Red Hat’s Stratis Storage 3.9 Released With Online Encryption/Decryption/Reencryption
It’s crazy to realize it has been ten years already since Red Hat abandoned their Btrfs plans for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and dropped it, which was a technology preview feature since RHEL6. In its place Red Hat engineers began developing Stratis for next-gen Linux storage with ZFS/Btrfs-like features but instead building atop XFS, LUKS, Device Mapper, and Clevis. After a while since the last major release, Stratis Storage 3 … ⌘ Read more

pip 26.1 released
Version 26.1 of
the pip package installer for Python has been released. Richard Si
has published a blog\
post that looks at some of the highlights of 26.1 including
dependency cooldowns, experimental support for pylock ( pylock.toml)
files, and [resolver\
improvements](https://ichard26.github.io/blog/2026/04/whats-new-i … ⌘ Read more

Valve Confirms Steam Controller Release Date, $99 Price
Valve just announced that their new Steam Controller will be going on sale on 4 May. Pricing in the US is at $99 USD… ⌘ Read more

[$] The rest of the 7.1 merge window
By the time Linus Torvalds released 7.1-rc1
and closed the 7.1 merge window, 12,996 non-merge changesets had been
pulled into the mainline repository; just over 9,000 of those arrived after
the first-half summary was written. These
changes were more driver-oriented than those seen earlier, but still also
included many new features across the kernel as a whole. ⌘ Read more

Four new stable kernels for Monday
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.0.2, 6.18.25, 6.12.84, and 6.6.136 stable kernels. As usual, each
contains important fixes throughout; users are advised to upgrade. ⌘ Read more

DeepSeek V4 Arrives With Near State-of-the-Art Intelligence At 1/6th the Cost
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: The whale has resurfaced. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup offshoot of High-Flyer Capital Management quantitative analysis firm, became a near-overnight sensation globally in January 2025 with the release of its open source R1 model that matched proprietary U.S. giants … ⌘ Read more

[$] Zig explores structured concurrency
Version 0.16.0 of the Zig programming language was
recently announced, and with
it an expanded version of the new Io interface that we
covered in December.
The new interface is based on an idea called structured concurrency that makes writing
correct concurrent applications easier. Zig’s implementation of
the idea is more explicit and verbose than other languages, however, which could
offer an oppor … ⌘ Read more

Niri 26.04 released
Version 26.04
of the niri scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor has been released. The most
notable change in this release, as the “most requested niri feature by far”,
is support for the blur effect using the Wayland protocol’s ext-background-effect. This
release also features optional configuration\
includes, screencasting support enhanc … ⌘ Read more

XWayland 24.1.11 Brings Crash Fixes
Red Hat’s Olivier Fourdan announced today the availability of XWayland 24.1.11 that brings a few bug/regression fixes… ⌘ Read more

Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc1
Linus has released 7.1-rc1 and closed the
merge window for this release.

Things look fairly normal, although we do have a few different
projects to cull some old hardware support to help minimize
maintenance burden: phasing out i486 support (configs deleted, code
deletions to follow) and independently starting to remove some
really old networking hardware support, and removing some SoC
support that never went anywhere.

But we’re more than making up for … ⌘ Read more

D7VK v1.8 Continues Improving Legacy Direct3D Atop The Vulkan API
D7VK as what began as an implementation of the Direct3D 7 API on top of the Vulkan API, based off DXVK as part of Steam Play (Proton) for D3D8 through D3D11 support, continues enhancing its legacy D3D API support that over time has stretched now from D3D7 to D3D3… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.1-rc1 Released With New NTFS Driver, FRED By Default & Much More
The Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel was just released for concluding the Linux 7.1 merge window. A lot of new features are in tow for this next kernel version that will then be out as stable in mid-June… ⌘ Read more

