Discover how Linux now supports HDR in Chromium on Wayland, enhancing your viewing experience with vibrant colors and improved visuals.

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Highlights of LibreOffice 25.8 include up to 30% faster opening of files in Writer and Calc, support for exporting PDF 2.0, optimized memory management for smoother operation on virtual desktops and thin clients, improved scrolling through large documents, and completely overhauled word hyphenation and spacing.

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Discover the latest features and improvements in Fooyin v0.9.1. Stay updated with our comprehensive release notes and enhance your experience today.

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Highlights of Thunderbird 142 include support for adding visual signatures to PDF attachments opened in Thunderbird, support for resetting custom folder sorting in the folder pane via a new ‘Reset Folder Order’ option, and folder copy support within mail server accounts and local folders.

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Catch up on the latest Linux news: Linux Lite 7.6, IceWM 3.9, QEMU 10.1, Portainer 2.33 LTS, Wine 10.14, COSMIC desktop hits initial setup completion, Bitnami ends free images, and more.

A critical vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ (CVE-2024-32114) has been actively exploited, allowing attackers to access message brokers without authentication. Linux administrators running ActiveMQ services should take immediate steps to secure their systems and prevent potential data exposure or service disruption.

This flaw affects ActiveMQ versions 6.x prior to 6.1.2. On Linux servers, the default configuration of the Jolokia JMX REST API and the Message REST API can expose the broker to unauthenticated access. Attackers can produce or consume messages, delete queues, or manipulate destinations, potentially leading to service interruptions or leakage of sensitive data.

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EWW is a standalone widget system that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets on Linux desktop, and we love it more than Conky.

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Mozilla Thunderbird 142 open-source email client introduces visual PDF signatures, easier folder management, and dozens of fixes for mail, calendar, and UI issues.

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From cat lasers to AI-powered pacifiers, consumer IoT promises genius but mostly delivers nonsense. Here’s why the so-called “smart” tech trend is spectacularly off the rails.

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Firefox 143 looks like a solid release for Android users as it adds support for xHE-AAC audio playback, support for viewing the download progress in real time with controls to pause, resume, retry, or cancel directly from the Downloads screen, and improved support for persistent notifications to properly open Firefox with the relevant web page.

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AerynOS 2025.08 was released today, five months after the release of AerynOS 2025.03, as the latest ISO snapshot of this independent GNU/Linux distribution created by ex-Solus maker Ikey Doherty.

For those using the upstream open-source NVIDIA Linux driver “Nouveau”, with a pending fix coming for Linux 6.17 and existing kernel releases it should be a much more stable and reliable experience…

Over the course of August on Phoronix were 267 original news articles and 17 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Coming somewhat as a surprise, AMD Linux testing articles and hardware reviews managed to capture all top 10 spots for the most viewed content… Something no single vendor has pulled off in the past 21 years of Phoronix. But with the launch of the Framework Desktop, AMD Krackan Point Linux testing for sub-$500 laptops, Threadripper 9000 series, and other hardware excitement, that feat happened in August…

In addition to working on new OpenCL performance optimizations, Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst just landed another important feature into Rusticl: OpenCL semaphores…

The Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen6 is one of the best supported Snapdragon X Elite laptops under Linux thus far. Thanks to active developer engagement and cooperation from Lenovo there are firmware files in upstream linux-firmware.git and Lenovo’s generally robust Linux support make it one of the better choices for the Snapdragon X laptops currently out there. In further enhancing the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen6 on Linux, a new EC driver has been posted for supporting this Snapdragon powered laptop…

For those looking at assembling an AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO workstation and interested in having working system sensor monitoring support, the ASUS EC Sensors hardware monitoring (HWMON) driver is in the process of introducing support for the Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE motherboard…

IceWM 3.9 window manager for X Window System introduces Xcursor support, drops libXpm, improves icesh tools, and updates translations.

Here’s what people were reading the most on FOSS Force during the month of August, 2025.

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Banana Pi has published initial details on the BPI-F5, a single board computer built on the Allwinner T527 SoC. The chip integrates an octa-core Cortex-A55 CPU, ARM G57 MC1 GPU, HiFi4 DSP, 2 TOPS NPU, and a RISC-V MCU for real-time tasks. The board is intended for industrial control, automotive, and other edge applications. The […]

The 255th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on August 31st, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.