Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Released With Support For Notches & Rounded Corners
Following last month’s beta release, Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 is now available as the latest feature release for this Ubuntu 24.04 LTS derived mobile operating system for select smartphones and tablets… ⌘ Read more
Drying Lakebeds Are Releasing Massive Amounts of Carbon, Study Finds
“In many parts of the world, lakes are drying out at a scale so massive that scientists are warning they may be emitting enough greenhouse gases to rival our fossil fuel habit,” reports ScienceAlert:
In a new study published in Science, scientists say the Aral Sea — the world’s largest desiccated lake — has emitted a whopping 204 megaton … ⌘ Read more
Wine 11.14 Released
Wine 11.14 is out with initial WoW64 mode support on FreeBSD, allowing 32-bit Windows applications to run on a 64-bit system without relying on 32-bit multilib support. The release also adds Start Menu icon support in Wine Explorer, 7.1 format conversions in DirectSound, AES-GMAC support in BCrypt, and 21 bug fixes affecting apps and games including Adobe Reader, Heroes of the Storm, and Age of Empires I and II. Additional details can b … ⌘ Read more
GNU C Library 2.44 Released With /etc/tunables.conf, More Optimizations
GNU developers today released GNU C Library “glibc” 2.44 as the newest feature release for this critical library to modern Linux systems and other platforms… ⌘ Read more
GE-Proton 11-3 brings better OptiScaler integration, AMD FSR4 improvements and lots of game fixes
GE-Proton 11-3 (and 11-2 just before) is a huge release for the popular compatibility layer for SteamOS / Linux.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/ge-proton-11-3-brings-better-optiscaler-integration-amd-fsr4-impro … ⌘ Read more
Wine 11.14 brings improvements for DirectSound, BCrypt, FreeBSD
The Wine 11.14 development release is officially out now bringing with it an assortment of new features to improve Windows apps / games on other platforms.
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Wine 11.14 Brings WoW64 Mode To FreeBSD, Icon Support In Start Menu
Wine 11.14 was tagged today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms… ⌘ Read more
AMD ROCm Committed To Six Week Release Cycle Moving Forward
One of many interesting takeaways from this week’s AMD Advancing AI event in San Francisco was word that ROCm will be on a rigid six week release cycle moving forward… ⌘ Read more
Anthropic’s New Opus 5 Model Rivals Fable 5 For Half the Price
Anthropic has released Opus 5, a new Claude model that it says comes close to its higher-end Fable 5 model at half the price while improving on Opus 4.8 in knowledge work, coding, and scientific research tasks. “At the same time, Anthropic says it has managed to make the model more resistant to being tricked,” notes Engadget. Additionally, the company says … ⌘ Read more
The massive Project Zomboid ‘Build 42’ update confirmed for July 29
The incredibly detailed zombie survival game Project Zomboid is set to level up in a huge way with the proper release of Build 42 on July 29th.
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Ubuntu Linux Looking To Get Rid Of /etc/debian_version Historical Artifact
Ubuntu Linux has shipped /etc/debian_version that is carried over from upstream Debian and in turn just indicating the Debian Sid development version from which the packages are arrived. Besides it being inaccurate, /etc/os-release has been the long preferred standard for reading the OS release information. Thus finally Ubuntu developers are looking at dropping the /etc/debian_version file… ⌘ Read more
Weather the Swarm is a fun looking co-op action roguelite with destructible terrain
A fun looking sci-fi solo / co-op roguelike with fully destructible environments, Weather the Swarm set to release in 2027.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/weather-the-swarm-is-a-fun-looking-co-op-action-roguelite-with-destru … ⌘ Read more
007 First Light has Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM removed
That was fast? 007 First Light only released back at the end of May, and it appears that Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM has now been removed.
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Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Experience Still Lackluster On Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
At the end of last year when checking out the latest Linux experience on the Snapdragon X Elite it was a disappointing affair. The performance had regressed and overall a more headache-inducing experience than just running a modern AMD Ryzen AI or Intel Core Ultra laptop on Linux. Given the recent release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, I’ve been re-testing the Acer Swift 14 AI laptop with Snapdragon X Elite SoC to see how its performing under … ⌘ Read more
Beam Eye Tracker app adds Linux and macOS support in Beta
The highly rated Steam app Beam Eye Tracker just recently released a public Beta for their impressive looking eye-tracking app for gaming.
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Valve puts up a Proton 11.0-2 Release Candidate for testing
Valve have put up a Release Candidate to test the upcoming Proton 11.0-2 update, to fix up more issues found with Windows games on SteamOS / Linux.
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Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 set to arrive August 25
Some explosive co-op action is coming our way, with Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 getting an August 25th release date announced today.
