The Linux kernel turns 34: 25/08/2025 On August 25, 1991, after five months of development, 21-year-old student Linus Torvalds announced on the comp.os.minix newsgroup that he had created a working prototype of the new Linux operating system, marking the completion of the bash 1.08 and gcc 1.40 ports. The first public release of the Linux kernel was presented on September 17. Kernel 0.0.1 was 62 KB in compressed form and contained approximately 10,000 lines of source code. The modern Linux kernel contains approximately 41 million lines of code. Linus originally intended to call the kernel Freax, a combination of the words “free”, “freak” and X (Unix). But the kernel was given the name “Linux” by Ari Lemmke, who, at Linus's request, placed the kernel on the university's FTP server , naming the directory with the archive not “freax”, as Torvalds had requested, but “linux”. It is noteworthy that the enterprising businessman William Della Croce managed to register the Linux trademark and wanted to collect royalties over time, but later changed his mind and transferred all rights to the trademark to Linus. The official mascot of the Linux kernel, the penguin Tux, was chosen as a result of a competition held in 1996. The name Tux stands for Torvalds UniX. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/linux.history.html

Ubuntu uses sudo-rs by default: 26/08/2025 In the daily experimental Ubuntu builds that reflect the development of the fall release of Ubuntu 25.10, the sudo-rs project, written in Rust, is used instead of the sudo utility by default. The decision to use sudo-rs in Ubuntu was made in May, but until recently it was unclear whether the developers would have time to implement the necessary missing features in sudo-rs before Ubuntu 25.10 entered the freeze stage. To ship sudo-rs in Ubuntu 25.10, the following requirements were met: the ability to work on systems with older versions of the Linux kernel (<5.9), support for the NOEXEC protection mechanism and AppArmor profiles, fixing stability issues, reviewing the package and adding it to the main repository. Delivering utilities written in Rust will reduce the risk of errors when working with memory, such as accessing a memory area after it has been freed and going beyond the buffer boundaries. If no unforeseen problems arise, Rust utilities will be used by default in the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS branch. https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/sudo-rs-is-now-default-for-questing-quokka/66912

QEMU 10.1.0: 27/08/2025 The release of QEMU 10.1.0 is out. As an emulator, QEMU allows you to run a program compiled for one hardware platform on a system with a completely different architecture, for example, to run an ARM application on an x86-compatible PC. In virtualization mode in QEMU, the performance of code execution in an isolated environment is close to the actual hardware system due to direct execution of instructions on the CPU and the use of the Xen hypervisor or the KVM module in Linux, or the NVMM module in NetBSD. The project was originally created by Fabrice Bellard to enable x86-based Linux binaries to run on non-x86 architectures. Over the years, full emulation support has been added for 14 hardware architectures, with over 400 emulated hardware devices. More than 2,700 changes from 226 developers were made in preparation for version 11.0. https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2025-08/msg03762.html

Cozystack 0.35: 27/08/2025 The release of the free PaaS platform Cozystack 0.35, built on Kubernetes, is now available. The project aims to provide a ready-made platform for hosting providers and a framework for building private and public clouds. The platform is installed directly on servers and covers all aspects of preparing the infrastructure for providing managed services. Cozystack allows you to launch and provide Kubernetes clusters, databases, and virtual machines. The platform code is available on GitHub and is distributed under the Apache-2.0 license. The platform includes a free implementation of the network infrastructure (fabric) based on Kube-OVN, and uses Cilium for the service network and MetalLB to announce services to the outside. The storage is implemented on LINSTOR, which suggests using ZFS as a base layer for storage and DRBD for replication. There is a pre-configured monitoring stack based on VictoriaMetrics and Grafana. To launch virtual machines, KubeVirt technology is used , which allows you to launch classic virtual machines directly in Kubernetes containers and already has all the necessary integrations with the Cluster API to launch managed Kubernetes clusters inside a “hardware” Kubernetes cluster. https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack/releases/tag/v0.35.0

RPM 6.0 beta 2: 28/08/2025 Red Hat has published the second beta release of the RPM 6.0 package manager, which will be used in the fall release of the Fedora Linux 43 distribution. The project is used in such distributions as RHEL, Fedora, SUSE, openSUSE, OpenMandriva, Mageia, PCLinuxOS and more. RPM code is distributed under the GPLv2 and LGPLv2 licenses. RPM version 5 is skipped to avoid overlaps with the RPM5 project, which is not related to Red Hat's RPM and was developed by independent developers. https://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-announce/2025-August/000120.html

Agama 17: 28/08/2025 The openSUSE project developers have introduced the Agama 17 installer, which is being developed to replace the classic SUSE and openSUSE installation interface, and is notable for separating the user interface from the internal YaST components. The code of the installer components is distributed under the GPLv2 license and is written in Ruby, Rust, and JavaScript/TypeScript. To test the new installer, live builds have been created for the x86_64, ppc64le, s390x, and ARM64 architectures. The builds include the beta version of openSUSE Leap 16, continuously updated builds of openSUSE Tumbleweed and openSUSE Slowroll, as well as the container-based MicroOS edition and openSUSE Leap Micro 6.2. The installer will be shipped with openSUSE Leap 16 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 (in beta testing). https://agama-project.github.io/blog/2025/08/27/agama-17

MODICIA 6.12.41: 29/08/2025 The release of the MODICIA 6.12.41 distribution has been published. It is based on Debian and offers a selection of applications for musicians, designers and video creators. The user environment is built using the Cinnamon desktop environment. The project maintains an application catalog containing about 1000 packages. The size of the live iso image, is 4.7 GB (x86_64). The distribution has been developing since 1998 and is notable for its default high-performance CPU mode (Turbo Boost) and the delivery of a kernel variant that works in real time. Wine is used to run multimedia programs compiled for Windows. Zram (RAM disk with compression) is used to compress data stored in RAM, and the kernel parameter vm.swappiness is reduced from 60 to 10 to reduce the activity of the swap partition. https://sourceforge.net/p/modicia-o-s/news/general/thread/625f1f4975/