The Linux Kernel Tree About To Hit 40 Million Lines, AMD Driver Above 6 Million Lines
Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel release due out later today for closing the Linux 7.1 merge window, I was curious if all the code removals would lead to a negative change in line count over Linux 7.0. The removals were not enough and Linux 7.1 Git is fast approaching 40 million lines… ⌘ Read more

Apple M3 Support On Asahi Linux Is Approaching The Original Alpha Quality Of The M1
A new progress report from the Asahi Linux project is now published that highlights recent upstreaming work for the Linux 7.0 kernel release as well as the latest additions to the downstream Asahi Linux code. The Asahi Linux project also pushed out their first updated Asahi installer in nearly two years… ⌘ Read more

Legacy NVIDIA xf86-video-nv Driver Sees First Release In Years
The legacy xf86-video-nv driver for user-space mode-setting on old NVIDIA GPUs is out with a rather rare release and the first in over two years with a collection of different bug fixes… ⌘ Read more

LACT 0.9 Released With UI Updates, Voltage-Frequency Curve Editor For NVIDIA
LACT, one of the leading open-source solutions to provide a graphics card management GUI that works across AMD / NVIDIA / Intel graphics hardware on Linux, is out with a major update this weekend… ⌘ Read more

Open Source Developer Brings Linux to Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME
Microsoft released the “Windows Subsystem for Linux” in 2016, adding an optional Linux environment into every operating system since Windows 10. But now an open source developer has brought Linux to Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me, reports the blog It’s FOSS, “with Linux kernel 6.19 running alongside the Windows 9x ker … ⌘ Read more

Niri 26.04 Wayland Compositor Adds Much Sought After Blur Support
Niri 26.04 is out today as the latest feature update to this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor… ⌘ Read more

New NTFS Driver Sees A Number Of Fixes Ahead Of Linux 7.1-rc1
With the Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel release due out tomorrow to cap off the Linux 7.1 merge window, one of the most notable additions this cycle is the introduction of the new NTFS driver that aims to provide better performance and more modern features than the existing NTFS3 in-kernel driver that was originally contributed by Paragon Software… ⌘ Read more

Fedora 44 Releasing Next Week
After being deemed not ready for debuting this week as an early release target, Fedora stakeholders have decided that Fedora 44 will be ready to officially debut next Tuesday… ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.7 Enables Overlay Planes For Intel Graphics, More Performance/Efficiency
KDE developers continued to land more feature changes for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. It’s a busy spring of fixes, optimizations, and shiny new features for Plasma 6.7… ⌘ Read more

Fwupd 2.1.2 Brings Support For Firmware Updates On More Hardware
Fwupd 2.1.2 is out today as the latest update to this open-source firmware updating utility that allows for updating system firmware and device/peripheral firmware under Linux… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.1 Is Performing Well Overall In Early Benchmarks
With the Linux 7.1 merge window winding down ahead of the planned Linux 7.1-rc1 release on Sunday, I have begun testing out the Linux 7.1 Git state on various systems in my lab. So far Linux 7.1 appears to be looking good in the performance department with seeing a number of performance improvements in different areas but also a few possible regressions. ⌘ Read more

GnuPG 2.5.19 released
Werner Koch has announced
the release of GnuPG 2.5.19. This release includes a few new options
and a number of bug fixes, and comes with the reminder that the
GnuPG 2.4 series will reach end-of-life soon

The main features in the 2.5 series are improvements for 64 bit Windows
and the introduction of Kyber (aka ML-KEM or FIPS-203) as PQC encryption
algorithm. Other than PQC support the 2.6 series will not differ a lot
from 2.4 because th … ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 发布，支持到 2041 年，附升级方法
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 已经发布，代号 Resolute Raccoon（坚毅浣熊），支持期为 5 年，并提供额外 5 年的安全支持，以及再额外 5 年的继续安全更新。@Appinn Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 还对新的 CPU / GPU / NPU 做了优化，并且引入了 TPM ⌘ Read more

