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Following discussions from the 2025 Linux Maintainer Summit, merged overnight for the Linux 6.19 kernel is documentation concerning the Linux kernel project's continuity in the event that Linus Torvalds' official Git repository were to disappear or otherwise be inaccessible for continuing the upstream development of the Linux kernel...
The Focusrite Forte 2-in, 4-out USB audio interface as a portable audio recording solution will be supported by the mainline Linux 7.0 kernel. The patches are queued in the Linux kernel's sound subsystem development tree. While a convenient little device, the Focusrite Forte is no longer manufactured but can still be found used online...
Rob Clark this week sent out the latest MSM DRM kernel driver updates for the latest Qualcomm display/graphics enhancements ahead of next month's Linux 7.0 merge window...
SVT-AV1 4.0 is out as the newest major feature release for this open-source AV1 video encoder that was originally started by Intel as an open-source project and now continuining on thanks to the Alliance For Open Media...
GIMP 3.0.8 open-source image editor is now available for download with better Wayland support, font handling improvements, and bug fixes.
This sure sounds like a meme project, but there's more to it!
GNU C Library 2.43 introduces ISO C23 features, new memory APIs, math optimizations, Unicode 17 updates, and multiple security fixes.
AerynOS has revised its Contributing guidelines to reject AI-generated submissions, including code, docs, issues, and artwork.
While the GIMP 3.2 release is expected out soon, GIMP 3.0.8 is available tonight as what could end up being the last set of bug fixes for GIMP 3.0...
GIMP 3.0.8 image editor rolls out bug fixes, faster font loading, improved CLI behavior, and stability improvements across Linux, Windows, and macOS.
Following yesterday's release of Wine 11.1 for kicking off the new post-11.0 development cycle, Wine-Staging 11.1 is now available for this experimental/testing version of Wine that present is around 254 patches over the upstream Wine state...
Arch-based CachyOS's January 2026 update lands with a reworked installer, Wayland Live ISO, Plasma Login Manager, and gaming and hardware improvements.
The CachyOS ISO snapshot for January 2026 is now available for download with the Plasma Login Manager by default, Linux 6.18 LTS, and more. Here's what's new!
Ntfy 2.16, a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service, adds support for updating and deleting notifications, along with long-requested heartbeat alerts.
Version 2.43 of the GNU C Library has been released. Changes include support for the mseal() and openat2() system calls, experimental support for building with the Clang compiler, Unicode 17.0.0 support, a number of security fixes, and much more.
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