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On August 4, the release of Wild 0.10 took place — a free linker written in Rust, designed primarily for fast program builds in Linux. The linker performs the final stage of compilation: it combines object files and libraries into a ready executable or shared library. Wild can serve as a replacement for GNU ld, LLD, and Mold, although the developers' stated ultimate goal is […]
On August 3, 2026, Greg Kroah-Hartman, who maintains the stable branches of Linux and the staging subsystem, announced new rules for accepting changes into the drivers/staging directory. This decision was prompted by the recent "invasion of created LLM patches." Now, patches prepared by language models for this part of the kernel will be automatically rejected, except for confirmed fixes of real vulnerabilities. The drivers/staging directory is used for hosting […]
A mass attack on packages in the NPM repository has been recorded, conducted using a new self-replicating worm ChainDrop that injects malware into dependencies. As a result of the attack, 2,212 malicious releases have been published for 444 packages. The most popular among the compromised packages, keyv, flat-cache, and file-entry-cache, have seen 154, 149.9, and 147.6 million downloads weekly. The worm's loader was placed in setup.mjs files […]
One of the developers of GNOME Calendar (Hari Rana) publicly raised a conflict with the maintaining package in the Linux Mint distribution. The conflict arises from the fact that Linux Mint ships a package with a modified, outdated version of GNOME Calendar. Despite the specific changes, the application is provided under the name GNOME Calendar, leading users to believe they are using the original project. In […]
Collabora has introduced the Holo Core project, in collaboration with Valve, which has prepared a customized edition of the Arch Linux distribution for the AArch64 platform. Holo Core is designed for use with SteamOS on the Steam Frame device, combining a personal computer, 3D headset, and two 3D controllers. The development of Holo Core was necessary as the Arch Linux distribution underlying SteamOS is only available for the architecture […]
The release of Whonix 18.2 has taken place, aimed at providing guaranteed anonymity, security, and private information protection. This distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux and utilizes Tor for anonymity. The project's developments are distributed under the GPLv3 license. Virtual machine images are prepared for download in ova format for VirtualBox (2.6 GB with LXQt and 1.5 GB console) and qcow2 for the hypervisor [...]
The Frame project is developing a new X-server, entirely written in NASM assembly for the x86_64 architecture and designed to run on Linux without external dependencies. Interaction with the Linux kernel, including DRM/KMS and evdev interfaces, is done directly through system calls, without using libraries such as libc, Mesa, and FreeType. The Frame code is released as public domain. Development is ongoing with involvement [...]
After four months of development, a stable release of the Wayland protocol, inter-process communication mechanism, and libraries version 1.26 has been announced. The 1.26 branch is backward compatible at the API and ABI level with the 1.x releases and mainly includes bug fixes and minor protocol updates. Project deliverables are distributed under the MIT license. The reference compositor server Weston provides code and working examples for using Wayland […]
Support for the Loongson platform has been removed from OpenBSD, which was added in 2010 for MIPS-compatible Chinese processors Loongson 2E and 2F. The reason for its removal is attributed to build issues for the mips64el platform in new versions of the Clang compiler. Following an attempt to self-compile clang 22 (building clang 22 code using the clang 22 compiler), crashes began to occur that did not […]
An alternative build of the SSH client PuTTY 0.84 has been released, enhanced with features ported from the KiTTY fork, which was discontinued three years ago. The transfer of functionality from KiTTY to the current PuTTY codebase was almost entirely accomplished with ChatGPT/Codex. The changes primarily pertain to the interface and usability, without interfering with the core logic of PuTTY. Among the most notable changes: Session storage […]
On July 12th, version 0.3 of FSearch was released — a utility for quick file searching, modeled after Everything for Windows. The project is written in C and GTK3, and is distributed under the GNU GPL 2.0 license. FSearch features: instant results as you type; advanced search syntax; support for pattern and regular expression searches; filter support: search only for files, […]
After a year of development, the release of a new stable branch of the Perl programming language — 5.44 — has been announced. In preparing the new release, approximately 270,000 lines of code were changed (excluding documentation and automatically generated code — 110,000), with changes affecting 860 files, and 71 developers participated in the development. The 5.44 branch was released in accordance with the fixed proposal established thirteen years ago […]