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LWN.net Apr 20, 2026

Security updates for Monday 📋

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, delve, freerdp, giflib, go-rpm-macros, libarchive, and openexr), Debian (gimp, imagemagick, luanti, mapserver, mupdf, opam, perl, pillow, postgresql-13, and tiff), Fedora (aqualung, awstats, curl, incus, mac, mbedtls, mingw-LibRaw, python-msal, python3.11, python3.12, python3.15, smb4k, stb, and usd), Gentoo (DTrace and FUSE), Mageia (gdk-pixbuf2.0, giflib, polkit-122, python-cairosvg, and rsync), Oracle (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, 389-ds-base, bind, freerdp, go-rpm-macros, kernel, libarchive, nodejs:20, openexr, perl:5.32, python, python3, squid:4, thunderbird, and uek-kernel), Slackware (tigervnc), and SUSE (aardvark-dns, avahi, bind, blender, Botan, bouncycastle, chromedriver, cpp-httplib-devel, flannel, gdk-pixbuf, GraphicsMagick, ignition, ImageMagick, jetty-annotations, jetty-minimal, kernel, kubo, leancrypto-devel, libcap, liblog4cxx-devel, libpng16-16, libraw, libraw-devel, NetworkManager, opam, 📋

Phoronix Apr 20, 2026

Git 2.54 Released With New Experimental "git history" Command 📋

Git developers continue working toward Git 3.0 while out today is Git 2.54 with a few interesting additions... 📋

OMG! Ubuntu Apr 20, 2026

Firefox 50 brings Linux emoji picker, PDF page ordering + more 📋

Firefox 150 is released this week with an enhanced Split View features, multi-tab sharing and a clutch of welcome PDF editor improvements. Split View debuted in Firefox 149 last month, letting you easily view two web-pages side-by-side in a single tab (no more juggling windows). In Firefox 150, you can right-click a link on a web page and choose Open Link in Split View to, well, do precisely that. Firefox’s Split View feature now includes an option to Reverse Tabs in the context menu (three dots at the bottom of a focused split). And when creating a new Split View without a […] 📋

OMG! Ubuntu Apr 20, 2026

Firefox 150 brings Linux emoji picker, PDF page ordering + more 📋

Firefox 150 is released this week with an enhanced Split View features, multi-tab sharing and a clutch of welcome PDF editor improvements. Split View debuted in Firefox 149 last month, letting you easily view two web-pages side-by-side in a single tab (no more juggling windows). In Firefox 150, you can right-click a link on a web page and choose Open Link in Split View to, well, do precisely that. Firefox’s Split View feature now includes an option to Reverse Tabs in the context menu (three dots at the bottom of a focused split). And when creating a new Split View without a […] 📋

How-to Geek Apr 20, 2026

GNOME 50 is the Linux desktop update I've waited years for 📋

New features that have been a long time coming 📋

9to5Linux Apr 20, 2026

Firefox 150 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New 📋

Firefox 150 open-source web browser is now available for download with support for the GTK emoji picker on Linux, extended local network access restrictions, and other changes. 📋

Phoronix Apr 20, 2026

GNU Coreutils 9.11 Brings New Performance Improvements: Up To 15x Faster cat 📋

It's not only the uutil's Rust Coreutils project seeing performance improvements but some increased healthy competition now from GNU Coreutils. With today's release of GNU Coreutils 9.11 the wc command is up to multiple times faster and even cat can be up to 15 times faster... 📋

Phoronix Apr 20, 2026

Firefox 150 Available With GTK Emoji Picker, CSS Media Element Pseudo-Classes 📋

Mozilla today published their Firefox 150 release binaries as the latest milestone for this open-source web browser with growing AI ambitions... 📋

Linuxiac Apr 20, 2026

LXQt 2.4 Desktop Environment Released with Better Wayland Support 📋

LXQt 2.4 releases with improved multi-monitor Wayland behavior, refined power management, and several fixes across desktop components. 📋

Phoronix Apr 20, 2026

Intel Compute Runtime Promotes Support For Wildcat Lake, "Early" Crescent Island 📋

Out today is the Intel Compute Runtime 26.14.37833.4 that now includes production support for the newly-launched Wildcat Lake cut-down Panther Lake SoCs that debuted last week as the Core Series 3... 📋

Phoronix Apr 20, 2026

A Lot Of Memory Management "MM" Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1 📋

Andrew Morton recently sent out his various "MM" related pull requests for the ongoing Linux 7.1 kernel. There are a number of memory management optimizations in this next kernel version, which is always nice to see but all the more so these days with the inflated RAM pricing and other computer component prices... 📋

9to5Linux Apr 20, 2026

LXQt 2.4 Desktop Environment Released with More Wayland Improvements 📋

LXQt 2.4 desktop environment is now available with better Wayland support and many other changes across its core components. Here's what's new! 📋

Linuxiac Apr 20, 2026

Debian Names a New Leader for the Project 📋

Debian has chosen Sruthi Chandran as its new project leader, following the official 2026 vote confirming her victory. 📋

Foss Force Apr 20, 2026

When Your Xorg Fork Is More About DEI Than Display Servers 📋

A fork created amid claims of censorship and anti‑DEI posturing is now in the news for the same reason: not how it renders pixels, but how it treats people. The post When Your Xorg Fork Is More About DEI Than Display Servers appeared first on FOSS Force. 📋

Phoronix Apr 20, 2026

Popular Rust-Based Database Turns To AI For Up To 1.5x Speedup, Other Improvements 📋

Redb is one of the open-source, embed-friendly key-value databases written in the Rust programming language. Redb is ACID-compliant while known for being high performance and with its new Redb 4.1 release is even faster thanks to some improvements authored by Claude (AI)... 📋