MPV 0.40 media player is out now with native HDR support, improved autocompletion, enhanced OSC, and more.

A lightweight markup language is a modern system for annotating a document in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from the text, and designed with a simple readable syntax.

The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) project released today GIMP 3.0.2 as the first maintenance update to the latest and greatest GIMP 3.0 series of this powerful, free, open-source, and cross-platform image editor.

So it looks like it’s actually underway already, with the implicit blessing of the originator of the DFSG and the Open Source Definition (he co-founded the OSI and no longer trusts the OSI).

In this second of our two part interview, Kooyman talks about moves the foundation has made to remain resilient and relevant in an ever changing world where nothing is certain.

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XZ 5.8 is out today as the first notable feature release since last year’s malicious backdoor in XZ 5.6 inserted by a then-co-maintainer of the project. XZ 5.6.2 was out last May while XZ 5.8.0 is now stable today for bringing new features to this lossless data compressor project…

MPV 0.40 was just released as the newest version of this open-source media player derived from MPlayer/MPlayer2. With the MPV 0.40 release there is support for HDR videos on Wayland using the new color management protocol along with a variety of other new features…

The answer to the ultimate question of Linux, the Universe, and Everything? Fedora 42 is now in beta testing, with more desktops and editions than ever.…

Boudhayan Bhattcharya has posted a lengthy article
about the announcement
that the Freedesktop project is dropping OpenH264 from the Freedesktop SDK for Flatpak
applications and runtimes.

Some Flatpak applications that depend on the Freedesktop runtime
version 23.08 will lose H.264 playback support starting with the
release scheduled for April, unless application developers replace it
with the ffmpeg-full extension. The 24.08 runtime is
unaffected, and future releases will include a new
codecs-extra extension to replace OpenH264 that includes FFmpeg with support for a number of
patented codecs.

Considering all things, I think and hope we made the correct decision
and hopefully the new org.freedesktop.Platform.codecs-extra works
out. libx264, libx265 and others are built from source and there are
no binaries or extra-data involved. So we should theoretically be able
to patch and fix any issues that come up in the future.

Apart from all this, I’m slightly worried at the prospects of legal
issues cropping up with this setup and also that the new extension
contains “too much”, but we will have to see where things flow.

While we are still awaiting the Linux 6.14 release (or a 6.14-rc8 release) with no kernel drop having occurred on Sunday, early pull requests for the Linux 6.15 kernel cycle continue flowing in. Among the early pull requests over the weekend were the CRC code updates that include some nice optimizations for those running on AVX-512 processors…

Over the past week a lot of new Rust “gccrs” code was merged into the GCC 15 compiler code-base as a big step forward for this open-source Rust front-end. Another big batch of patches have been merged with for-loops now working among other functionality…

The tool analyzes dependencies for Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) identifiers. When a match is found, the tool generates a report with links to the relevant Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) entries, helping teams address security risks.

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Explore Elementary OS 8.0.1, packed with crucial bug fixes, user interface improvements, and performance boosts to elevate your computing experience.

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Tweaks mean smoother operation even on low-end kit. GNOME 48 is here, with some under-the-hood tweaks to improve performance even on low-end kit.…

The work carried out by a Meta engineer to make use of AMD’s INVLPGB instruction within the Linux kernel for broadcast TLB flush handling has been merged for the in-development Linux 6.15! AMD INVLPGB has the possibility of helping with the performance in some areas and is found supported by recent generations of Zen CPU cores…

Flowblade 2.20 is out this morning as the newest feature update to this open-source, non-linear video editing system for Linux…

Building off yesterday’s Linux 6.14 release, the GNU Linux-libre 6.14-gnu downstream is now available for this flavor of the Linux kernel that strips out support for hardware/drivers depending upon non-open-source firmware/microcode as well as the ability to load proprietary kernel modules and other tainted code…

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At SUSECon ’25, SUSE unveiled a rebranded portfolio emphasizing Linux support, cloud-native workloads, edge computing, and AI.

Today, Linus Torvalds announced the release and general availability of Linux 6.14, the latest stable kernel version that introduces several new features and improvements, better hardware support, and more.