KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2 Brings More Polish Ahead of October 14 Release
KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2 adds more polish and bug fixes, improving tiled windows, Spectacle, GPU monitoring, remote desktop support, and more.
Linux & Open Source News
Explore the latest updates from the Linux and Open Source ecosystem. Find out about the newest distributions, software releases, and community-driven projects making headlines.
Wine 11.19 Adds DNS Caching, Unicode 18 Support, Fixes 23 Bugs
Wine 11.19 introduces DNS query caching, Unicode 18.0 character tables, GDIPlus vertical text support, VBScript improvements, and 23 bug fixes.
COSMIC Stops Accepting LLM-Generated Content in Pull Requests
System76’s COSMIC project now requires contributors to confirm that pull requests contain no LLM-generated code, comments, or descriptions.
LibreOffice 26.8.1 Lands With 40+ Fixes Across the Office Suite
The first maintenance update in the LibreOffice 26.8 series fixes crashes, import issues, PDF export bugs, and Microsoft Office compatibility problems.
Nginx UI Turns Nginx Management Into a Modern Web Experience
Nginx UI offers a polished open-source dashboard for managing sites, configs, SSL certificates, logs, upstreams, nodes, and more from your browser.
Cloudflare Is Building a Free Public CA to Rival Let’s Encrypt
Cloudflare is building a free, public Certificate Authority with ACME support to add more choice and resilience to the TLS ecosystem.
aerynOS Could Soon Welcome Budgie Desktop
Joshua Strobl has opened a pull request to bring Budgie Desktop 10.10.3, related apps, and required dependencies into aerynOS.
Mozilla Thunderbird Is Finally Coming to iPhone and iPad
After years without an official iOS client, Mozilla Thunderbird is now building a native app for iPhone and iPad, with testing planned ahead.
New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Can Leak Linux Kernel Memory
Researchers reveal Branch Target Reuse, a new Spectre-v2 attack that exploits stale branch predictions to leak arbitrary Linux kernel memory.
Rust 1.99 Released With C Variadic Functions, New Stable APIs
Rust 1.99 adds support for defining C-compatible variadic functions, expands raw pointer layout APIs, and stabilizes a new batch of standard library features.