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The developers of the Linux Mint distribution have announced that support for the Wayland protocol in the Cinnamon desktop environment is now stable. In the codebase from which the upcoming stable release of Cinnamon 6.8 is formed, functional parity has practically been achieved when using both X11 and Wayland. Cinnamon 6.8 will fully support both X11 and Wayland environments. Scheduled for […]
A release of the dynamically managed firewall firewalld 2.5.0 has been formed, implemented as a wrapper over the packet filtering systems nftables and iptables. Firewalld runs as a background process, allowing dynamic changes to the packet filtering rules through D-Bus without requiring a restart of the filtering rules and without breaking established connections. The project is already used in many Linux distributions, including RHEL 7+, Fedora 18+ […]
2 On June 30, 2026, notifications were published to address 13 new vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD OS. CVE-2026-49418. A user with access to a device with a memory-mapped interface can create a double-free/use-after-free in the kernel. This may potentially lead to privilege escalation. CVE-2026-49419. (only FreeBSD 15+) Double reduction of the refcount of the current jail when handling an error accessing another jail through jail […]
Postgres Professional announced the release of Postgres Pro Enterprise for 1C 18.4.1. This update is aimed at large installations of "1C" where the database frequently faces complex queries, numerous connections, temporary tables, reports, and regulatory operations. The official release notes indicate that the new version is based on PostgreSQL 18.4 and Postgres Pro Enterprise 18.3.2. One of […]
1 Valve has released version 11.0-1 of the Proton project, based on the Wine codebase and aimed at enabling the running of Windows games in Linux through the Steam catalog. Release 11.0-1 marks the first stable release in the 11.0 branch. The project's developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows Linux users to directly run games available in the Steam client for Linux, […]
Following the porting of Linux to the Sega MegaDrive, the ability to run the Linux kernel with the Busybox utilities on the Atari Jaguar gaming console, released in 1993, has been realized. The console was equipped with a Motorola 68000 CPU, came with 2 MB of RAM, and could use cartridges with up to 6 MB for permanent storage. The device was equipped with two coprocessors: Tom (GPU with […]
The release of the Deepin 25.2 distribution has been published, which develops its own Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) as well as around 40 user applications, including the Deepin Music player, Deepin Movie video player, installer, and Deepin Store software center. The project is based on a group of developers from China but has transformed into an international project and supports the Russian language. The distribution's repository includes over 8000 […]
1 A vulnerability known as Bad Epoll has been discovered in the Linux kernel, registered as CVE-2026-46242. This allows a regular local user without special rights to escalate privileges to root. According to researcher Jayon Chon, the issue affects not only Linux desktops and servers but also some Android devices running newer kernel versions — this is specifically emphasized in the Bad Epoll description. The bug resides in […]
Correction releases X.Org Server 21.1.24 and the DDX component (Device-Dependent X) xwayland 24.1.13 have been published, ensuring the launch of X.Org Server for running X11 applications in Wayland-based environments. The new versions fix 2 vulnerabilities that could potentially be exploited to gain elevated privileges in systems where the X server runs with root rights, as well as for remote code execution in […]
Valve has released Proton 11.0-1, based on the Wine project codebase, aimed at enabling the launch of Windows games on Linux via the Steam catalog. Release 11.0-1 is marked as the first stable version of the 11.0 branch. The project developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows Linux users to directly launch games distributed via the Steam client.
The LineageOS project has launched a new section with statistics on firmware usage. It reports nearly 1.5 million active installations, with only 26% (374,000) on official builds and 74% (1.1 million) on unofficial builds from third-party projects. Leading the device rankings is not a smartphone, but Waydroid — an environment for running Android applications on Linux.
2 Russian developer Nikita Aksyonov, known as Carter54, has ported the classic Carmageddon to the browser. This is not an emulation via DOSBox but a native web port of the original game from 1997 that runs directly in modern browsers. According to the author, published on DTF (dtf.ru), the fan project Dethrace, which focuses on reverse engineering Carmageddon and restoring the engine, served as the basis for this port […]