FreedomBox: 29/08/2025 New FreedomBox Trixie builds have been published, translated to the Debian 13 base. The project is developing a system for easy deployment of personal servers that protect users' personal data and allow you to quickly launch typical services on your equipment that can be used for personal use. All the code developed by the project are available through the Debian repositories. The installation image is generated for the x86_64 architecture (the formation of i386 builds has been discontinued). If desired, you can create your own image using the special Freedom-Maker installer and the freedombox-setup configurator . FreedomBox was founded by Eben Moglen, a Columbia University law professor who provides legal support for the Free Software Foundation. The project was created to provide a means to create low-cost, low-power personal servers that users can use to store their personal data and securely communicate without relying on external centralized services. https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/debian-13-trixie-disk-images-now-available/3871

GTK 4.20: 29/08/2025 After six months of development, the multi-platform GUI toolkit GTK 4.20 has been released. GTK 4 is being developed as part of a development process that tries to provide application developers with a stable and supported API for several years that they can use without the fear of having to rework their applications every six months due to API changes in the next GTK branch. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/tags/4.20.0

SpamAssassin 4.0.2: 30/08/2025 After a year and a half of development, the release of the SpamAssassin 4.0.2 spam filtering platform has been published.Blocking in SpamAssassin: first, the message is checked using various methods, such as contextual analysis, DNSBL black and white lists, trained Bayesian classifiers, signatures of known spam, sender authentication by SPF and DKIM. As a result of the checks, a weighting coefficient is accumulated, which must not exceed a certain threshold, otherwise the message is blocked or marked as spam. The package can be used on both client and server systems. Automatic filter rule update tools are supported. SpamAssassin code is written in Perl and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. https://lists.apache.org/thread/vdmwnh6f05fnj9ddz93t70f9gy00ys0b

GNOME Foundation CEO Steps Down: 30/08/2025 Steven Deobald has announced that he is stepping down as executive director of the GNOME Foundation, which oversees the development of the GNOME desktop environment. Steven took over four months ago, and at a recent board meeting, it was decided that he was not fit for the role despite accomplishments such as creating a new donation platform, working on the guidelines, and building partnerships with related projects such as postmarketOS. https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/08/29/so-short-and-thanks-for-all-the-flinch/

IceWM 3.9.0: 31/08/2025 The lightweight window manager IceWM 3.9.0 is now available. IceWM provides full control via keyboard shortcuts, the ability to use virtual desktops, taskbars and application menus, and tabs can be used to group windows. The window manager is configured via a fairly simple configuration file and themes can be used. Combining windows in the form of tabs is also supported. Built-in applets for monitoring CPU, memory, and network traffic are available. Several third-party GUIs for customization, desktop implementations, and menu editors are being developed separately. The code is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The new version adds support for cursor themes. As an alternative to XPM cursors, support for cursor image files in the Xcursor format has been added. For themes that do not define a cursor image, the cursor from the Xcursor system theme is used. To load cursor images, gdk-pixbuf functions are used without using the libXpm library. The libXcursor library has been added to the dependencies. The dependency on libXpm has been removed. The “-covered” option has been added to the icesh utility to filter out windows covered by other windows. https://github.com/ice-wm/icewm/releases/tag/3.9.0

Linux From Scratch 12.4 && Beyond Linux From Scratch 12.4: 02/09/2025 New releases of the Linux From Scratch 12.4 (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch 12.4 (BLFS) guides, as well as LFS and BLFS editions with the systemd system manager, are available. Linux From Scratch provides instructions for building a basic Linux system from scratch, using only the source code for the necessary software. Beyond Linux From Scratch supplements the LFS instructions with information on building and configuring about 1,000 software packages, covering a variety of applications, from DBMSs and server systems to graphical shells and media players. Linux From Scratch 12.4 updates 49 packages, including Linux kernel 6.16.1, Systemd 257.8, Binutils 2.45, gcc 15.2, glibc 2.42, Bash 5.3, Coreutils 9.7, Meson 1.8.3, OpenSSL 3.5.2, Perl 5.42.0, Python 3.13.7, Vim 9.1.1629. Bugs in boot scripts have been fixed, and explanatory materials throughout the book have been edited. Beyond Linux From Scratch 12.4 features over 1,300 updates, including KDE Plasma 6.4.4, KDE Gears 25.08, GNOME 48, Xfce 4.20.2, LXQt 2.2.1, IceWM 3.8.2, LibreOffice 25.8.1, FFmpeg 7.1.1, Inkscape 1.4.2, Thunderbird 140.2, Firefox 140.2.0, SeaMonkey 2.53.21, GIMP 3.0.4, Mesa 25.1.8, GTK 4.18.6, MariaDB 11.8.3, PostgreSQL 17.6, SQLite 3.50.4, Postfix 3.10.4, Exim 4.98.2, BIND 9.20.12, Apache httpd 2.4.65. Added new packages: roman-numerals-py, Clone::PP and fast_float. Removed packages libgdata, uhttpmock and AbiWord. https://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/arc/lfs-announce/2025-09/msg00000.html

Apache Cloudberry 2.0.0: 02/09/2025 Apache Cloudberry 2.0.0 is the latest release of the distributed DBMS, continuing the development of the open source Greenplum DBMS codebase, which was closed sourced by Broadcom after its acquisition of VMware. Apache Cloudberry 2.0.0 marks the first release of the project after the code was transferred to the Apache community. The project is currently in the Apache Incubator and will be promoted to a primary Apache project once the infrastructure and maintainers are ready. Cloudberry DBMS is a distributed edition of the open PostgreSQL DBMS optimized for executing analytical queries over large data arrays (Data Warehouse). Massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture is used for parallel data processing, ensuring storage scalability up to petabyte sizes by dividing data into segments and using a cluster of servers for their storage and processing. https://cloudberry.apache.org/blog/announce-apache-cloudberry-2.0.0

Release of miracle-wm 0.7: 04/09/2025 Matthew Kosarek, a developer from Canonical, has released the miracle-wm 0.7 compositing manager, which uses the Wayland protocol and Mir compositing manager building components. Miracle-wm supports tiling window layout, similar to the i3 and Sway projects. Waybar can be used as a panel. The project code is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Ready-made builds are available in Snap format, as well as deb packages for Ubuntu. The goal of miracle-wm is to create a composite server that uses tiled window management, but is more functional and stylish than products like Swayfx. At the same time, the project allows you to use classic techniques for working with floating windows, such as placing individual windows on top of a tiled grid or pinning windows to a specific place on the desktop. Virtual desktops are supported with the ability to set a default window mode for each desktop (tiled layout or floating windows). It is expected that miracle-wm will be useful for users who prefer a tiled layout, but want visual effects and a more vivid graphical design with smooth transitions and colors. The configuration is defined in YAML format. To install miracle-wm, you can use the command “sudo snap install miracle-wm –classic”. https://github.com/miracle-wm-org/miracle-wm/releases/tag/v0.7.0

