Fedora Forge: 22/09/2025 Fedora Project announced the launch of a joint development service Fedora Forge, constructed using the project Forgejo. The service is developing for replacement for its own platform Pagure, used in Fedora for collaboration with code and package metadata. The replacement is evolving because the Pagure platform requires a lot of maintenance resources, is stagnating and is not widely used outside of Fedora. Fedora Forge is expected to make it easier to develop and transfer changes to Fedora's core teams. Fedora Forge has been piloted and is being tested on several SIG (Special Interest Groups) sub-projects and groups. For example, the projects of the RelEng (Release Engineering), Council and FESCO (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee) teams have already been transferred to Fedora Forge. In the future, the number of projects being developed at Fedora Forge will be expanded and this service will be used as the main place for collaboration on Fedora. To automate the transfer of projects from Pagure and Fedora Forge, the Pagure Migrator toolkit has been developed, which is included in the Forgejo platform. Pagure Migrator allows you to save pull requests, tickets, discussions, tags and users after migrating. At the same time, unlike the service pagure.io, Fedora Forge does not allow the placement of personal projects and is focused only on projects related to the development of Fedora Linux. https://www.mail-archive.com/devel-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/msg03614.html

DuckDB 1.4.0: 22/09/2025 DuckDB 1.4.0, focused on performing analytical queries and conceptually reminiscent of SQLite, is out. DuckDB combines SQLite properties such as compactness, embedded library-style connectivity, single-file database storage, and a CLI interface with capabilities and optimizations for execution analytical queries, covering a significant part of the stored data, for example, aggregating the entire contents of tables or merging several large tables. The project code is written in C++ under MIT license. DuckDB provides an extended dialect of SQL that includes additional capabilities for processing very complex and long-running requests. It is possible to use complex types (arrays, structures, unions), as well as perform arbitrary and nested correlating sub-queries. Simultaneous execution of several requests, execution of requests directly from files in CSV formats and is supported Parquet. Support for importing from the PostgreSQL DBMS is available. https://duckdb.org/2025/09/16/announcing-duckdb-140.html

OBS Studio 32.0: 23/09/2025 OBS Studio v32.0, package for streaming, compositing and video recording is out. The code is written in C/C++, licensed under GPLv2. The purpose of developing OBS Studio was to create a portable version of the application Open Broadcaster Software (OBS Classic), not tied to the Windows platform, supports OpenGL and is expandable through plugins. Another difference is the use of a modular architecture, which involves separating the interface and the program kernel. Supports transcoding of source streams, video capture during games and streaming in PeerTube, Twitch, Facebook Gaming, YouTube, DailyMotion and other services. Hardware acceleration mechanisms (such as NVENC, Intel QSV, Apple Video Toolbox and VAAPI) can be used to ensure high performance. https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/32.0.0

OpenWrt 24.10.3: 23/09/2025 OpenWrt 24.10.3, developed for network devices such as routers, switches and access points is out. OpenWrt supports 2771 devices and offers an build system that simplifies cross-compilation and creating your own builds. These builds allow you to create ready-made firmware with the desired set of pre-installed packages, optimized for specific tasks. Pre builds are published for 39 target platforms. https://openwrt.org/releases/24.10/start

Pale Moon 339.0: 24/09/2025 The web browser Pale Moon v33.9.0 was published, which is forked from the Firefox codebase to ensure higher efficiency, preserve the classic interface, minimize memory consumption and provide additional settings. Pale Moon builds are formed for Windows and Linux (x86_64). The project code is distributed under the MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License) license. The project adheres to the classical interface layout, without moving to the integrated Australis and Photon interfaces and with the provision of broad customization capabilities. Components like DRM, Social API, WebRTC, PDF viewer, Crash Reporter, statistics collection code, parental controls, and accessibility options have been axed. Compared to Firefox, support for extensions using XUL has been returned to the browser and the ability to use both full and lightweight design themes is preserved. Main changes: CSS implements the keywords revert and clip. They added support for the abbreviated form of decorating overflows, which solved the problems with scrolling on some sites. The color-mix CSS function has been implemented. In CSS added support for the syntax “@supports(selector(<complex selector))”. Added support for CSS cascade layers (@layer). Substantial support for CSS clip-path:<geometry-box> has been added. Added CSS properties “overflow-inline” and “overflow-block”. Added CSS-pseudo-sovdo classes “:autofill” and “:focus-visible”. CSS implements the media request “prefers-reduced-motion”. The minimum version of the VisualViewport API is offered. Improved support for the HTTP header “X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff”. The processing of the TypedArray constructor now complies with the ECMAScript specification. Added support for FFMPeg 7.0 and libavcodec 61. In addition, the Pale Moon project put into operation its own publicly available DNS severs 5.189.164.139 and 80.255.7.132, as well as the NTP-server time.palemoon.org to synchronize the exact time. It is stated that these services do not store logs and requests are not censored. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=32748&p=265836

Elementary OS 8.0.2: 24/09/2025 Elementary OS 8.0.2, positioned as a quick, open and privacy-sensitive alternative to Windows and macOS, is out. The focus of the project is given to a high-quality design aimed at creating an easy-to-use system that consumes minimal resources and provides high start-up speed. Users are offered their own pantheon desktop environment. Downloads are 3.3 GB in size, available for the amd64 architecture. In the development of the original elementary OS components, GTK3, the Vala language and its own Granite framework are used. The graphics environment is based on the Pantheon’s own shell, which combines components such as the Gala window manager (based on LibMutter) and the Pantheon Greeter session manager (based on LightDM). The project’s has it's own applications, such as the Pantheon Terminal emulator, Pantheon Files’ file manager, the code text editor and music player (Noise). The project is also developing a photo manager Pantheon Photos (fork of Shotwell) and Mail email client based on Evolution. https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-0-2-available-now/

PostgreSQL 18: 25/09/2025 After a year of development, a new stable branch of the PostgreSQL 18 DBMS has been published. Updates for the new branch will be released for five years until November 2030. Support for PostgreSQL 13.x, the oldest supported branch, will be discontinued on November 13. https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-18-released-3142/

XLibre, support for Vulkan: 26/09/2025 Leading XLibre developer Enrico Weigelt introduced a proposal to implement a Vulkan expansion for X11, which would combine network transparency at the X11 level with the drawing of the interface on the GPU with low latency. They plan to create an intermediate layer libvulkan, which on the client will draw data from the X-protocol through the GPU. The mechanism is offered as an alternative to GLX and DRI. The proposal is still in the beginning; Enrico hopes to clarify the need for this decision. Now the project continues to pass through a large-scale refactoring in order to get rid of the intermediate layers of abstractions, the heritage of old C standards and related solutions. https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/issues/1098

Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 Focal: 26/09/2025 OTA-10 Focal, developed by the UBports project, which took over the development of the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform, is out. This is the ninth version of Ubuntu Touch, based on the Ubuntu 20.04 batch base. The project is also developing the experimental port of the desktop Unity 8, which was renamed Lomiri. Updating Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 Focal will be ready for the following devices in the coming days Asus Zenfone Max M1, F(x)tec Pro1 X, Fairphone 3/3+/4, Google Pixel 3a/3a XL, JingPad A1, Oneplus 5/5T/6T, OnePlus Nord N10 5G/N100, Sony Xperia X, Vollaphone X/22/X23, Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC / X3, Xiaomi Poco M2, Xiaomi Red. Compared to last release, builds for the Rabbit R1 device have been added. https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/ubuntu-touch-20-04-ota-10-release-3972

