Linux NewsAerynOS Gets Linux Kernel 7.1.5, COSMIC 1.5, and Mesa 26.1.6
AerynOS rolls out a new unstable update featuring Linux kernel 7.1.5, COSMIC Desktop 1.5, Mesa 26.1.6, systemd 260.4, and more.
AMD Begins Posting Display Core Next 6 "DCN6" Linux Patches For RDNA5 GPUs
AMD closed out the month of July by posting some new AMDGPU Display Core "DC" patches. Most notable with this weekly patch ritual is several patches beginning to establish the foundation for Display Core Next 6 "DCN6" as their next-generation display IP. The patches tie DCN6 to the AMD GFX13 graphics engine, which is anticipated to be for the next-generation RDNA5 graphics processors...
Shotcut 26.7 Video Editor Adds Built-In Stock Asset Library and GPU Selection
Shotcut 26.7 introduces a new Elements panel with royalty-free media assets, GPU selection on Linux and Windows, and a Shake video filter.
Shotcut 26.7 Video Editor Adds Graphics Adapter for Linux, Shake Video Filter
Shotcut 26.7 open-source video editor is now available for download with a graphics adapter for Linux and Windows, Shake video filter, improved support for VST2 and LV2 audio plugins, and more.
Servo 0.4.0 released
The Servo web-browser engine project has published an update about all of the changes that landed in June 2026, along with version 0.4.0 of the Servo Tech Demo. This release includes a record 558 commits, better layout correctness for web sites, improved WebGPU support, enhancements for users who are using the servoshell test browser, and many performance and stability fixes.
GNU nano 9.2 Adds New Buffer Synonym and Fixes Crashes
This update of the nano terminal editor brings crash fixes, key-binding restoration, and a small but useful option tweak. The post GNU nano 9.2 Adds New Buffer Synonym and Fixes Crashes appeared first on FOSS Force.
Exploring Kittens With Kitty Terminal Emulator
Kitty terminal's functionality can be enhanced with kittens. You can create your own or use the default ones.
AMD Publishes CDNA5 ISA Documentation For Instinct MI455X
Following last week's launch of the AMD Instinct MI455X, AMD has now kept with tradition and provided ISA documentation concerning this latest CDNA5 architecture...
Arch Linux Disables AUR Package Adoption Amid Malicious Takeovers
The Arch Linux team has suspended package adoption in the AUR while it investigates malicious adoptions and follow-up commits.
The First Open-Source Firmware Released For Modern AMD Ryzen AM5 Platform
Last month 3mdeb released their open-source firmware for a modern AMD EPYC motherboard from Gigabyte that was built off the new AMD openSIL project and Coreboot. Today 3mdeb has delivered the first open-source firmware release for a modern AMD Ryzen desktop motherboard with having independently brought their openSIL+Coreboot powered Dasharo stack to the readily available MSI PRO B850-P WIFI...
[$] The future of libraries in BPF
Song Liu believes that the way that programmers assemble complex BPF programs will be changing rapidly in the future. At a session of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, he shared his thoughts on what that change could look like, though he did not have any concrete proposals for what, if anything, the BPF maintainers should do. He anticipates an ecosystem of Rust BPF packages developing, which is significant because BPF does not really have a package manager at the moment.
Shotcut 26.7 Video Editor Released With Stock Asset Library
Shotcut 26.7 is out today as the newest feature release to this open-source, cross-platform video editing solution...
Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption
The Arch Linux DevOps team has announced that adoption of orphaned packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) has been disabled due to "the current influx of malicious package adoptions and follow-up commits made via the AUR". Michael Taggart has posted a brief analysis of the malware being added to a long list of packages in this round of attacks. The payload appears to be an remote-access trojan (RAT) that takes commands over the TOR network and attempts to upload a wide range of user data. The project had suspended new account registration in June. That followed a campaign in which an attacker or attackers created new accounts to adopt orphaned packages and push malicious updates to them that would install malware on user systems. AUR registration was reopened on July 13 after the DevOps team added some minor, and apparently ineffective, restrictions on creating new accounts.
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, nodejs-nodemon, nodejs22, nodejs24, openssh, and vim), Debian (gsasl and ruby-rack), Fedora (dokuwiki, lego, libnbd, nasm, pack, unbound, and valkey), Mageia (389-ds-base, libxfont2, nghttp2, and perl-DBI), SUSE (apptainer, bind, ffmpeg-7, freerdp, google-osconfig-agent, graphicsmagick, helm, ImageMagick, java-17-openjdk, java-25-openjdk, keybase-client, kubernetes1.34-apiserver, kubernetes1.35-apiserver, kubernetes1.36-apiserver, kubevirt1.8-container-disk, libarchive, logcli, net-tools, openssl-3, PackageKit, perl-Net-DNS, prometheus-ha_cluster_exporter, python-dulwich, python-sqlparse, python-urwid, python3-pyOpenSSL, python313, python3, runc, s2n, tomcat, tomcat10, tomcat11, and valkey), and Ubuntu (libinput, linux-intel-iot-realtime, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, openssl, python2.7, python3.5, and ruby-sinatra).
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