Linux NewsOpenSSL 3.6.1 Released With High Severity Security Fixes
OpenSSL 3.6.1 is out with fixes for multiple high-severity vulnerabilities affecting TLS, PKCS12, CMS, and certificate handling.
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Xfce Desktop Environment Is Getting a Rust-Based Wayland Compositor
Xfce desktop environment is getting a brand-new Wayland compositor called Xfwl4, which will be included in the Xfce 4.22 release.
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Xfce Begins Work on xfwl4, a Rust-Based Wayland Compositor
Xfce says the first development release of its new Wayland compositor xfwl4 is expected around mid-2026, with work already underway.
GStreamer 1.28 Released With More Rust Code
GStreamer 1.28 is out today as the newest feature release for this widely-used, open-source multimedia framework...
OpenSSL 3.6.1 Is Now Available with Important Security Patches and Bug Fixes
OpenSSL 3.6.1 open-source TLS/SSL and crypto library is now available for download with fixes for several security vulnerabilities and bugs. Patch now!
Xfwl4: the roadmap for a Xfce Wayland compositor
The Xfce team has announced that it will be providing funding to Brian Tarricone to work on xfwl4, a Wayland compositor for Xfce: Xfwl4 will not be based on the existing xfwm4 code. Instead, it will be written from scratch in rust, using smithay building blocks. The first attempt at creating an Xfce Wayland compositor involved modifying the existing xfwm4 code to support both X11 and Wayland in parallel. However, this approach turned out to be the wrong path forward for several reasons: Xfwm4 is architected in a way that makes it very difficult to put the window management behavior behind generic interfaces that don't include X11 specifics. Refactoring Xfwm4 is risky, since it might introduce new bugs to X11. Having two parallel code bases will allow for rapid development and experimentation with the Wayland compositor, with zero risk to break xfwm4. Some X11 window management concepts just aren't available or supported by Wayland protocols at this time, and dealing with those differen
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, python-urllib3, python3.11-urllib3, and python3.12-urllib3), Debian (imagemagick, openjdk-11, openjdk-17, and openjdk-21), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, chromium, ghostscript, glibc, mingw-glib2, mingw-harfbuzz, mingw-libsoup, mingw-openexr, and qownnotes), Mageia (kernel-linus), Red Hat (osbuild-composer), SUSE (go1.24-openssl, go1.25-openssl, govulncheck-vulndb, kernel, nodejs22, openCryptoki, openvswitch3, python-pyasn1, python311, and qemu), and Ubuntu (git-lfs, node-form-data, and screen).
GNU C Library Moving From Sourceware To Linux Foundation Hosted CTI
GNU C Library "glibc" developers have decided to move ahead with plans of migrating their core services from Sourcware.org infrastructure over to the Core Toolchain Infrastructure "CTI" project hosted by the Linux Foundation...
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Godot 4.6 Open-Source Game Engine Released With Workflow Improvements
Godot 4.6, a free and open-source game engine, is out with improvements to the editor, performance optimizations, and usability enhancements across everyday game development tasks.
KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta 2 Released For Testing
Following the KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta from two weeks ago, a second beta of the upcoming Plasma 6.6 desktop is now available for testing. KDE Plasma 6.6 stable remains on-track for a mid-February release...
Solseek TUI Package Manager Is Now Officially Available in Solus
Solus has added Solseek to its stable repositories, bringing a fast, keyboard-driven TUI package manager to users.
Google Axion CPU Performance With The New Google Cloud N4A Instances
Back in 2024 Google rolled out their Axion in-house ARM processors with the Google Cloud C4A instance type. Today they are expanding their Axion offerings in Google Cloud with the N4A instances now out of preview. The Google Cloud N4A instances are designed for scale-out web servers and microservices, containerized applications, back-end application services, databases, data analytics, and cost-effective development/staging/testing environments.