CDSIC on Pop OS: 26/09/2025 System76 announced the readiness of the beta version of the CDSIC desktop environment, written in the Rust language. At the same time, the first beta release of Pop OS 24.04 is presented, supplied with COSMIC. Initially, the first stable release of COSMIC was planned to be released in the first quarter of 2025, but the development was delayed and more than a year after the publication of the first alpha version, the project grew to the beta version only. To test the beta version: iso-images of Pop!_OS 24.04-Beta for systems with GPU NVIDIA (3.1 GB) and Intel/AMD (2.7 GB) are available. COSMIC is developing as a universal project that is not tied to a specific distribution and the corresponding specifications of Freedesktop. To build an interface in COSMIC, the Iced library is used, which uses secure types, modular architecture and a reactive programming model, and also offers an architecture familiar to developers familiar with the Elm interface declarative architecture. There are several rendering engines that support Vulkan, Metal, DX12, OpenGL 2.1+ and OpenGL ES 2.0+. Developers are offered a ready-made set of widgets, the ability to create asynchronous handlers and use an adaptive layout of the interface elements depending on the size of the window and screen. https://system76.com/pop/pop-beta/

KDE report for the week: 27/09/2025 Nate Graham, a developer who monitors the KDE project, published another report on the development of KDE. The most notable changes in the KDE Plasma 6.5 branch, which is scheduled to release on October 21 are as follows: In color correction, they added filters in shades of gray and the possibility of reducing the saturation of all colors. In the configurator, when setting up desktop wallpaper in slideshow mode, the images show now can be chosen by clicking on the image itself, without the need to click a small button in the corner. The maximum size of the Show Activity Manager widget is limited, which now does not look too large when the panel wide is maximized. The configurator modernizes the dialogue for adding a new network connection. https://blogs.kde.org/2025/09/27/this-week-in-plasma-lots-and-lots-of-bug-fixing-for-plasma-6.5/

KaOS 2025.09: 28/09/2025 KaOS 2025.09, a distribution with a continuous update model, aimed at providing a desktop based on the latest KDE packages and applications using Qt. One can note the placement of a vertical panel in the right side of the screen for the default layout. The distribution develops with an eye on Arch Linux, but supports its own independent repository, with more than 1500 packages and also offers its own graphics utility. XFS is used as a default file system. Builds are published for x86_64 (4 GB) systems. https://kaosx.us/news/2025/kaos09/

Linux kernel 6.17: 29/09/2025 After two months of development, Linus Torvalds released the Linux kernel 6.17 . Most notable changes include: improved Btrfs performance, file_getattr() and file_setattr() system calls, unification of single-processor and multi-processor configurations in the task scheduler, the DAMON_STAT module with memory access statistics, support for live patches on ARM64 systems, sending core dumps via the AF_UNIX socket, limiting SCHED_EXT via cgroup, simplified configuration of protection against CPU vulnerabilities, building in Clang with initialization of variables on the stack, protection against /proc spoofing, an extension of the RV (Runtime Verification) subsystem, limiting AF_UNIX sockets via AppArmor, and the TCP DualPI2 congestion control algorithm. The new version incorporates 14,334 fixes from 2,118 developers, with a patch size of 46 MB (changes affected 12,841 files, adding 646,654 lines of code, and removing 398,782 lines). The previous release included 15,924 fixes from 2,145 developers, with a patch size of 50 MB. About 43% of all changes in 6.17 are related to device drivers, approximately 12% of changes are related to updates to code specific to hardware architectures, 14% are related to the network stack, 4% are related to file systems, and 3% are related to internal kernel subsystems. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-%253DwiX38oG6%253DxFBNLO0pnjqHfxzjd6-1kZ5Nv9HfqNC2PoFA%2540mail.gmail.com/

BSD Router Project 2.0: 29/09/2025 Olivier Cochard-Labbé , creator of the FreeNAS distribution, has released the specialized BSD Router Project 2.0 (BSDRP) distribution, notable for updating the codebase to the FreeBSD 16 development branch. The distribution is designed for creating compact software routers supporting RIP, OSPF, BGP, and PIM routing protocols. Management is performed via a command-line CLI interface reminiscent of Cisco IOS. The distribution is available in builds for the x86_64 and ARM64 architectures (compressed installation images are ~340 MB in size). https://sourceforge.net/p/bsdrp/mailman/message/59239643/

NixOS moderation team resigns: 30/09/2025 The moderator team responsible for maintaining order in the NixOS project forums and repositories has announced its resignation in protest against the Steering Committee (SC), which is interfering with the moderators' work and attempting to influence their decisions. The moderators view the committee's actions as abuse of authority, and since the project rules do not address such situations, the moderator team has decided that it cannot perform its duties conscientiously under the current circumstances. The disagreements arose because the steering committee and the existing moderators hold different views on community governance. The committee is sensitive to criticism and discourages discussion of the community's fundamental conflicts. The moderators, however, believe that such discussions are essential for the project's growth and that controversial topics should not be avoided or suppressed, but rather maintained in a healthy and constructive manner, without resorting to personal attacks. Examples of unacceptable actions by the steering committee include attempts to overturn certain moderator decisions, pressuring moderators to take action against individual participants and discussion topics, requiring moderators to report and justify their actions, and attempts to appoint and remove moderators without a vote (the committee explained its actions as an attempt to achieve diversity of opinion and eliminate bias within the moderation team). https://discourse.nixos.org/t/a-statement-from-members-of-the-moderation-team/69828

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0: 30/10/25 Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0, developed by the UBports project, which took over development of the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform after Canonical stepped away from it, has been released. This is the first Ubuntu Touch release based on Ubuntu 24.04. The project is also developing an experimental port of the Unity 8 desktop, renamed Lomiri. Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 update will be released in the coming days for Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1, F(x)tec Pro1 X, Fairphone 3/3+/4, Google Pixel 3a/3a XL, JingPad A1, Oneplus 5/5T/6/6T, OnePlus Nord N10 5G/N100, Sony Xperia X, Vollaphone X/22/X23, Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC / X3, Xiaomi Poco M2 Pro, Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro/Pro Max/9S, Volla Phone Quintus, Volla Tablet, Lenovo Tab M10 HD 2nd Gen, Rabbit R1, and Xiaomi Redmi 9/9 Prime. Compared to the previous release, builds for the Fairphone 5 have been added. https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/ubuntu-touch-24-04-1-0-release-3973

Pidgin 3.0 alpha4: 01/10/2025 The fourth experimental release of the Pidgin 3.0 instant messaging client (2.93) has been released. This release is rated as being of pre-alpha quality, not intended for everyday use. Builds are available in Flatpak format (only the source code archive is currently available ). Pidgin 3 has been in development since 2011, after three years of conceptual and conceptual discussions. Pidgin 3 features the GObject type system, GTK4 and Adwaita libraries, the Meson build system, GPlugin for plugin processing, SQLite for storing chat history, and GSettings for managing settings. The API has been completely redesigned. GTK Builder XML is used to define interface elements, and a custom widget library, Talkatu , has been created to display chat history. https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-3-0-experimental-4-2-93-0-has-been-released/309

openSUSE Leap 16.0: 01/10/2025 The openSUSE Leap 16.0 distribution has been released. It's built on the next major branch of the commercial SLES 16 distribution, moving to the new SLFO (SUSE Linux Framework One) platform, previously known as ALP (Adaptable Linux Platform). openSUSE Leap 16 retains the features of a classic distribution using traditional packages, but those requiring an atomically updated system with a basic, read-only installation should use the openSUSE Leap Micro edition. A universal 4.2 GB DVD build (x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le, 390x) and a stripped-down image for installation with network downloads ( 600 MB ) are available for download. The update cycle for openSUSE Leap 16.x releases has been extended from one and a half years to two years (two full release cycles). Interim releases in the openSUSE Leap 16 branch, maintained in parallel with the commercial SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 distribution, will be released until fall 2031. The final release will be openSUSE Leap 16.6, for which updates will be released until fall 2033. As before, new major releases of the distribution will be published once a year. https://www.opensuse.org/

