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The release of Vivaldi 7.9 for desktops has taken place

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The proprietary browser Vivaldi 7.9 has been released, developed on the Chromium engine by former developers of the Opera Presto engine. Vivaldi builds are available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Changes made to the Chromium codebase are distributed under an open license. The browser's interface is built using JavaScript with the React library, Node.js platform, Browserify, and various ready-made NPM modules. The interface implementation is available […]

Wayland 1.25 is now available

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After eight months of development, a stable release of the Wayland 1.25 protocol, inter-process communication mechanism, and libraries has been presented. Version 1.25 is backward compatible at the API and ABI levels with 1.x releases and mainly contains bug fixes and minor protocol updates. The project's contributions are distributed under the MIT license. The reference compositor Weston provides code and working examples for using Wayland […]

JDK 26

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On March 17, 2026, JDK 26 was released — the reference implementation of the Java SE platform (Platform version 26), specified in JSR 401 as part of the Java Community Process. This information is reported on the official OpenJDK website. Key details of the release: Status: General Availability (public version). Binary builds: Production-ready binaries under the GPL license in Oracle's build are already available on […]

The system manager systemd 260 is now available.

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After three months of development, systemd 260 has been released. Key changes include the discontinuation of support for service scripts in System V format, the "mstack" mechanism for composing layered mount hierarchies, the systemd-report utility, support for integrating systemd-networkd with ModemManager, support for user portable services, and the "xaccess" concept in systemd-logind and systemd-udevd. Changes in the new release include: Discontinuation of support for service scripts in […]

Release of Samba 4.24.0

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After 6 months of development, the release of Samba 4.24.0 has been presented, continuing the development of the Samba 4 branch with a full implementation of the domain controller and Active Directory service, compatible with the Windows Server implementation and capable of servicing all supported Microsoft versions of Windows clients, including Windows 11. Samba 4 is a multifunctional server product that also offers a file server implementation, print service, and server […]

Release of GNOME 50 desktop environment removes support for X11.

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After six months of development, the release of the GNOME 50 desktop environment has been published. To quickly assess the capabilities of GNOME 50, specialized Live builds based on openSUSE and an installation image prepared as part of the GNOME OS initiative have been offered. GNOME 50 is also included in the experimental builds of Ubuntu 26.04 and Fedora 44. In this new release: From the GNOME Shell user interface and […]

The Linux Foundation has received funding to address security issues related to open-source software.

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The Linux Foundation has announced the acquisition of grants totaling $12.5 million from companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, GitHub, Google, and Microsoft to invest in enhancing the security of the open-source software ecosystem. "As the security situation becomes more complex, advancements in artificial intelligence significantly accelerate both the speed and scope of vulnerability detection […]

Vulnerabilities in snapd and Rust Coreutils that allow root privilege escalation in Ubuntu.

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Qualys has identified a vulnerability (CVE-2026-3888) in the way the snap-confine and systemd-tmpfiles interact in Ubuntu, allowing an unprivileged user to gain root access to the system. The issue occurs in Ubuntu with the default configuration starting from release 24.04. In Ubuntu versions 16.04-22.04, the vulnerability can be exploited in non-standard configurations that mimic the behavior of newer distribution versions. A fix for the issue is available in yesterday's […]

Firefox 149 will feature a built-in VPN with 50 GB of free traffic.

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Mozilla has announced several upcoming changes that will be activated in the Firefox 149 release scheduled for March 24. The most significant addition will be the integration of the free VPN service Firefox VPN (not to be confused with Mozilla VPN), which will allow access to websites not directly but through intermediate proxy servers in various countries, hiding the user's IP address. Initially, the VPN service will be available to users from […]

Google has opened access to 'Personal Intelligence' for free users of Chrome, Gemini, and AI Mode.

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Google has announced the launch of the 'Personal Intelligence' feature for free users. Previously, this capability was only available to subscribers of paid Google AI plans. The technology is now being integrated into the Gemini app, the Chrome browser through the web version of Gemini, as well as in the new AI Mode. The essence of the update is that artificial intelligence learns to utilize the user's personal data for […]

systemd 260

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The anniversary release of the free (GPL) GNU/Linux systems manager brought us: the cessation (as promised in the last release) of support for System V scripts; varlinkctl list-registry now shows all public interfaces from /run/varlink/registry/; systemd-report and experimental support for the reporting system in /run/systemd/report/; the ability to embed DeviceTree into /usr/lib/systemd/boot/hwids/ so it can be easily accessed from UKI; support for SCHED_EXT in CPUSchedulingPolicy […]

The postmarketOS project has introduced Duranium, an atomically updated edition for smartphones.

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Developers of the postmarketOS project, which is developing a Linux distribution for mobile devices, have announced the creation of an atomically updated version of the distribution. The new edition, named Duranium, is notable for delivering the system as a single whole, without dividing it into separate packages. It is noted that the new version aligns with the idea that the device should just work, without the user needing to know about the existence of a terminal or understand […]

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