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Release of uutils 0.10, a Rust version of GNU Coreutils

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The uutils coreutils project version 0.10.0 (Rust Coreutils) has been released, developing an alternative to the GNU Coreutils package, written in Rust. The coreutils package includes over a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. The goal of the project is to create a cross-platform alternative implementation of Coreutils, capable of running on Windows and Redox platforms […]

Northstar 1.0.6 — a minimalist browser with its own engine

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A new version of the Northstar browser has been released. Previously, news appeared on LOR about the browser Nordstjernen by the same author. The projects are being developed in parallel. Northstar is a simple open-source web browser distributed under the GPL license. Nordstjernen is a more complex browser, with source code available but a license that restricts creating a competing browser based on this source code. Northstar focuses on […]

Wild 0.10

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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 […]

The Linux kernel's drivers/staging will stop accepting created LLM patches.

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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 […]

The new worm ChainDrop has affected over 400 NPM packages.

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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 […]

The GNOME Calendar developer accused Linux Mint of ignoring the issue with the outdated package.

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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 Holo Core, an Arch Linux port for the AArch64 architecture.

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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 […]

Release of Whonix 18.2, a distribution for anonymous communications

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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 X-server Frame and the CHasm desktop, both written in assembly language, have been introduced.

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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 [...]

Wayland 1.26 is now available.

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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 […]

OpenBSD has discontinued support for the Loongson hardware platform due to a regression in Clang.

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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 extended version of PuTTY that supports file sessions.

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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 […]

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