Libreboot 25.04 “Corny Calamity” open-source boot firmware debuts with a new YY.MM versioning scheme, broad distro support, and more.

Thunderbird 138 is out now as the latest stable version of this popular, open-source, free, and cross-platform email, address book, chat, news, and calendar client for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the May 2025 issue.

The tryhard’s favorite distro wins an approved home in Microsoft’s OSThere have been unofficial versions for years, but Arch Linux is now officially on the menu for people using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).…

Firefox 138 was released yesterday and wasn’t particularly exciting besides enhanced profile management and Tab Groups support… Aside from that it was a pretty basic release. In turn Firefox 139 is now in beta and that release does bring some items worth mentioning like faster HTTP/3 upload performance…

For fans of the DragonFlyBSD operating system, DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1 has been released after two and a half years to ship various bug fixes for this popular BSD…

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Mailman 2 vulnerabilities; AI in Debian; __nonstring__; Cache-aware scheduling; Freezing filesystems; Socket-level storage; Debugging information; LWN in 2025.
• Briefs: Debian election; Kali Linux key; OpenBSD 7.7; Firefox 138.0; GCC 15.1; Meson 1.8.0; Valgrind 3.25.0; FSF review; OSI retrospective; Mastodon; Quotes; …
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

PyXL is a custom-built computer chip (a hardware processor) specifically designed to understand and execute Python code directly in hardware.

The United Nations became the latest large organization to embrace this collaborative office suite when it used it to replace Google Forms. Here’s what you need to know about the open-source project.

Lance Albertson writes
that the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, the home of many
prominent free-software projects over the years, has run into financial
trouble:

I am writing to inform you about a critical and time-sensitive
situation facing the Open Source Lab. Over the past several years,
we have been operating at a deficit due to a decline in corporate
donations. While OSU’s College of Engineering (CoE) has generously
filled this gap, recent changes in university funding have led to a
significant reduction in CoE’s budget. As a result, our current
funding model is no longer sustainable and CoE needs to find ways
to cut programs.

Earlier this week, I was informed that unless we secure $250,000 in
committed funds, the OSL will be forced to shut down later this
year.

The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 25.2.3 as the third maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.2 office suite series to fix various bugs and other issues.

The openSUSE project released today the beta version of the upcoming openSUSE Leap 16 operating system series for public testing, giving users a first glimpse of what will be included in the final release later this year.

Eric Engestrom with Igalia continues doing a superb job managing the Mesa releases with today bringing the timely Mesa 25.1-rc3 release candidate as well as the new Mesa 25.0.5 stable point release…

GNOME is probably the most used desktop environment on Linux; its latest iteration (codename “Bengaluru”), ships with many performance improvements and some new features, as the ability to limit the battery charge straight from the “control center”, in order to preserve its health and increase its lifespan. By default, when this feature is active, a battery will start charging only when under 75% of its capacity, and will stop charging when it reaches 80%. In this tutorial, we learn how to replace those values with custom ones.

Many eyebrows were raised recently when three vulnerabilities were announced
that allegedly impact GNU Mailman 2.1,
since many folks assumed that it was no longer being supported. That’s
not quite the case. Even though version 3 of
the GNU Mailman mailing-list manager has been available
since 2015, and version 2 was declared (mostly) end of life
(EOL) in 2020, there are still plenty of users and projects still
using version 2.1.x. There is, as it turns out, a big difference between
mostly EOL and actually EOL. For example: WebPros, the company behind the cPanel server and web-site-management
platform, still maintains a port of
Mailman 2.1.x to Python 3 for its customers and was
quick to respond to reports of vulnerabilities. However, the
company and upstream Mailman project dispute that the CVEs are
valid.

Intel’s AI Flame Graphs software is now open-source. This is a project that started for Intel’s Tiber AI Cloud to provide more insight into AI accelerator/GPU usage and hardware profilining of the full software stack. After being an internal/customer-only software project for some months, AI Flame Graphs is now open-source…

Google dumped io_uring after $1M in bug bounties. A proof-of-concept program has been released to demonstrate a so-called monitoring “blind spot” in how some Linux antivirus and other endpoint protection tools use the kernel’s io_uring interface.…

Valve and CodeWeavers today announced the much anticipated beta release of Proton 10.0 as the newest version of their downstream version of Wine that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux…

The LWN.net fediverse (Mastodon) feed has moved; we are now known as @LWN@lwn.net. The migration magic has
shifted many of our followers over automatically but, if you follow that
stream, you might want to make sure that you have shifted to the new
source.

FreeBSD evidently found last year’s Community Survey so useful that they’re turning it into an annual event.

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