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In November 2025, LPI launched version 2.0 of the DevOps Tools Engineer exam. This new version is a major release, which leads to significant changes, including the introduction of new topics while other topics were moved to other exams in ... Read more The post DevOps Tools Engineer Version 2.0: Major Changes in a Major Release appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
In addition to the release this week of OpenShot 3.4, released today is a major update to another popular open-source video editing application: Kdenlive. The Kdenlive 25.12 release brings many improvements to help with editing of any year-end / holiday videos...
Linux destruction for science!
Spectre V1 mitigations in the Linux kernel are coming for RISC-V with newer RISC-V core designs being vulnerable to Spectre Variant One style attacks...
Linus Torvalds is famously averse to presenting prepared talks, but the wider community is always interested in what he has to say about the condition of the Linux kernel. So, for some time now, his appearances have been in the form of an informal conversation with Dirk Hohndel. At the 2025 Open Source Summit Japan, the pair followed that tradition for the 29th time. Topics covered include the state of the development process, what Torvalds actually does, and how machine-learning tools might fit into the kernel project.
Linux desktop is often described as fragmented, but with the right perspective, it becomes clear that this description only makes sense if you see Linux as a single, unified product, and expect it act like one. It isn't, and so it doesn't.
Linux Mint 22.3 beta is now available for download with the Cinnamon 6.6, Xfce 4.20, and MATE 1.26 desktops, based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS.
NVIDIA’s Linux driver 590.48 debuts as a New Feature Branch release with Wayland fixes, Vulkan performance improvements, and updated platform requirements.
Systemd v259 has been released. Notable changes include a new "--empower" option for run0 that provides elevated privileges to a user without switching to root, ability to propagate a user's home directory into a VM with systemd-vmspawn, and more. Support for System V service scripts has been deprecated, and will be removed in v260. See the release notes for other changes, feature removals, and deprecated features.
Linux kernel 6.17 reached end of life and all users are now recommended to upgrade their systems to the latest Linux 6.18 kernel series as soon as possible.
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.18.2, 6.17.13, and 6.12.63 stable kernels. As always, each contains important fixes throughout the tree. He notes that 6.17.13 is the last release of the 6.17.y kernel; users are advised to move to the 6.18.y kernel branch.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, keylime, mysql:8.4, and tomcat), Debian (c-ares and webkit2gtk), Fedora (brotli, cups, golang-github-facebook-time, nebula, NetworkManager, perl-Alien-Brotli, python-django4.2, python-django5, and vips), Red Hat (binutils, buildah, curl, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, grafana, multiple packages, php:8.3, podman, python3.12, python39:3.9, ruby:3.3, and skopeo), SUSE (buildah, cups, firefox, glib2, grub2, helm, icinga-php-library, icingaweb2, ImageMagick, imagemagick, kernel, libpng12, libpng16, mariadb, openssl-3, poppler, python39, usbmuxd, webkit2gtk3, wireshark, and xkbcomp), and Ubuntu (linux-azure-fips).
The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning.
Merged today to the Mesa 26.0-devel code for the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver is compression support for helping to deliver better performance...
LibreOffice 25.8.4 is now available for download as the fourth maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.8 office suite series with more than 70 bug fixes.
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