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Exactly one year after the establishment of the X.Org Server fork, the XLibre 25.1.6 release has been announced. The release marked the transition of the 25.1 branch to stable status (previous updates were of beta quality and intended for testing). XLibre is used by default in the Artix Linux, GhostBSD, OpenMandriva, and Vendefoul Wolf distributions. For Arch Linux, Debian, DragonFly BSD, Fedora, FreeBSD, Gentoo Linux, GNU Guix, […]
A community of enthusiasts is developing Opengram — an open implementation of the server component of the Telegram messenger. The project is a standalone server implementing the MTProto protocol (supported layer up to 216), which can be used to replace the official Telegram server infrastructure when deployed on personal hardware. Official Telegram clients (Telegram Desktop, mobile applications) are supported after modifying the data center address and the server's public RSA key. […]
The GNOME project has published a weekly report noting the porting of the File Previewer (sushi) application, used in GNOME to preview file contents, to the GTK4 library, libadwaita interface design components, the Glycin image isolated booting backend, and the Blueprint interface construction language. The File Previewer also implements support for dark themes and floating tool panels, with the code upgraded to utilize modules […]
The release of Ardour 9.7 has been published — a free digital audio workstation for recording, mixing, and mastering sound. The release took place on June 5, 2026, and is described as a corrective update, but alongside fixes, it brought several notable improvements in interface and MIDI editing. The developers skipped version 9.6 due to last-minute issues discovered. Ardour is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The main change […]
Andreas Kling, the founder of the Ladybird web browser, announced a change in the project's development process. Ladybird will no longer accept public pull requests and will switch to promoting changes to the codebase only through maintainers. All already opened public pull requests will be closed. The source code of Ladybird will continue to be provided under the BSD license. Reports of issues, vulnerabilities, and testing of website functionality will continue to […]
The release of the T2 SDE 26.6 meta-distribution has been published, providing an environment for creating custom distributions, cross-compilation, and keeping package versions current. Among popular distributions built on the T2 system, Puppy Linux can be noted. The project offers 10 ready-made bootable ISO images with a graphical environment based on KDE, compiled for the architectures arm64, ia64, ppc64, ppc64le, riscv64, riscv64 rva23, i686 […]
Google has made changes to the release announcement of Chrome 149, revealing information about the resolution of 429 vulnerabilities. 22 vulnerabilities are marked as critical, while 87 are deemed dangerous. Critical issues allow for bypassing all levels of browser protection and executing code on the system outside the sandbox environment. Details have not yet been disclosed, only that most critical issues […]
Microsoft has announced the first publicly available experimental build of the Azure Linux 4.0 distribution, prepared for deployment in virtual machines and containers. They promise to publish experimental builds for WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) in the future. The Azure Linux 4 branch is presented as a universal solution optimized for the Azure platform and suitable for use across all […]
AMD has sent initial support for HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) to DRM-Next for the open-source AMDGPU driver. The change is being prepared for inclusion in the Linux 7.2 merge window, which is scheduled to open in June. For Radeon users on Linux, this is an important event: the lack of FRL has long hindered the proper functioning of modes like 4K with high refresh rates via HDMI on […]
AMD GAIA 0.20.0 has been released — an open framework for running local AI agents on PCs with AMD Ryzen AI hardware acceleration. The project is distributed under the MIT license, supports Windows and Linux, and installation is available via the amd-gaia package. The tag v0.20.0 was released on June 3rd, but the news about the release appeared on June 4–5. The main change in this version is a proper selection […]
Google has released version 149 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the open-source project Chromium, which forms the basis of Chrome, is also available. Chrome differs from Chromium in its use of Google logos, a system for sending notifications in case of crashes, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, a constant inclusion of Sandbox isolation, the provision of keys to Google API, and the transmission of RLZ parameters […]
In early June 2026, cybersecurity researchers from Calif (with the help of the AI agent Codex) discovered a new variant of the HTTP/2 Bomb attack, which can operate even from a single client device with an internet connection speed of 100 Mbps. The attack consists of two stages: Manipulating HPACK Compression: In the HTTP/2 protocol, headers are compressed using the HPACK table. The attacker sends an almost empty header, […]