FreeBSD 15.2 Beta 2 Delivers Updated OpenSSL, Bug Fixes
FreeBSD 15.2 Beta 1 debuted last week for this updated operating system bringing improved laptop/desktop hardware support, experimental cross-building of base packages on Linux and macOS, updated LLVM/Clang compiler, updated OpenZFS file-system support, and other improvements. Released overnight was FreeBSD 15.2 Beta 2… ⌘ Read more
KDE Frameworks 6.32 Released With That Fix For USB File Transfer Notifications
KDE Frameworks 6.32 shipped today as the newest monthly update to this set of KDE components. Notable this month is a fix for the previously-reported 15 year old bug around inaccurate notifications for USB file transfers… ⌘ Read more
SteamOS 3.9.6 Beta brings an improved framerate limiter, various bug fixes
SteamOS 3.9.6 Beta is now available for testing bringing improvements to the framerate limiter for VRR and non-VRR and multiple bug fixes.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/steamos-3-9-6-beta-brings-an-improved-framerate-limiter-various-bug-fixes/ … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Codex Helps Uncover & Fix A Nearly 20 Year Old Radeon Linux Driver Bug
Sent out today was the latest batch of AMD kernel graphics/compute driver patches destined for the Linux 7.5 merge window opening up at year’s end/ Besides a lot of fixes and continued work around new IP enablement for upcoming GPUs, there is even a fix for old ATI/AMD Radeon R600 era hardware after help from OpenAI’s Codex… ⌘ Read more
PostgreSQL Sees New Releases For 52 Security Vulnerabilities, 140+ Bug Fixes
PostgreSQL 18.7, 17.12, 16.16, 15.20, 14.25, and 19 RC2 all released today due to 52 new security issues being disclosed… ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.8.3 Released With Dozens Of Fixes
KDE Plasma 6.8.3 is out today as the newest bug-fix release for last month’s major Plasma 6.8 debut… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4-rc2 Released With FAT32 Optimization, AMDGPU HDMI 2.2 Improvement
Linus Torvalds just released the second weekly release candidate of Linux 7.4 with some notable bug fixes and other changes routed in past the merge window. It’s another big one in the AI era… ⌘ Read more
GCC 17 Feature Development Ends Next Week
How time flies with the GCC 17 feature development set to end next week and transitioning over to a bug fixing focus… ⌘ Read more
Microsoft’s Azure Linux 3.0.2022 Ships With More Than 470 Security Fixes
Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.2022 on Friday night as the newest version of their in-house Linux distribution. Given the rampant AI/LLM-fueled bug reporting and security research, Azure Linux 3.0.2022 ends up incorporating more than 470 security fixes for different CVEs across the many open-source projects making up Azure Linux… ⌘ Read more
Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives hit by APT flaw that could give attackers root access
Got root? Someone else might have on your system - if you’re running Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives you’ll want to get updating soon.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/debian-ubuntu-and-derivatives-hit-by-apt-flaw-that-could-gi … ⌘ Read more
Linux’x New Core MM Tree Ready With Numerous Fixes For “Nasty Long-Standing Bugs”
New to the Linux 7.4 kernel cycle is the Core MM tree as the route for herding some of the core memory management Linux kernel patches to the mainline kernel rather than it all going through Andrew Morton’s “MM” tree. As the second pull request from this new kernel tree, a number of fixes were sent out today to address “nasty long-standing bugs” within the kernel… ⌘ Read more
Mesa Merges A Common Vulkan Layer For Working Around Cross-Driver Game Bugs
Merged to Mesa 27.0-devel is a new common Vulkan layer within Mesa’s Vulkan Runtime for being able to carry common game/engine/app workarounds that affect multiple drivers… ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Finds 948 Local Privilege Escalation Bugs In The Linux Kernel
OpenAI published a blog post outlining their work on autonomous vulnerability discovery. To showcase their AI potential, they found 948 valid local privilege escalation vulnerabilities within the Linux kernel… ⌘ Read more
Build a safari park, clone animals, then watch it go wrong in Captain Contraption’s Safari Park
From Pill Bug Interactive (Captain Contraption’s Chocolate Factory) is a new chaotic roguelite building management sim with Captain Contraption’s Safari Park.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/build-a-safar … ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA 620.70.06 Linux Driver Released With Wayland Fixes & Performance Work
Out today is the first NVIDIA Linux driver release in the R620 release branch. This NVIDIA 620.70.06 Linux driver release isn’t too feature heavy but comes with some bug fixes, improved performance of explicit sync on Wayland, and some other refinements… ⌘ Read more
Experts Expect ‘Security Reckoning’ As AI Tools Find And Exploit Software Bugs
The Washington Post reports:
Tens of thousands of South Koreans had their financial data exposed online in recent weeks after at least nine major banks there suffered cyberattacks that suggested a dark future for online security. One man, a 26-year-old living in southern China, was allegedly behind the attacks, according t … ⌘ Read more
In more frustrating news, I did something to my primary laptop, and now it crawls along like a 2005 Celeron trying to run Windows Vista.
