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A new version of Niri v26.04 has been released—a scroll-tiling compositor for Wayland that arranges windows in columns on an infinite strip to the right, with opening a new window not altering the sizes of already opened ones. Niri is written in Rust and is distributed under the GPL3 license. In February, the repository on GitHub surpassed 20,000 stars. The main feature of the release, which was highly requested, is support for […]
Conan Kudo, a member of the technical committee for the Fedora project, mentioned during a recent online meeting of the ELN (Enterprise Linux Next) group that Microsoft intends to transition the Azure Linux distribution partially to the Fedora Linux package base. To achieve higher performance in Azure Linux, builds for the x86_64-v3 architecture are required, and Microsoft developers aimed to create […]
The release of the CachyOS 260426 distribution, based on the Arch Linux package base and utilizing a continuous delivery model for updates, has been announced. It is popular among gaming enthusiasts. According to ProtonDB, CachyOS is the most popular Linux distribution used by gamers, with a market share of 21.1%. This distribution is notable for its performance optimizations and the ability to install various desktop environments. In addition to the base […]
The release of the D7VK project 1.8 has been published, which develops the implementation of the Direct3D 3, 5, 6, and 7 graphics APIs proposed by Microsoft in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. D7VK operates through the translation of calls into the Vulkan API and allows retro games tied to Direct3D 3, 5, 6, and 7 to run on Linux via Wine. The project code is written […]
Canonical has announced an initiative to modernize the Launchpad service, used in the development of Ubuntu for collaborative code work, bug tracking, change reviews, building, and package hosting. The first to be rid of the outdated interface are summary pages with information about Ubuntu releases. For example, on the Ubuntu 26.04 page, one can track known issues and the progress of bug fixes, and obtain information about […]
The release of the dpScreenOCR 1.5.1 program for optical character recognition, utilizing Tesseract, has taken place. dpScreenOCR allows users to capture any area of the screen using a global hotkey and mouse, from which text will be recognized. Depending on user choice, the program can copy the recognized text to the clipboard, add it to history, or send it to an external program. Ready builds have been created for Linux […]
On April 23, 2026, the Tails project announced the release of a new version of its privacy-focused Linux distribution – Tails 7.7. Key changes: Detection of obsolete Secure Boot certificates: Microsoft has begun replacing Secure Boot certificates issued back in 2011. Their validity expires in June 2026. The new version of Tails implements a notification system to warn users […]
Canonical has published preliminary results of an independent security audit of the uutils coreutils (Rust Coreutils) toolkit, written in Rust and partially used in Ubuntu instead of the GNU Coreutils package. The audit was conducted by Zellic, a company experienced in vulnerability analysis in Rust projects. During the review, 113 security issues were identified. The report is already available […]
The stable version of the GNU Coreutils 9.11 package of basic system utilities is now available, which includes programs such as sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. Key innovations: Support for multi-byte characters has been implemented in the cut, nl, unexpand, and expand utilities. The cut utility has added options "-w", "-F", and "-O" for compatibility […]
On April 23, a new version of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS was released, codenamed “Resolute Raccoon,” which can be downloaded and installed from the official website ubuntu.com. "Resolute Raccoon is based on improvements aimed at enhancing resilience, which were introduced in the interim releases, including full disk encryption with TPM support, improved permission request support for applications, and Livepatch updates […]
A vulnerability, Pack2TheRoot (CVE-2026-41651), has been identified in PackageKit, a D-Bus layer that unifies package management operations, allowing an unprivileged user to install or remove arbitrary packages and gain root access to the system. The issue manifests starting with version 1.0.2 (2014) and has been addressed in the PackageKit 1.3.5 release. The problem was discovered by researchers from Deutsche Telekom using the AI model Claude Opus. A functional exploit has been prepared that operates in […]
It is no secret that Intel has been systematically reducing its involvement in open source lately. Of the approximately 1,300 company repositories on GitHub, 903 are already archived, and the latest wave of closures occurred in December of last year (see: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-OSS-Projects-Ended-2025). Now, as Intel is winding down its open-source activities, it has also ceased promoting the benefits of open source: the company has no remaining employees […]