GDM brings back X11 support by default ahead of GNOME 49: 04/09/2025 GNOME 49 RC has been released, the final testing release before the scheduled September 17 release. The published testing release is notable for reverting an earlier change that disabled the default compilation of X11 support components in the GNOME Display Manager (GDM). The original intent of GNOME 49 was to disable X11 support in GDM by default, but leave the ability to run X11-based desktop environments and retain X11-related code to optionally bring back X11 support in distributions. The reason for bringing back X11 support in GDM is the difficulty of separating the ability to run modern X11 sessions in GDM from the use of X11 in GDM itself, such as support for XDMCP, legacy x11 sessions, and non-user x11 sessions. https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-49-rc-released/31234

openSUSE Leap and openSUSE Leap Micro support period extended to 2 years: 04/09/2025 The developers of the openSUSE distribution have announced an extension to the update period for new releases of the openSUSE Leap and openSUSE Leap Micro distributions to two years. The new support period will be applied starting with the openSUSE Leap 16 branch, which is scheduled for October 1, 2025. Intermediate releases in the openSUSE Leap 16 branch, supported in parallel with the commercial distribution SUSE Linux Enterprise 16, will be generated until the fall of 2031 - the final release will be openSUSE Leap 16.6, updates will be released until the fall of 2033. As before, new releases of the distribution will be published once a year. Since 2009, openSUSE has had a support period of one and a half years - a year until the next release + six months for upgrading to a new version. Since the development of the first release of the new openSUSE Leap 16 branch took longer than usual, an exception was made for the openSUSE Leap 15.6 release, formed in June last year and its support period was extended by an additional 4 months (the total period for publishing updates will be 1 year and 10 months). Starting with openSUSE 16, release support will be carried out during two full cycles of preparing new releases. For those who find two years of support insufficient, a toolkit is provided for migrating installations to SUSE Linux Enterprise and SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro distributions. https://news.opensuse.org/2025/09/03/leap-16-doubles-support/

Release of Linux Mint 22.2: 04/09/2025 The release of Linux Mint 22.2 is out, continuing the development of the branch on the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package base. The distribution is fully compatible with Ubuntu, but differs significantly in its approach to the user interface and the selection of applications used by default. The Linux Mint developers provide a desktop environment that corresponds to the classic layouts of the desktop, which is more familiar to users who do not accept the new ways of building the GNOME 3 interface. DVD builds based on MATE (3 GB), Cinnamon (3 GB) and Xfce (3 GB) are available for download. The Linux Mint 22 branch is classified as a long-term support (LTS) release, updates for which will be generated until 2029. https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p%3D4881

Microsoft Opens BASIC Interpreter Code for M6502 CPU's: 04/09/2025 Microsoft has announced the release of the source code for the BASIC interpreter for the MOS Technology 6502 eight-bit microprocessors developed in 1975. The version of BASIC that was released was installed in 8KB of ROM and supported the Apple II, Commodore PET, Ohio Scientific, MOS KIM-1c, and PDP-10 simulator. The code is 6,955 lines of assembly language and is licensed under the MIT license. The last change was made on July 28, 1978. The 6502 BASIC code may be of interest to retro computer enthusiasts using emulators and FPGA-based implementations. https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/03/microsoft-open-source-historic-6502-basic/

LKRG 1.0.0 Released: 05/09/2025 The Openwall project has published the LKRG 1.0.0 kernel module (Linux Kernel Runtime Guard), designed to check the integrity of kernel structures and identify attempts to exploit kernel vulnerabilities. Assigning the version number 1.0.0 marked the project reaching a mature state. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The module is suitable for both protection against attacks that manipulate known vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel and for countering exploits that use yet unknown vulnerabilities, if they do not use special measures to bypass LKRG. The protection is based on identifying unauthorized changes to the running kernel (integrity check) and tracking changes in user process permissions (determining the use of exploits). The integrity check is performed based on comparison of hashes calculated for the most important memory areas and kernel data structures, such as IDT (Interrupt Descriptor Table), MSR, system call tables, all procedures and functions, interrupt handlers, lists of loaded modules, contents of the “.text” section of modules and process attributes. It supports x86-64, AArch64 (ARM64), ARM32, and x86 architectures. LKRG 1.0.0 has been tested with kernels from various distributions, ranging from RHEL/CentOS 7 kernel 3.10 to 6.17-rc4 from the Fedora 44 release repository. Packages are available for Arch, Gentoo, Guix, NixOS, Rocky, Whonix, Yocto and OpenBMC. Packages built for Rocky Linux can be used in RHEL 8/9 and derivatives such as AlmaLinux 8/9, and Whonix packages in Debian and Ubuntu. https://www.openwall.com/lists/announce/2025/09/02/1

GIMP 3.1.4: 05/09/2025 The GIMP 3.1.4 graphics editor is now available, which is the second release in the experimental 3.1 branch, which forms the functionality of the future stable GIMP 3.2 branch. The GIMP 3.2 branch develops support for link layers (Link layer) and vector layers (Vector layer), as well as features related to support for the CMYK color model and color management. Ready-made builds are published for Linux (AppImage and Flatpak for x86 and ARM64 architectures), macOS and Windows. https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/09/01/gimp-3-1-4-released/

New versions of Debian 13.1 and 12.12: 06/09/2025 The first corrective update of Debian 13 has been generated, which includes package updates released in the month since the release of the new branch, and fixes bugs in the installer. The release includes 72 updates with fixes for stability issues and 16 updates with fixes for vulnerabilities. Changes include: update to the latest stable versions of certain packages, like, dpdk, galera, git, glib, gnome-online-accounts, gnome-shell, gssdp, libadwaita-1, librepo, mariadb, mozjs128, network-manager-openvpn, pcre2, postfix, postgresql, ptyxis, qemu, samba, systemd. The package manager guix, which remained unsupported and contains security issues, was removed from the distribution. At the same time, a new release of the previous stable branch Debian 12.12 is available, which includes 135 updates with fixes for stability issues and 83 updates with fixes for vulnerabilities. The following packages have been updated to the latest stable versions: apache2, clamav, dpdk, galera, libsoup3, llvm-toolchain, mariadb, openssl, postgresql, rar, rustc-web, systemd, usb.ids, wireless-regdb. Here too, the guix package has been removed. https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250906