OpenSSL 3.6.0: 02/10/2025 OpenSSL 3.6.0, an implementation of the SSL/TLS protocols and various encryption algorithms, has been released. OpenSSL 3.6 is a regular support release, with updates available for 13 months. Support for previous OpenSSL releases—3.5 LTS, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, and 3.0 LTS— will continue until April 2030, October 2026, April 2026, November 2025, and September 2026, respectively. The project's code is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. https://openssl-library.org/post/2025-10-01-3.6-release-announcement/

Radicle 1.5: 02/10/2025 Radicle, a P2P platform, has released version 1.5. It aims to create a decentralized service for collaborative code development and storage, similar to GitHub and GitLab, but not tied to specific servers, uncensored, and powered by P2P network participants. The platform supports typical elements of social interaction among developers, such as issues, patches, and code reviews. The project's developments are written in Rust and distributed under the Apache 2.0 and MIT licenses. Builds are available for Linux and macOS. A desktop client, web interface and console interface are also being developed \. Radicle eliminates the need for dependency on centralized platforms and corporations for code development and distribution, as dependency on these platforms introduces additional risks (single point of failure, company closure, or changes in operating conditions). Radicle uses familiar Git for code management, enhanced with tools for defining repositories in a P2P network. All data is stored locally (local-first) and is always available on the developer's computer, regardless of network connectivity. https://radicle.xyz/2025/09/30/radicle-1.5.0

New President of the Free Software Foundation Elected: 03/10/2025 Ian Kelling has been appointed President of the Free Software Foundation. Geoffrey Knauth served as President of the Free Software Foundation since 2020. Prior to that , Richard Stallman was forced to resign following accusations of behavior unbecoming the leader of the Free Software movement and threats by several communities and organizations to sever ties with the Foundation. Ian Kelling has been employed as a system administrator at the Free Software Foundation since 2017. In 2021, following a restructuring of the organization's governance processes, he joined the board of directors as a member representing the Foundation's staff. Prior to 2017, Ian assisted the Free Software Foundation as a volunteer. In addition to his work at the Free Software Foundation, Ian contributed to development and bug fixes for many open source projects, including GNU Emacs, Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, and Mediawiki. Ian was noted as a board member who combines the technical expertise to speak authoritatively on most free software issues with a strong connection to the community and the ability to communicate ideas publicly. Richard Stallman described Ian as having demonstrated sound judgment and a strong commitment to the free software movement. According to Jeffrey Knauth, the outgoing president of the Free Software Foundation, during his time on the board, Ian demonstrated a thorough understanding of the free software philosophy and its application to modern realities, as well as an ability to recognize threats to user freedom arising with the development of new technologies. https://www.fsf.org/news/2025-ian-kelling-becomes-board-president

Raspberry Pi OS ported to Debian 13: 03/10/2025 The Raspberry Pi project developers have released a new version of the Raspberry Pi OS distribution, 2025-10-01 (Raspbian), based on Debian 13. The repository contains approximately 35,000 packages. The desktop environment is based on the labwc composite server, which uses the wlroots library from the Sway project. Three builds are available for download: a slimmed-down version ( 476 MB ) for server systems, a basic desktop version ( 1.2 GB ), and a full version with an additional set of applications (3.4 GB). Builds are available for 32- and 64-bit architectures. An update for the older Raspberry Pi OS release (Legacy) has also been created, built on Debian 12. https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/trixie-the-new-version-of-raspberry-pi-os/

ZLUDA 5: 04/10/2025 Andrzej Janik announced the release of ZLUDA 5, an open-source implementation of CUDA technology. The project aims to enable unmodified CUDA applications to run on systems with non-NVIDIA GPUs, with performance close to that of applications running without interposers. The project's code is written in Rust and is licensed under the MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses. ZLUDA 5 was the second major release of the project, formed after purging the codebase developed during Andrzej's time at AMD. Since 2022, Andrzej had been working at AMD on creating a CUDA compatibility layer for AMD GPUs, but the project was discontinued in 2024. In accordance with the terms of his contract and after receiving permission to publish from an AMD representative, Andrzej open-sourced the work he developed while at AMD, enabling the execution of CUDA applications on top of the ROCm stack and the Heterogeneous Computing Interface for Portability ( HIP ) runtime. https://vosen.github.io/ZLUDA/blog/zluda-update-q3-2025/

The Open Printer project: 04/10/2025 A group of French enthusiasts presented the Open Printer project, aimed at creating a color inkjet printer with open hardware and software. The device is modular and built using standard, replaceable parts. The printer can be assembled like a kit and upgraded, improved, or repaired as needed. The project's results, including files with electronic and mechanical component schematics, firmware, drivers, and Bill of Materials (BOMs), will be distributed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license , which prohibits commercial use. The printer supports HP 63 (US) and HP 302 (Europe) cartridges, free of DRM, manufacturer lock-in, and refill restrictions. It supports one black or one color cartridge. Printing is supported on 27mm roll paper and on single A4 and A3 sheets. It prints at 600 dpi in black and 1200 dpi in color. The device is controlled by a Raspberry Pi Zero W board with a 1.47-inch TFT display (172 x 320 pixels) and a jogger wheel for mode switching. An STM32 microcontroller controls the cartridge. Support for external devices includes USB Type-C (for connecting to a computer), USB Type-A (for storage devices), Wi-Fi 802.11ac, and Bluetooth 4.1. https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer

Free software Foundation 40: 04/10/2025 The Free Software Foundation celebrated its fortieth anniversary. In 1985, a year after the GNU project, Richard Stallman established the Free Software Foundation. The organization was created to protect against companies with a dubious reputation, convicted of assigning code and trying to sell some of the first GNU project tools developed by Stallman and his comrades. Three years after the founding of the organization, Stallman prepared the first version of the GPL license, which defined the legal framework of the free software distribution model. At the fortieth anniversary of the event, Zoë Kooyman, the executive director of the SPO Foundation, presented a new project - LibrePhone, aimed at granting full freedom of computing in mobile devices. Details of the initiative are not yet given, it is mentioned only that it will convey to users of mobile devices basic concepts of software freedom, such as the right to run, copy, distribute, study, modify and improve software. The project is overseen by Rob Savoye, winner of the free software promotion and development, the creator of the free Flash player Gnash, a member of the development of GCC, Debian, GDB, DejaGnu, Newlib, Libgloss, Cygwin, One Laptop Per Child and Expect. https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-turns-forty-with-a-new-president-and-a-new-campaign

TinyUSB 0.19: 06/10/2025 TinyUSB 0.19, a cross-platform USB stack for embedded systems, is now available. It provides USB stack components for both USB hosts and USB devices. The project code is written in C and distributed under the MIT license. To enhance security, TinyUSB does not use dynamic memory allocation. Multithreaded applications are supported. To ensure safe multithreaded operation, all interrupt events are not processed immediately upon receipt of an ISR (Interrupt Service Request) but are instead placed in a queue, which is parsed and processed within the context of the application, not the interrupt handler. Semaphores and mutexes are used when accessing shared resources, such as the CDC (Communication Device Class) FIFO. The stack is abstracted from the operating system and can be used as a standalone component, unbound by operating system functionality. Modules are available for integrating TinyUSB with FreeRTOS , RT-Thread , and Apache Mynewt. Power-saving features such as sleep and wake-up on activity are supported. An initial implementation of the PD 3.0 (Power Delivery) protocol for managing power transfer over USB Type-C is included. https://github.com/hathach/tinyusb/releases/tag/0.19.0

