An updated version of Dynamic Music Pill, the GNOME Shell extension that shows track info and lyrics in your panel or dock with more animated flourishes than your average now-playing applet, is out. If you’re prone to a bit of desk-side crooning, Dynamic Music Pill v1.3.0 adds two new lyrics provider APIs, BetterLyrics and BiniLyrics with TTML parsing to provide word-by-word karaoke-style highlighting. If one of these new lyrics providers has word-level timing for the track you’re listening to, you get it, but, if not, it falls back to line-by-line as before (or plain static text if nothing synced is […]
A new Linux kernel security update has been released for Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” to fix 28 security vulnerabilities in Linux 6.12 LTS. Update as soon as possible!
Vibe coding promises “no‑code” software development, but it also raises a hard question: if you’re not the human author, can you really slap a GPL header on the project? The post No Human, No Copyright: The Legal Risk of Vibe‑Coded Software appeared first on FOSS Force.
The latest release of the GNU Compiler Collection addresses regressions and serious bugs found in GCC 16.1. The post GCC 16.2 Released With More Than 100 Bugs Fixed appeared first on FOSS Force.
The shadow-utils project provides the tools that handle /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd, and other related databases; in general, manages users and groups on many Linux systems. While most software releases are notable for what is added, the recent shadow-utils 4.20.0 release is most noteworthy for what has been removed. Specifically, several utilities and functionality related to periodic password expiry, which were deprecated in the December 2025 4.19.0 release, have been removed as planned. It is still possible to manage some aspects of password aging with shadow-utils, but organizations that depend on such features should start planning for their complete removal within a few years.
For those with newer, high-end Logitech input devices, coming with Linux 7.3 is support for the re-programmable button support of the HID++ 2.0 protocol...
A new bug-fix release of Calibre, the open-source e-book manger, view and converter, is available for download. Calibre 9.13 resolves a number of PDF-related issues, including one for Linux distributions that ship an ‘ancient’ version of the libxml2 library. To avoid errors that could cause when converting PDFs on Linux, Calibre now preloads its html5-parser library. A comment in the file explains: “QtWebEngineProcess on some ancient Linux systems probes for GPU backends which loads swrast_dri.so which links against system libxml2, which overwrites or global libxml2 symbols. So we preload lxml and html5_parser as a workaround. Thankfully this is basically only […]
The Software Stewardship Lab, a nonprofit organization based in Scotland, has announced its existence. Our current research focuses are: Software supply chain security — We're working on an observatory that allows users to identify and monitor the world's critical Open Source packages in real time, including previously hidden parts of the dependency graph. Maintainer burnout — Our report on burnout in Open Source has been well-received. We're working on yearly follow-ups, plus a companion report on how AI is affecting maintainer burnout. Moving forward, the Lab's experts will direct funding to and supervise Open Source sustainability researchers doing critical work. We are already working with universities to teach the next generations of software supply chain experts.
Version 1.33.0 of the LightDM display manager has been released. This is the first release in four years: the project had been sponsored by Canonical but was effectively unmaintained in recent years. It has been transferred to a new community repository and is now maintained by Joshua Peisach and Neal Gompa. The new release includes Qt6 support, code optimizations, and a list of other fixes that had been in limbo pending a new release.
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.12.102, 6.6.150, 6.1.182, 5.15.215, 5.10.264 stable kernels. This round of stable kernel releases contains a fix for a single bug, found by Thomas Lamprecht, that affected several of the kernels released yesterday in response to a security vulnerability (CVE-2026-68480) that could allow data leakage through speculative execution. The 6.12.102 release adds the backported security fix for CVE-2026-68480 to the 6.12 series. As always, users are advised to upgrade.
Upstreamed for the Linux 7.2 kernel was the Device Tree (DT) support for booting the mainline Linux kernel on the base Apple M3 SoC. Though it's not yet useful for end-users with many features remaining to be supported and upstreamed. Now for the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel, the M3 Pro, Max, and Ultra variants will also have initial support for booting on the mainline kernel...
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