My laptop is nothing too special (a Lenovo powered by an i7-1255U (4+8) @ 4.70 GHz with integrated “Iris Xe” graphics), but I’ve been running Manjaro Linux (with KDE Plasma) on it for the past couple of years, and apart from the odd pamac / pacman / “Add Remove Software” inconsistency (or Plasma widget issue), it’s been running pretty well.
Then, a few days ago, it started bugging about updates, and yesterday it added complaints about an unsupported kernel, so I finally pulled the trigger on it, and boy do I regret it.
I initially kept having issues downloading all of the updates (it was trying to download some kind of non-existent Quake-related library, which I had to remove), and I also had issues getting rid of the unsupported 7.1 kernel (due to some “meta” packages that had been installed), but in the end, I resolved both issues, got the kernel removed and the updates installed, and everything seemed fine after the post-update reboot… for about 10 minutes.
And that’s when the machine just decided to start moving at 1/3 speed: typing, moving the cursor, changing windows - everything started acting like it was 2008.
When I first tried to diagnose it, top showed kwin_wayland eating 50% of the CPU, and plasmashell another 10%, but it wasn’t consistent (they both came and went). I disabled all of the desktop effects, which helped some, as did blanking my plasma config (setting my desktop back to default), but things are still noticeably laggier than they were a few days ago.
Someone online suggested freeing up 25% space total on my root drive (which typically runs 90-95% full), so I’ve been cleaning up (and offloading) as much as I can. If that doesn’t work and I don’t find a solution by the end of the week, I’ll probably have to backup my data, wipe the machine clean, and start fresh. 🙃
PostgreSQL 19 Running Behind Schedule Due To AI/LLM Burden
The PostgreSQL database server typically sees its annual feature release every September~October, but it’s not coming until at least November if not longer this year. Due to the increased developer burden due to increased bug reporting and patches via AI/LLM activity, the PostgreSQL developers have been overwhelmed… ⌘ Read more
Mesa 26.2.6 brings fixes for The Witcher 3 Remastered and various other Linux driver issues
Mesa 26.2.6 is out now as the latest upgrade for Linux open source graphics drivers, focused on fixing up some bugs reported.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/mesa-26-2-6-brings-fixes-for-the-witcher-3-remaster … ⌘ Read more
KDE Fixes 15 Year Old Bug Over Inaccurate Notifications When Copying Files To USB Drives
A long-standing KDE bug is set to be resolved with next month’s KDE Frameworks 6.32 release… ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.8.2 Released With Dozens Of Additional Bug Fixes
Debuting two weeks ago on the 30th anniversary of the KDE project was the Plasma 6.8 desktop with many exciting improvements. Last week it was succeeded by Plasma 6.8.1 with dozens of bug fixes and this week now brings Plasma 6.8.2 with yet more bug fixing… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 Sound Changes Merged: “The AI Flood Continues”
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE began the Linux 7.4 sound pull request by noting that “the AI flood continues” with there continuing to be a lot of new patches coming as a result of AI/LLM agents devising patches as well as uncovering new kernel bugs… ⌘ Read more
LibreSSL 4.4 Released With Faster SHA3, Bug Fixes
LibreSSL 4.4 released on Thursday as the newest release of this decade-old OpenSSL fork maintained by OpenBSD developers… ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Says October Updates Didn’t Actually Fix VPN Issues
joshuark shares a report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft says it mistakenly flagged a bug causing Always On VPN connection issues as fixed in the October 2026 Windows 11 cumulative updates. Always On VPN replaced the legacy DirectAccess technology and supports domain-joined, non-domain-joined, and Microsoft Entra ID-joined devices running Windows 10, Win … ⌘ Read more
Fedora 45 Hits A Second NO-GO: Not Releasing Until November
Fedora 45 wasn’t released this week as its ideal early release target due to not having a release candidate build in time for last week’s Go/No-Go meeting. At today’s Go/No-Go meeting, Fedora 45 was delayed by at least one more week due to open blocker bugs… ⌘ Read more
Since honesty is kindness, Microsoft is by far the worst company I ever had the displeasure of trying to communicate with. Getting them to fix the most basic of bugs always took years. In some cases it’s been over two and a half decades and it’s still broken.
