The GNOME Project has provided GNOME OS for some time; until now, the project only provided a "Nightly" edition that was built from the latest commits and was aimed solely at GNOME developers. Adrian ...

As part of KDE's 30th anniversary celebration, the project has released The KDE Documentary — A Story of Free Software Underdogs ( YouTube video ): ...

Version 10.6 of OpenSSH has been released. The announcement notes that the OpenSSH team has been receiving a large number of AI-assisted security bug reports. "We very much welcome these reports, ...

Disabling them is entirely reasonable if you don't need them. However don't congratulate yourself too much. In almost all cases I have reviewed the problem case is still exploitable with unprivileged ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.9, 6.18.55, 6.12.112, 6.6.158, 6.1.189, 5.15.222, and 5.10.271 stable kernels. Each contains a large number of important fixes throughout the ...

Version 3.15 of the Python programming language has been released. Notable changes in this release include the addition of the sentinel and frozendict built-in types, the use of UTF-8 encoding by ...

Simon Long has announced a long-awaited release of Raspberry Pi OS, based on Debian 13 ("trixie"), for x86-64 systems. We managed to find the time to update the Desktop for the Buster and Bullseye ...

Canonical has announced the release of Ubuntu 26.10 ("Stonking Stingray"): Ubuntu 26.10 advances enterprise security features, completes the rollout of the Rust-based uutils coreutils, and strengthens ...

Version 6.8 of the KDE Plasma desktop has been released. The The KDE project has timed the release to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Matthias Ettrich's email announcing the project: ...

Let's Encrypt, the nonprofit that provides free TLS certificates for millions of sites, has announced that it will be moving to certificates with 64-day lifetimes on February 10, 2027: This means that ...

At the recently concluded Maintainers Summit, Linus Torvalds said that he had been using a large language model to work on a patch series addressing a longstanding problem; he has now posted that ...