OpenSSH 10.1: 06/10/2025 OpenSSH 10.1 , an open-source client and server implementation for SSH 2.0 and SFTP, has been released . Note the warning of future deprecation: A future release of OpenSSH will deprecate support for SHA1 SSHFP records due to weaknesses in the SHA1 hash function. SHA1 SSHFP DNS records will be ignored and ssh-keygen -r will generate only SHA256 SSHFP records. The SHA256 hash algorithm, which has no known weaknesses, has been supported for SSHFP records since OpenSSH 6.1, released in 2012. Please see all the changes at the link below. https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2025-October/042178.html

GIMP 3.0.6: 07/10/2025 GIMP 3.0.6, the graphics editor, has been released. Builds have been released for Linux (AppImage and Flatpak for x86 and ARM64 architectures), macOS, and Windows. The focus of this new version is on fixing bugs and regressions. New functionality is being developed in the GIMP 3.1 branch, which will be the basis for the stable release of GIMP 3.2, which features support for link layers and vector layers , as well as expanded CMYK support and color management capabilities. https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/10/06/gimp-3-0-6-released/

Ladybird browser: 07/10/2025 Andreas Kling reported that Ladybird passed 90% of the web-platform-tests, which determine compatibility with the reference web platform. According to Apple's requirements, this achievement is sufficient to qualify it as an alternative browser engine for iOS. Ladybird successfully passed 1,861,180 of 2,033,861 tests. By comparison, Chromium 139 passed 1,996,034 tests, Firefox 143 passed 1,942,510, Safari 26.0 passed 1,952,703, and Servo passed 1,672,466. The web-platform-tests tests are part of the Interop initiative, jointly promoted by Google, Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft, Bocoup, and Igalia, and aimed at testing the level of implementation of web technologies in browsers and identifying discrepancies that affect the appearance and behavior of websites when processed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45493358

Qualcomm aquires Arduino: 07/10/2025 Arduino, the company that designs and develops open-source microcontroller-based boards, announced the sale of its business to Qualcomm Technologies. The transaction amount was not disclosed. It was noted that joining Qualcomm will expand Arduino's ability to promote open-source hardware devices worldwide. Following the acquisition, Arduino will remain an independent brand, support for existing boards will be maintained, and the mission and commitment to open technologies will remain unchanged. However, the project will receive significant resources for development. Qualcomm, for its part, intends to leverage Arduino technologies to form a unified edge computing stack. https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/10/07/a-new-chapter-for-arduino-with-qualcomm-uno-q-and-you/

nginx 1.29.2: 08/10/2025 The main nginx 1.29.2 branch has been released, continuing to develop new features. The parallel stable 1.28.x branch only includes changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities. The stable 1.30 branch will later be based on the main 1.29.x branch. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD license. https://github.com/nginx/nginx/releases/tag/release-1.29.2

T2 SDE 25.10: 08/10/2025 The T2 SDE 25.10 meta-distribution has been released . It provides an environment for creating custom distributions, cross-compiling, and maintaining package versions up-to-date. Popular distributions built on the T2 system include Puppy Linux. The project provides 36 bootable ISO images with a minimal graphical environment, including versions with the Musl, uClibc, and Glibc libraries. Builds with graphical environments based on GNOME and Wayland are available for current architectures. The platform focuses on creating builds based on the Linux kernel, but is also developing prototypes for building packages for various operating systems, including macOS, Haiku, and BSD systems. Plans include support for creating environments based on other kernels, such as L4, Fuchsia, and RedoxOS, as well as building builds based on Android (AOSP). Over 7,000 packages are available for building. https://t2linux.com/#news-2025-10-07

Wireshark 4.6.0: 09/10/2025 After a year of development, the new stable branch of the Wireshark network analyzer, version 4.6, has been released. The program supports over a thousand network protocols and several dozen traffic capture formats. It provides a graphical interface for creating filters, capturing traffic, analyzing saved dumps, and inspecting packets. Advanced features include packet reordering, extracting and saving the contents of files transferred using different protocols, playing VoIP and RTP streams, and decrypting IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. https://www.wireshark.org/blog/2025-10-08-whats-new-in-wireshark-46

OpenZL compression system: 09/10/2025 Engineers at Meta has introduced OpenZL, a data compression and decompression toolkit that offers higher compression levels and speed than the Zstd and XZ formats. OpenZL is designed for efficient compression of structured datasets, such as those used in machine learning, as well as data stores containing fields with various repeating types of information. OpenZL is written in C/C++ and is open-sourced under the BSD license. When compressing a database containing the SAO astronomical star catalog , OpenZL reduced the data size by a factor of 2.06, while the zstd algorithm compressed the data by a factor of 1.31, and XZ by a factor of 1.64. Moreover, OpenZL outperformed zstd in compression speed by a factor of 2 (203 MB/s versus 115 MB/s), and XZ by a factor of 65 (203 MB/s versus 3.1 MB/s). Decompression in OpenZL was slightly slower than zstd (822 MB/s versus 890 MB/s) and 27 times faster than XZ. OpenZL is not a general-purpose algorithm and only shows good results for data with a known structure. https://engineering.fb.com/2025/10/06/developer-tools/openzl-open-source-format-aware-compression-framework/

Ubuntu 25.10: 09/10/2025 Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” has been released . It is considered an interim release, with updates being released every nine months. Pre-built installation images have been created for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server , Lubuntu , Kubuntu , Ubuntu Mate , Ubuntu Budgie , Ubuntu Studio , Xubuntu , UbuntuKylin (China edition), Ubuntu Unity , Edubuntu , and Ubuntu Cinnamon . Alongside GNOME 49 and new default applications such as the Ptyxis terminal emulator and the Loupe image viewer, Ubuntu 25.10 introduces notable platform upgrades, from improved Bluetooth audio handling to expanded support for confidential computing features. Ubuntu 25.10 is the first to benefit from memory-safe implementations of “coreutils” and “sudo-rs,” as well as improvements in TPM-backed full disk encryption and support for nested virtualization on Arm. Ubuntu 25.10 is a statement of intent for the next Ubuntu LTS in 2026. Canonical continues to deliver a resilient, performant Linux operating system trusted by individuals and enterprises alike, from makers and developers to Fortune 500 companies, across hardware from IoT devices to modern datacenters. I’m particularly pleased with the progress on memory-safe utilities, and the enhancements to our TPM-backed full disk encryption. https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka

Ubuntu 25.10 and Flatpak: 10/10/2025 Users upgrading to Ubuntu 25.10 have encountered an inability to install or update Flatpak packages. The issue is caused by changes to the AppArmor rules applied when running the fusermount3 utility. Due to incorrectly configured access rules, attempts to install or update packages using the flatpak utility result in an error about being unable to unmount the /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-* directory. This issue has been rated critical. An update to the AppArmor ruleset has been developed and is currently being tested. Until it is ready, disabling the AppArmor profile for fusermount3 can be used as a temporary workaround. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/flatpak-broken-ubuntu-25-10-apparmor-bug