Opera GX Browser Gets Flatpak’ed & Snap’ed On Linux
Last month Opera released the Opera GX gaming-focused web browser for Linux. It rolled out in RPM and Debian package format support while now for those interested is also available via Flatpak and Snap sandboxed app formats… ⌘ Read more

OpenAI Says Its New GPT-5.5 Model Is More Efficient and Better At Coding
OpenAI released its new GPT-5.5 model today, which the company calls its “smartest and most intuitive to use model yet, and the next step toward a new way of getting work done on a computer.” The Verge reports: OpenAI just released GPT-5.4 last month, but says that the new GPT-5.5 “excels” at tasks like writing and debugging code, doing … ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS released
Ubuntu 26.04 (“Resolute Raccoon”) LTS has been released
on schedule.

This release brings a significant uplift in security, performance,
and usability across desktop, server, and cloud environments. Ubuntu
26.04 LTS introduces TPM-backed full-disk encryption, expanded use of
memory-safe components, improved application permission controls, and
Livepatch support for Arm systems, helping reduce downtime and
strengthe … ⌘ Read more

With all these new ways of digital publishing, I’m wondering for years why music artists still release entire albums. I would have imagined that most bands simply publish a new song whenever it’s good to go. But no, at least in my bubble, everybody still collects a bunch of new songs before throwing them as a collection into the crowd. I never used any of these streaming services, though, so maybe I’m just completely uninformed.

Godot 4.7 Will Finally Have HDR Output, Including On Linux With Wayland
The upcoming Godor 4.7 open-source, cross-platform game engine release is rolling out support for high dynamic range (HDR)… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS Will Now Automatically Install HWE/OEM Kernel Packages
Ubuntu LTS releases on the desktop have automatically installed OEM vendor kernels where needed and hardware enablement “HWE” kernels in later point releases by default. This provides a better out-of-the-box experience for Ubuntu desktop users and one less chore post-install if desiring a newer/better kernel. With Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS, the server installer is finally doing the same… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 26.04 Allows “sudo apt install rocm” But It’s Months Out-Of-Date
Canonical announced last year that in collaboration with AMD they would be bringing the ROCm software libraries into the Ubuntu archive for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. The plan has been to ship AMD ROCm AI/ML and HPC libraries in the Ubuntu archive so it would be as easy as sudo apt install rocm for getting started with AMD’s open-source GPU compute stack. With today being the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release day, I decided to revisit the topic… ⌘ Read more

OpenBLAS 0.3.33 Released With Automatic “BIGNUMA” For More Than 256 CPU Cores
OpenBLAS 0.3.33 is out today as the latest update to this vendor-neutral, optimized Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms “BLAS” library… ⌘ Read more

FreeRDP 3.25 Adds Experimental AV1 Support
FreeRDP as a leading open-source implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) has introduced experimental AV1 codec support… ⌘ Read more

Four stable kernel updates
The
7.0.1,
6.19.14,
6.18.24, and
6.12.83
stable kernels have been released; each contains another set of important
fixes. Note that the 6.19.x line ends with 6.19.14. ⌘ Read more

Gates Foundation To Cut 20% of Staff, Review Epstein Ties
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The Gates Foundation opened an external review earlier this year into its engagement with the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the philanthropic group said on Tuesday. The foundation has been mired in controversy due to Chairman Bill Gates’ association with Epstein. A release of emails in Janu … ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu Rust Coreutils Audit Revealed 113 Issues, Ubuntu 26.10 Aims For “100% Rust Coreutils”
Ahead of tomorrow’s Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, Canonical published a blog post today outlining the state of Rust Coreutils for its premiere in this long-term support (LTS) version. Canonical also commissioned a security audit recently of Rust Coreutils that turned up 44 CVEs and 113 issues in total… ⌘ Read more

