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After a year of development, the release of the Cinnamon 6.6 desktop environment has been formed, within which the community of Linux Mint developers is working on a fork of the GNOME Shell interface, Nautilus file manager, and Mutter window manager, aimed at providing a classic GNOME 2 style environment with support for effective interaction elements from GNOME Shell. Cinnamon is based on GNOME components, but these components […]
Nick Wellnhofer has removed himself from the list of maintainers of the libxml2 library and has officially stepped down. Initially, Nick announced his resignation from the maintainer position in September, but until now, the intent was only verbal. Following Nick's departure, Daniel Garcia Moreno (a SUSE employee and participant […] expressed a desire to take over the maintenance role.
The release of the main branch of nginx 1.29.4 has been published, continuing the development of new features. The parallel stable branch 1.28.x only receives changes related to the correction of serious bugs and vulnerabilities. In the future, a stable branch 1.30 will be formed based on the main branch 1.29.x. The project's code is written in C and distributed under the BSD license. In the new release: […]
Pornhub, ranked 21st among the most popular websites in the world, has published its report for 2025. According to the disclosed statistics, the share of Linux among desktop operating system users increased over the year from 5.1% to 6.2%, resulting in an annual growth of Linux users by 22.4%. In comparison, the share of Linux users on Wikipedia is 5.5% (up from 4.2% a year ago), in the catalog […]
During the ongoing Maintainers Summit conference, there was a discussion about the results of an experiment to add Rust language support for developing components in the Linux kernel. The attendees acknowledged the experiment as successful and decided to move Rust support into the category of core kernel components, lifting its experimental status. Three years ago, the ability to develop drivers and modules in the language [...
The release of web browser Firefox 146 has occurred, and updates for previous long-term support branches—140.6.0 and 115.31.0—have been formed. The Firefox 147 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for January 14. Key features in Firefox 146 (1, 2, 3): A "Split View" mode has been added for side-by-side viewing of two tabs in one window. The mode [...
IBM has reached an agreement to acquire Confluent, a company developing streaming data solutions based on the open-source Apache Kafka platform. Confluent was founded in 2014 by the creators of the Apache Kafka platform and achieved a market capitalization of $10 billion after its IPO in 2021. The deal amount with IBM will be $11 billion ($31 per [...
Code for the LUO (Live Update Orchestrator) subsystem, developed by Google for updating the kernel in live mode without a physical reboot, has been accepted into the Linux kernel codebase, which will form the release 6.19 in early February. The subsystem is based on the KHO (Kexec HandOver) mechanism, previously added to kernel 6.16, which allows for launching a new kernel from an old one without state loss [...
Kent Overstreet has released version 1.33.0 of the Bcachefs file system. The release covers two packages: bcachefs-kernel-dkms with a kernel module built using the DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) system, and bcachefs-tools with a user-space utility implementing commands for creating (mkfs), mounting, restoring, and checking the filesystem. The packages are built for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, NixOS, and [...]
The developers of the Rust programming language have warned about the discovery of malicious code in the crates.io repository packages finch-rust, sha-rust, evm-units, and uniswap-utils. The evm-units package included code for downloading malicious components aimed at stealing cryptocurrency. This malicious package was uploaded in April 2025 and has been downloaded 7,257 times. The uniswap-utils package was also uploaded in April and has been downloaded 7,441 times and […]
Corrective releases for the supported branches of the Postfix mail server 3.x have been published — 3.10.7, 3.9.8, 3.8.14, and 3.7.19. The new versions address a build issue from source that occurs in new versions of Linux distributions that have switched to the GCC 15 compiler set, which by default has transitioned to using the C23 standard. The problem is that the C23 standard defines a new reserved keyword […]
Google has released version 143 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, the stable release of the open-source project Chromium, which serves as the basis for Chrome, is also available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium by incorporating Google logos, having a crash reporting system, modules for playing DRM-protected video content, an automatic update installation system, always-on Sandbox isolation, provision of keys for Google API, and transmission of RLZ parameters […]