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The stable version of the GNU Coreutils 9.11 package of basic system utilities is now available, which includes programs such as sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. Key innovations: Support for multi-byte characters has been implemented in the cut, nl, unexpand, and expand utilities. The cut utility has added options "-w", "-F", and "-O" for compatibility […]
On April 23, a new version of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS was released, codenamed “Resolute Raccoon,” which can be downloaded and installed from the official website ubuntu.com. "Resolute Raccoon is based on improvements aimed at enhancing resilience, which were introduced in the interim releases, including full disk encryption with TPM support, improved permission request support for applications, and Livepatch updates […]
A vulnerability, Pack2TheRoot (CVE-2026-41651), has been identified in PackageKit, a D-Bus layer that unifies package management operations, allowing an unprivileged user to install or remove arbitrary packages and gain root access to the system. The issue manifests starting with version 1.0.2 (2014) and has been addressed in the PackageKit 1.3.5 release. The problem was discovered by researchers from Deutsche Telekom using the AI model Claude Opus. A functional exploit has been prepared that operates in […]
It is no secret that Intel has been systematically reducing its involvement in open source lately. Of the approximately 1,300 company repositories on GitHub, 903 are already archived, and the latest wave of closures occurred in December of last year (see: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-OSS-Projects-Ended-2025). Now, as Intel is winding down its open-source activities, it has also ceased promoting the benefits of open source: the company has no remaining employees […]
The Ubuntu 26.04 'Resolute Raccoon' distribution has been released, classified as an LTS (Long-Term Support) release, with updates being provided for 15 years (5 years for the general public, plus another 10 years for users of the Ubuntu Pro service). Installation images have been created for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin (the edition for China), Ubuntu […]
A vulnerability has been identified in the Gecko browser engine (CVE-2026-6770) that allows the creation of unique identifiers for tracking the opening of different sites from a single browser. The issue manifests in all browsers based on Firefox, including Tor Browser, and operates even in private browsing mode. The identifiers remain valid within the current browser process and are reset after the browser is restarted. The vulnerability has been fixed in Firefox versions 150/140.10.0 […]
On April 15, the FSF declared the ONLYOFFICE license incompatible with the AGPLv3 license. The conflict arose surrounding the Euro-Office project — a European fork of the ONLYOFFICE suite. In March 2026, the creators of Euro-Office removed some additional clauses from the AGPLv3 license that ONLYOFFICE had added in 2021. These clauses, in particular, required all derivative products to retain the original logo […]
On April 21, a major release of QEMU version 11.0 took place — a free, open-source program for emulating hardware across various platforms. The update includes: a new CPU model for Intel Diamond Rapids; a new 'nitro' accelerator for launching Nitro Enclaves (which allows running isolated environments (enclaves) directly through QEMU on hosts that support Nitro technology, without the need to use […]
The release of QEMU 11.0.0 has been announced. As an emulator, QEMU allows running programs built for one hardware platform on a system with a completely different architecture, for example, running an ARM application on an x86-compatible PC. In virtualization mode, QEMU's execution performance in an isolated environment is close to that of a hardware system due to direct instruction execution on the CPU and utilizing […]
An independent enthusiast, not affiliated with Microsoft, has implemented the WSL9x (Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux) toolkit, allowing modern Linux kernels to run within the Windows 95/98/ME kernel. This project enables running Linux and Windows 9x applications side by side on the same system, similar to how the WSL layer allows Linux applications to work on modern versions of Windows. Supported […]
Andrew Lunn has sent out a series of patches to begin the removal of several ISA and PCMCIA era network drivers from the Linux kernel. He details the recent maintenance burden due to artificial intelligence/fuzzing: "Until recently, these old drivers didn't require much maintenance. Now, with more newcomers using AI, testers are utilizing […]
On April 21, the latest version of the NTFS-3G FUSE driver was released. This release primarily focuses on bug fixes. What's new: fix in the build script (bashism) that incorrectly used specific Bash commands where a universal standard should have been employed; creating a new NTFS partition via the mkntfs utility is now defined with microsecond accuracy; fix for two cases related […]