GCC 16 Compiler Nearly Ready For Release With Zen 6, AVX10.2, APX & Algol 68
GCC 16.1 as the first stable version of the GCC 16 compiler is nearly ready for its official debut as this year’s major feature release for this open-source compiler… ⌘ Read more

KMSCON Continues Improving For VT Terminal Emulator In User-Space
KMSCON 9.3.4 is out today for this virtual terminal (VT) emulator in user-space that runs atop the Linux DRM/KMS APIs for those wanting to enjoy a CONFIG_VT=n Linux kernel experience… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu Looks Toward More Snap-Based Devpacks Moving Forward
Canonical is out with a new blog post today outlining toolchain changes to Ubuntu Linux from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS due for release tomorrow. While those changes over the past two years aren’t too news worthy if you have been following the interim Ubuntu releases, what’s interesting is their road ahead on the Ubuntu toolchain front for developers… ⌘ Read more

LilyPond 2.26.0 released
Version\
2.26.0 of the LilyPond
music-engraving program has been released. Major\
changes include the ability to use the Cairo library to generate
output and improvements in spacing between clefs and time
signatures. See the release notes for a full list of [miscellaneous\
improvements](https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.26/Documentation/changes/miscellan … ⌘ Read more

Four stable kernels for Wednesday
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.0.1, 6.19.14, 6.18.24, and 6.12.83 stable kernels. As usual, each
contains important fixes throughout the tree. Users are encouraged to
upgrade. ⌘ Read more

Intel LLM-Scaler vllm-0.14.0-b8.2 Released With Official Arc Pro B70 Support
As part of Intel’s LLM-Scaler initiative for AI inferencing on Intel Arc hardware, out today is their vllm-0.14.0-b8.2 update that includes officially supporting the Arc Pro B70 graphics card… ⌘ Read more

Intel Media Driver 2026Q1 Continues Nova Lake S Enablement
Intel today published their official quarterly feature release to their open-source Media Driver providing Video Acceleration API (VA-API) support on Linux… ⌘ Read more

Ghostty OpenGL-Accelerated Terminal Available On Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Since Ubuntu 25.04 Ptyxis has been the default terminal emulator after it initially became available in Ubuntu 24.10. For the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, Ptyxis remains the default but Ghostty is now available too… ⌘ Read more

QEMU 11.0 Released With CET Virtualization Support, Native Nitro Enclaves
The QEMU 11.0 emulator is now available for this important piece of the open-source Linux virtualization stack… ⌘ Read more

Firefox: The zero-days are numbered
This\
Firefox blog post reports that the Firefox 150 release includes
fixes for 271 vulnerabilities found by the Claude Mythos preview.

Elite security researchers find bugs that fuzzers can’t largely by
reasoning through the source code. This is effective, but
time-consuming and bottlenecked on scarce human
expertise. Computers were completely incapable of doing this a few
months ago, and now they excel at i … ⌘ Read more

Framework Laptop 13 Pro Is a Major Overhaul For the Modular, Upgradeable Laptop
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Framework has been selling and shipping its modular, repairable, upgradable Laptop 13 for five years now, and in that time, it has released six distinct versions of its system board, each using fresh versions of Intel and AMD processors (seven versions, if you … ⌘ Read more

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Gets a Price Cut
Microsoft is cutting the monthly price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass, but the tradeoff is that new Call of Duty releases will no longer arrive on the service at launch. Instead, they’ll show up about a year later. The Verge reports: After Xbox CEO Asha Sharma admitted last week that “Game Pass has become too expensive for players,” Microsoft is dropping the price of Xbox Game Pa … ⌘ Read more

NTFS-3G FUSE Driver Sees First New Release In Four Years
Coming today as a big surprise – one week after the new NTFS file-system driver was merged for Linux 7.1 and separately the existing NTFS3 kernel driver seeing some fixes – is a new release of the NTFS-3G driver providing a FUSE-based user-space driver for NTFS on Linux and other platforms… ⌘ Read more