OpenSSH 10.2: 10/10/2025 Four days after the release of OpenSSH 10.1, a maintenance release of OpenSSH 10.2, an open-source client and server implementation for SSH 2.0 and SFTP, was published. The new version contains only bug fixes: The ssh utility has resolved an issue with handling terminal parameters that prevented the use of an SSH session when ControlPersist was enabled. The ssh-keygen utility has fixed an issue with loading keys from PKCS#11 tokens. In ssh-keygen, an issue with digital signature generation operations when storing the certificate authority key in ssh-agent has been resolved. Added support for platforms without mmap, such as WASM. Fixed issues with building on FreeBSD and MacOS <10.12. Stopped using PAM_RHOST if the external host is marked as “UNKNOWN” (set for connections not via IPv4 and IPv6), which could potentially lead to a hang when using some PAM modules. https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2025-October/042205.html

Luanti 5.14.0: 10/10/2025 After two months of development, Luanti 5.14.0 has been released. It's a free, cross-platform sandbox game engine that allows players to create Roblox-like games with voxel mechanics, using various blocks to collaborate with players to build structures and buildings that resemble a virtual world. Some games built on this engine aspire to clone Minecraft. The engine's gameplay relies entirely on a set of mods created in Lua. The engine is written in C++ using the IrrlichtMt 3D library (a fork of Irrlicht). Luanti's code is licensed under the LGPL, and its game assets are licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Pre-built builds are available for various Linux distributions, Android, FreeBSD, Windows, and macOS. https://blog.luanti.org/2025/10/05/5.14.0-released/

A cluda driver for Mesa: 12/10/2025 Karol Herbst of Red Hat, a contributor to Mesa, the Nouveau driver, and the open source OpenCL stack, proposed the cluda driver for inclusion in Mesa. It implements the Gallium API on top of the CUDA API provided by NVIDIA's proprietary driver. Gallium is used in Mesa to abstract driver development and implements standard driver APIs that are not specific to individual hardware devices. cluda implements compute-related interfaces sufficient to implement the OpenCL specification on top of CUDA. cluda is expected to address issues with using OpenCL over NVIDIA's proprietary driver. Using an additional framework allows for the implementation of missing OpenCL extensions in the NVIDIA stack based on the proprietary driver. cluda utilizes only the libcuda.so library, which is included in NVIDIA's GPU drivers and is not tied to the CUDA runtime. In its current form, the cluda-based OpenCL implementation supports memory operations and enables the execution of compute kernels. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/37831

Free Firefox VPN: 13/10/2025 Mozilla has begun testing Firefox VPN, a free VPN service built into Firefox that allows users to access websites indirectly via intermediary servers in various countries, hiding their IP address. The VPN will be the first service implemented as part of an initiative to integrate additional privacy and security tools into Firefox. The service is in the early stages of implementation and will be offered to a small percentage of randomly selected users as a trial over the next few months. It's worth noting that Firefox VPN is not associated with the paid Mozilla VPN service, which is a full-fledged system-wide VPN. Firefox VPN is free and limited to one browser. Currently, Firefox VPN is enabled and disabled for the entire browser using a button in the address bar, but the developers promise to add the ability to selectively enable the VPN for individual tabs or for specific websites. https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/new-experiment-firefox-vpn-beta/td-p/107182

Systemd behavior in Debian: 14/10/2025 The Technical Committee, which makes final decisions on contentious technical issues within the Debian project, has approved a change to the systemd package that modifies the behavior of the /var/lock directory. Since release 258, the systemd system manager has restricted writing to /var/lock to root users, while the Debian Technical Committee has approved maintaining the old behavior of allowing all users to write to /var/lock. Debian project guidelines require preserving the original behavior of applications (configurations set in upstream) when packaging. Making Debian-specific changes to packages that violate the project guidelines requires special permission from the technical committee. In the case of systemd, the committee supported the proposal not to implement the change that changes the permissions of /var/lock to enhance security, as publicly writable access to the /var/lock directory is mentioned in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard specification and is necessary for the continued operation of some existing programs. For example, serial port applications such as uucp, minicom, mgetty+sendfax, and hylafax use the /var/lock directory to restrict access to /dev/ttyS* devices by creating lock files. The need to restrict access to the /var/lock directory is explained by the systemd developers to protect against DoS attacks. The /var/lock directory is a symbolic link to the /run/lock directory. The partition containing the /run directory is usually mounted separately via tmpfs, and the ability to write to it without permission can be used to fill the partition and block the creation of new files in the /run hierarchy. To prevent such attacks from occurring with unrestricted access, Debian previously used a patch that mounted /run/lock on a separate, small tmpfs partition. Last year, this patch was replaced with the run-lock.mount unit, and this summer, this unit was removed , leaving /run/lock on the /run partition. https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-US&u=https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/10/msg00104.html

Tails 7.1: 14/10/2025 Tails 7.1, a specialized distribution developed by the Tor project, has been released. The distribution is based on Debian 13, ships with the GNOME 48 desktop, and is designed for anonymous web browsing using the Tor toolkit. All connections except those through the Tor network are blocked by default by a packet filter. Encryption is used when saving user data between launches. A 2GB live ISO image is available for download. In the new version : Instead of using an external page loaded from the Tails website as the home page in Tor Browser, a local page resembling the standard Tor Browser home page is used. The password dialog before launching applications that require administrator rights now separately informs the user that an administrator password has not been set on the Welcome Screen. Tor Browser 14.5.8, Thunderbird 140.3.0, and Tor toolkit 0.4.8.19 have been updated. The ifupdown package got removed. https://tails.net/news/version_7.1/

Linux Mint Debian Edition 7: 14/10/2025 Two years after the last release, an alternative build of the Linux Mint distribution, Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 (LMDE), has been released. It's based on Debian (the classic Linux Mint is built on the Ubuntu package base). The distribution is available as 3GB ISO installation images with the Cinnamon 6.4 desktop environment. The LMDE distribution includes most of the improvements found in the classic Linux Mint 22.2 release, as well as original developments from the project (application manager, update installation system, configuration tools, menus, interface, Xed text editor, Pix photo manager, Xreader document viewer, and Xviewer image viewer). The distribution is fully compatible with Debian 13, but not package-wise with Ubuntu or classic Linux Mint releases. The system environment matches that of Debian GNU/Linux 13 (Linux kernel 6.12, systemd 257, GCC 14). https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p%3D4924

Release of ravynOS 0.6: 15/10/2025 The ravynOS 0.6 project has been released. A FreeBSD-based operating system aimed at achieving compatibility with macOS applications and providing a macOS-style user interface. The project's code is distributed under the BSD license. The bootable ISO image is 760 MB (x86_64). The project's stated goals include achieving compatibility with macOS applications at both the source and executable levels. The former implies the ability to recompile macOS application code for execution on ravynOS, while the latter involves integrating kernel and instrumentation changes to run Mach-O executables built for the x86-64 and arm64 architectures. File systems supported include ZFS and the HFS+ and APFS file systems used in macOS. In addition to the /usr and /usr/local hierarchies native to FreeBSD, macOS-specific directories /Library, /System, and /Volumes are created. User home directories are located in the /Users hierarchy. Each home directory contains a ~/Library subdirectory for applications using Apple's Cocoa API. For macOS compatibility, a partial implementation of the Cocoa API and Objective-C runtime (located in the /System/Library/Frameworks directory) is provided, along with compilers and linkers modified to support them. In addition to the macOS compatibility layer, ravynOS also supports Linux applications, based on FreeBSD's Linux emulation framework (Linuxulator). https://github.com/ravynsoft/ravynos/releases/tag/v0.6.0

