Meson 1.8 was released this afternoon as the newest update to this popular, cross-platform and open-source build system / build automation tool…

Separate from last week in uncovering a big performance regression on Linux 6.15 affecting workloads like Nginx and that regression getting fixed, I unfortunately discovered another heavy-hitting regression on Linux 6.15. This latest performance regression has been bisected and a possible fix is being thought through by the relevant party, but for the moment has yet to be fixed upstream and affects modern AMD processors.

qBittorrent 5.1 has been released as a major update to this open-source, cross-platform, and free BitTorrent client that introduces several new features and other enhancements.

Kdenlive 25.04 is out today as the newest feature release to this KDE/Qt-aligned non-linear, open-source video editing application…

Version 3.25.0 of the Valgrind
dynamic-analysis tool has been released. It has lots of new features,
including initial support for RISC-V on Linux, handling zstd-compressed
debug sections, integration of the Linux Test
Project test suite, support for lots more Linux system calls, and more.
It also has plenty of bug fixes, of course.

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has quietly published
“takeaways” from its internal retrospective on the recent board
of directors election as an update
to the March blog
post that announced the new members of the board. The election was
controversial, in part, due to poor communication and OSI changing the
election rules and disqualifying several candidates after the election
finished. LWN covered
the election and results in March. The update commits to improvements
in communication and candidate selection:

What this election exposed was the need for the organization to also
assess whether candidates were fully eligible to run and prepared to
be seated on the board before voting begins. This is something we will
add to the election timeline next year. While we have not finished
figuring out all of the requirements for that assessment, part of it
will be asking candidates to sign a Candidate Agreement at nomination
time. We also have some ideas on ways for potential candidates to have
more information even before submitting a nomination.

In a related note, there is a petition
asking OSI to publish the “complete, unaltered” results of the
board of directors election. Thanks to Josh Triplett for the tip on
the petition.

Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) R14.1.4 desktop environment has been released for nostalgic KDE 3.5 users with various new features and enhancements.

Mozilla published today the final build of the Firefox 138 open-source web browser for all supported platforms ahead of the April 29th, 2025, official release, so it’s time to take a look at what’s new.

Linux 6.15-rc4 is now available after a rather eventful week and about one month to go until the stable Linux 6.15…

We do not believe the OSI can recover from this. It might be replaced, as the need will arise for licence enforcers that aren’t compromised (bribed) by the biggest licence violator (Microsoft). ?

The 6.15-rc4 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. “So let’s see if this rc ends up avoiding any silly issues –
things certainly look pretty normal, and there were no hurried last-minute
changes this week due to system upgrades“.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: COSMIC Desktop Alpha 7, OpenMandriva Lx 6, Fedora 43 to remove GNOME X11 support, Arch lands in WSL2, and more.

Mixxx 2.5.1, the latest version of this open-source, cross-platform, and free virtual DJ software for performing live mixes, was released today with various improvements and bug fixes.

The SHA-256 code within the Linux kernel’s cryptography subsystem is in the process of being refactoring so that it’s available via the crypto’s library API and also opening it up to support architecture-optimized implementations…

Arch Linux is now officially available on Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2, expanding its reach to Windows users.

Merged today to the widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library is an APV decoder and APV bitstream muxing and demuxing capabilities. APV is the Advanced Professional Video Codec originally developed by Samsung and is a royalty-free format…

When it comes to Open Source Initiative’s 2025 board election, we’re reminded of Yogi Berra’s observation that, “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.”

Minisforum recently introduced the MS-A2, a compact workstation featuring high-end AMD processors, support for up to 96GB of memory, and flexible storage options. It offers PCIe expansion, triple 8K display output, and fast wired and wireless connectivity, targeting users who need strong performance in a small footprint. The MS-A2 is a compact computing platform built […]

The OpenBSD
7.7 release is available. There is, as usual, a long list of changes;
see the full changelog
for lots of details.

Theo de Raadt announced today the release of OpenBSD 7.7, the 58th release for this BSD operating system over the past two decades…