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Jean Baptiste Lallement, Director of Engineering at Canonical, has published plans for enhancing the functionality of the desktop environment, which are intended to be implemented in the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release. Four key areas of focus have been highlighted: Development of the GNOME-based environment. Upgrading the desktop environment to the GNOME 51 release, scheduled for September 16. Transitioning from dbus-daemon to dbus-broker in […]
Almost two years after the release of the previous stable version, OutWiker 4.0 has been launched. The unique feature of this software is that notes are stored as directories with text files, and an arbitrary number of files can be attached to each note. The program allows writing notes using various notations: HTML, wiki, Markdown (if the appropriate plugin is installed). Also […]
Coinciding with the celebration of its first anniversary, a new version 25.1.6 of the X.org graphical server fork — XLibre — has been released. Support for seatd has been added, a daemon that provides universal access to input/output devices without requiring superuser rights and the presence of systemd. Improved support for the proprietary Nvidia driver: support for version 570 has been enhanced, and no additional configuration of the Xserver is needed to work with this version. Optional support has also been added […]
Prometheus JMX Exporter 1.6.0 has been released — an exporter designed to collect JMX MBean values from Java applications and expose them as Prometheus metrics. With proper configuration, JMX Exporter can also send data via OpenTelemetry. The project's code is distributed under the Apache-2.0 license. JMX Exporter can run in multiple modes: as a Java agent within the target JVM, as a standalone exporter for […]
Almost two years after the release of the previous stable version (beta versions are released almost every month), a new stable version of OutWiker 4.0 has been published. The unique feature of the program is that notes are stored as directories with text files, and an arbitrary number of files can be attached to each note. The program allows writing notes using various notations: HTML, […]
Exactly one year after the establishment of the X.Org Server fork, the XLibre 25.1.6 release has been announced. The release marked the transition of the 25.1 branch to stable status (previous updates were of beta quality and intended for testing). XLibre is used by default in the Artix Linux, GhostBSD, OpenMandriva, and Vendefoul Wolf distributions. For Arch Linux, Debian, DragonFly BSD, Fedora, FreeBSD, Gentoo Linux, GNU Guix, […]
A community of enthusiasts is developing Opengram — an open implementation of the server component of the Telegram messenger. The project is a standalone server implementing the MTProto protocol (supported layer up to 216), which can be used to replace the official Telegram server infrastructure when deployed on personal hardware. Official Telegram clients (Telegram Desktop, mobile applications) are supported after modifying the data center address and the server's public RSA key. […]
The GNOME project has published a weekly report noting the porting of the File Previewer (sushi) application, used in GNOME to preview file contents, to the GTK4 library, libadwaita interface design components, the Glycin image isolated booting backend, and the Blueprint interface construction language. The File Previewer also implements support for dark themes and floating tool panels, with the code upgraded to utilize modules […]
The release of Ardour 9.7 has been published — a free digital audio workstation for recording, mixing, and mastering sound. The release took place on June 5, 2026, and is described as a corrective update, but alongside fixes, it brought several notable improvements in interface and MIDI editing. The developers skipped version 9.6 due to last-minute issues discovered. Ardour is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The main change […]
Andreas Kling, the founder of the Ladybird web browser, announced a change in the project's development process. Ladybird will no longer accept public pull requests and will switch to promoting changes to the codebase only through maintainers. All already opened public pull requests will be closed. The source code of Ladybird will continue to be provided under the BSD license. Reports of issues, vulnerabilities, and testing of website functionality will continue to […]
The release of the T2 SDE 26.6 meta-distribution has been published, providing an environment for creating custom distributions, cross-compilation, and keeping package versions current. Among popular distributions built on the T2 system, Puppy Linux can be noted. The project offers 10 ready-made bootable ISO images with a graphical environment based on KDE, compiled for the architectures arm64, ia64, ppc64, ppc64le, riscv64, riscv64 rva23, i686 […]
Google has made changes to the release announcement of Chrome 149, revealing information about the resolution of 429 vulnerabilities. 22 vulnerabilities are marked as critical, while 87 are deemed dangerous. Critical issues allow for bypassing all levels of browser protection and executing code on the system outside the sandbox environment. Details have not yet been disclosed, only that most critical issues […]