I never thought it was even possible to make an operating system so broken, I’d have to manually restart my background services and set “network interface metrics” by hand, in advanced TCP/IP settings, while using it.
There are buttons that don’t even do anything when clicked and ones I’ve never seen do anything other than throw an error message.
The AI they rent to pretend to be an AI company, was for years outputting paragraphs, describing the beautiful and artful checkerboard pattern in the background, whenever trying to analyze transparent images. Transparent profile pictures work only on GitHub, the one product where the implementation was done prior to Microsoft acquisition.
Many engineers in their own forums, still manage to make that very AI sound smart, in comparison.
The design is an absolute shitshow, where no two things look like they belong in the same system — the only thing almost consistent, is excessive padding and rounded corners, placed wherever they fit the least.
But hey, 5000 engineers were fired, that will surely improve things!
Linux 7.4 Adapts AMD Zen 6 For Less Costly CPU Security Mitigation
The x86/bugs pull request was merged this week for the Linux 7.4 kernel. Most notable here is adjusting the CPU security mitigations for AMD Zen 6 processors… ⌘ Read more
Steam Client update fixes Vulkan games hanging after alt-tab, and a security update
An annoying bug I’ve run into a few times recently has been solved - Vulkan games hanging after alt-tab should be fixed with this new Steam Client update.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/steam-client-update-fixes-vulkan-games-hanging-afte … ⌘ Read more
XFS Sees Small Performance Optimizations & Bug Fixes For Linux 7.4
The XFS file-system updates have landed for the in-development Linux 7.4 kernel… ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.8.1 Released With Dozens Of Fixes
Following last week’s release of Plasma 6.8, the Plasma 6.8.1 point release is out today with dozens of bug fixes… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 Sunsetting Old EDAC Drivers Due To “AI Generated Fixes Frenzy”
In addition to introducing the new Intel BFF driver, the Error Detection And Correction “EDAC” kernel subsystem is sunsetting a number of old hardware drivers due to increased noise to AI/LLM-generated bug fixes for these likely unused or minimally used drivers… ⌘ Read more
GNOME Mutter Lands Improvement For Reducing GPU Work While In Power Savings Mode
Stemming from a bug report one month ago with GNOME 51 over high GPU usage while the monitor is sleeping, a set of 17 patches were merged today for addressing this issue… ⌘ Read more
A big Steam update brings the Big Art Mode, Screensaver, Steam Controller upgrades, Linux upgrades and more
A fresh stable Steam Client Update landed October 13th bringing with it some big new features, along with lots of bug fixes everywhere.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/a-big-steam-update-bring … ⌘ Read more
ONLYOFFICE !0.0 Released With AI Features, 1,000+ Bug Fixes
ONLYOFFICE 10.0 is now available for this open-source office suite alternative to the likes of LibreOffice… ⌘ Read more
Proton Experimental gets updated to fix a prefix corruption bug and more
A smaller update to Proton Experimental landed for October 12th, but one of the fixes is quite a major one (although a rare issue).
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Bazzite Linux update for October 12 brings many more bug fixes
The next smaller release of Bazzite Linux is out now, bringing with it bug fixes for various handhelds and more improvements.
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Linus Torvalds “Did What I Preach”, Used AI To Make Code Decipherable & Uncovered More Bugs
After using Claude Code to draft code to help make a fundamental improvement to the Linux kernel, Linux creator Linus Torvalds continued using AI this weekend and talking up its benefits. Beyond generating initial patches and a test program for that noted I/O enhancement, he separately talked up using AI/LLMs for making patches more decipherable to understand in the process the AI noted more long-standing bugs within the … ⌘ Read more
I forgot to note it here, but last night I opened my first bug report for the Old School Essentials Online Rules Reference, a modern set of rules for playing classic D&D-like games (and one which helped inspire my own system).