Zorin OS 18: 15/10/2025 After seven months of development, Zorin OS 18, a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 24.04, has been released. The distribution's target audience is novice users accustomed to Windows. For desktop customization, the distribution offers a dedicated configuration tool that allows you to customize the desktop to match various versions of Windows and macOS, and includes a selection of applications similar to those Windows users are accustomed to. The bootable ISO images are available in 3.6 GB and 7.6 GB sizes. Zorin OS uses GNOME as the desktop platform, with a set of custom add-ons and a panel based on Dash to Panel and Dash to Dock. Zorin Connect (based on KDE Connect) is included for desktop integration with smartphones. In addition to deb packages and Ubuntu repositories, support for Flatpak, AppImage, and Snap formats is enabled by default, with the ability to install programs from Flathub and the Snap Store. https://blog.zorin.com/2025/10/14/zorin-os-18-has-arrived/

Release of Mobian 13.0: 16/10/2025 Mobian 13.0, a Debian GNU/Linux release for smartphones and tablets, is now available. It features custom shells based on GNOME and KDE technologies, including Phosh and KDE Plasma Mobile. The project is developed using the Debian infrastructure and, where possible, relies on standard packages from the Debian repositories, along with a small number of additional packages. Builds are available for the x86_64 architecture ( 2 GB with Phosh and 2.1 GB with Plasma Mobile), the Purism Librem 5 smartphone, and various ARM devices on Qualcomm chips (Fairphone 4/5, Google Pixel 3a/3a XL, OnePlus 6/6T, Pocophone F1, SHIFT6mq), Rockchip (PINE64 PinePhone Pro, PineTab 2), and Allwinner Sunxi (PINE64 PinePhone, PineTab). https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2025/10/new-stable-rotating-keys/

Qmmp 2.3: 16/10/2025 After a year of development, the Qmmp 2.3 music player, has been released. The player features two interfaces: a “simple” interface using standard elements, and a “classic” interface that replicates the Xmms/Winamp/Audacious interface. OSS4 (FreeBSD), ALSA (Linux), Pulse Audio, JACK, QtMultimedia, Icecast, WaveOut (Win32), DirectSound (Win32), and WASAPI (Win32) can be used for audio output. The code is written in C++ using the Qt library and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Ready-to-use packages have been created for Ubuntu. A set of additional modules, Qmmp Plugin Pack 2.3, has also been released, adding experimental support for mpv. https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/

Asterisk 23: 17/10/2025 After a year of development, the stable branch of the open-source Asterisk 23 communications platform has been released. It is used for deploying software-based PBXs, voice communication systems, VoIP gateways, IVR systems, voicemail, conference calls, and call centers. The project's source code is written in C and is available under the GPLv2 license. Asterisk 23 is categorized as a standard support release, with updates provided over a two-year period. Support for the Asterisk 20 LTS branch will continue until October 2027, and for Asterisk 22 until October 2029. Support for the 18.x LTS branch will end on October 20. LTS releases focus on stability and performance optimization, while standard releases prioritize feature additions. https://www.asterisk.org/asterisk-news/asterisk-23-0-0-now-available/

MyLibrary 4.2.1: 18/10/2025 MyLibrary 4.2.1, a home library cataloger, has been released. The program code is written in C++ and is available ( GitHub , GitFlic ) under the GPLv3 license. The graphical user interface is implemented using the GTK4 library. The program is compatible with Linux and Windows. MyLibrary catalogs book files in fb2, epub, pdf, djvu, odt, txt, and md formats, both directly accessible and packed into archives (zip, 7z, jar, cpio, iso, tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, tar.xz, rar), and creates its own database without modifying the original files or changing their location. The fbd format is also available for cataloging (a book file packed into an archive along with a file with the fbd extension containing the fb2 description tag). The fbd format can store any files, not just books. Collection integrity and change control are monitored by creating a database of file and archive hash sums. Books can now be searched for by various criteria (author's last name, first name, middle name, book title, series, genre) and read using the default program installed on the system for opening the corresponding file formats. When a book is selected, its abstract and cover are displayed, if available. Displaying a list of files in a collection, a list of books included in a specific file, a list of authors in a collection, and a list of books for which the user has created notes is supported. https://github.com/ProfessorNavigator/mylibrary/releases/tag/v4.2.1

KDE report: 18/10/2025 Nate Graham, a quality assurance developer for the KDE project, has published the latest KDE development report. The most notable changes being developed for the release of KDE Plasma 6.6, scheduled for February 12th, include: By default, Wi-Fi passwords are stored in a global context accessible only to the root user, rather than per-user. This change will allow new users to immediately access the network if the system has previously connected to Wi-Fi, without having to log in again. Functions requiring an internet connection, such as using LDAP accounts, will also work immediately on the login page. The Application Dashboard widget now takes into account the selected color scheme for display in light tones in the light design mode (by default, the menu remains dark). The ability to resize the Favorites and regular app sections has been added to allow one to have more screen space. https://blogs.kde.org/2025/10/18/this-week-in-plasma-plasma-6.5-is-nigh-and-kde-is-29-years-old-help-us-celebrate/

Forgejo 13.0: 18/10/2025 Forgejo 13.0, has been released. It allows users to deploy a system for collaboratively working with Git repositories on their servers, similar in its capabilities to GitHub, Bitbucket, and Gitlab. Forgejo is a fork of the Gitea project, which in turn forked from the Gogs platform. Forgejo was spun off in 2022 following attempts to commercialize Gitea and the transfer of control to a commercial company. Forgejo adheres to the principles of independent governance and community control. Git hosting service Codeberg.org has switched to using Forgejo. The project's code is written in Go and is licensed under the GPLv3 license. The platform's key features include low resource consumption (it can be used on a Raspberry Pi board or in low-cost VPS) and a simple installation process. A special feature is the ability to use the ActivityPub protocol to federate individual developer servers. https://forgejo.org/2025-10-release-v13-0/

Node.js 25.0.0: 19/10/2025 Node.js 25.0.0, an asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime, Node.js is designed to build scalable network applications. Node.js 25.0 is an intermediate branch, supported for seven months (until June 2026). Stabilization of Node.js 24 will be completed in the coming days, and it will receive LTS status at the end of October and be supported until April 2028. Support for the previous LTS branches, Node.js 22.x and 20.x, will continue until April 2027 and 2026, respectively. https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v25.0.0

Xubuntu website hacked: 19/10/2025 The official Xubuntu distribution website was compromised by unknown attackers, who replaced the torrent links on the distribution's download page with the file “https://xubuntu.org/wp-content/Xubuntu-Safe-Download.zip.” As a result, the download page now only contains links to a malicious archive and available mirrors. Xubuntu developers have not yet commented on the situation, but a few hours ago they removed the malicious archive and blocked access to the “xubuntu.org/download/” section, redirecting it to the website's main page. The archive.org service made copies of xubuntu.org on October 11 and 18. On October 11, the page had not yet been modified, while on October 18, the malicious modification was already present. The project's mirrors, through which the ISO images are distributed, are unaffected, judging by a preliminary checksum analysis, and match the reference site cdimage.ubuntu.com. Traces of compromise have so far been detected only on the xubuntu.org website, which uses the WordPress content management system. The hack was presumably carried out through an out-of-date WorkPress plugin containing a vulnerability. The “Xubuntu-Safe-Download.zip” archive distributed by the attackers contains an executable file for the Windows platform, which is presented as an Xubuntu installer. A scan of this file using VirusTotal reveals the presence of malware. When the executable file is launched, a fake interface is displayed, including fields for selecting the distribution version to download and the package type, as well as a “Generate Download Link” button. Clicking this button saves the “elzvcf.exe” file to the “AppData Roaming” directory and configures it to run at system startup in the Windows registry. According to preliminary information, the malware analyzes clipboard data and replaces Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, Tron, Ripple, and Cardano cryptocurrency wallet addresses with those of the attackers. Interestingly, on September 10th, one user complained about a blog post on xubuntu.org featuring a casino advertisement, but the blog post was quickly deleted and the incident was not pursued further (they likely assumed the advertisement was inserted by malware on the user's end). https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1oad1m6/xubuntu_website_got_hacked_and_is_serving_malware/ Servo Browser Engine Release 0.0.1: 20/10/2025

