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AppGrid 1.8.0, a third-party application launcher for KDE Plasma 6, has been released. It features a grid layout and is positioned as an alternative to the standard Kickoff and Kicker menus. The release was published on GitHub on May 25, 2026; the project description states that AppGrid is licensed under the GPL-2.0-or-later license. AppGrid comes in two plasmoid variants: as a standalone centered popup window […]
Apple has posted the source code for corecrypto, which is responsible for encryption, digital signatures, hashing, and random number generation (its low-level cryptographic library), on GitHub and detailed how it verifies security. iPhone, macOS against future quantum attacks. It's the framework that powers the Security Framework, CryptoKit, and CommonCrypto. The repository now includes implementations of ML-KEM and ML-DSA—two post-quantum algorithms that Apple […]
Sway 1.12, a new version of the tiling Wayland compositor compatible with i3 in both design and configuration, has been released. The release took place on May 25, 2026. According to the project, Sway 1.12 includes 138 changes from 50 contributors, and now requires wlroots 0.20.0 to build. The main user-facing change is HDR10 support when running through the Vulkan renderer. This does not automatically […]
Google accidentally made public a report (a publicly accessible copy) containing a detailed explanation and an example exploit for a vulnerability not yet patched in the Chromium engine. The vulnerability was deemed dangerous, and a $1000 reward was paid to the researcher who discovered the issue. The issue was reported back in 2022 and has been periodically raised since then, but has not been brought to fruition. […]
Amendments to California's previously passed age verification law have been proposed, introducing an exception for projects under open source licenses. A committee vote on the amendments will take place in June. Similar amendments were previously approved in Colorado and included in the final version of SB51, passed in early May. The amendments narrow the definitions of "operating system provider" and "application," […]
The labwc 0.20 (Lab Wayland Compositor) project has been released. It develops a compositing server for Wayland with capabilities reminiscent of the Openbox window manager (the project is presented as an attempt to create an Openbox alternative for Wayland). The project's code is written in C and distributed under the GPLv2 license. The significant increase in version numbering (from 0.9 to 0.20) is due to synchronization with the wlroots library version numbering. Labwc is used […]
Introducing KernelScript, an experimental programming language for developing eBPF programs, custom loaders, and kernel extensions. Linux from a single code base. The project is being developed by Multikernel Technologies, a company promoting the split-kernel/multikernel architecture for LinuxThe company's founder, Cong Wang, spoke about KernelScript at Linux Foundation Open Source Summit; the project code is published on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license. eBPF (Extended […]
Intel continues to formally close and archive open-source projects that no longer fit into the company's current priorities. The latest wave of such archiving was noticed at the end of May: according to Phoronix, on May 23, projects related to OBS Studio, CVE scanning, video transcoding, SGX, and Intel Labs research were added to the list. The new archiving wave included: […]
Wild Linker 0.9.0, a new high-performance linker written in Rust, has been released. The release date on GitHub is set for May 23, 2026. The project is positioned as a linker for accelerating iterative development: the authors aim to eventually achieve incremental linking, although it is not yet implemented in the current version. The code is distributed under a dual Apache 2.0 / MIT license. The main change […]
Enthusiasts successfully extracted and disassembled the microcode of an Intel 80386 processor, which was considered a "black box" due to a lack of documentation. A binary image of the microcode was recreated using AI from high-resolution photographs of the die, and the logic was deciphered using on-die wiring. The micro-ops structure, fields, execution order, and end-of-instruction markers were gradually determined. The project's findings […]
GNOME Commander 2.0, a classic dual-pane file manager with a graphical interface, has been released. The developers call the release a major update: the codebase has been almost completely ported from C++ to Rust, and the interface has been migrated to GTK4. The project also has a new maintainer, Wladimir Palant. GNOME Commander is aimed at users who need a powerful and fast file manager […]
After nearly a year of development, Sway 1.12, a compositing manager built using the Wayland protocol and compatible with the i3 tiling window manager and i3bar panel, has been released. The project's code is written in C and distributed under the MIT license. The project is aimed at Linux and FreeBSD. Sway allows for logical window placement (the window manager dynamically selects the position […]