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The first major release from the Document Foundation in 2026 focuses on performance, compatibility, and file formats, specifically addressing the issues that truly hinder productivity, rather than adding flashy features or, more importantly, chasing the hype surrounding AI, as other office suites do. New features: LibreOffice 26.2 allows importing and exporting files in Markdown format […]
James Morris, the maintainer of the Linux kernel security subsystem and head of the "Linux Emerging Technologies" team at Microsoft, has presented the Litebox project, billed as a security-focused operating system in the form of a Library OS. Litebox can be used in applications or kernels as an additional layer of isolation, blocking access to excess kernel functionality or APIs to reduce the attack surface […]
After almost four months of development, the release of the 0.40 console utility nwipe has taken place, designed for securely wiping disk content using various wiping methods and pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs). It can wipe one disk or several simultaneously. nwipe is a fork of the dwipe command from the Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN) project, featuring numerous enhancements and optimizations. The utility is written […]
The official release of 9.10 GNU Coreutils has occurred—essentially the standard core utilities set in Linux systems and some other platforms. Significant changes include: The man-page generation process has been modified. Command-line options described in the man-page can be made hyperlinked. The timeout command now intercepts all signals leading to process termination and guarantees that the child command is completed before its own termination. The paste(1) command has been corrected […]
JetBrains has announced plans to include support for the Wayland protocol by default in the upcoming IntelliJ 2026.1 integrated development environments. Prior to the release, users can test Wayland support using EAP builds of IntelliJ IDEA (Early Access Program). IDEs based on IntelliJ will now be able to run directly in Wayland-based desktop environments without using XWayland. […]
Changes have been added to the VirtualBox virtualization system repository, allowing the use of the built-in KVM hypervisor in the Linux kernel instead of the VirtualBox-specific kernel module (vboxdrv). The implementation has been prepared by Oracle employees and is being developed separately from the VirtualBox-KVM patch set supported by Cyberus Technology. It is noted that Oracle started working on the KVM backend several years ago, but the development has been delayed due to a lack of engineering resources. Starting […]
The framework is an implementation of Erlang concepts for development in Go, built on the actor model with network transparency and ready components. Key features in this version of mTLS include a new interface gen.CertAuthManager for mutual authentication with CA pool management, and NAT traversal options — RouteHost and RoutePort for nodes behind NAT or load balancers. Startup time control — InitTimeout […]
The stable version of the basic system utilities set GNU Coreutils 9.10 has been released, which includes programs such as sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. Key innovations: In man pages and prompts displayed when the ‘—help’ option is specified, commands and options are highlighted in bold, and there is a new option for binding to […]
The Document Foundation has published the release of the office suite LibreOffice 26.2. Installation packages are prepared for various Linux distributions, Windows, and macOS. In version 26.2, the project has stopped supplying the label 'Community' (LibreOffice Community) and reverted to simply offering LibreOffice. The 'Community' label was previously added to emphasize that the build is supported by enthusiasts and is not intended for use on […]
The European Open Source Academy (EOSA) has awarded Greg Kroah-Hartman the 'Excellence in Open Source 2026' award, presented by the European community for outstanding contributions to open source software development. Greg is responsible for maintaining the stable and 'staging' branches of the Linux kernel, serving as a maintainer in 16 kernel subsystems, including USB, TTY, and Driver core, and […]
On January 30, version 7.4.1 of the specialized Tails distribution was released. Changes include: OpenSSL updated to version 3.5.4, which fixes several critical security vulnerabilities (DSA 6113-1). These vulnerabilities may be exploited to compromise user anonymity. Tor has been updated to version 0.4.8.22. Thunderbird has been updated to version 140.7.0. Gmail authentication has been fixed in Thunderbird. A loading indicator has been added when opening Wi-Fi settings […]
Google has announced the renaming of the SQL analyzer ZetaSQL to GoogleSQL. The project is developing tools for parsing and analyzing grammar, semantics, types, data models, and functions for the SQL language and the GoogleSQL dialect. Notably, the GoogleSQL dialect allows for query joins using unnamed channels (pipes) and is used across various Google products and services, including BigQuery, Spanner, F1, BigTable, Dremel […]
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