Framework Computer as the company behind the modular Framework laptops and incredible Ryzen AI Max “Strix Halo” Framework Desktop has stepped up their support for the KDE community…

The restricted bash shell (or rbash) is a Linux shell that blocks certain features of the bash shell for both commands and shell scripts executed inside the restricted shell.

Dovecot 2.4.3 open-source secure IMAP server, improves UTF-8 storage handling and fixes critical security vulnerabilities.

ODF was built in the open, under public standards bodies, to be fully implementable by anyone. OOXML’s “standard” status hides a legacy format that only Microsoft can truly unlock.

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Mozilla has officially released Firefox 149.0, bringing a mix of new productivity features, privacy enhancements, and interface improvements… Rather than focusing on a single headline feature, Firefox 149 introduces several practical tools designed to improve how users multitask, stay secure, and interact with the web.

LiteLLM
is a gateway library providing access to a number of large language models
(LLMs); it is popular and widely used. On March 24, the word went out
that the version of LiteLLM found in the Python
Package Index (PyPI) repository had been
compromised with information-stealing malware and downloaded thousands of
times, sparking concern across the net. This may look like just another
supply-chain attack — and it is — but the way it came about reveals just
how many weak links there are in the software supply chains that we all
depend on.

The SafeDep blog reports
that compromised versions of the telnyx package have been found in the PyPI
repository:

Two versions of telnyx (4.87.1 and 4.87.2) published to
PyPI on March 27, 2026 contain malicious code injected into
telnyx/_client.py. The telnyx package averages over 1 million
downloads per month (~30,000/day), making this a high-impact
supply chain compromise. The payload downloads a second-stage
binary hidden inside WAV audio files from a remote server, then
either drops a persistent executable on Windows or harvests
credentials on Linux/macOS.

Alhamdulillah, I started HyprLTM-Net as a personal project for my Hyprland setup, which by the way I am still quietly improving, and now it has become a real open source project used by hundreds of users.And even better, I keep taking care of it like a little baby (for your curiosity, I am a father). This time, I’m more than happy to announce the availability of HyprLTM-Net v0.3.0, which comes with numerous new features, fixes, and improvements.So let’s see what this new version brings.

Earlier this week I provided benchmarks looking at KDE Plasma 6.6’s performance advantage over GNOME 50 for Linux gaming with AMD Radeon graphics. That raised the question if the same was true when using NVIDIA graphics with their official Linux graphics driver stack. Here are such benchmarks looking at the KDE Plasma 6.6 and GNOME 50 performance on Ubuntu 26.04 beta while using the new NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux driver.

Following the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver pull request landing transparent hugepages for device pages as an SVM win, another round of Intel Xe driver updates were sent out this week ahead of next month’s Linux 7.1 merge window. This latest pull request lands a new user-space API for helping the Intel Xe driver better cope with situations of video memory pressure / out-of-memory behavior for vRAM…

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.12.79 stable kernel. This release
only reverts a patch
that caused a regression on the LoongArch platform; users who
could not build 6.12.78 on LoongArch need to upgrade.

The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 26.2.2 as the second maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 26.2 office suite series with various bug fixes.

With sched_ext there is support for BPF-based CPU scheduling policies for the Linux kernel while now a new initiative is working on BPF-based I/O schedulers…

Greg Kroah-Hartman can’t explain the inflection point, but it’s not slowing down or going awayInterview I was at a press luncheon at KubeCon Europe this week when, to my surprise, who should sit down next to me but long-term Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman. Greg, who lives in the Netherlands these days, was there to briefly comment on AI, Linux, and security. We spoke about how, over the last month, AI-driven activity around Linux security and code review has “really jumped” in a way no one in the open source world saw coming.…

In addition to this week’s ROCm 7.2.1 stable point release, ROCm 7.12 was also released as the newest tech preview in working toward what will presumably be called ROCm 8.0…

An important set of Linux scheduler patches were posted for review on Thursday for improving the SMT-aware asymmetric CPU capacity handling. These patches to improve the Linux kernel scheduler around CPU Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) is needed after NVIDIA engineers discovered up to a ~2x performance drop for CPU-intensive workloads on their upcoming Vera Rubin platform…

Another round of AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver improvements were sent out this week as feature development for DRM-Next ahead of Linux 7.1 begins to wind down…

Tails 7.6 has been released today as the sixth update in the Tails 7.x series of this portable Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux and designed to protect you against surveillance and censorship.

Canonical released today the beta version of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Racoon) distribution ahead of the final release on April 23rd, 2026.

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.7 delivers UI fixes, improved device support, better search, and multiple bug fixes across Linux, Windows, and macOS.