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The first test release of the Xfwl4 composite server from the Xfce project

Posted on 23.06.2026

After 6 months of development, the first preview release of the Xfwl4 composite server, which uses the Wayland protocol, has been presented. Xfwl4 is written in Rust using the Smithay library. The reason for creating a new composite server is attributed to the unsuccessful attempt to implement simultaneous support for X11 and Wayland within the existing codebase of the xfwm4 window manager, which was originally designed for tight integration with the protocol […]

postmarketOS 26.06 has been released, a Linux distribution for smartphones and mobile devices.

Posted on 22.06.2026

After 6 months of development, the release of the postmarketOS project 26.06 has been presented, which develops a Linux distribution for mobile devices based on the Alpine Linux package base, the standard C library Musl, and the BusyBox utility set. The goal of the project is to provide a Linux distribution for smartphones and tablets that is independent of the lifecycle support of official firmware and not tied to standard solutions from major industry players. Builds […]

Release of the XLibre XServer 25.2.0 project, a fork of the X.Org Server

Posted on 22.06.2026

The release of the XLibre project version 25.2.0 has been published, which develops a fork of the X.Org Server. The first release of the XLibre XServer 25.2.0 branch is presented as a beta-quality version intended for testing and identifying potential issues. Several more beta versions are planned to be released subsequently, after which the branch will be declared stable. XLibre is used by default in the Artix Linux, GhostBSD, OpenMandriva, and Vendefoul Wolf distributions. For Arch Linux, […]

systemd 261 and liberated-systemd 261

Posted on 21.06.2026

After three months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 261 is now available. Key changes include preparation for API support for age verification, support for the Kexec Handover and Live Update Orchestration subsystems for state-preserving restarts, the IMDS (Instance Metadata Service) subsystem, functionality for boot protection on systems without a physical TPM (Trusted Platform Module), and the systemd-sysinstall component which implements an installer. Among […]

Release of system manager systemd 261 and fork liberated-systemd 261

Posted on 21.06.2026

Release of PorteuX 2.7, a Slackware-based distribution

Posted on 21.06.2026

The release of the PorteuX 2.7 distribution, based on Slackware and developed under the influence of the Slax and Porteus projects, is now available. PorteuX features include pre-configured environments based on Cinnamon, COSMIC, GNOME, KDE, LXDE, LXQt, MATE, and Xfce desktop environments, hardware acceleration for multimedia file processing on Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA GPUs, and a Live mode booting in 3 seconds, […]

whisper.cpp 1.9.0 and 1.9.1

Posted on 21.06.2026

On June 17 and 19, releases 1.9.0 and 1.9.1 of the high-performance automatic speech recognition system whisper.cpp, which implements the Whisper model from OpenAI and is based on the machine learning tensor library GGML and the GGUF binary format, were made available. It includes the libwhisper library, demonstration examples, and console utilities: whisper-bench, whisper-cli, whisper-command, whisper-lsp, whisper-quantize, whisper-server, whisper-stream, whisper-vad-speech-segments, parakeet-cli, and parakeet-quantize. The projects are written in […]

pugixml 1.16

Posted on 20.06.2026

On June 16, after nearly a year and a half of development, version 1.16 of pugixml was released — a fast cross-platform library for parsing and processing XML (MIT License). The library provides a DOM-like interface with features for navigating and modifying document nodes. XPath 1.0 is also supported alongside full Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-16 (BE/LE), UTF-32 (BE/LE), and UCS-2) support, with automatic encoding conversions. It supports usage without […]

The Bcachefs file system has officially ceased to be experimental.

Posted on 20.06.2026

Kent Overstreet has released version 1.38.6 of the Bcachefs file system and announced the official removal of the experimental development tag from the project. Recently, the number of incoming reports of issues has decreased, and the identified bugs have become less serious and complex. The release includes two packages: bcachefs-kernel-dkms with a kernel module built using the DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) system, and bcachefs-tools […]

Release of Alt Workstation K 11.4

Posted on 20.06.2026

A minor release of the 'Alt Workstation K' operating system 11.4 is now available. The build is prepared for x86_64 based on kernel 6.12. Download the image from ftp.altlinux.org download.basealt.ru mirror.yandex.ru In the new image, the KDE Plasma desktop environment has been updated to version 6.6 (Plasma 6.6, Gear 26.04, Frameworks 6.26): text recognition on screenshots is now available — OCR functionality in Spectacle; a new Plasma Keyboard on-screen keyboard for […]

Release of Raspberry Pi OS 2026-06-18

Posted on 20.06.2026

The Raspberry Pi project has released a new version of the Raspberry Pi OS distribution on 2026-06-18 (Raspbian). The distribution is based on the Debian 13 package base and contains about 35 thousand packages in the repository. The desktop environment is based on a composite server labwc, using the wlroots library from the Sway project. Three builds are prepared for download: a slim version (537MB) for server systems, with a basic desktop […]

Release of the Alt Workstation K distribution 11.4

Posted on 20.06.2026

An update of the Linux distribution 'Alt Workstation K 11.4' has been published, offering the KDE desktop environment and aimed at office and home use. The build is prepared for the x86_64 architecture and is built on the ALT 11 platform. An installation ISO image (10.7 GB) and a separate Live build (6.4 GB) have been created for download. The downloaded version can be freely used only by individuals, in […]

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