Rolling Release Distros Superior To LTS Distros In The Patch-Heavy GenAI Era?
As some interesting food for thought and weekend forum discussions, this week at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague, Qualcomm engineer Khem Raj questioned the relevance of Linux Long Term Support (LTS) distributions in the era of generative AI with the constantly heavy patch flow and bug reports. Khem Raj argued the benefits of rolling release distributions in the GenAI era and the benefits it provides staying up-to-date with mai … ⌘ Read more
Linux Networking Diverts 50+ Fixes To Next Kernel, Still Bombarded With AI Fueled Churn
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc7 kernel due for release on Sunday, this week’s batch of networking fixes were submitted and merged. The vast networking subsystem of wired and wireless drivers plus the various other networking features continues to see a lot of activity due to AI-driven bug reports and patches… ⌘ Read more
AMD Caps Off Linux 7.4 Graphics Driver Development With More HDMI 2.1 Fixes
AMD on Thursday sent out a final pull request of their feature work aiming to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 7.4 merge window. This round of “few last odds and ends” is mostly about landing some bug fixes but of which there are a few worth mentioning… ⌘ Read more
SteamOS 0.4.5 Beta for Steam Frame and Steam Client Update For Frame released
Valve released another bug fix with SteamOS 0.4.5 Beta for Steam Frame, along with a bigger stable Steam Client Update For Frame.
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Linux Begins Seeing Workarounds For Fujitsu MONAKA CPU Bugs
Last month Fujitsu formally announced their MONAKA CPU as a 144 core Arm-based server processor geared for AI infrastructure. This comes after two years of seeing various Monaka patches to the GCC compiler and other open-source components. Now that MONAKA is announced, we are seeing more patches surface for the Linux kernel with this week seeing several workarounds for MONAKA CPU bugs… ⌘ Read more
Some Networking Fixes Being Diverted To Linux 7.4, AI/LLM Activity Still Increasing
With the vast array of wired and wireless networking drivers within the Linux kernel and range of protocols and other networking features, it’s a big expanse of code for AI/LLM agents to analyze and critique. The Linux networking developers have acknowledged being “complete overwhelmed” by the AI/LLM-driven patch activity and bug reports as well as battling against AI slop patches. Even though Linux 7.3 stable won’t be out f … ⌘ Read more
AI Finds So Many Linux Bugs, Canonical Changes to a Two-Week Stable Release Update Cycle
“Finding vulnerabilities faster also puts pressure on Linux distributions to fix and deliver patches faster,” writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli
AI has transformed bug discovery from “a manual, time-intensive process into a highly automated engine,” notes Canonical’s blog, leading to a “recent expl … ⌘ Read more
AI Bug Fixes, Crescent Island Power Brake & Nouveau Fixes For Linux 7.3-rc5 DRM
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem fixes for the week are heavier on the side with many fixes to these kernel graphics/display drivers ahead of Sunday’s Linux 7.3-rc5 release… ⌘ Read more
Steam Client Beta - September 25th brings more Remote Play and Linux fixes
Valve released a Steam Client Beta update for all desktop / handheld users bringing more enhancements and bug fixes for the likes of Remote Play and Linux.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/steam-client-beta-september-25th-brings-more-remote-play-and-linux-fi … ⌘ Read more
SteamOS 0.4.1 Beta for Steam Frame fixes some nuisance bugs
Valve released an opt-in Beta update with SteamOS 0.4.1 for Steam Frame, bringing some new features and fixing up a bunch of nuisances.
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Linux Kernel Introducing New Taint Due To Fuzzing Bots Yielding Impractical Bug Reports
The Linux kernel is having to introduce a new taint flag “TAINT_FORCED_BIND” to deal with fuzzing bots like Syzbot abusing Linux’s bind/unbind sysfs functionality and generating bug reports for impractical and not at all relevant hardware/driver combinations… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 Reverting Logitech Bolt Receiver HID++ After Too Many Bugs Encountered
Merged at the start of the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle was adding Logitech Bolt USB receiver support for Logitech HID++ devices to the hid-logitech-dj driver code. That has resulted in too many bug reports of early Linux 7.3 users encountering varying issues with their Logitech mice that the functionality is now being reverted until it can be better developed… ⌘ Read more