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The Wayland-Protocols 1.27: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2022-October/042466.html Release of DRBD 9.2.0: https://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-announce/2022-October/000594.html Release of VirtualBox 7.0: https://www.mail-archive.com/vbox-announce@virtualbox.org/msg00218.html Release of KDE Plasma 5.26: https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.26.0/ The daily Blender builds include Wayland support: https://code.blender.org/2022/10/wayland-support-on-linux/ Release of...

Linux kernel release 6.0: https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/10/2/255 Release of the Stellarium 1.0: https://stellarium.org/release/2022/10/01/stellarium-1.0.html Release of IceWM 3.0.0 with tab support: https://github.com/ice-wm/icewm/releases/tag/3.0.0 COSMIC custom environment will use Iced instead of GTK https://twitter.com/mmstick https://iced.rs/ Release of OpenSSH 9.1: https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2022-October/040438.html ALP prototype, replaces SUSE Enterprise Linux:...

PeerTube 4.3: https://joinpeertube.org/en/news#release-4.3 The twenty-sixth alpha version of 0 A.D: https://play0ad.com/new-release-0-a-d-alpha-26-zhuangzi/ Release of CRUX 3.7: https://lists.crux.nu/pipermail/crux/2022-September/007229.html Release of Shotcut 22.09: https://shotcut.org/blog/new-release-220923/ Bash 5.2: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2022-09/msg00056.html KDE Plasma Mobile 22.09: https://plasma-mobile.org/2022/09/27/plasma-mobile-gear-22-09/ Release of Pale...

The PyTorch project part of the Linux Foundation: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/press-release/meta-transitions-pytorch-to-the-linux-foundation LibreOffice paid via the Mac App Store: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2022/09/19/the-document-foundation-releases-libreoffice-on-apples-mac-app-store/ Release of RPM 4.18: https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.18.0 Release of GNOME 43: http://release.gnome.org/43 Release of Mesa 22.2, for OpenGL and Vulkan:...

Continuation of GNOME Shell development for mobile devices: https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2022/09/09/gnome-shell-on-mobile-an-update/ Performance and Retbleed: https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/9/9/617 Release of GNU Emacs 28.2: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-09/msg00730.html Cross-platform Ladybird web-browser: https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform-browser-project/ WD is developing a NVMe driver in Rust:...

Ubuntu Unity will become an official flavour: https://twitter.com/ubuntu_unity/status/1565309779031236608 New version of the GNU Awk 5.2 interpreter: https://www.mail-archive.com/info-gnu@gnu.org/msg03087.html Release of OpenWrt 22.03.0: https://openwrt.org/releases/21.02/notes-22.03.0 Release of Salix 15.0: https://forum.salixos.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=8409 Richard Stallman published a book: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2022-09/msg00005.html New release of Raspberry Pi OS:...

Based on Sway, a port of LXQt is being developed: https://cartaslinux.wordpress.com/2022/08/28/lxqt-sway-usando-lxqt-para-hacer-que-sway-sea-mas-amigable/ Fedora Linux 39 plans to disable SHA-1-based signatures support by default: https://www.mail-archive.com/devel-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/msg02882.html Apache OpenOffice passed 333 million downloads: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/more-than-333-million-downloads Release of the QEMU 7.1:...

Deepin Linux 23 preview https://www.deepin.org/en/linux-system-distribution-deepin-23-preview-released/ Valve has released Proton 7.0-4: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-7.0-4 Release of LibreOffice 7.4: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2022/08/18/libreoffice-7-4-community/ Release of KDE Gear 22.08: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/22.08.0/ Janet Jackson ruining older hardware: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=106994 Release of...

Release of Ubuntu Sway Remix 22.04 LTS: https://github.com/Ubuntu-Sway/Ubuntu-Sway-Remix Release of nftables 1.0.5: https://www.mail-archive.com/netfilter-announce@lists.netfilter.org/msg00246.html Google has expanded the program to stimulate the detection of vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel https://security.googleblog.com/2022/08/making-linux-kernel-exploit-cooking.html The Linux kernel reveals exploited vulnerabilities in POSIX CPU timer, cls_route and nf_tables...

Release of ScummVM 2.6.0: https://www.scummvm.org/news/20220801/ Release of Slax 15: https://www.slax.org/blog/27433-Releasing-Slax-15.0-based-on-Slackware-again-after-9-years-and-11.4-based-on-Debian-.html Pale Moon 31.2: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=28677&p=230886#p230886 NIST sued: http://blog.cr.yp.to/20220805-nsa.html Dreamworks announces opening of MoonRay rendering system: https://openmoonray.org/MoonRayPressRelease.pdf NetBSD 9.3:...

