped into an infinitely scrollable ribbon on the screen. Opening a new window causes the ribbon to expand, while previously added windows do not change size. The project is based on the use of the Wayland protocol but allows X11 applications to run via the Xwayland DDX server. […]
The codebase for the upcoming GNOME 49 release in September has accepted the Mutter SDK (Mutter Development Kit), which implements a new way to interact with the Mutter compositor and the GNOME Shell environment. The Mutter SDK allows for running a nested instance of the GNOME Shell within a GTK application to simplify testing of Mutter and GNOME Shell during development. Nested instances […]
The release of the git-bug 0.9 project has been published, developing a bug tracking system that stores information about issues and comments in the form of objects in a Git repository. Similarly to changes in source code, the git-bug toolkit allows you to push tracked bug information to external repositories and pull data from external repositories to your local repository. The project's code […]
The GNU project has introduced the free electronic payment system GNU Taler 1.0. The version number 1.0 is assigned as the platform is ready for the implementation of operational payment services and stabilization of software interfaces, for which backward compatibility will be ensured in the future. Points of sale using the payment service based on GNU Taler can now be legally established in Switzerland and used by individuals and legal entities […]
The eleventh corrective update of the Debian 12 distribution has been formed, which includes accumulated package updates and installer fixes. The release includes 81 updates addressing stability issues and 45 updates fixing vulnerabilities. Changes in Debian 12.11 include updates to the latest stable versions of the dpdk, nvidia-graphics-drivers, nvidia-settings, openssl, postgresql-15, and wireless-regdb packages. Packages […]
Nate Graham, a quality control developer in the KDE project, has published another development report on KDE. It has also been announced that the KDE Plasma 6.4 branch has entered beta testing, with a freeze on the codebase against functional changes (only fixes are allowed). The release of KDE Plasma 6.4 is scheduled for June 17. The improvements adopted in KDE Plasma 6.4 include […]