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Version 2.44 of the GNU C Library has been released. Changes include a new /etc/tunables.conf file for the system-wide setting of tunable parameters, a new tunable to control the use of transparent huge pages for read-only executable segments, a number of math-function improvements, a handful of security fixes, and more.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.12.98 stable Linux kernel with a single fix for a file descriptor leak in ext4. Users of the ext4 filesystem should upgrade.

ALT Linux was founded in 2001 by a merge of two large Russian free software projects. By the year 2008 it became a large organization developing and deploying free software, writing documentation and technical literature, supporting users, and developing custom products. ALT Linux produces different types of distributions for various purposes. There are desktop distributions for home and office computers and for corporate servers, universal distributions that include a wide variety of development tools and documentation, certified products, distributions specialized for educational institutions, and distributions for low-powered computers. ALT Linux has its own development infrastructure and repository called Sisyphus, which provides the base for all the different editions of ALT Linux.

Version:6.12.98 (longterm) Released:2026-07-25 Source:linux-6.12.98.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.98.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.98

MagOS Linux is a Russian desktop-oriented distribution based on ROSA, a distribution that was forked from Mandriva Linux in 2011. It uses the RPM package management. MagOS Linux comes with KDE Plasma desktop by default, but it also ships the lightweight LXQt desktop for older and low-specification computers. Besides the standard upstream packages from ROSA, the project also provides its own RPM package repository (with various network and NVIDIA display drivers), as well as separate modules (in XZM format) with extra hardware drivers, server tools, MATE desktop, Wine emulator, Java software and additional web browsers, including Chromium and Yandex.

StartOS is a Debian-based Linux distribution optimised for personal servers. It facilitates the discovery, installation, network configuration, service configuration, data backup, dependency management and health monitoring of self-hosted software services. After installation, the distribution boots into a Firefox browser with several services pre-installed and others, including various Bitcoin, communication, data and artificial intelligence services available from the project's online marketplace. The server can be accessed locally or from anywhere in the world via Tor network's Onion service. The distribution is developed by Start9 Labs, Inc.

TROMjaro is a Manjaro-based Linux distribution with a customised Xfce desktop. Compared to its parent, TROMjaro offers several user-friendly utilities, such as Layout Switcher with six different layouts or Theme Switcher with several accent colours. It also provides various enhancements, including the integration of the Chaotic-AUR repository with pre-built binary packages, a selection of custom wallpapers and icon packs, and extra configuration options in Settings Manager. The distribution comes with support for AppImage files and a heavily-tweaked Firefox browser with custom add-ons.

Ventoy LiveCD is a minimalist, single-purpose live CD designed to install the Ventoy application on Windows system. It is based on Porteus Kiosk and uses the Openbox window manager. It can be useful in cases where the standard installation of Ventoy on Windows fails due to Windows-specific restrictions on some low-level operations. Ventoy, an open-source application that facilitates the creation of bootable USB drives from ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD(x) and EFI files, is a useful utility for those who frequently install or test Linux distributions or other open-source operating systems.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.1.5, 6.18.40, 6.12.97, 6.6.145, 6.1.178, 5.15.212, and 5.10.261 stable Linux kernels.

This batch of kernels includes a hefty set of updates, possibly the the largest ever. 7.1.5-rc1, for example, included more than 2,000 patches, 6.18.40-rc1 included 1,611 patches, and so forth. Users are advised to upgrade.

Registration is now open for the 2026 Linux Plumbers Conference, to be held October 5 to 7 in Prague, Czechia. Tickets to this event tend to sell out quickly, so interested attendees probably should not procrastinate.

Fedora contributor Simon de Vlieger has published a blog post with a walkthrough of how the project turns source code and packages into the final release that users install on their systems.

It follows the a package from a packager's git push to a composed release: ISOs, cloud images, container images, and OSTree deployments.

The walkthrough describes how the Fedora 'sausage' is created as of Fedora 45, things change all the time; I hope to have time to update this document every cycle or every few cycles of Fedora releases so there's both history and people can find up to date information.

Version:7.1.5 (stable) Released:2026-07-24 Source:linux-7.1.5.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-7.1.5.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-7.1.5

Version:6.18.40 (longterm) Released:2026-07-24 Source:linux-6.18.40.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.18.40.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.18.40

Version:6.12.97 (longterm) Released:2026-07-24 Source:linux-6.12.97.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.97.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.97

Version:6.6.145 (longterm) Released:2026-07-24 Source:linux-6.6.145.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.145.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.145

Version:6.1.178 (longterm) Released:2026-07-24 Source:linux-6.1.178.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.1.178.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.178

Version:5.15.212 (longterm) Released:2026-07-24 Source:linux-5.15.212.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-5.15.212.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.15.212

Version:5.10.261 (longterm) Released:2026-07-24 Source:linux-5.10.261.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-5.10.261.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.10.261

Daniel Borkmann led a session at the 2026 Linux Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit about the progress that has been made with netkit, the subsystem that allows virtual machines (VMs) running on Linux to perform networking efficiently. When that did not fill the full time, he went on to discuss his idea for using BPF to live-patch user-space applications. While netkit is making progress, and can now support zero-copy receipt of packets into a VM in a network namespace, the idea of using BPF for patching user-space programs remains entirely speculative.

The Open Home Foundation, which governs the Home Assistant home-automation project, has announced the "public preview" of its Device Database:

Providing a public, open way to browse the anonymous, aggregated device data we collect was always part of the plan, and this preview is our first step toward it.

You can already use it to search and filter devices to see aggregated community insights, starting with a deliberately focused set of specifics, such as whether a device requires an internet connection, and which protocols and integrations it works with. We've kept that initial scope narrow on purpose, giving us a solid foundation we can build on together with you, our community, as the database grows.

LWN looked at Home Assistant in May 2025.