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Ryzen AI Software 1.8 Released With New Model Support, More Optimizations
Ahead of Lisa Su’s keynote this morning at the AMD Advancing AI event, tagged on GitHub just now was the Ryzen AI Software 1.8 release for helping to deploy AI models on Ryzen AI PCs… ⌘ Read more
LLVM 23.1-rc1 Released With AMD Zen 6 & AVX-512 BMM Support, Other Compiler Enhancements
Following the recent code branching for the LLVM 23 series, LLVM 23.1-rc1 was released today in working toward the next stable release of this open-source compiler stack… ⌘ Read more
dav1d 1.5.4 Brings AV1 Decoding To OS/2
While the VideoLAN developers are busy these days working on dav2d for AV2 video decoding, they haven’t let up work on dav1d and recently released dav1d 1.5.4 for continuing to enhance this leading open-source, CPU-based AV1 decoder… ⌘ Read more
Yet Another Zombie Survivors 1.0 release announced for August
On August 20th, the excellent Yet Another Zombie Survivors 1.0 finally launches - we have a new trailer and new details of what to expect from it.
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Lemonade 11.5 Local AI Server Released With Completed Lemonade Router
Just one week after releasing Lemonade 11.0, the Lemonade 11.5 local AI server was released today for this open-source AMD backed project during their AMD Advancing AI event… ⌘ Read more
COSMIC Epoch 1.4 Released With More Fixes, Force Quit For COSMIC Monitor
System76 developers today released COSMIC Epoch 1.4 as the newest stable release to their Rust-based desktop environment… ⌘ Read more
Proton-CachyOS adds support for vkd3d-low-latency, upgrades d7vk and more
The Proton-CachyOS compatibility tool for running Windows games on SteamOS / Linux has a new release out adding support for vkd3d-low-latency.
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The original Darkest Dungeon is set for a new DLC over 10 years after release
Not many developers will go back to their classics, but Red Hook Studios are giving the original Darkest Dungeon a brand new DLC soon.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/the-original-darkest-dungeon-is-set-for-a-new-dlc-over-10-years-after … ⌘ Read more
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@david@daiwei.me Go down to “Releases”, there’s a link to the CHANGES: https://movq.de/git/jenny/CHANGES.html
Cryptsetup 2.8.7 Released To Deal With Fallout Of Linux’s Rushed AF_ALG Deprecation
Linux’s cryptsetup for configuring and managing encrypted storage devices is ready with a new version as the developers work to deal with the recent deprecation of the Linux AF_ALG interface… ⌘ Read more
Three New Ubuntu Snap Vulnerabilities Made Public - One Dates Back To Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Canonical today disclosed three new Snap security vulnerabilities affecting snapd. Two are rated high impact vulnerabilities while the third is considered medium but covers all Ubuntu releases of the past decade going back to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS… ⌘ Read more
Harebrained Schemes’ new survival horror RPG ‘GRAFT’ gets a story trailer
Harebrained Schemes are working towards release on their next game following their split from Paradox Interactive, with the survival horror RPG ‘GRAFT’.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/harebrained-schemes-new-survival-horror-rpg-graft-gets-a-story … ⌘ Read more
Hmm …
My project pages have this “Downloads” section and I offer tarballs for each release:
https://movq.de/git/jenny/#downloads
I added this many years ago because an OpenBSD dev asked for it (but the project in question didn’t end up in their ports after all).
What are your thoughts on this? Is it necessary to offer tarballs?
I noticed that some distributions have already moved away from using tarballs and instead always clone from Git. 🤔
Stratis Storage Anaconda Integration Approved For Fedora 45
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved the latest batch of features for the upcoming Fedora 45 release… ⌘ Read more
Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered is now out in full and open source
Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered has been released as a nice upgrade for the classic, and the code is open source too.
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D7VK 2.0 released with more performance fixes for retro Direct3D games on Linux
Love your classic retro games? D7VK 2.0 is out now to bring more performance improvements for running retro Direct3D games on Linux.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/d7vk-2-0-released-with-more-performance-fixes-for-retro-direct3d-ga … ⌘ Read more
DXVK 3.0.2 brings bug fixes for Dying Light: The Beast, Halo and more on Linux / SteamOS
Direct 3D 8, 9, 10 and 11 to Vulkan layer DXVK has a new bug fix release out, sorting some issues in specific games to make gaming on Linux / SteamOS better.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/dxvk-3-0-2-brings-bug-fixes-for-dying-light-the … ⌘ Read more
SteamVR Beta gets a big update ahead of the Steam Frame release
Valve released SteamVR Beta version 2.17.4 which brings more Steam features into the VR environment, as they continue preparing for the Steam Frame release.
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Jagex Launcher Linux Beta released for Old School Runescape
Jagex today announced the official release of the Jagex Launcher Linux Beta, making it hopefully simpler and easier to get into Old School Runescape.