The first standalone release of the Servo browser engine, written in Rust, is available. Until now, the project has only produced nightly builds. The release notes only say that it is functionally identical to the October 19th nightly build, which has undergone additional manual testing. New releases are planned to be published monthly going forward. This release also marks the beginning of builds for Apple macOS systems based on ARM processors. Completed builds are available for Linux, Android, macOS, and Windows.

The engine was originally developed by Mozilla but later came under the auspices of the Linux Foundation. Servo is distinguished by its support for multi-threaded web page rendering, parallelization of DOM (Document Object Model) operations, and the use of safe programming mechanisms provided by the Rust language. Servo was built from the ground up to support splitting DOM and rendering code into smaller sub-tasks that can be executed in parallel and more efficiently utilize multi-core CPUs. Firefox already integrates some parts of Servo, such as the multi-threaded CSS engine and the WebRender rendering system. The ServoShell demo browser is being developed using Servo .

https://servo.org/blog/2025/10/20/servo-0.0.1-release/ The ntfsplus driver: 20/10/2025

Namjae Jeon , a Samba project member who maintains the exFAT driver and KSMBD server in the Linux kernel, proposed including a new implementation of the NTFS file system, ntfsplus, in the kernel. It is hoped that a higher-quality and more maintainable NTFS driver will improve the compatibility of Linux systems with Windows devices and simplify the user experience.

Currently, NTFS support in Linux is limited to the old NTFS driver, which was removed from the Linux kernel and only supported read-only storage, as well as the current NTFS3 driver, which has numerous unresolved issues due to poor maintenance. Because of these issues, many users and distributions continue to use the old ntfs-3g driver, which runs in user space.

The ntfsplus driver is based on the codebase of the classic ntfs driver, which was removed from the kernel. It has been rewritten, expanded with data writing capabilities, and significantly improved to support modern features, such as the use of memory page folios instead of the buffer_head structure. The new driver implements lazy block allocation, achieving high write performance and reducing fragmentation. The iomap library is used for buffered read/write operations, direct I/O, extent mapping, and paged read/write operations.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id%3D45642874 ====== 19 ====== SuperTuxKart 1.5: 21/10/2025

After nearly three years of development, Supertuxkart 1.5, a free racing game with a wide variety of karts, tracks and features, has been released. The game code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Binary builds are available for Linux, Android, Windows, and macOS.

In the new version we have:

Three new artifact search tasks are offered in the Black Forest, Gran Paradisio Island and Old Mine tracks. Three new fields have been added to the multiplayer football racing game: Oasis, Hole Drop and XR-4R3N4. The user interface now features the ability to resize the game window. Settings for standard dimensions, a full-screen mode switch, and camera parameters have been moved to a new “Display” tab. To minimize scrolling and accommodate various screen sizes, the kart, track, and game mode selection interfaces have been adapted. Support for screens with non-standard aspect ratios has been improved. The contrast of some interface elements has been increased. Keyboard navigation has been improved. Six new interface themes have been added. A new “Desert” variant has been added to the Classic theme, and five multicolored variants have been added to the Cartoon theme. The ability to mark tracks and karts with a heart has been added. Marked items are displayed at the top of lists and are also accessible through the “Favorites” tab. Volume control has been improved. Artifact activation sounds are now audible to all players, not just the owner. To improve texture quality and eliminate blur, x16 anisotropic filtering has been implemented. Several new shaders have also been implemented, and the shadow rendering and detail selection logic has been improved to enhance image quality. A spotlight effect has been added. Supersampling support has been implemented to increase detail on high-resolution displays. A performance measurement mode has been added, allowing you to evaluate the effectiveness of optimizations and the impact of changes made.

https://blog.supertuxkart.net/2025/10/supertuxkart-15-release.html KDE Plasma 6.5: 21/10/2025

After four months of development, the KDE Plasma 6.5 desktop environment has been released. To evaluate the new KDE releases, you can use builds from the KDE Neon and openSUSE projects (Argon, based on openSUSE Leap, and Krypton, based on openSUSE Tumbleweed).

Key changes in KDE Plasma 6.5 include:

When using the Breeze theme, windows in KWin are now rendered with rounded bottom corners (previously, only the top corners were rounded, while the bottom corners remained straight). This new window appearance is offered by default, but can be disabled in the settings. Added support for dynamic desktop wallpapers that change depending on the time of day. The idea is to automatically display light wallpapers during daylight hours and dark wallpapers during dark hours. The preview interface for dynamic wallpapers has been improved (wallpapers that change depending on the light or dark theme are now marked with a special icon and shown in two versions). The KDE Initial System Setup ( KISS ) wizard has been implemented , complementing the Welcome Center. KDE Initial System Setup offers system operations that are performed before the first login after installation, such as creating a new user account for future work, selecting the language and time zone, setting the keyboard layout, and configuring network access. An explanation of how to use keyboard shortcuts has been added to the Welcome Center application. A button for copying the displayed QR code to the clipboard has been added to the clipboard manager. The ability to mark important entries in the clipboard history with a star has been implemented. Starred entries are protected from automatic clearing and can be filtered. In the desktop folder preview window, empty folders now display a placeholder with information about the absence of elements (a simple empty window created the impression of a glitch in the interface rendering). The configurator now supports configuring rotary controls on graphics tablets. These circular controls are typically used in graphics editors to scale the canvas or change brush sizes, but KDE now also provides the ability to use them as a mouse wheel for scrolling or as a cursor key for up and down movement. The printer configuration page in the configurator now provides more informative error messages about disabled services. Ink levels are now monitored and a warning is displayed when the ink level is low. The configurator now offers the ability to select global themes, which will be available for switching on the Quick Settings page. An option to automatically switch between day and night themes has also been added to the Quick Settings page. They added support for automatically switching to a separately selected dark theme at night. A setting has been added to display only light or only dark desktop wallpapers. Options have also been added to enable dynamic wallpaper color changes based on the selected color scheme or time of day, as well as lock the wallpaper to light or dark. In the configurator, the invert and scale settings have been moved to the “Accessibility” page, where they are more appropriate than on the desktop effects page. KCM (KDE Configuration Module) now allows you to manage permissions for applications bundled in Flatpak packages (previously, only low-level sandbox settings for Flatpak packages could be changed). The color correction filters now include a grayscale output mode and the ability to reduce the saturation of all colors. When setting your desktop wallpaper in slideshow mode, you can now select the images to display by clicking on the image itself, without having to click the small button in the corner. The dialog for adding a new network connection has been modernized. The location settings used to determine sunrise and sunset times are located on a separate page in the configurator, along with day and night cycle settings. These cycles are used to automatically switch between light and dark versions of the desktop wallpaper, as well as to activate Night Mode, which reduces the amount of blue light on the screen to reduce eye strain and reduce the risk of insomnia when working before bed.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.5.0/ Valkey 9.0: 22/10/2025

Valkey 9.0 , a fork of Redis, has been released. The fork was created after Redis 7.4 was converted to a proprietary license. With the release of Redis 8.0, the code was reverted to the open source AGPLv3 license, but this did not impact the development of the Valkey project. Valkey is being developed on a neutral platform under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, with contributions from developers from companies such as Amazon, Google, Oracle, Ericsson, and Snap. The project's code is written in C and distributed under the BSD license. It runs on Linux, macOS, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD.