The first alpha release of the KDE Linux distribution: 06/09/2025 The KDE project has released the first alpha release of its own KDE Linux distribution, which is positioned as a reference implementation of a Linux distribution for the KDE desktop and applications, optimally combined with KDE technologies and developed directly by KDE developers. System images (5 GB) are available for installation to create bootable USB drives that work in Live mode. The distribution is based on Arch Linux, but is designed as an indivisible image that does not use division into separate packages, is mounted in read-only mode and is updated atomically. The components, in addition to the basic system environment, are built from source code using kde-builder or supplied as Flatpak packages. The distribution supports repeatable builds, allowing anyone to verify the distribution build process. All user (/home) and changeable system data are stored in encrypted partitions. The bootloader is systemd-boot, which supports booting only in EFI mode. The limitations of the alpha version include support for UEFI-based systems only, no ability to boot in UEFI Secure Boot mode, no ability to load new kernel modules during operation, an unfinished interface for updating the system and applications in Flatpak format, no support for old NVIDIA GPUs (only GPUs based on the Turing microarchitecture (GTX 16xx) and newer are supported, since licensing restrictions do not allow proprietary modules with support for old GPUs to be included in the image). Only a Wayland-based graphics session is available. https://discuss.kde.org/t/kde-linux-alpha-has-been-released/39476

Release of uutils 0.2.0: 07/09/2025 The release of the uutils coreutils 0.2.0 (Rust Coreutils) project has been published. It develops an analogue of the GNU Coreutils package written in the Rust language. coreutils includes more than a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln and ls. The goal of the project is to create a cross-platform alternative implementation of Coreutils, among others, capable of running on Windows, Redox and Fuchsia platforms. Rust Coreutils is used in the AerynOS (Serpent OS) and Apertis distributions , and will be enabled by default in the fall release of Ubuntu 25.10. Unlike GNU Coreutils, the Rust implementation is distributed under a permissive MIT license, instead of the copyleft GPL license. In addition, the same team of developers is developing Rust-written analogs of the util-linux , diffutils , findutils and procps utility sets , as well as the sed and login programs . https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.2.0

Release of Armbian 25.8 && DietPi 9.16: 07/09/2025 Armbian 25.8 has been released, providing a compact system environment for single-board computers with ARM, RISC-V and x86 processors, supporting various models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi and Cubieboard based on Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale / NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa and Samsung Exynos processors. The project supports more than 30 variants of Linux kernel builds for different ARM and ARM64 platforms. A SDK is provided to simplify the creation of your own system images, packages and distribution editions. When logging in via SSH, an option is provided to use two-factor authentication. The package includes a box64 emulator, which allows you to run programs compiled for processors based on the x86 architecture. Ready-made packages are offered for running user environments based on KDE, GNOME, Budgie, Cinnamon, i3wm, Mate, Xfce and Xmonad. Additionally, DietPi 9.16, a distribution for single-board PCs based on ARM and RISC-V architectures, such as Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi, NanoPi, BananaPi, BeagleBone Black, Rock64, Rock Pi, Quartz64, Pine64, Asus Tinker, Odroid and VisionFive 2 is also out. The distribution is built on Debian and is available in builds for more than 50 boards. DietPi can also be used to create compact environments for virtual machines and regular PCs based on the x86_64 architecture. Builds for the boards are small in size (on average 130 MB) compared to Raspberry Pi OS and Armbian. The tools for building and maintaining the distribution are distributed under the GPLv2 license. The project is optimized for minimal resource consumption and develops several of its own utilities: an interface for installing DietPi-Software applications, a configurator DietPi-Config, a backup system DietPi-Backup, a mechanism for maintaining temporary logs DietPi-Ramlog (rsyslog is also supported), an interface for setting process execution priorities DietPi-Services and a system for delivering updates DietPi-Update. The utilities provide a console user interface with menus and dialogs based on whiptail. A fully automated installation mode is supported, allowing installation on boards without user intervention. https://blog.armbian.com/v25-8-1-is-here/

Budgie Desktop Environment 10.9.3: 07/09/2025 More than a year after the last update, the Budgie 10.9.3 desktop environment has been released. The user environment consists of separately delivered components with the Budgie Desktop desktop implementation, the Budgie Desktop View icon set, the Budgie Control Center system configuration interface (a fork of GNOME Control Center), and the Budgie Screensaver screensaver (a fork of gnome-screensaver). The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The developers intended to form a major release of Budgie 10.10 in the first quarter of 2025. In this release, it was planned to completely abandon support for X11 and leave only the ability to work in environments based on the Wayland protocol. However, this branch is still not ready for release, one of the criteria for which was mentioned as achieving parity in the functionality of applets with the old environment based on X11. After the release of Budgie 10.10, the 10.x series will be transferred to maintenance mode, and all resources will be directed to the development of the Budgie 11 branch, notable for separating desktop functionality from the layer providing visualization and output of information. The Budgie 10.9.3 update is notable for its synchronization with the changes in the upcoming GNOME 49 release, scheduled for September 17. To manage settings, Budgie uses the gnome-settings-daemon component , which was changed in GNOME 49, breaking backward compatibility. The code for managing the screen backlight was transferred from the Power plugin to GNOME Shell, and the code for supporting multimedia keys for changing brightness was transferred from the MediaKeys plugin. Also, the plugin for Wacom graphic tablets was removed from gnome-settings-daemon, the functionality of which is now integrated into the Mutter composite manager. To ensure operation after the functionality cut, the Budgie developers created a fork of gnome-settings-daemon, aimed at preserving the old state of the MediaKeys , Power and Wacom components . With the exception of these components, which are supplied as separate plugins (bsd-media-keys, bsd-power and bsd-wacom), and the return of desktop files for their autorun, the rest of the gnome-settings-daemon code is fully synchronized with the GNOME code base. Changes in Budgie itself include adaptation to the new API of the libxfce4windowing library, changes in the processing of the “overlay-key” key (by default “Super”) in the Mutter composite manager and the removal of compact classes in Vala 0.56.18. https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/releases/tag/v10.9.3

