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The Xfce desktop environment has been ported to the Redox OS, and the EEVDF task scheduler has been implemented.

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Developers of the Redox operating system, written in Rust with a microkernel concept, have published a project development report for May. Highlights include the successful porting of the Xfce desktop environment. Xfce's performance in Redox has been recognized as more stable than that of the previously created port with the MATE desktop, which still has unresolved issues with the Caja file manager. For Redox […]

Release of the self-contained package system Flatpak 1.18.0

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After a year and a half of development, a new stable branch of the Flatpak toolkit 1.18 has been released, providing a system for building self-sufficient packages that are not tied to specific Linux distributions and run in a special container, isolating the application from the rest of the system. Support for running Flatpak packages is provided for Fedora, CentOS, Debian, Arch Linux, Gentoo, Linux Mint, Alt Linux, and Ubuntu. Flatpak packages are included in […]

Armbian Imager 2.0

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Armbian Imager 2.0 has been released — a major update to the official Armbian utility for writing images to SD cards, USB drives, and other media for single-board computers. The new version features a redesigned interface and writing engine, with the main change being the ability to prepare a primary setup profile in advance: after flashing, the board can boot with user-defined settings, network, locale, and SSH access. Release v2.0.0 […]

Ape — a new open-source implementation of Vulkan ICD

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A new experimental Vulkan driver, Ape, has been introduced — an open-source implementation of Vulkan ICD, written almost entirely in Zig and not using Mesa code. The project is not yet intended for industrial use: the author clearly describes it as a learning attempt to 'build the driver by hand' and warns against using Ape in serious projects. The code is published under the MIT license. Interest in Ape has emerged […]

Wayland Protocols 1.49

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Wayland Protocols 1.49 has been released — a set of specifications for additional Wayland protocols used by compositors, graphic toolkits, and applications to implement features not included in the basic Wayland protocol. The project describes extensions such as GPU buffer sharing, color management, scaling, sessions, and other mechanisms that modern Wayland desktops are built upon. The release of Wayland Protocols 1.49 was published on June 7, 2026. Key changes […]

Release of Wayland-Protocols 1.49

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The release of the wayland-protocols 1.49 package is now available, containing a set of protocols and extensions that complement the base Wayland protocol and provide the functionalities necessary for building composite servers and user environments. The new version includes: An experimental protocol xx-fractional-scale has been added, providing scaling of logical coordinate systems, with values specified as integers, to enhance positioning accuracy and increase the resolution of logical coordinates to individual […]

OpenCV 5.0.0

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OpenCV 5.0.0 has been released — a major release of the open-source computer vision and image processing library. The release took place on June 6, 2026, and has already been marked as current in the project's GitHub repository. OpenCV is distributed under the Apache-2.0 license. The essence of the release is the transition of OpenCV from a 'classic computer vision library' to a more modern platform for CV/AI tasks: the project has cleaned up the old API, reworked […]

Development plans for Ubuntu Desktop 26.10

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Jean Baptiste Lallement, Director of Engineering at Canonical, has published plans for enhancing the functionality of the desktop environment, which are intended to be implemented in the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release. Four key areas of focus have been highlighted: Development of the GNOME-based environment. Upgrading the desktop environment to the GNOME 51 release, scheduled for September 16. Transitioning from dbus-daemon to dbus-broker in […]

Release of the note-taking program OutWiker 4.0

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Almost two years after the release of the previous stable version, OutWiker 4.0 has been launched. The unique feature of this software is that notes are stored as directories with text files, and an arbitrary number of files can be attached to each note. The program allows writing notes using various notations: HTML, wiki, Markdown (if the appropriate plugin is installed). Also […]

XLibre 25.1.6

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Coinciding with the celebration of its first anniversary, a new version 25.1.6 of the X.org graphical server fork — XLibre — has been released. Support for seatd has been added, a daemon that provides universal access to input/output devices without requiring superuser rights and the presence of systemd. Improved support for the proprietary Nvidia driver: support for version 570 has been enhanced, and no additional configuration of the Xserver is needed to work with this version. Optional support has also been added […]

Prometheus JMX Exporter 1.6.0

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Prometheus JMX Exporter 1.6.0 has been released — an exporter designed to collect JMX MBean values from Java applications and expose them as Prometheus metrics. With proper configuration, JMX Exporter can also send data via OpenTelemetry. The project's code is distributed under the Apache-2.0 license. JMX Exporter can run in multiple modes: as a Java agent within the target JVM, as a standalone exporter for […]

OutWiker 4.0

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Almost two years after the release of the previous stable version (beta versions are released almost every month), a new stable version of OutWiker 4.0 has been published. The unique feature of the program is that notes are stored as directories with text files, and an arbitrary number of files can be attached to each note. The program allows writing notes using various notations: HTML, […]

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