Latest Linux and open source news from around the web
Calibre 9.17 open-source e-book manager is now available for download with support for JPEG XL images for e-book cover conversion, faster MOBI/AZW3/PDB conversion, and more.
Shelly 3.1.9 graphical package manager for Arch Linux distributions is now available for download with file migration support to RLPM, more reliable AUR builds, and other changes.
The Linux Foundation Research survey also found that only 35% of projects have a formal policy permitting AI contributions.
Sentry expands its financial support for open source, allocating $1 million to software maintainers, foundations, and critical dependencies.
Adding to all the exciting performance optimizations and other improvements for Linux 7.4 is an exciting workqueue improvement. It's not too often getting to talk about "10 to 100 times faster" software improvements...
Aimed at hardware exposed to radiation, like satellites, BeamFS can repair data without keeping a second copy.
A new kernel and a new Ubuntu release are here.
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...
openSUSE releases the Agama 25 web-based installer for Tumbleweed, Slowroll, and MicroOS with a web-based terminal, enhanced bond port selection, and polishing of the OpenAPI specification.
The Agama 25 Linux installer adds terminal access from the browser, simplifies network setup, and improves installation controls.
PipeWire 1.6.10 fixes potential JACK crashes, audio playback glitches, Bluetooth issues, and a regression affecting rear-channel audio delays.
Linus Torvalds rarely writes significant amounts kernel code these days, so the merging of a 48-part patch series from him is an unusual event. This series, destined for the 7.4 kernel release, performs some long-delayed kernel cleanup by removing a couple of the primitives used to access user-space memory from the kernel. What was once a best practice has long been superseded, but it can take time for such changes to work their way through a body of code this large.
PipeWire 1.6.10 audio/video server for Linux is now available for download with improvements to JACK, Bluetooth, GStreamer, and ALSA support.
A guest-to-host escape flaw in Linux KVM, named PwnEscape, might be yet another means of attacking Linux.
DietPi 10.8 distribution for single-board computers is now available for download with a new tool to manage WireGuard servers and clients, support for ATAPI/SCSI CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives on Quartz64, and many other changes.
Linux News