FreeType font engine 2.14: 07/09/2025 FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable and portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images) of most vector and bitmap font formats. Note that FreeType 2 is a font service and doesn't provide APIs to perform higher-level features, like text layout or graphics processing (e.g., colored text rendering, 'hollowing', etc.). However, it greatly simplifies these tasks by providing a simple, easy to use, and uniform interface to access the content of font files. FreeType 2 is released under two open-source licenses: our own BSD-like FreeType License and the GPL. It can thus be used by any kind of projects, be they proprietary or not. https://www.mail-archive.com/freetype-announce@nongnu.org/msg00141.html

Alpha Testing Of FreeBSD 15: 08/09/2025 The first alpha release of FreeBSD 15.0 has been prepared. Installation builds are available for amd64, powerpc64le, aarch64 and riscv64 architecture. The release is scheduled for December 2. Upgrading to the 15.0-ALPHA1 branch from past versions with the help of the freesd-update utility has not yet been implemented. Starting with the FreeBSD 15 branch, the support period of major branches after the first release (15.0) is reduced from 5 to 4 years, and new major branches will be formed every two years. Intermediate versions (15.1, 15.2, 15.3) will be developed as part of a fixed development cycle involving the publication of new versions in one branch approximately every 6 months and not once a year as it was until now. In the official announcement of the alpha version of FreeBSD 15 there is a reference to the release notes with an incorrect list of changes. This refers to changes in the 14x branch relative to the release of 14.0, i.e. old data transferred from previously published notes to release 14.1, 14.2 and 14.3. https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-September/003112.html

Release of SysVinit 3.15: 08/09/2025 The release of the classic initialization system SysVinit 3.15, which was widely used in Linux distributions in times before systemd and upstart is available. It now continues to be used in distributions like Devouan, Slackware, Debian GNU/Hurd and antiX. The code is written in C and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The new version of SysVinit only changes the man-page, as far as we can see, “Patched manual page for runlevel command. This cleans up formatting and whitespace.” In addition, the project has moved from GitHub to CodeCodeBerg hosting. https://codeberg.org/thejessesmith/sysvinit/

Release of I2P 2.10.0 and i2pd 2.58: 08/09/2025 The release of the anonymous network I2P 2.10.0 and C++ client i2pd 2.58.0 is out. I2P is a multi-layered anonymous distributed network running on top of the ordinary Internet, actively using end-to-end encryption, guaranteeing anonymity and isolation. The network is built in P2P mode and is formed due to resources (bandwidth) provided by network users, which allows you to do without the use of centrally managed servers (communications within the network are based on the use of encrypted unidirectional tunnels between the participant and peers). In the I2P network, you can anonymously create web sites and blogs, send instant messages and emails, share files and create P2P networks. I2P clients are used to build and use anonymous networks for client-server and P2P, I2P. The basic I2P client is written in Java and can work on a wide range of platforms such as Windows, Linux, macOS, Solaris, etc. I2pd is an independent implementation of the I2P client in C++ and is distributed under a modified BSD license. https://geti2p.net/en/blog/post/2025/09/08/2.10.0_release

AlmaLinux, defaults to enable the CRB repository: 09/09/2025 The developers of AlmaLinux announced the decision to have the CRB (CRBCodeReady Builder) repository turned on by default via an update in AlmaLinux OS 10.0 on 2025-09-09, while AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 has had it enabled by default since the update on 2025-08-27 (almalinux-kitten-repos-10.0-9.el10.0.1). For those who do not want to include CRB, you can use the command “dnf config-manager –disable crb”. The CRB repository provides a selection of packages that by default is not offered in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, such as developer applications, additional libraries and strapping, as well as packages with debugging data, documentation, header files, static and code examples (packages “-devel”, “example”, “-doc” and “-static”). Among other things, the CRB has libraries used as dependencies in repository packages EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) Since the CRB was not enabled by default, installation of some packages from EPEL went down the dependency hell path that Red Hat is known for. https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-09-08-enabling-crb-by-default-for-almalinux10/

Red Hat transfer to IBM: 09/09/2025 Red Hat’s back office from general and administrative departments, such as lawyers, HR, financiers and accountants, will be transferred to IBM in 2026. The migration will affect ordinary employees and technicians who provide support for them, but the management of the transferred teams will remain with Red Hat. Red Hat will also have engineers and employees responsible for the production of products, sales and marketing, from a new group, Strategy & Operations. Currently, about 19 thousand employees are employed in Red Hat and it is not yet clear how many of them will be retrenched in the processes carried out at IBM to consolidate the functions of the back office and the abolition of duplicate positions. In January, IBM forecasts annual savings of $ 3.5 billion, partly due to job cuts. Until now, Red Hat has functioned as a separate and independent division after the acquisition by IBM in 2019. https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/08/red_hatters_to_be_big/

Warzone 2100 4.6.0: 09/09/2025 The developers published the release of the real time strategy game Warzone 2100 4.6.0. The game was originally developed by Pumpkin Studios and released into the market in 1999. In 2004, the source code was opened under the GPLv2 license and the development of the game was continued by the community. Both a single player game against bots and multiplayer network games are supported. Packages are prepared for Ubuntu, Windows and macOS. https://wz2100.net/news/version-4-6-0/

PeerTube 7.3: 09/09/2025 PeerTube 7.3, designed to create independent decentralized video hosting and video broadcasting systems, alternative to services such as YouTube, Dailymotion and Vimeo, is out. The content distribution network created with PeerTube is based on linking visitors’ browsers and the use of P2P communications. The project code is distributed under the AGPLv3 license. PeerTube allows you to run your own server to distribute videos and connect it to the general federated network. Visitors help in the delivery of content and have the ability to subscribe to channels and receive notifications about new videos, no matter which server they use. The Federated network of PeerTube is formed as a community of interconnected small video hosting servers, each of which has its own administrator and adopted its own rules. https://joinpeertube.org/news/release-7.3

