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The AlmaLinux project has announced the release of two stable versions of the distribution: AlmaLinux OS 9.8 “Olive Jaguar” and AlmaLinux OS 10.2 “Lavender Lion.” The project highlights that this is the first time two stable branches of AlmaLinux have been released on the same day. This release is the result of improvements to the build infrastructure, automation, and QA procedures that allow for maintaining two parallel branches without delay […]
The ReactOS project, which has been developing a free OS with binary compatibility for Windows applications and drivers for many years, has reported the first successful boot of an experimental build for ARM64. Until now, the main target architectures for ReactOS have been i586 and AMD64, and now the system has successfully booted on a 64-bit ARM platform. The demonstration was published on May 26, 2026. As noted by Phoronix, the shown build […]
The Chromium developers have implemented support for the Wayland protocol in the ANGLE library. The implementation is based on the use of the EGL extension EGL_EXT_platform_wayland. The ANGLE library translates OpenGL ES calls to the graphics APIs OpenGL, Direct3D 9/11, and Vulkan, and is used in Chrome as a backend for WebGL, and in Android for implementing OpenGL ES over Vulkan. It is mentioned that this change will allow support for Wayland […]
The accompanying web browser Dillo proposes a method for filtering changes prepared through AI. The Dillo project accepts patches created only by humans, but analyzing submitted changes is time-consuming and it's not always clear whether a patch was created by a person or not. To simplify the filtering of AI-generated patches, participants submitting changes to the project for the first time are asked to provide evidence of their work […]
The GlobalPlatform consortium has announced the Pavona project, which develops an open distribution of hardware components that can be assembled into production-ready secure chips based on RISC-V microarchitecture. This distribution provides a modular library of IP blocks and reference chip implementations that are ready for certification and proven for manufacturing (tapeout-proven). By combining elements from this library, one can create custom chips for various fields […]
The release of AlmaLinux 10.2 has been announced, along with an update of the previous branch — AlmaLinux 9.8. The releases are synchronized with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.8 and 10.2 and include all changes proposed in these versions. Installation images are prepared for the architectures x86_64_v3, x86_64_v2, ARM64, ppc64le, and s390x in the form of bootable (1 GB), minimal (1.6 GB), and full images (10 GB). […]
The release of AppGrid 1.8.0 has been published — a third-party application launcher for KDE Plasma 6, designed as an application grid and positioned as an alternative to the standard Kickoff and Kicker menus. The release was posted on GitHub on May 25, 2026; the project description notes that AppGrid is distributed under the GPL-2.0-or-later license. AppGrid comes in two variants of the plasmoid: as a separate centered pop-up window […]
The release of Sway 1.12 has been published — a new version of the tiling Wayland compositor that is conceptually and configurationally compatible with i3. The release took place on May 25, 2026. According to the project, Sway 1.12 includes 138 changes from 50 contributors, and building it now requires wlroots 0.20.0. The main user-facing change is the support for HDR10 when using the Vulkan renderer. This does not imply automatic […]
Google accidentally opened public access to a report (public copy) containing a detailed explanation and example exploit for a vulnerability that has not yet been patched in the Chromium engine. The vulnerability is deemed dangerous, and a $1,000 reward was paid to the researcher who disclosed the issue. Information about the problem was sent back in 2022 and has since been raised periodically but not brought to […]
The release of labwc 0.20 (Lab Wayland Compositor) has been published, developing a compositor server for Wayland with features reminiscent of the Openbox window manager (the project is presented as an attempt to create an alternative to Openbox for Wayland). The project code is written in C and distributed under the GPLv2 license. The significant version increase (from 0.9 to 0.20) is explained by syncing with the version numbering of the wlroots library. Labwc is involved […]
KernelScript has been introduced — an experimental programming language for developing eBPF programs, custom loaders, and Linux kernel extensions from a single codebase. The project is developed by Multikernel Technologies, a company promoting the split-kernel/multikernel architecture for Linux. Cong Wang, the company's founder, discussed KernelScript at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit; the project code is published on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license. eBPF (Extended […]
Intel continues to formally close and archive open projects that no longer align with the company’s current priorities. Another wave of such archiving was noticed at the end of May; according to Phoronix, on May 23, projects related to OBS Studio, CVE scanning, video transcoding, SGX, and research efforts from Intel Labs were included in the list. The new wave of archiving included: […]
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