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🥳 Finally! After nearly 4 years, yarnd v0.16.0 “Silver Sojourner” is out! 🚀 Twt Hash v2, SQLite FTS5 search, HTMX-powered UI, first-time setup wizard and literally hundreds of bug fixes 🐛
Release notes: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/releases/tag/0.16.0
Upgrading is fully automatic — the Twt Hash v2 migration re-fetches all feeds on first start, so expect the first cycle to be a bit heavier. Images on Docker Hub as prologic/yarnd:0.16.0 👌
cc @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz @abucci@anthony.buc.ci @shinyoukai@yume.laidback.moe @eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club 🙏
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@david hmmm, now this one came disconnected. I forked @movq reply, the one stating it was broken.
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@bender@twtxt.net No idea. I can only tell you that the correct hash would have been rwzz277nkyju for this line:
[2026-07-11 14:47:17+00:00] [(#5bpwpdcjnhcz) <a href="https://we.loveprivacy.club/external?uri=https://daiwei.me/twtxt.txt">@david<em>@daiwei.me</em></a> (This thread is broken again on my end. Another bug or fix not released yet? 😅)]
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@david@daiwei.me (This thread is broken again on my end. Another bug or fix not released yet? 😅)
FEX 2607 Optimizing For Yet-To-Be-Released ARM 256-bit SVE2 Hardware
The FEX Emulator that allows running Linux x86/x86_64 software on ARM64 (AArch64) systems, including the likes of Wine / Valve’s Steam Play (Proton) for Windows gaming on ARM, is out with its newest monthly feature release. The Valve-backed project for running x86_64 games and other software on ARM for the upcoming Steam Frame and other more typical ARM Linux systems has been baking more optimizations and improvements… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.2-rc2 Raising The Default RISC-V 64-bit CPU Limit To 256 Cores
A post merge-window change that landed in Linux Git overnight ahead of tomorrow’s Linux 7.2-rc2 release is bumping the default limit on the number of supported CPU cores for RISC-V 64-bit. Now by default Linux will support up to 256 cores with RISC-V 64-bit kernel builds… ⌘ Read more
KWin Compositor In KDE Plasma 6.8 Drops Support For Desktop OpenGL
Along with releasing Plasma 6.7.2 this week, KDE developers continue to be quite busy working on new features and improvements for the Plasma 6.8 release while also furthering along fixes for future Plasma 6.7 point releases… ⌘ Read more
Hey folks 👋 Today I announce the re-release of the Twtxt Search Engine now live and running and actively re-crawling and re-indexing. 🎉 Please report bugs or any useability issues to me! 🙏 #Twtxt #Search
GNOME 51 Alpha Released With Numerous Enhancements
In working toward the stable GNOME 51 desktop release due out in September, today marks the alpha release of GNOME 51… ⌘ Read more
Vulkan Adds Extension For OCP’s Microscaling MX Formats To Help Machine Learning
Vulkan 1.4.356 is out today and it’s interesting for the lone new extension debuting: VK_EXT_shader_ocp_microscaling_types. The VK_EXT_shader_ocp_microscaling_types is for enabling the Open Compute Project’s Microscaling MX data types to help with machine learning workloads with Vulkan… ⌘ Read more
Vibe Coded X11 Server Written In Rust Adds Xinerama, FreeBSD Support & Other Features
One month ago we reported on YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in Rust with the help of Claude Code. Since then YSERVER has continued to advance in supporting more X11 functionality thanks to the help of Claude Code (AI) and out today is version 1.3 o this display server… ⌘ Read more
COSMIC Epoch 1.2 Desktop Fixes Flickering Issues For Intel Graphics
Just a week after the COSMIC Epoch 1.1 release with its slick new system monitor, COSMIC Epoch 1.2 is now available for this Rust-based desktop developed by System76… ⌘ Read more
GraalVM CE 25.1.3 Gets Native Image “Hello World” Program Down To Just 6.5MB
GraalVM, the advanced JDK focused on ahead-of-time (AOT) Native Image compilation and since last year began shifting focus to more non-Java languages like Python and JavaScript, is out with its newest community feature release. GraalVM Community Edition 25.1.3 is now available with some interesting changes in tow… ⌘ Read more
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@movq Yeah. The thunderstorm was supposed to hit us, sneak north and south around us, directly pay us a vistit again, miss us to the north, directly hit us, and now it's back to a northern diversion. The thunder heavily roars in the distance at the moment. It's down to just 10 liters. A mate just got a wet laundry, though, and had to mob up a – luckily – just tiny flood.
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Put the shopvac on the alert as a wet vacuum cleaner and released it into its regular life, now that it’s bone dry again. Maybe five liters of rain. Tops.
Microsoft Previews Linux Containers That Run In Windows
Microsoft has released a public preview of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) containers, adding a built-in command-line tool and API for running Linux containers directly inside Windows applications without third-party software. The update also introduces faster file access, improved networking and memory management, plus integration with Defender, Intune, and VS … ⌘ Read more