Term.Everything: 10/09/2025 The first beta release of the Term.Everything utility has been published, which allows you to display any graphics applications inside the window with the terminal emulator. Among other things, the program allows you to run graphical applications in the terminal when accessing a remote system via SSH. The project code is distributed under the AGPL 3.0 license, written in the Typescript language and is executed using the Bun platform. Ready-made builds are available in AppImage format. Term.Everything uss the Wayland protocol, which directs the output not on the screen, but into the terminal window. The ANSI library is used to convert images to the appropriate Unicode symbols with ANSI sequences that simulate graphics in the terminal, via the chafa library. Keypresses and mouse movements events in the terminal are broadcast into the Wayland input events. On terminals that support the extension for output of raster graphics, like kitty, Ghostty, Konsole, wezterm and iTerm2, one can get really good display to the point where even playing DOOM is possible. https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything/releases/tag/0.5.0

Clear NDR 1.0: 10/09/2025 Stamus Networks has published a specialized distribution Clear NDR 1.0, (Previously the distro was named SELKS) designed to deploy detection and prevention systems for detecting and preventing network incursions, as well as organizing the response to identified threats and monitoring the security of the network. Users are given a ready-made solution to manage network security, which can be used immediately after downloading. The distribution supports Live mode and can launch in virtualization or container environments. The project is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The size of the boot image is 3.9 GB. The distribution is built on Debian and uses an open Suricata attack detection system. The data coming from different sources is stored in the OpenSearch store. To track the current state and identified incidents, a web interface is used, implemented on top of Kibana. The distro also includes the Arkime network packet capture, storage and indexing system, an interface for estimating EveBox events and Fluentd data collector. https://www.stamus-networks.com/stamus-networks-announces-production-ready-clear-ndr-community-1.0

Dracut in Ubuntu 25.10: 10/09/2025 With the release of Ubuntu 25.10, which is scheduled for October 9, use of the Dracut toolkit by default instead of the initramfs-tools package, (the development of which in recent years has paused and limited to support work) is planned. Since the development of the 25.10 release from mid-August is at the freezing stage, which does not allow the addition of new functionality, to switch to the Dracut, the team responsible for the that release, is given an exception. Currently, the intraramfs-tools package has already been replaced by dracut in meta-packages. The transition to Dracut will solve problems such as: use systemd in intrid, the lack of support for NVMe over Fabric (NVM-oF), the abundance of code on shell intrid, the complexity of the tracking due to separate work with initrd and the root FS. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dracut/+bug/2121920#yui_3_10_3_1_1757530364083_145

OpenFix from Selectel: 11/09/2025 Selectel, which develops the Linux distribution Selectel OS, based on Debian, presented their OpenFix initiative, in which it will begin to pay enthusiasts monetary rewards for participating in the tasks related to the development and correction of errors in open software. The code of completed projects will be published under a permissive license (MIT, Apache or BSD) with the preservation of the authors of the participants. The remuneration is not only for Debian, but Ubuntu as well: “Participants at their discretion, can choose problems confirmed in error tracking systems Debian and Ubuntu (Launchpad), then agree on the possibility of receiving a reward for correcting them with Selectel.” https://promo.selectel.ru/openfix

Apache gets a new logo: 11/09/2025 The non-profit organization, the Apache Software Foundation, which provides a neutral and independent platform for the development of about 400 open products, introduced a new logo, changed the design of the apache.org website and announced the transition to the use of the ASF brand instead of the full name “Apache Software Foundation”. On the new logo instead of the pen, used as a symbol of Apache projects since 1997, depicts an oak leaf. The name of the legal entity Apache Software Foundation has not changed and is still used where it is required by law, for example, in official documents, in the foot of the site and at the mention of copyright. In other cases, including documentation and references, AxF’s acronym will now be used for visual identity. The fund’s projects that have the word Apache in their names (e.g. Apache HTTP Server) will continue to use existing names. https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/introducing-the-asfs-new-logo

Samba 4.23.0: 12/09/2025 After 6 months of development, the release of Samba 4.23.0 is presented, which continued the development of the Samba 4 branch with the full implementation of the domain controller and Active Directory service, compatible with the implementation of Windows 2008 and is able to serve all supported versions of Windows Clients, including Windows 11. Samba 4 is a multifunctional server product, which also provides the implementation of the file server, the print service and the identification server (winbind). https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-announce/2025/000702.html

Q4OS 6.1: 13/09/2025 The release of the Q4OS 6.1 distribution, based on the Debian batch database and supplied with desktops KDE Plasma and Trinity (continues the development of the KDE 3.5.x codebase). Both user environments can coexist in the same system at the same time, and the user can switch between them. The distribution is positioned as undemanding to hardware resources and offering classic design of the desktop. The size of the loading image with KDE Plasma - 2 GB, with Trinity - 1.7 GB (x86_64). Plans to build for the ARM64 architecture. The disro includes several own development applications, including 'Desktop Profiler' for quick installation of themes and save profiles with desktop status sections, 'Setup utility' to install third-party applications, 'Software center' for the installation of additional programs, 'Welcome Screen' to simplify the initial configuration, Lookswitcher to quickly switch the look, scripts for installing alternative environments LXQt, Xf An application is provided to install the distribution in a separate Windows directory, which allows you to use the distribution in parallel with Windows without highlighting a separate disk partition for it. https://q4os.org/blog.html#news250912

Libadwaita 1.8: 13/09/2025 The GNOME project published the release of the Libadwaita 1.8 library, including a set of components for the style design of the user interface corresponding to the recommendations of GNOME HIG (Human Interface Guidelines). The library includes ready-made widgets and objects for building applications that match the overall GNOME style, the interface can adapt to the screens of any size. The library code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPL 2.1+ license. The library includes typical widgets covering various interface elements such as lists, panels, editing blocks, buttons, tabs, search forms, dialog boxes, etc. The proposed widgets allow you to create universal interfaces that operate organically both on major PC and laptop screens and on small smartphone touch screens. The application interface changes dynamically depending on the screen size and the input devices available. The library also includes a set of Adwaita styles that align the appearance with the GNOME recommendations, without the need for manual adaptation. https://nyaa.place/blog/libadwaita-1-8/