NsCDE 2.2 Released: https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE/releases/tag/2.2 D-Installer 0.4 for SUSE: https://yast.opensuse.org/blog/2022-07-19/yast-report-2022-5 Fedora intends to ban the supply of software distributed under the CC0 license: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/RRYM3CLYJYW64VSQIXY6IF3TCDZGS6LM/ Release of CDE 2.5.0: https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/mailman/message/37684830/ Debian sued the domain debian.community, which published a...

The xfwm4 window manager has been ported to work with Wayland: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2022-July/042273.html openSUSE provides full support for the Nim programming language: https://news.opensuse.org/2022/07/14/os-reaches-first-class-support-for-nim/ An experiment to improve the efficiency of the cat utility: https://ariadne.space/2022/07/17/how-efficient-can-cat1-be/ Qubes OS 4.1.1 update: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2022/07/18/qubes-4-1-1/ Release of Nebula...

SCALE19x returns to the Los Angeles area July 28-31. Join the Ubuntu and Linux community for 100+ sessions on all things opensource. Keynotes include Vint Cerf, Aeva Black, Demetris Cheatham, and more. www.socallinuxexpo.org SeaMonkey 2.53.13 Released: https://blog.seamonkey-project.org/2022/07/11/seamonkey-2-53-13-is-out/ Audacious 4.2 Released: https://audacious-media-player.org/news/53-audacious-4-2-released Release of Caliber 6.0: https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/fifteen GCC approves...

SFC urges open source projects to stop using GitHub: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/ Porteus 5.0 distribution released: https://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=10183 Release of Zabbix 6.2: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/6.2/manual/introduction/whatsnew620 The KDE project introduced their fourth generation of KDE Slimbooks: https://kde.slimbook.es/ Oracle Linux 9 and Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 7 available:...

Wifibox 0.10 - environment for using Linux WiFi drivers in FreeBSD: https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox/releases/tag/0.10.0 Git 2.37 source control release: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqy1xinf00.fsf@gitster.g/ Release BitTorrent client Deluge 2.1: https://github.com/deluge-torrent/deluge/releases/tag/deluge-2.1.0 Thunderbird 102 mail client released: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/06/thunderbird-102-released-a-serious-upgrade-to-your-communication/ 23rd Ubuntu Touch Firmware Update:...

nginx 1.23.0 release: http://nginx.org/#2022-06-21 New Qt project leader appointed: https://www.qt.io/blog/new-chief-maintainer-for-qt Rust support in the Linux 5.20 kernel: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Rust-For-Linux-5.20-Possible The GeckoLinux creator introduced SpiralLinux: https://spirallinux.github.io/ AMD Opens FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 Technology: https://gpuopen.com/fsr2-source-available/ KaOS 2022.06 distribution released:...

Qt6 packages prepared for Debian 11: https://perezmeyer.com.ar/blog/2022/06/10/qt6-in-debian-bullseye/ Release of the MidnightBSD 2.2: https://www.midnightbsd.org/notes/ Cinnamon 5.4 desktop environment released: https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/releases/tag/5.4.0 Release of EasyOS 4.0, a custom distribution from the creator of Puppy Linux: https://bkhome.org/news/202206/easyos-dunfell-series-version-40-released.html Bottlerocket 1.8 is available:...

Paragon Software has resumed maintenance of the NTFS3 module in the Linux kernel: https://github.com/Paragon-Software-Group/linux-ntfs3/commits/devel Release of Tails 5.1: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.1/index.en.html New driver for the Vulkan graphics API is being developed: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/nouveau/mesa/-/commits/nouveau/vk/ Rakudo compiler release 2022.06 for the Raku programming language (former Perl 6): https://rakudo.org/post/announce-rakudo-release-2022.06 SUSE...

Release of LXLE Focal: https://lxle.net/articles/?post=lxle-focal-released OpenMandriva rock n roll: https://forum.openmandriva.org/t/new-lxqt-isos-for-rock-rolling/4476 PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0 Caching DNS Server Released: https://blog.powerdns.com/2022/05/30/powerdns-recursor-4-7-0-released/ Release of the NixOS 22.05 distribution using the Nix package manager: https://nixos.org/blog/announcements.html#22.05 Ubuntu 22.10 will replace GEdit with the new GNOME text editor:...

SIMH simulator license dispute: https://groups.io/g/simh/topic/new_license/91108560 Vulnerability in the Linux perf kernel subsystem: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/20/2 HP has announced a laptop that comes with Pop!_OS: https://hpdevone.com/ Ubuntu 22.10 will move to audio processing with PipeWire instead of PulseAudio: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/pipewire-as-a-replacement-for-pulseaudio/28489/3 Lotus 1-2-3 ported to Linux: https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/linux123.html...