The Valkey and Redis DBMSs provide functions for storing key/value data, expanded with support for structured data formats such as lists, hashes, and sets, as well as the ability to execute server-side handler scripts in Lua. The database is stored in memory and synchronized with the disk version or reflected in the disk change log, ensuring data integrity in the event of a crash. Transactions, publish/subscribe mode, increment/decrement commands, list and set operations (union, intersection), key renaming, master-slave replication, multiple selections, and sorting functions are supported.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/valkey-9.0-delivers-performance-and-resiliency-for-real-time-workloads ====== 20 ====== OpenWrt 24.10.4: 22/10/2025

OpenWrt 24.10.4, a distribution designed for network devices such as routers, switches, and access points, has been released. OpenWrt supports 2,815 devices and offers a build system that simplifies cross-compilation and the creation of custom builds. These builds allow users to create ready-made firmware with the desired set of pre-installed packages, optimized for specific tasks. Ready-to-use builds have been published for 39 target platforms.

https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-announce/2025-October/000072.html OpenBSD 7.8: 22/10/2025

OpenBSD 7.8, a free UNIX-like operating system, has been released. The full installation ISO image of the OpenBSD 7.8 base system is 597 MB.

In addition to the operating system itself, the OpenBSD project is known for its components, which have been widely adopted by other systems and have established themselves as some of the most secure and high-quality solutions. Among them are: LibreSSL ( a fork of OpenSSL), OpenSSH , the PF packet filter , the OpenBGPD and OpenOSPFD routing daemons , the OpenNTPD NTP server , the OpenSMTPD mail server , the tmux text terminal multiplexer (analogous to GNU screen) , the identd daemon with an implementation of the IDENT protocol, mandoc , a BSDL alternative to the GNU groff package , the CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) protocol for organizing fault-tolerant systems, a lightweight HTTP server , and the OpenRSYNC file synchronization utility .

https://www.mail-archive.com/announce@openbsd.org/msg00568.html MySQL 9.5.0: 23/10/2025

Oracle has released a new branch of the MySQL 9.5.0 database management system. MySQL Community Server 9.5.0 builds are available for all major Linux distributions, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows. In accordance with the release model introduced in 2023, MySQL 9.5 is assigned to the “Innovation” branch. Innovation branches are recommended for those who want early access to new functionality. They are published every three months and are supported only until the next major release (for example, after the release of branch 9.5, support for branch 9.4 ended). This winter, they plan to release LTS release 9.6, recommended for deployments that require predictability and long-term stability. Following the LTS branch, a new Innovation branch—MySQL 10.0—will be released.

https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/releases/tag/mysql-9.5.0 ====== 21 ====== LosslessCut 3.66: 24/10/2025

LosslessCut 3.66, a graphical interface for editing multimedia files without re-encoding, has been released. LosslessCut's most popular feature is cropping and trimming video and audio, for example, to reduce the size of large files shot with an action camera or a drone camera. LosslessCut allows you to select relevant sections of a file and discard unnecessary parts, preserving the original quality of the material without re-encoding. Since processing is performed by copying existing data rather than re-encoding, operations are very fast. LosslessCut is written in JavaScript using the Electron platform and is an add-on to the FFmpeg package. Its developments are distributed under the GPLv2 license. Builds are available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Without re-coding, the program can also handle tasks such as attaching audio tracks or subtitles to videos, cutting out individual scenes from videos (e.g., cutting out commercials from TV program recordings), saving fragments linked to tags/chapters separately, rearranging video sections, splitting audio and video into separate files, changing the media container type (e.g., from MKV to MOV), saving individual video frames as images, creating thumbnails, exporting a fragment to a separate file, and changing metadata (e.g., location data, recording time, horizontal or vertical orientation). Tools are available for detecting and automatically cutting out empty areas (black screens in videos and silent fragments in audio files), as well as linking to scene changes.

It's possible to merge fragments from different files, but the files must be encoded using the same codec and parameters (e.g., shot with the same camera without changing settings). Editing individual sections is possible, selectively re-coding only the data that changes, but preserving the rest of the untouched information in the original video. During editing, undo/redo is supported, and FFmpeg command logs can be displayed (typical operations can be repeated from the command line without using LosslessCut). https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/

https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/releases/tag/v3.66.1 uutils 0.3: 25/10/2025

The uutils coreutils 0.3.0 (Rust Coreutils) project, a development project for the GNU Coreutils package written in Rust, has been released. Coreutils includes over 100 utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. The project's goal is to create a cross-platform alternative to Coreutils, capable of running on Windows, Redox, and Fuchsia platforms, among others.

Rust Coreutils is included by default in Ubuntu 25.10 and is used in the AerynOS (Serpent OS) and Apertis (developed by Collabora) distributions. Unlike GNU Coreutils, the Rust implementation is distributed under the permissive MIT license, rather than the copyleft GPL. The same team of developers is also developing Rust-based equivalents of the util-linux, diffutils, findutils, and procps utility suites, as well as the sed and login programs.

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.3.0 Qutebrowser 3.6.0: 25/10/2025

The qutebrowser 3.6.0 web browser has been released. It offers a minimal graphical interface that does not distract from content viewing and a Vim-style navigation system built entirely on keyboard shortcuts. The code is written in Python using PyQt and QtWebEngine. The source code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Using Python does not impact website performance, as content rendering and parsing is handled by the Blink engine and the Qt library.

The browser supports a tabbed system, a download manager, private browsing mode, a built-in PDF viewer (pdf.js), an ad blocker (at the host blocking level), and a browsing history interface. An external video player can be configured to watch YouTube videos. Page navigation is performed using the “hjkl” keys; to open a new page, press “o.” Tab switching is performed using the “J” and “K” keys or “Alt-tab number.” Pressing “:” displays a command line prompt, allowing you to search the page and execute common vim-like commands, such as “:q” to quit and “:w” to save the page. A system of “hints” is available for quickly navigating to page elements, marking links and images.

https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/releases/tag/v3.6.0 ====== 22 ====== Open 3D Engine 25.10: 26/10/2025

The non-profit Open 3D Foundation has released Open 3D Engine 25.10 (O3DE), an open-source 3D game engine suitable for developing modern AAA games and high-fidelity simulators capable of running in real time and delivering cinematic-quality performance. The code is written in C++ and published under the Apache 2.0 license.

The engine includes an integrated game development environment, a multi-threaded photo realistic rendering system (Atom Renderer) with support for Vulkan, Metal, and DirectX 12, an extensible 3D model editor, a character animation system (Emotion FX), a prefab development system, a real-time physics simulation engine, and mathematical libraries using SIMD instructions. Game logic can be defined using a visual programming environment (Script Canvas), as well as Lua and Python.

The project is designed from the ground up to be customizable and features a modular architecture. Several dozen modules are available, delivered as separate libraries, suitable for replacement, integration into third-party projects, and standalone use. For example, thanks to its modularity, developers can replace the graphics renderer, sound system, language support, network stack, physics engine, and any other components.

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