• Lutris 0.5.19 Released:

• Apache NetBeans 25 IDE:

• Release of MythTV 35:

• Aqualung 2.0 Music Player Ported to GTK3 Released:

• X.Org Server 21.1.16 Update Fixes 8 Vulnerabilities:

• Nextcloud Hub 10 is released:

• A Project to Run FreeBSD Programs on Linux:

• OpenCloud 1.0 Now Available:

• Linux kernel 6.15 to remove SystemV filesystem:

• Electronic Arts Opens Command & Conquer Games Under GPL License:

• Fish 4.0 Shell Rewritten in Rust:

• NetworkManager 1.52.0 Released:

• Release of Brushshe 1.2.0:

• GhostBSD Release 25.01:

• Release of Hangover 10.0:

• Orbitiny DE using Qt Released:

• Hyprland 0.47 released:

• Google Opens Up OS Code for Pebble Smartwatch:

• Release of Privoxy 4.0.0:

• Linux Kernel Reaches 40 Million Lines:

• Pidgin 2.14.14 released:

• KaOS 2025.01 released:

• Ubuntu Switches to Matrix for Developer Communications:

• OPNsense 25.1 released:

• Release of GCompris 25.0:

• A new ‘alpha’ of 0 AD:

• OpenVox, a fork of Puppet:

• Release of GParted 1.7:

• Release of Scribus 1.7.0:

• Regolith 3.2 Released:

*This month:

• How-To : Learn About, Trading Up To Linux and Latex
• Graphics : Inkscape
• Review : Ubuntu 24.10 Cinnamon and MATE
• UbPorts Touch
• Ubuntu Games - Fields of Mistria

plus: News, Command and Conquer, My Story, The Daily Waddle, Q&A and more.

• MX Linux 23.5 Released:

• OpenZFS 2.3.0 Release:

• Linux 6.13 kernel has a bug caused by code from a Microsoft employee:

• Decibels Music Player Accepted into Mainstream GNOME:

• CudaText Code Editor Update 1.220.6:

• Release of Linux Mint 22.1:

• Cozystack 0.22 Released:

• Haiku to restrict UK access over Online Safety Act concerns:

• Release of uutils 0.0.29, a variant of GNU Coreutils in Rust:

• Dillo 3.2.0 released:

• OpenSUSE develops YQPkg:

• Release of SysVinit 3.12:

• Linux 6.12 kernel tweaks cause zRAM issues in some distros:

• Darktable 5.0.0 released:

• Siduction 2024.1 release:

• Release ScummVM 2.9.0:

• First test release of FixBrowser:

• Serpent OS distribution enters alpha testing stage:

• Linux kernel 6.12 releases with Realtime support:

• GhostBSD 24.10.1 Released:

• Linux-libre 6.12 kernel available: (Resolving licensing issues with Tuxedo drivers)

• Arch Linux Moves Package Build Scripts to 0BSD License:

• Ubuntu developers analyzed the effectiveness of enabling PGO optimization:

• Canonical Announces First LTS Release of MicroCloud Tools:

• Release of FreeCAD 1.0:

• GitHub’s Initiative to Fund Security Improvements for Open Source Projects:

• ReiserFS has been removed from the Linux kernel:

• Mesa 24.3 is released:

• The Linux Foundation Technical Committee has officially announced the temporary suspension of the author of BсacheFS:

• MaXX Interactive Desktop 2.2:

• Sway 1.10 User Environment Released:

• Raspberry Pi OS switched to Wayland:

• The Flock project:

• Fedora Linux Release 41:

• X.Org Server 21.1.14 Update with Vulnerability Fix:

• Shotcut Video Editor 10/24:

• Release of Audacity 3.7:

• Release of TrueNAS SCALE 24.10:

• Pentesters ready:

• and here

• Linux kernel 6.11 released:

• FreeBSD 13.4 Released:

• OpenSearch, a fork of the Elasticsearch platform, is now under the wing of the Linux Foundation:

• AMD Engineer Proposes Easier Linux Kernel Management of CPU Vulnerability Locks:

• LLVM 19 Compiler Suite Released:

• Valkey 8.0 has been released:

• GNOME Desktop Environment Release 47:

• Release of nxs-data-anonymizer 1.11.0:

• Swift 6.0 on Linux:

• Valve has released Proton 9.0-3:

• Zorin OS 17.2 Released:

• Ubuntu 24.10 Beta Release:

• Release of CRIU 4.0:

• Release of OSMC 2024.08-1:

• The OpenBSD project has made changes to the entire code base:

• Release of the Calligra 4.0 office suite:

• Release of VeraCrypt 1.26.14:

• Microsoft hands over Mono project development to Wine community:

• OpenTofu politics:

• Release of GNU screen 5.0:

• 4MLinux 46.0 release:

• Release of MediaGoblin 0.14:

• Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS Release:

• Elasticsearch reverts to open source license:

• Wireshark 4.4.0 Released:

• Rhino Linux 2024.1 Rolling Release:

• Linux From Scratch 12.2 and Beyond Linux From Scratch 12.2 Released: and here

• Release of Armbian 24.5:

• Release of KaOS 2024.05:

• Ubuntu 24.04 builds for the RISC-V board Milk-V Mars:

• Release of Rhino Linux 2024.1:

• The XZ project published the result of a commit audit and the first update after the backdoor was identified:

• Canonical has published Real-time Ubuntu 24.04:

• Major release of Solaris 11.4 SRU69:

• Release of NetworkManager 1.48.0:

• Fedora 41 intends to remove network-scripts and allow updating of atomic editions without a password:

• Release of Rocky Linux 8.10:

• Kaspersky Lab has published a free malware scanner for Linux:

• LyX 2.4.0 published:

• Linux kernel 6.9 release:

• Viola Workstation K 10.3:

• Debian switches to a stripped-down version of the KeePassXC:

• Rescuezilla 2.5:

• An NVIDIA representative answered questions related to the transfer of drivers to open kernel modules:

• Release of Manjaro Linux 24.0:

• ALDOS a variant of Fedora without systemd:

• Release of Endless OS 6.0:

• Release of Oracle Linux 9.4:

• GNOME OS switches to atomic updates using systemd-sysupdate:

• An SSH backdoor installed during the kernel.org hack remained undetected for two years:

• Opening of Winamp code announced:

• Release of Neovim 0.10:

• Release 7-Zip 24.05:

• Changes to improve the display of KDE applications in GNOME and Xfce:

• The openSUSE project has published the Agama 8 installer, freed from binding to Cockpit:

• Linux kernel 6.8 released:

• Release of tenv 1.2.0:

• Release of OpenSSH 9.7:

• The OpenAI project has opened Transformer Debugger:

• GTK 4.14 with new engines for OpenGL and Vulkan:

• OBS Studio 30.1 released:

• The old NTFS driver & Linux kernel 6.9:

• PDP-10 mainframe on Raspberry Pi 5:

• Updating Void Linux installation builds:

• Update of Mineclonia 0.97:

• First release of TileOS:

• Release of Libadwaita 1.5:

• Rocky, Oracle and SUSE will provide further support for the Linux 4.14 kernel:

• WebKitGTK 2.44.0 browser engine: