Simon Ser announced the release today of Wayland 1.25 RC1 (Wayland v1.24.91) in working toward this next stable release…

NVIDIA released today the beta version of the NVIDIA 595 graphics driver for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems, introducing various new features and improvements.

GNOME 50.rc was christened today as the release candidate for the GNOME 50 desktop…

The Armbian project has released Armbian 26.02, the latest update to the lightweight Linux distribution designed specifically for ARM and RISC-V single-board computers (SBCs). Known for its stability and hardware optimization, Armbian continues to evolve with improved hardware support, new desktop options, and updated core components in this release.

From white-hat hackers to casual users: Italy’s Parrot OS 7.1 Home Edition flies beyond its security reputation with a surprisingly polished KDE Plasma desktop.

The post Parrot OS 7.1: Security Distro’s Surprisingly Good Daily Driver appeared first on FOSS Force.

System76 published a statement today regarding the recent laws coming about in California and likely Colorado and New York too around requiring age verification on operating system accounts and ultimately exposing the information (or at least age brackets) to apps and websites. System76’s position is interesting given that they sell Linux-loaded desktops, workstations and laptops plus being an operating system vendor with their in-house Pop!_OS distribution and COSMIC desktop environment…

FRANK OS 1.0 debuts with a windowed desktop inspired by Windows 95, running on RP2350 microcontrollers using the FreeRTOS kernel.

Today, the KDE Project released KDE Gear 25.12.3 as the third and final maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 25.12 series of this collection of open-source applications for the KDE ecosystem and other platforms.

Version
1.94.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include array
windows (an iterator for slices), some Cargo enhancements, and a number
of newly stabilized APIs.

The grith.ai blog reports
on an LLM prompt-injection vulnerability that led to 4,000 installations of
a compromised version of the Cline utility.

For the next eight hours, every developer who installed or updated
Cline got OpenClaw – a separate AI agent with full system access –
installed globally on their machine without consent. Approximately
4,000 downloads occurred before the package was pulled.

The interesting part is not the payload. It is how the attacker got
the npm token in the first place: by injecting a prompt into a
GitHub issue title, which an AI triage bot read, interpreted as an
instruction, and executed.

Chardet
is a Python module that attempts to determine which character set was used
to encode a text string. It was originally written by Mark Pilgrim, who is
also the author of a number of Python books; the 1.0 release happened in
2006. For many years, this module has been under the maintainership of
Dan Blanchard. Chardet has always been licensed under the LGPL, but, with
the 7.0.0
release, Blanchard changed the terms to the permissive MIT license.
That has led to an extensive (and ongoing) discussion on when code can be
relicensed against the wishes of its original author, and whether using a
large language model to rewrite code is a legitimate way to strip copyleft
requirements from code.

Rust 1.94 was rolled out today as the newest routine stable update for the Rust programming language…

The layoffs and restructuring at Intel in 2025 caused unfortunate hits to their Linux/open-source engineering including various driver maintainers leaving and even their CPU temperature driver being orphaned for lack of maintainers. Sent out today were a number of additional updates to the MAINTAINERS file for the Linux kernel to reflect other Intel departures in recent months. Plus some of the Altera drivers have also been orphaned now for having no upstream maintainers…

Peter Korsgaard has
announced version 2026.02 of Buildroot, a tool for generating
embedded Linux systems through cross-compilation. Notable changes
include added support for HPPA, use of the 6.19.x kernel headers by
default, better SBOM generation, and more.

Again a very active cycle with more than 1500 changes from 97 unique
contributors. I’m once again very happy to see so many “new” people next
to the “oldtimers”.

See the changelog
for full details. Thanks to Julien Olivain for pointing us to the announcement.

California now wants age verification to be at the OS Level (Windows, Android, iOS, Linux).

With a number of file-system improvements in Linux 6.19 and more file-system optimizations in Linux 7.0, it’s past due for running some fresh file-system benchmarks. Here is a look at how the prominent file-system contenders are performing on the latest Linux 7.0 development kernel.

Over a decade ago a consortium of companies came up with a plan to standardise computing around the dubious but self-serving idea (or topology) wherein, in practice, Microsoft would control which operating systems are permitted to boot on standard, off-the-shelf computer hardware

Following the recent NVIDIA R595 driver release for Windows, NVIDIA today released the 595.45.04 driver for Linux users as a beta version in the R595 release stream…

Debian Project Leader “DPL” Andreas Tille provided an update today on various happenings within the project and personal reflections on some recent topics. Among the topics in today’s DPL updates were around AI contributions, Debian’s need to become more diverse with its contributors, and needing more “thank yous” to show appreciation for contributions…

Sasha Levin has announced the release of the 6.12.76, 6.6.129, and 6.1.166 stable kernels. These releases
address a regression reported
by Peter Schneider; Levin said that an upgrade is only necessary for
those who have observed a build failure with the 6.12.75, 6.6.128, or
6.1.165 kernels.