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Release of the composite server Hyprland 0.52 and GUI library Hyprtoolkit 0.2

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The composite server Hyprland 0.52, which utilizes the Wayland protocol, is now available. The project is focused on a tiling window layout but also supports classic free placement of windows, grouping windows in tab form, a pseudomosaic mode, and full-screen window expansion. The code is written in C++ and released under the BSD license. It offers capabilities for creating visually appealing interfaces: gradients in window borders, blurring […]

The Linux Containers project introduced the atomically updatable distribution IncusOS.

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Stéphane Graber, the leader of the Linux Containers project, one of the creators of the LXC toolkit, a member of the Ubuntu technical advisory board, and a participant in the teams responsible for Ubuntu releases, has introduced a new Linux distribution called IncusOS. IncusOS provides an atomically updatable system image for server creation, with centralized management via the Incus toolkit (a fork of LXD). The distribution is being developed under the auspices of the Linux […]

Google has released Magika 1.0, a toolkit for determining the content type of files

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Google has released the Magika 1.0 toolkit, designed to determine content types based on the analysis of the data present in a file. Magika can accurately identify the programming languages used in the content, compression methods, installation packages, executable code, markup types, audio, video, document, and image formats. The associated toolkit and ready-to-use machine learning model are distributed under the Apache […]

Release UDisks 2.11.0 with revamped ATA SMART support.

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After two years of development, the UDisks 2.11.0 package has been released, including a system background process, libraries, and tools for organizing access to and management of disks, storage devices, and related technologies. UDisks provides a D-Bus API for working with disk partitions, configuring MD RAID, managing block devices via loop mounting, manipulating file systems, and more. Additionally […]

Release of the firewalld 2.4.0 firewall

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The release of the dynamically managed firewall firewalld 2.4.0 has been created, implemented as a wrapper over the nftables and iptables packet filters. Firewalld runs as a background process, allowing dynamic changes to packet filter rules via D-Bus, without needing to reload the filter rules and without disrupting established connections. The project is already used in many Linux distributions, including RHEL 7+, Fedora 18+ […]

Release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16

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SUSE has released the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 distribution. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 branch was formed seven years after the release of SUSE 15. SUSE 16 packages have already been used as the basis for the community-supported distribution openSUSE Leap 16. The distribution can be downloaded and used for free, but access to updates and patches is limited to a 60-day trial […]

Chromium has decided to remove support for XSLT and discontinue the use of libxslt and libxml2.

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Google has decided to remove components for supporting the XML transformation language XSLT from the Chromium browser engine. The reason cited is to reduce the attack surface by discontinuing the use of the libxslt library. According to Google, supporting XSLT 1.0 poses unjustified security risks as vulnerabilities are periodically discovered in the libxslt library (for example, CVE-2025-7425 and CVE-2022-22834) and it has issues […]

The code for X11 support has been removed from GNOME Shell and Mutter.

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All code providing support for the X11 protocol has been removed from the Mutter composite manager's codebase. At the same time, components for supporting X11 have been deleted from the GNOME Shell codebase. In the upcoming release of GNOME 50 scheduled for spring next year, full support for running under the X server will be discontinued. The ability to run X11 applications via XWayland will remain. Preparations for the removal of code related to […]

LXQt 2.3.0 desktop environment has been released.

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After 6 months of development, the release of the LXQt 2.3.0 desktop environment (Qt Lightweight Desktop Environment) has been presented, continuing the development of the LXDE and Razor-qt projects. The LXQt interface follows classic desktop organization ideas but brings a modern design and techniques that enhance usability. LXQt is positioned as a lightweight, modular, fast, and user-friendly environment that incorporates the best features of LXDE and Razor-qt. The code is hosted […]

Release of SQLite DBMS 3.51

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The release of SQLite 3.51 has been published, a lightweight DBMS presented as a plug-in library. The SQLite code is in the public domain, meaning it can be used freely and without restriction for any purpose. Financial support for SQLite developers is provided by a specially created consortium. Key changes: New JSON functions jsonb_each() and jsonb_tree() have been added, differing from the previously available functions json_each() and json_tree() in that […]

The OCI Runtime 1.3 specification now includes support for FreeBSD.

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The Open Container Initiative (OCI) has released version 1.3 of the OCI Runtime specification. The specification outlines the behavior and configuration interface for running and managing isolated containers, unifying the interaction with low-level runtime components such as runc, crun, youki, gVisor, and Kata Containers. OCI Runtime ensures the interchangeability of such components in high-level toolkits like containerd and CRI-O. The release of OCI Runtime 1.3 […]

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