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Linus Torvalds commented on attempts to discuss banning the use of AI tools in Linux kernel development. The official stance is that the Linux kernel, as a project, does not oppose the use of AI. AI is viewed as a tool that simplifies coding, just like any other tools. The use of AI is a personal choice for each developer, and the main factor in accepting changes is the quality of the code, […]
Engineers from Canonical have warned about regressions in the upcoming update of package version 7.0.0-28.28, which will be delivered to Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 users. The regression manifests when using the amdgpu driver and leads to a significant drop in performance for some applications utilizing the AMD ROCm stack. For instance, due to the regression, the execution time of the Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) model using ComfyUI […]
The release of the OPNsense 26.7 distribution for creating firewalls has been published. This project separated from pfSense in 2015 with the goal of developing a fully open distribution that could provide functionalities at the level of commercial solutions for deploying firewalls and network gateways. Unlike pfSense, the project is positioned as not being controlled by a single company and is developed with direct community involvement and […]
Microsoft has released the source code for the IRC client ComicChat, where dialogues are illustrated in the form of comics generated based on characters chosen by the participants, reflecting their emotions. ComicChat uses the standard IRC protocol, can connect to regular IRC servers, and is compatible with text-based IRC clients. The code is written in C++ and is open under the MIT license. An expert system is used to shape the storyline of the frames, […]
The OpenBSD project has published a patch for the vulnerability (CVE-2026-57589) in the kernel, affecting the implementation of system calls for working with System V semaphores (sem). The issue is caused by accessing already freed memory in the sys_semget() function and can be exploited to gain root privileges by an unprivileged local user in a default configuration. The fix was included in the OpenBSD-current codebase on May 23, but for already […]
The release of the NTFS-3G package 2026.7.7 has been announced, which includes a free driver operating in user space using the FUSE mechanism and a set of ntfsprogs utilities for manipulating NTFS partitions. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The new version fixes 9 vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution with root privileges when processing specially crafted partitions or disk images with […]
The major branch release of nginx 1.31.3 has been formed, continuing the development of new features, along with the release of the concurrently supported stable branch nginx 1.30.4, which only receives changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities. The updates address 3 vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-42533 — a buffer overflow occurring when using checks with regular expressions in the 'map' directive with substitutions […]
System76, the developer of the Pop!_OS Linux distribution, has released the COSMIC desktop environment version 1.3.0. Packages for COSMIC 1.3.0 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 […]
In the FreeBSD-CURRENT codebase, on which the FreeBSD 16 branch is based, a change has been made to remove the last components distributed under the GPL license from the base system - the diff3 and dialog utilities. The diff3 program has been replaced with an equivalent from the OpenBSD project, distributed under the BSD license, while a tool called bsddialog was specifically developed for FreeBSD to replace dialog. The installer has been translated […]
The release of service manager s6-rc 0.7.0.0 has been published, designed for managing the startup of initialization scripts and services. It supports tracking dependency trees and automatically starting or stopping services to achieve the specified state. The s6-rc toolset can be used both in initialization systems and for launching arbitrary services in connection with events reflecting system state changes. The system supports initialization scripts, […]
Sylvestre Ledru, the engineering director at Mozilla, has announced the transition to a two-week release cycle for Firefox. Starting in September, new releases will be generated every two weeks instead of every four weeks. This change is already reflected in the release schedule: the last release with a four-week development cycle will be Firefox 154, scheduled for August 18. After that, […]
After five months of development, the stable release of the composite server Weston 16.0 has been published, advancing technologies that facilitate full support for the Wayland protocol in Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE, and other desktop environments. The development of Weston aims to provide a high-quality codebase and working examples for utilizing Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions, such as platforms for automotive infotainment systems, smartphones, televisions […]