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Weston 15.0.2 Releases, Fixing the YUV Video Regression from 15.0.1 and Unblocking lua-shell
Weston 15.0.2 has shipped as the second bug-fix release in the 15 feature line, undoing a shader change from 15.0.1 that had broken YUV video rendering on PowerVR and Vivante drivers.
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Linux Security Roundup: RHEL Four Criticals, Debian's 151 CVEs, SUSE Curl Fix
Red Hat's latest RHEL push delivered an unusually high four Critical advisories, two of which hit the RHEL 8 kernel, making kernel and kernel-rt updates the obvious first priority for admins.
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Amethyst Mod Manager v2.6.1 Fixes Flatpak Launch Bug
Amethyst Mod Manager, ChrisDKN's native Linux mod manager, released v2.6.1 today, as a rebuild of v2.6.0 to fix a Flatpak launch bug. The update is essentially just a version bump, with the underlying commit changing only two files and touching a net of four additions and one…
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IPFire 2.29 Core Update 206 Opens to Testing with WIO Command-Injection Fixes
IPFire has opened Core Update 206 to public testing, with the main urgency being a pair of command-injection vulnerabilities in its Who Is Online (WIO) add-on that let attackers run shell commands with the web server's privileges.
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Audacity 4.0.2 Downloads Now: Bug Fixes for Corrupted Projects and Crashes
Audacity 4.0.2 launched November 2, 2026, as a patch release aimed at fixing corruption bugs and crashes rather than adding new features. It restores autosave during recording and brings back shortcuts like trim and zoom, while clearing data-loss issues that could wreck a…
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Fedora Kernel 7.3 Test Week Runs Before Fedora 45 Launch on November 3
Fedora's QA team is running a week-long Kernel 7.3 Test Week from November 1–7, 2026, inviting volunteers to install and stress-test the new kernel on Fedora 45 and Fedora 44.
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Reviews Roundup: SSDs, Gaming PC and Streaming Amp Tested
Five recent hardware reviews share a common focus on thermal design and memory savings, spanning an Eversolo streaming amp, a cable-free Maingear gaming PC, a budget ASRock motherboard, and two fresh SSDs.
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XanMod 7.2.15 Released, But It's Built on an End-of-Life Linux Kernel
XanMod released 7.2.15-xanmod1 on November 1, the newest build in its MAIN branch. Unlike most kernel drops, this one sits on Linux 7.2.15, which kernel. org has already marked end-of-life and stopped maintaining.
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OpenShot 4.1.1 Downloads Now: Free Video Editor Gets Faster GPU Exports and Stability Fixes
OpenShot 4.1.1 is a maintenance release that Jonathan Thomas pushed to GitHub over the weekend, arriving right after the ambitious 4.1 feature drop. The headline upgrade is broader GPU-accelerated exports, adding AMD AMF, HEVC NVENC, and Intel QSV presets so users can export…
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Faugus 2.5.6 Adds Discord Rich Presence to Linux Game Launcher
Faugus 2.5.6, the latest release of the open-source Faugus Launcher for running Windows games on Linux, shipped today with Discord Rich Presence as its headline feature.
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Linux Kernel 7.4-rc1 Records Biggest Kernel Merge Window Ever With ~20,000 Commits
Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.4-rc1 on November 1, 2026, marking the largest merge window in the kernel's ~35-year history with nearly 20,000 commits. He attributes much of the surge to a flood of AI-generated work, though he also notes 7.
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Budgie 10.10.4 Fixes Wayland Panel Auto-Hide and Dock Mode
Budgie 10.10.4 released today as the fourth minor update to the Wayland-only 10.10 series, led by developer Joshua Strobl. The headline fix finally repairs auto-hiding panels and dock mode, which broke when the desktop switched from X11 to Wayland in January.
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Linux Kernel 7.2.15 Released as Final 7.2 Kernel; End-of-Life Pushes Users to 7.3
Linux 7.2.15 shipped today as the final stable release of the 7.2 series, which Greg Kroah-Hartman retired early so the team can focus on 7.3.The update is tiny at just 15 files but bundles eight real fixes, including a security-critical skb_zerocopy bug that let unprivileged…
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Arch Linux 2026.11.01 Released With Linux 7.2.11 Kernel
Arch Linux has published its 2026.11.01 rolling-release snapshot, built around the fresh Linux 7.2.11 kernel in a lean 1.2 GB x86-64 ISO. The image is meant for new installations only, since existing users can stay current with a single pacman -Syu.
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Enlightenment 0.28.0 Released with NetworkManager Support After Two-Year Gap
Enlightenment 0.28.0 shipped on October 31, 2026, bundled with its sibling EFL 1.29.0 and packing nearly two years of development into a single release. The headline feature is a native NetworkManager module that finally brings integrated Wi-Fi, Ethernet, VPN, and Bluetooth…
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OpenShot 4.1.0 Adds Native Text Editing, 4K Auto-Optimize, and AI-Agent Automation
OpenShot 4.1.0 landed on October 31, 2026, and this is the third major release in three months from the donation-funded team behind it. The headline feature lets you type and style text directly on the preview while a new Auto-Optimize pass shrinks heavy 4K+ footage for snappy…
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Simple Taskbar V77 for GNOME Ships Windows 11-Style Taskbar, Start Menu and Fixes
Simple Taskbar, a free open-source GNOME Shell extension maintained by one developer under the name Sultech, has version 77 out. The update rolls in a Windows-style clock with full clock options, refined icon magnification, corner-radius and floating-gap tweaks, plus a fix for…
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4MLinux 52.2 STABLE Released With Linux 6.18.55 Kernel
4MLinux 52.2 STABLE launched on October 31, 2026, bumping its 6.18 LTS kernel to version 6.18.55 as a straightforward point release. Existing 52.x users can upgrade automatically with a single zk update command instead of downloading the roughly 2.
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Linux Security Roundup: .NET Criticals, Chromium CVEs, and an Ubuntu Pro Catch
Linux distros including AlmaLinux, RHEL, SUSE, Debian, Fedora, Rocky, and Ubuntu all shipped security updates in late October, with a. NET critical cluster on AlmaLinux being the standout for ASP.
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Strata 0.2.9 Adds 1-bit DeepSeek, Strix Halo Speedups, and Multi-GPU Fixes
Strata 0.2.9, the open-source local AI inference engine from developer Niko Veit, runs a frontier-class 125-billion-parameter model on ordinary gaming hardware without a cloud account.