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Flatpack 1.18.0

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Flatpak 1.18.0 has been published - a new stable release of the system for building, distributing and running isolated Linux-applications. Flatpak allows developers to release a single application for multiple distributions, ship their own dependencies, and run programs in a predictable environment. A general description of the project is available on flatpak.org, and a list of changes is published in the official Flatpak 1.18.0 release on GitHub. An additional brief breakdown of the release […]

Release of Apache 2.4.68 http server with elimination of 13 vulnerabilities

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Apache HTTP Server 2.4.68 has been released, fixing 13 vulnerabilities and introducing several improvements. The fixed vulnerabilities (the first 6 are moderately severe, the rest are low): CVE-2026-34355 — a buffer overflow in mod_proxy_html that occurs when accessing an attacker-controlled backend. CVE-2026-49975 — a denial of service via memory exhaustion. CVE-2026-44186 — an infinite loop in the […]

The Xfce desktop environment has been ported to Redox OS, and the EEVDF task scheduler has been implemented.

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The developers of the Redox operating system, written using the Rust language and microkernel concepts, published a project progress report for May. Among the achievements highlighted was the successful porting of the Xfce desktop environment. Xfce running on Redox was deemed more stable than the previously created port of the MATE desktop, which still had unresolved issues with the Caja file manager. For Redox […]

Release of Flatpak 1.18.0 self-contained package system

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After a year and a half of development, a new stable branch of Flatpak 1.18 has been released. It provides a system for building self-contained packages that are not tied to specific distributions. Linux and executed in a special container that isolates the application from the rest of the system. Support for running Flatpak packages is provided for Fedora, CentOS, Debian, Arch Linux, Gentoo, Linux Mint, Alt Linux и UbuntuFlatpak packages are included in […]

Winners of the 29th C Obfuscated Code Writing Contest Announced

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The source code for the winning entries in the twenty-ninth IOCCC (International Obfuscated C Code Contest) has been published. Participants were asked to create the most obfuscated and difficult-to-parse C code. The entries must, on the one hand, hinder analysis and understanding of the problem being solved, but, on the other, the code must be interesting and notable in some way (entries […]

Armbian Imager 2.0

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Armbian Imager 2.0 has been released—a major update to the official Armbian utility for writing images to SD cards, USB drives, and other storage media for single-board computers. The new version features a redesigned interface and writing engine, and the key change is the ability to pre-configure a boot profile: after flashing, the board can boot with a pre-defined user, network, locale, and SSH access. Release v2.0.0 […]

Ape is a new open source implementation of Vulkan ICD.

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A new experimental Vulkan driver, Ape, has been unveiled—an open-source implementation of the Vulkan ICD, written almost entirely in Zig and using no Mesa code. The project doesn't yet aim for industrial use: the author explicitly describes it as an educational attempt to "build a driver by hand" and warns against using Ape in serious projects. The code is published under the MIT license. Interest in Ape has arisen […]

Wayland Protocols 1.49

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Wayland Protocols 1.49, a set of specifications for additional Wayland protocols used by compositors, graphics toolkits, and applications to implement features beyond the core Wayland protocol, has been released. The project describes extensions such as GPU buffer sharing, color management, scaling, sessions, and other mechanisms that underpin modern Wayland desktops. Wayland Protocols 1.49 was released on June 7, 2026. Key changes […]

Wayland-Protocols 1.49 release

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The wayland-protocols 1.49 package has been released. It contains a set of protocols and extensions that complement the core Wayland protocol and provide capabilities needed for building composite servers and user environments. The new version includes: The experimental xx-fractional-scale protocol, which provides the ability to scale the logical coordinate system, in which values ​​are specified as integers, to improve positioning accuracy and increase the resolution of logical coordinates to individual […]

OpenCV 5.0.0

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OpenCV 5.0.0, a major release of the open-source computer vision and image processing library, has been published. The release took place on June 6, 2026, and is already marked as current in the project's GitHub repository. OpenCV is licensed under the Apache-2.0 license. The release marks OpenCV's transition from a "classic computer vision library" to a more modern platform for CV/AI tasks: the project has cleaned up the old API, reworked […]

development Plans Ubuntu desktop 26.10

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement, Director of Engineering at Canonical, has published plans for the development of desktop environment functionality, which are intended to be implemented in the fall release. Ubuntu October 26.10. Four key areas of work are highlighted: Development of the GNOME-based environment. Updating the desktop environment to the release of GNOME 51, scheduled for September 16. Migrating from dbus-daemon to dbus-broker in […]

OutWiker 4.0 note-taking software released

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Almost two years after the release of the previous stable version, OutWiker 4.0, a note-taking program, has been released. The program's unique feature is that notes are stored as directories containing text files. Any number of files can be attached to each note. The program allows you to write notes using various notations: HTML, wiki, and Markdown (if the appropriate plugin is installed). Also […]

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