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Security updates for Friday

Linux Weekly News - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 10:17
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, libtiff, redis, and redis:6), Debian (chromium, mediawiki, pypy3, and squid), Fedora (openbao), SUSE (cdi-apiserver-container, cdi-cloner-container, cdi- controller-container, cdi-importer-container, cdi-operator-container, cdi- uploadproxy-container, cdi-uploadserver-container, cont, chromium, chrony, expat, haproxy, himmelblau, ImageMagick, iputils, kernel, libssh, libxslt, openssl-3, podman, strongswan, xorg-x11-server, and xwayland), and Ubuntu (kernel, libxml2, libyaml-syck-perl, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-oracle, linux-fips, linux-aws-fips, linux-gcp-fips, linux-kvm, and netty).

Calibre 8.13 Released with Virtual Library Improvements

Linux Today - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 08:23

Calibre 8.13 e-book manager improves Virtual Libraries with multi-line editing, fixes Linux export issues, and resolves several long-standing bugs.

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How to Upgrade LMDE 6 to LMDE 7

Linux Today - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 08:15

A quick and painless tutorial on how to upgrade your Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 6 installations to Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7.

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Blender 5.0 Beta Officially Released with HDR and Wide Gamut Display Support

Linux Today - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 08:08

Blender 5.0 free and open source 3D creation suite is now available for public beta testing with major new features and improvements. Here’s what to expect!

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TUXEDO Computers Unveil Intel-Powered InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 Linux Laptop

Linux Today - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 08:03

TUXEDO Computers unveiled the InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 Linux laptop with Intel Core Ultra 7 255H CPU, up to 128GB RAM, and Intel Arc 140T graphics.

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Tails 7.1 Anonymous Linux OS Released with Tor Browser 14.5.8 and Tor 0.4.8.19

Linux Today - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 07:58

Tails 7.1 anonymous Linux OS is now available for download with Tor Browser 14.5.8, Tor 0.4.8.19, and Mozilla Thunderbird 140.3.0. Here’s what’s new!

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Firefox 145 Is Out for Beta Testing as First Release to Drop 32-Bit Support on Linux

Linux Today - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 07:50

Firefox 145 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing as the first release to drop 32-bit support on Linux systems. Here’s what else is new!

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Zorin OS 18 Officially Released, Specifically Tailored for Windows 10 Expats

Linux Today - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 07:46

Zorin OS 18 distribution is now available for download based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS and powered by Linux kernel 6.14. Here’s what else is new!

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Mozilla Thunderbird 144 Updates the Flatpak Runtime to Freedesktop SDK 24.08

Linux Today - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 07:41

Mozilla Thunderbird 144 open-source email client is now available for download with an updated Flatpak runtime and various bug fixes. Here’s what’s changed!

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GStreamer 1.26.7 Improves Support for the NVIDIA Jetson AV1 Encoder

Linux Today - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 07:35

GStreamer 1.26.7 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with various improvements and bug fixes. Here’s what’s changed!

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PipeWire 1.6 Promises Bluetooth Audio Streaming for Hearing Aid Support

Linux Today - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 07:31

Highlights of PipeWire 1.6 include Bluetooth ASHA (Audio Streaming for Hearing Aid) support, MIDI 2.0 clip support to the tools, better support for explicit sync, a new timer-queue helper to schedule timeouts, a Dolby Surround and Dolby Pro Logic II example filter config, and support for Razer BlackShark v3.

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AerynOS 2025.10

Updated Linux Distributions - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 07:10
AerynOS is an independently-developed, rolling-release Linux distribution designed for general desktop use. Its main features include the GNOME desktop, a custom package manager called "moss", atomic updates with rollback options, a package build system called "boulder", and smart boot management with complex EFI configuration through a utility called "blsforme".

next-20251031: linux-next

Latest Linux Kernel - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 06:35
Version:next-20251031 (linux-next) Released:2025-10-31

umbrelOS 1.5.0-beta3

Updated Linux Distributions - Thu, 10/30/2025 - 19:03
umbrelOS is a Debian-based Linux distribution for home servers. It is available for standard 64-bit and Raspberry Pi computers. The distribution features a web-based user interface and an online app store with a large range of applications, anything from web hosting, productivity and finance to media streaming, networking, automation, artificial intelligence, development and Bitcoin mining. umbrelOS is developed by the US-based Umbrel, Inc., which also sells palm-sized personal home computers with up to 4 terabytes of storage.

Rust 1.91.0 released

Linux Weekly News - Thu, 10/30/2025 - 18:07
Version 1.91.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include promoting aarch64-pc-windows-msvc to a tier-1 platform, a new lint rule to catch dangling raw pointers from local variables, and a fair number of newly stabilized APIs.

VailuxOS 1.5

Updated Linux Distributions - Thu, 10/30/2025 - 17:56
VailuxOS is a German, desktop-oriented Linux distribution based on Ubuntu's long-term support (LTS) branch. The project's primary goal is to make the transition from Windows to Linux as seamless as possible by maintaining familiar ways of working and workflows. The distribution uses the KDE Plasma desktop.

Sculpt 25-10

Updated Linux Distributions - Thu, 10/30/2025 - 12:56
Sculpt OS is an independent open-source operating system developed by Genode. It combines Genode's microkernel architecture, capability-based security, sandboxed device drivers, and virtual machines in a novel operating system for commodity PC hardware and the PinePhone. Sculpt uses an administrative user interface called "Leitzentrale".

[$] The long path toward optimizing short reads

Linux Weekly News - Thu, 10/30/2025 - 11:08
The kernel's file-I/O subsystems have been highly optimized over the years in the hope of providing the best performance for a wide variety of workloads. There is, however, one workload type that suffers with current kernels: applications that perform many short reads, in multiple processes, from the same file. Kiryl Shutsemau has been working on a patch to try to optimize this case, but the task is turning out to be harder than one might expect.

Bazzite Fall update released

Linux Weekly News - Thu, 10/30/2025 - 11:07

The Universal Blue project has announced the Fall update for the Fedora-based Bazzite gaming distribution. This release brings Bazzite up to Fedora 43, includes support for additional handheld gaming systems, as well as drivers for a number of steering wheel devices, and more.

NethSecurity 8.7.1

Updated Linux Distributions - Thu, 10/30/2025 - 11:04
NethSecurity is a fully-featured open source Linux firewall that streamlines network security deployment in just a few clicks. NethSecurity is a spin-off of the

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