Linux NewsJava 27 Released with G1 as the Default Garbage Collector
Java 27 is now available, enabling G1 as the default garbage collector everywhere and bringing Compact Object Headers, TLS improvements, and more.
Bonjour! Firefox Smart Window Users Now Get to Use a French AI
Mistral Small 4 is the latest in Smart Window's model lineup, available for users in France, Canada, and the US.
Calibre 9.15 E-Book Manager Introduces “Create Your Own Adventure” Writing Game
Calibre 9.16 open-source e-book manager is now available for download with the ability to write interactive storytelling with an AI managing the world you create, and other changes.
Calibre 9.15 E-Book Manager Released with New AI Storytelling Feature
Calibre 9.15 introduces an optional “Create your own Adventure” writing game, plus several e-book viewer improvements and bug fixes.
Intel Appears To End Its Bug Bounty Program
Amid a boom of bug reporting in general due to AI/LLMs across the entire software ecosystem, Intel this week appears to have ended its paid bug bounty program. They have (re)launched a new bug reporting program but with the bounties removed...
PipeWire 1.6.9 Improves Bluetooth, JACK, ALSA Plugin, Pulse Server, and More
PipeWire 1.6.9 audio/video server for Linux is now available for download with improved JACK object callbacks, improved passthrough format handling in audioconvert, and more.
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If you missed out on the Phoronix Premium special back during the 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com in June, there is another promotion now active for helping to support the site and allow for continued daily original content and relentless Linux performance benchmarking and other open-sourced focused hardware testing...
Rust Coreutils 0.12.0 Released
The Rust replacement for GNU Coreutils fixes all of the Ubuntu-prioritized compatibility issues, eliminates expr’s last C dependency, and adds more security hardening. The post Rust Coreutils 0.12.0 Released appeared first on FOSS Force.
Microsoft’s CLI text editor now does syntax highlighting
Edit, Microsoft’s open-source command-line text editor, added syntax highlighting, improved regex handling in Find & Replace and new editing shortcuts in its v2.0.0 update. Microsoft open-sourced Edit last year. It’s a small, cross-platform text editor with VS Code-style keybindings, mouse support, handles LF and CRLF line endings and lets you open multiple file. The clean terminal user interface (TUI) is super easy to use. The Edit v2.0.0 release came out earlier this year, but the unofficial Linux snap package (msedit, maintained by Canonical’s Aaron Prisk) only updated on 14 September – that update is how I heard a new version […]
Talos Enterprise Linux Launches for Kubernetes Infrastructure
Sidero Labs launches Talos Enterprise Linux, adding commercial support, compliance tooling, SLAs, and FIPS builds to the open-source Kubernetes OS.
OpenCL 3.1.2 Released With cl_khr_command_buffer Promoted
The Khronos Group today released the newest revision of the OpenCL specification with a handful of changes...
HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 3.26.6 Drivers Add Support for More Printers
HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 3.26.6 drivers are now available for download with support for new HP printers.
Ubuntu 26.10 snapshot 4 released ahead of next week’s beta
In the mood for testing? The fourth monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 26.10 is now available for download. It’s not just unusual for Ubuntu to release a monthly snapshot the same month as a beta release, but this is the second monthly snapshot published this month: Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 3 arrived in early September. “These should be very close to what the Beta candidates will look like next week, so don’t shy away from testing them”, said Canonical’s Utkarsh Gupta in the mailing list announcement. Since the last snapshot, more package updates have been updated. The new GNOME 51 release is […]
Jemalloc 5.4 Released With Portability Improvements, Code Cleanups
Earlier this year Meta announced a renewed investment into the jemalloc memory allocator that's been popular for server and HPC use among various desktop use-cases too. After stagnating a bit in recent years, Jemalloc has been off to seeing new developments since Meta's announcement and out today is Jemalloc 5.4 as the latest step forward...
FOSS Weekly #26.38: GNOME 51 Release, LibreOffice Image Trick, VMWare Drama, Fingerprint Reader for Linux and More
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