Linux NewsFOSS Weekly #26.12: GNOME 50 Release, Fedora for Apple, New Ageless Linux, Manjaro Drama and More
Plenty of things going on in the Linux world.
Fedora Asahi Remix 43 Arrives with Mac Pro Support and Beats Fedora to a Key Upgrade
Mac Pro support and working microphones on the M2 Pro/Max are in, along with a package management upgrade that Fedora is yet to ship.
Ubuntu 26.04 has a new boot animation (blink and you’ll miss it)
Chances are Ubuntu boots so fast you rarely get time to stare at the boot screen, but if you’re somehow able to slow time down, there’s a new boot spinner to enjoy in 26.04 LTS. The new animation reuses the sunburst-come-tail from the official Resolute Raccoon mascot, albeit without a bemused Raccoon face staring back at you like he climbed in the washing machine and is now stuck on a spin cycle. Ubuntu’s developers also bumped the frame count used for the boot spinner to 60 slides, which allows for a full sweep of what is quite an intricate animation. […]
Opera GX Gaming Browser Launches on Linux With Full Feature Set
Opera GX gaming browser is now available on Linux with GX Control, built-in VPN, ad blocking, and Twitch and Discord integrations.
Two new stable kernels
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.19.9 and 6.18.19 stable kernels. As usual, each has important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to upgrade.
Germany’s Sovereign Digital Stack Mandates ODF: a Landmark Validation of Open Document Standards
Germany’s federal “Deutschland-Stack” puts Open Document Format at the center of its digital infrastructure plans. The post Germany’s Sovereign Digital Stack Mandates ODF: a Landmark Validation of Open Document Standards appeared first on FOSS Force.
Radicle 1.7.0 released
Version 1.7.0 ("Daffodil") of the Radicle peer-to-peer, local-first code collaboration stack has been released. Some of the changes in this release include improved I/O usage, the ability to block nodes at the connection level, and clearer errors for rad id updates. See the release notes for a full list of changes and bug fixes.
Germany Mandates ODF for Public Administration in Sovereign Digital Stack
Germany requires Open Document Format in its new sovereign digital framework, standardizing document use across public administrations.
[$] Development tools: Sashiko, b4 review, and API specification
The kernel project has a unique approach to tooling that avoids many commonly used development systems that do not fit the community's scale and ways of working. Another way of looking at the situation is that the kernel project has often under-invested in tooling, and sometimes seems bent on doing things the hard way. In recent times, though, the amount of effort that has gone into development tools for the kernel has increased, with some interesting results. Recent developments in this area include the Sashiko code-review system, a patch-review manager built into b4, and a new attempt at a framework for the specification and verification of kernel APIs.
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (freetype), Fedora (aqualung, kiss-fft, libtasn1, mac, and vim), Red Hat (libarchive, osbuild-composer, and rhc), Slackware (expat), SUSE (ca-certificates-mozilla, chromium, cockpit, cockpit-machines, cockpit-podman, curl, docker, docker-compose, docker-stable, gnutls, gstreamer-rtsp-server, gstreamer-plugins-ugly, gstreamer- plugins-rs, gstreamer-plugins-libav, gstreamer-plugins-good, gstreamer-plugins- base, gstreamer-plugins-bad, gstreamer-docs, gstreamer-devtools, gstreamer, gvfs, helm, kernel, krb5-appl, libsoup, libxslt, libxml2, openssh, python-cryptography, python-django, python-pypdf2, python-simpleeval, python311, qemu, ruby4.0-rubygem-sprockets, ruby4.0-rubygem-thor, ruby4.0-rubygem-web-console, ruby4.0-rubygem-websocket-extensions, skaffold, smb4k, tomcat, ucode-intel, util-linux, virtiofsd, and zlib), and Ubuntu (bouncycastle, exiv2, freerdp3, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-xilinx-z
Wayland 1.25 Released With Color Management Now Fully Documented
Simon Ser just released Wayland 1.25...
Blender 5.1 Delivers Some Nice Gains For CPU Rendering Performance On Linux
With this week's release of Blender 5.1 I have begun benchmarking it on different CPUs and GPUs. In this article is an initial look at the positive impact Blender 5.1 is having on CPU-based rendering performance on Linux.
GNUnet 0.27 Released For Those With "Some Reasonable Pain Tolerance"
Version 0.27 of GNUnet is now available for this free software framework for constructing decentralized, peer-to-peer networking. But it comes with some big caveats before use...
Vivaldi Browser 7.9 Introduces UI Auto-Hide for Full-Screen Browsing
Vivaldi 7.9 is out now with auto hiding interface elements, a new Follower Tab system, and updates to improve browsing flow.
PipeWire 1.4.11 Released as Bug Fix Update for Older Stable Series
PipeWire 1.4.11 multimedia framework arrives as a maintenance update for the older 1.4 branch, fixing crashes, memory issues, and improving JACK compatibility.
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