Want to get into FOSS, now's your chance! 15/09/2025 Nick Wellnhofer has announced his resignation as the libxml2 maintainer. Nick had been involved with libxml2 since 2016, was added to the maintainer's list in 2022, and since then has remained virtually the only active developer. Following Nick's departure, the project has been left without a maintainer. The libxml2 library is used in operating systems and products from Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Open source packages that include libxml2 as a dependency include GNOME, Xfce, Mate, Cinnamon, Budgie, LibreOffice, Epiphany, libvirt, BIND, VirtualBox, lldb, Flatpak, Evolution, clang-tools, xsltproc, PostgreSQL, Apache httpd, Zypper and Scribus. Before announcing his departure, Nick published libxml2 2.15.0 and promised to fix regressions by the end of the year. The new version disables Python and Schematron bindings by default. Reading compressed data in the parser is now only possible with the XML_PARSE_UNZIP option. The HTML serialization and character encoding handling code has been brought closer to the HTML5 specification. API documentation generation has been transitioned to Doxygen. https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-US&client=webapp&u=https://discourse.gnome.org/t/stepping-down-as-libxml2-maintainer/31398

Jonathan Riddell leaves KDE: 15/09/2025 Jonathan Riddell announced his resignation from the KDE development team. Jonathan has been involved with KDE since 2000. He is also known as the creator of the KDE Neon distribution and the former leader of the Kubuntu project. The decision was made due to disagreements over profit sharing, employee rights, and management structure at Tech Paladin, a company founded by former Blue Systems employees after that company's closure. Jonathan wrote that he had lost friends, colleagues, his job, his career, and his family while trying to do something good for the community, and would now try his hand at being a digital nomad. https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-US&client=webapp&u=https://jriddell.org/2025/09/14/adios-chicos-25-years-of-kde/

AMD has discontinued AMDVLK: 16/09/2025 Engineers at AMD have announced the end of development of the AMDVLK project, which developed an open-source driver for the Vulkan graphics API built on top of the AMD Platform Abstraction Library. AMDVLK was originally created by AMD for its proprietary AMDGPU-PRO driver suite, but was later converted to an open-source project. In parallel, the community has been developing the initially open-source RADV driver since 2016, which is part of the core Mesa distribution. The discontinuation of AMDVLK is due to AMD's new Vulkan driver unification strategy, under which AMD will focus on developing a single, high-performance codebase and provide full official support for the RADV driver. David Airlie, maintainer of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem in the Linux kernel and co-founder of the RADV driver, welcomed AMD's decision and expressed hope that the company will provide additional engineering resources for the RADV project and share information on technical details. https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-US&client=webapp&u=https://airlied.blogspot.com/2025/09/radv-takes-over-from-amdvlk.html

Release of fheroes2 1.1.11: 16/09/2025 The fheroes2 project, which sees very active development has another new version out. It recreates the Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine from scratch. The project code is written in C++ and is licensed under the GPLv2. To run the game, you need game resource files, which can be obtained from the original Heroes of Might and Magic II. The project includes a script for automatically downloading and extracting resources from the demo version of the game, which are sufficient for full functionality. They have a whole list of new features at the link below. https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-US&client=webapp&u=https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2/releases/tag/1.1.11

Java SE 25 LTS and OpenJDK 25: 17/09/2025 After six months of development, Oracle has released Java SE 25 (Java Platform, Standard Edition 25), which uses the open-source OpenJDK project as its reference implementation. With the exception of the removal of some deprecated features, Java SE 25 maintains backward compatibility with previous releases of the Java platform—most previously written Java projects will run unchanged under the new version. Ready-to-install builds of Java SE 25 (JDK, JRE, and Server JRE) are available for Linux (x86_64, AArch64), Windows (x86_64), and macOS (x86_64, AArch64). Java SE 25 is an extended support release, with updates continuing until 2033 (generally available until September 2030). Java SE 17 and 21 will also continue to be supported as long-term support (LTS) branches, with updates continuing until 2029 and 2031, respectively (generally available until 2026 and 2028). Extended support for Java SE 8 and 11 LTS branches will continue until 2030 and 2032. https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-US&client=webapp&u=https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jdk-dev/2025-September/010483.html

GNOME 49, “Brescia”: 17/09/2025 The GNOME project is delighted to unveil GNOME 49, a milestone that reflects six months of collective effort from our vibrant community. A heartfelt thank you goes to everyone who helped shape this release. We code named the release “Brescia”, after a beautiful Italian city that hosted this year’s GUADEC. Let’s explore what’s new and improved in this edition. Showtime becomes Video Player In GNOME 49, Showtime replaces the long-standing Totem as the default GNOME video player app, bringing a sleek, modern experience built on GTK 4 and Libadwaita instead of Totem’s aging GTK 3 base. Showtime The new Video Player prioritizes a distraction-free viewing experience: its chromeless window hides controls during playback and fades them back in only when needed. It supports essential features like adjustable playback speed, multiple audio and subtitle tracks, rotating video, and screenshot capture — all the core functionality users expect. New Document Viewer Papers replaces the long-serving Evince as the default Document Viewer. Originally based on Evince code, Papers delivers a modernized design built with GTK 4 and Libadwaita, instead of Evince’s older GTK 3 foundation. Papers screenshot Papers brings improved performance and a refreshed user interface, with a streamlined PDF annotation feature being one particular highlight. It supports viewing, searching, annotating, and organizing formats like PDF, DjVu, TIFF, and comic-book archives (CBR, CBZ, CBT, CB7), with added features such as digital signature integration. Calendar Calendar’s interface has undergone significant accessibility enhancements for people with disabilities. These improvements have reached a level that allows us to confidently announce that Calendar is now accessible to individuals who rely exclusively on keyboard navigation, as well as to those who use assistive technologies. Calendar sees a number of improvements in GNOME 49. The most visible change is the reorganized interface, which is now more flexible, and allows the window to adapt to different window sizes. It also makes it possible to manually hide the sidebar, which is ideal for smaller screens or tiled windows. https://release.gnome.org/49/

StartWine-Launcher: 17/09/2025 StartWine-Launcher, release 411, an application designed to run Windows-based programs and games on Linux systems, has been published. The primary goal of StartWine-Launcher's development was to simplify the process of creating Wine prefixes—sets of Windows libraries and dependencies required for Windows applications to run on Linux—for beginners. StartWine-Launcher is written in Python and licensed under the GPLv3 license. The interface is based on the GTK library. https://github.com/RusNor/StartWine-Launcher

