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GStreamer 1.28.6 Adds H.266 Muxing Support to the Rust MP4 Muxers
GStreamer 1.28.6 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with H.266 muxing support to the Rust MP4 muxers, RTP retransmission bitrate estimation fixes, and more.
b4 0.16.0 released
Konstantin Ryabitsev has announced the release of version 0.16.0 of the b4 software-development tool. The biggest change is the addition of bug-tracking support: The new "b4 bugs" command integrates with git-bug to let you track bug reports alongside your git repository. Bugs are stored as git objects inside the repo, so they travel with the code and can be shared via git push/pull without any external service. There are also a lot of improvements to b4 review (which was covered here in March), better conflict resolution in b4 shazam, improved history rewriting, and more.
[$] Examining other network namespaces using BPF
Jordan Rife's work involves writing BPF programs for Cilium that interface with Kubernetes networking. As part of that work, he wants to enable BPF programs with appropriate permissions to iterate through the sockets of a different network namespace. He led a session about the idea at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit where the BPF developers in attendance were quick to suggest a number of related alternatives.
Rhythmbox 3.5 lets you sync your podcast listening across apps
Rhythmbox 3.5.0 is out and it now lets you sync podcast subscriptions and listening progress across apps – the standout feature in the music player’s first major release in nine months. A new podcast plugin ties into the gpodder.net API so your subscriptions and play counts carry over between Rhythmbox and other compatible clients via a self-hosted sync server like oPodSync or PinePods. The podcasts page itself is has also undergone a refresh, with the episode list now showing what you’ve already listened so you’re not ending up with a sense of deja vu. The v3.5.0 changelog also notes that […]
While Torvalds Makes Peace With AI in Linux, Greg Kroah-Hartman Draws a Line (Sort of)
His new policy keeps AI patches out of drivers/staging, the tree meant for newcomers to learn kernel development.
[$] FUSE status and plans
Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) maintainer Miklos Szeredi led a birds-of-a-feather (BoF) discussion about the subsystem at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. In it, he talked about maintenance challenges, proposed features and their status, and his plans for a new FUSE API. There is a lot of interest and activity in the FUSE community these days it seems.
GStreamer 1.28.6 Adds H.266 MP4 Muxing and FFmpeg 9.0 Support
GStreamer 1.28.6 is out with security and playback fixes, H.266 support in Rust MP4 muxers, WebRTC improvements, and FFmpeg 9.0 compatibility.
Nelson: rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy
Jynn Nelson describes the Rust language team's new LLM policy on the Inside Rust blog. No one except the author is required to read LLM output unless they choose to: LLM output isn't allowed in public docs, PR descriptions, or Github comments unless it's clearly marked; reviewers aren't required to look at LLM PRs if they don't want to. No one is required to use LLMs to contribute to rust-lang/rust: policies must be written first for humans, and only summarized for machines; LLM reviews cannot substitute for human review or self-review. You are allowed to generate LLM content that only you see, without disclosure, as long as you do not post it anywhere that you expect us to read or review.
R36Pro Handheld with Linux ArkOS
There are many gaming emulators for Linux. But a specific Linux Operating System for a handheld system is something that makes for a great way to play older games in a handheld form. There are a few handheld devices on the market. They can range from $30 and up. There are devices you can order that come with a charging cable, a screen protector, case, and even an SD card with a pre-installed OS and games. The model I will cover is the R36 Series, which is made up of three models: ... https://www.linux.org/threads/r36pro-handheld-with-linux-arkos.61669/
Hyprland 0.56.2 Fixes Fullscreen Behavior and Screen Sharing
The latest Hyprland patch release improves fullscreen handling, floating window rendering, monitor scale reporting, and screen capture behavior.
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (fence-agents, gstreamer1-plugins-good, kernel, kernel-rt, p11-kit, perl-Archive-Tar, perl-DBI, and thunderbird), Debian (aom, botan3, and kernel), Fedora (abrt, coreutils, doctl, kernel, open62541, perl, perl-Devel-Cover, perl-PAR-Packer, and polymake), Mageia (acl and php), Oracle (firefox, frr, kernel, libreswan, nodejs-nodemon, nodejs22, perl-Archive-Tar, php:7.4, php:8.2, rsync, and thunderbird), Red Hat (compat-libtiff3, libpq, libtiff, postgresql, postgresql16, postgresql18, postgresql:12, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, and postgresql:18), Slackware (stunnel), and SUSE (alloy, alsa, bind, chromedriver, corepack24, ffmpeg-4, golang-github-prometheus-prometheus, google-guest-agent, google-osconfig-agent, kubevirt, libgcrypt, libpng16, multipath-tools, netty, netty-tcnative, nodejs26, openssl-1_1, openssl-3, perl-HTTP-Tiny, perl-YAML-Syck, podman, python-sh, python-ujson, rsyslog, spice-vdagent, thrift, valkey, wpa_suppli
NVIDIA Becomes a Premier Sponsor of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service
NVIDIA is now financially supporting LVFS, helping secure the infrastructure behind firmware updates delivered through fwupd.
Denial WM: New Wayland Compositor With Flutter Directly Embedded
The newest Wayland compositor to talk about and discuss is Denial, a Wayland compositor focused on optimal Arch Linux integration and that embeds the Flutter engine directly into the codebase. Denial makes use of the Rust programming language and leverages Smithay to help in the compositor responsibilities...
The company behind Ubuntu also builds these 3 surprisingly useful developer tools
Canonical's side projects deserve more attention than they get.
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