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Archinstall 2.8 has been released today as the latest version of Arch Linux’s text-mode installer to address various bugs, update translations, and also add a few improvements.

The post Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 2.8 Increase ESP Size to 1 GiB, Fixes More Bugs appeared first on Linux Today.

Ardour 8.6 Digital Audio Workstation fixes crucial bugs, including a drawing error and a crashing issue with JACK2. Here’s more on that!

The post Ardour 8.6 DAW Targets Stability with Critical Bug Fixes appeared first on Linux Today.

The LXQt 2.0 desktop environment has been released today as a major milestone, bringing Qt 6 support and advancing support for the Wayland display protocol to more components.

The post LXQt 2.0 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New appeared first on Linux Today.

APT developer and Canonical engineer Julian Andres Klode took to LinkedIn to present the revamped APT interface powered by the upcoming APT 3.0 package manager that looks to give users a more concise and well-laid-out command-line output when updating, installing, or removing packages via the terminal emulator.

The post Ubuntu 24.10 and Debian Trixie Are Getting a Refined APT Command-Line Interface appeared first on Linux Today.

Gentoo Council forbids AI-generated content from being made in contributions due to copyright and quality concerns.

The post Gentoo Council Implements Ban on AI-Assisted Contributions appeared first on Linux Today.

Managing to-do lists is something of a universal necessity. While some people handle them mentally or on paper, others resort to a web-based tool or a mobile application. For those preferring the command line, the MIT-licensed Taskwarrior offers a flexible solution with a healthy community and lots of extensions.

Lubuntu developer Simon Quigley tells me that the upcoming Lubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) release will include a new tool he wrote to monitor the installation of Snap packages and inform the user about it during the first boot.

The post Lubuntu 24.04 LTS to Include Snap Installation Monitor for a Smoother Experience appeared first on Linux Today.

VirtualBox 7.0.16 adds support for Linux kernel 6.9, addresses UBSAN warnings, updates Windows guest additions, and more.

The post VirtualBox 7.0.16 Launches With Numerous Fixes and Enhancements appeared first on Linux Today.

PuTTY’s security flaw (CVE2024-31497) in ECDSA P521 keys risks private data exposure. Urgent update is needed.

The post High-Priority PuTTY Vulnerability Threatens Server Access Security appeared first on Linux Today.

The 6.8.7, 6.6.28, 6.1.87, and 5.15.156 stable kernel updates have all been released.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (apache2 and cockpit), Fedora (firefox, kernel, mbedtls, python-cbor2, wireshark, and yyjson), Mageia (nghttp2), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, opencryptoki, pcs, shim, squid, and squid:4), Slackware (firefox), SUSE (emacs, firefox, and kernel), and Ubuntu (linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-aws-6.5, linux-raspi, and linux-iot).

Version:6.8.7 (stable) Released:2024-04-17 Source:linux-6.8.7.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.8.7.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.8.7

Version:6.6.28 (longterm) Released:2024-04-17 Source:linux-6.6.28.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.28.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.28

Version:6.1.87 (longterm) Released:2024-04-17 Source:linux-6.1.87.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.1.87.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.87

Version:5.15.156 (longterm) Released:2024-04-17 Source:linux-5.15.156.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-5.15.156.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.15.156

Version:next-20240417 (linux-next) Released:2024-04-17

The new FFmpeg 7.0 major release brings parallel processing, MPEG-5 EVC support, and more.

The post FFmpeg 7.0 “Dijkstra”: Best New Features appeared first on Linux Today.

KDE Plasma 6.0.4 rolls out, packed with new translations and minor but crucial bug fixes. Here’s more on that!

The post KDE Plasma 6.0.4 April’s Bugfix Release Is Here appeared first on Linux Today.

Introduced a few days back in a very low-key manner, APT 2.9 (unstable) was released with an updated user interface that now sports colors, displays information in padded columns, and an organized package removals list.

The post Finally! The New UI for APT Adds a Splash of Color to Improve Readability appeared first on Linux Today.

The recent XZ backdoor has sparked a lot of discussion about how the open-source community links and packages software. One possible security improvement being discussed is changing how projects like systemd link to dynamic libraries that are only used for optional functionality: using dlopen() to load those libraries only when required. This could shrink the attack surface exposed by dependencies, but the approach is not without downsides — most prominently, it makes discovering which dynamic libraries a program depends on harder. On April 11, Lennart Poettering proposed one way to eliminate that problem in a systemd RFC on GitHub.