Systemd 258: 17/09/2025 After nine months of development, the system manager, systemd 258 has been released. Key changes include the removal of support for cgroups v1 and System V-style system management components, new utilities systemd-factory-reset and systemd-pty-forward, the concept of home areas, and support for booting into a disk image obtained via HTTP. https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-US&client=webapp&u=https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2025-September/051670.html

The creator Blender steps down as head of the Blender Foundation: 18/09/2025 Ton Roosendaal, creator of the 3D modeling system Blender, announced at the Blender Conference that he is stepping down as the head of the Blender Foundation, a position he held for the past thirty(!) years. Following his departure, Roosendaal will take a seat on the newly formed Blender Foundation Supervisory Board. The stated reason for his departure is a desire to hand over leadership to a talented young team who can develop the project into the next decade (Ton turned 65 this year). Effective January 1, 2026, the responsibilities of Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO will be transferred to current Chief Operating Officer Francesco Siddi, who has been involved with the Blender Foundation since 2012 and has held numerous roles, including animator, web developer, pipeline developer, producer, manager, head of Blender Studio, and COO. Additionally, the appointment of Sergey Sharybin as Head of Development, Dalai Felinto as Director of Product Development, and Fiona Cohen as COO has been announced. https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-US&client=webapp&u=https://www.blender.org/press/blender-foundation-announces-new-board-and-executive-director/

GNUnet 0.25: 18/09/2025 GNUnet 0.25, a framework for building secure, decentralized P2P networks, has been released. Networks built with GNUnet have no single point of failure and can guarantee users privacy, including preventing potential abuse by administrators with access to network nodes. GNUnet supports P2P networks over TCP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, Bluetooth, and WLAN, and can operate in F2F (Friend-to-Friend) mode. NAT traversal is supported, including using UPnP and ICMP. A distributed hash table (DHT) can be used for addressing data locations. Tools for deploying mesh networks are provided. ReclaimID , a decentralized service for exchanging identification attributes using GNS (GNU Name System) and Attribute-Based Encryption , is used for selectively granting and revoking access rights. The system is characterized by low resource consumption and uses a multiprocess architecture to ensure isolation between components. Logging and statistics collection tools are provided. For end-user application development, GNUnet provides a basic C API and bindings for other programming languages. https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-US&client=webapp&u=https://www.gnunet.org/en/news/2025-09-0.25.0.html

Vivaldi 7.6: 18/09/2025 Vivaldi 7.6, a proprietary browser developed using the Chromium engine by former Opera Presto developers, has been released. The project distributes changes to the Chromium codebase under an open source license. The browser interface is written in JavaScript using the React library, Node.js, Browserify, and various ready-made NPM modules. The interface implementation is available in source code, but under a proprietary license. The project aims to create a customizable and functional browser that preserves user privacy. Key features include a tracking and ad blocker, note, history, and bookmark managers, a private browsing mode, end-to-end encrypted sync, tab grouping, a sidebar, a highly customizable configurator, a horizontal tab display mode, and, in test mode, a built-in email client, RSS reader and calendar. https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-US&client=webapp&u=https://vivaldi.com/ru/blog/desktop/desktop-releases/vivaldi-on-desktop-7-6/

Ubuntu 25.10 Beta Release: 19/09/2025 The Ubuntu Release team is pleased to announce the Beta release of the Ubuntu 25.10 Desktop, Server, WSL, and Cloud products. Ubuntu 25.10, codenamed Questing Quokka, continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs. This Beta release includes images from not only the Ubuntu Desktop, Server, WSL, and Cloud products, but also the Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu flavours. The Beta images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper image build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of 25.10 that should be representative of the features intended to ship with the final release expected on October 09, 2025. https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-US&client=webapp&u=https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2025-September/000316.html

KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta Release: 20/09/2025 KDE Plasma 6.5 is to enter beta testing, with the codebase frozen from making any functional changes (only patches are accepted). KDE Plasma 6.5 is scheduled for release on October 21st. https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-US&client=webapp&u=https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.90/

Multikernel project: 20/09/2025 A series of patches developed by the Multikernel project, (which was recently moved to open source and will now be developed jointly with the community), have been submitted for discussion by Linux kernel developers. Multikernel allows multiple independent instances of the Linux kernel to run on a single physical computer. These instances have direct access to hardware resources and can be used to run multiple isolated system environments. The project was created by Multikernel Technologies, a company founded and led by Cong Wang, the maintainer of the Traffic Control subsystem in the Linux kernel. Multikernel is being promoted as a new isolation architecture, filling a gap between hypervisor-based virtualization and shared-kernel container isolation. Unlike virtualization, Multikernel does not require a hypervisor, simplifies the creation of isolated environments for running individual applications, and enables high performance without the overhead of virtualization. Unlike containers, Multikernel provides a high level of isolation and allows each isolated environment to use a separate kernel. Performance using Multikernel is estimated to be close to that of execution on dedicated hardware. This was achieved by eliminating the overhead inherent to virtualization, such as VM exit handlers, IOMMU translation, and hypervisor intervention in privileged operations. Dynamic resource allocation to running environments is supported, ensuring predictable performance. https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-US&client=webapp&u=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id%3D45302721

FLX1s smartphone: 21/09/2025 The Furi Labs project announced the start of production of the FLX1s smartphone, supplied with the FuriOS distribution. The distribution is built on Debian 13 and is equipped with a Phosh user shell. The device is available for pre-order for $550. To ensure privacy, the device is equipped with three switches that allow you to disable the camera, microphone, GPS and Baseband module at the circuit level. The firmware does not send telemetry or access to external servers - all data remains on the user's device and is not synchronized with the cloud. To make calls, an oFono2MM stack and the GNOME Calls application are used. The main system has a Linux kernel, made by Mediatek for the Android platform, as well as drivers for Android. The Linux-environment is organized using system components from the Halium project and the libhybris layer, which allows you to use Android drivers working in the user's space. To install applications, the GNOME Software application and its own OpenStore catalog are used, which presents a selection of Linux programs, as well as applications for Android and Ubuntu. The device supports the multi-boot and the ability to simultaneously perform multiple operating systems using KVM hypervisor-based virtualization. As an example of the alternative systems supported for installation, Ubuntu Touch is mentioned. The project is available on GitHub under free licenses. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45312326