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After almost a year of development, the release of the Sway 1.12 compositing manager has been published, built using the Wayland protocol and compatible with the tiling window manager i3 and the i3bar panel. The project's code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. The project is targeted for use on Linux and FreeBSD. Sway allows for logical window placement (the window manager dynamically selects the position […]
The stable release of TileOS 2.0 "Sauropod" has been published — a Linux distribution based on Debian, focused on working with tiling window managers and Wayland environments. The release was published on May 18, 2026. TileOS is positioned as a ready-to-use Debian system for users who need a pre-configured environment based on Sway, River, Qtile, Niri, or MiracleWM, rather than the classic GNOME/KDE/Xfce desktop.
An exploit for GRO Frag — a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel related to GRO processing and zero-copy skb in the network stack — has become publicly available. The exact date of its initial discovery in public materials is not specified. Two dates can be identified from public sources regarding the discussion of the fix in the netdev mailing list on May 20, 2026, where this vulnerability was addressed.
The Valkey community has announced the release of Valkey 9.1 — a new stable version of the high-performance key-value data store with open-source code (BSD license), which supports various use cases such as caching and message queues, and can also serve as a primary database. The project is supported by the Linux Foundation, ensuring its continued availability as open source.
Proxmox Server Solutions has announced the release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.2 — a new version of the open-source platform for server virtualization and hyper-converged infrastructure. The release took place on May 21, 2026. The main changes include a dynamic load balancer in the cluster, enhanced capabilities for software-defined networking, control of custom CPU models via the web interface, and a new maintenance mode for high-availability clusters.
The release of kmscon 10.0 has taken place – a terminal emulator created as a replacement for the kernel console. Instead of the kernel subsystem vt, kmscon uses KMS and implements the necessary functionality in user space. This approach addresses the low code quality in the vt subsystem and the lack of experience among maintainers in it, making further development of this subsystem practically impossible.
Shortly after the discovery of the 18-year-old potential RCE, another one was found, CVE-2026-9256, which had existed even longer—21 years, starting from version 0.1.17 released in early 2005. To exploit this vulnerability, the server config must contain a rewrite directive that has overlapping capture groups in the first argument and uses two or more in the second […]
On May 20, 2026, FreeBSD developers announced the patching of seven new vulnerabilities in the system. Not all of them are equally dangerous, but some are quite concerning. CVE-2026-45251 is a use-after-free in select-like syscalls if there are process descriptors in their wait list (in FreeBSD 15—new jail descriptors), and those descriptors were closed in another thread while the waiting syscall […]
The release of OpenDDS 3.34.0 has taken place—an open C++ implementation of the Object Management Group Data Distribution Service for Real-time Systems specification. DDS is used for building distributed systems based on the publish-subscribe model, and OpenDDS, apart from C++, provides Java/JNI bindings and relies on ACE/TAO. The release was published on May 21, 2026, with ready-to-use archives available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. The project is distributed […]
The Wine team released VKD3D 2.0—a major release of the library that enables applications to work with Direct3D 12 over Vulkan. VKD3D is used in the regular upstream Wine for supporting D3D12 applications; it should not be confused with VKD3D-Proton, a separate gaming branch by Valve used in Proton/Steam Play. The project is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1 or later. The source […]
At the Linux App Summit conference, Sebastian Wick, the maintainer of the Flatpak toolkit, and Adrian Vovk, the creator of the installer for GNOME OS and one of the developers of systemd-homed and systemd-sysupdate, gave a talk on the future of self-contained Flatpak packages. The talk mentions the intention to create a new systemd-appd process for Flatpak, which will provide information about running […]
The release of the lightweight distribution MX Linux 25.2 has been published, created through collaboration between communities formed around the antiX and MEPIS projects. This release is based on the Debian package base, incorporating improvements from the antiX project and packages from its own repository. The distribution offers the choice of using sysVinit and systemd initialization systems. It includes proprietary tools for configuring and deploying the system. For […]