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LMDE 7 “Gigi” Beta is coming later this month, bringing a Debian 13 base, Mint 22.2 features, and OEM support.

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Samba 4.23 enables SMB3 Unix Extensions by default, improving POSIX interoperability for Linux and UNIX clients with proper permissions and symlinks.

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Fwupd 2.0.16 introduces a new search feature and fixes FreeBSD update issues, improving firmware update reliability.

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Security updates have been issued by Debian (cups, imagemagick, libcpanel-json-xs-perl, and libjson-xs-perl), Fedora (checkpointctl, chromium, civetweb, glycin, kernel, libssh, ruff, rust-secret-service, snapshot, and uv), Mageia (curl), Red Hat (kernel), SUSE (cups, curl, perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS, regionServiceClientConfigAzure, regionServiceClientConfigEC2, regionServiceClientConfigGCE, trivy, and xen), and Ubuntu (cups, node-cipher-base, and qemu).

Ubuntu-based Linux Lite 7.6 is out with a new community Wiki, kernel 6.8, LibreOffice 25.8, bug fixes, and updated themes.

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Calculate Linux is a Gentoo-based family of three distinguished distributions. Calculate Directory Server (CDS) is a solution that supports Windows and Linux clients via LDAP + SAMBA, providing proxy, mail and Jabbers servers with streamlined user management. Calculate Linux Desktop (CLD) is a workstation and client distribution (with a choice of Cinnamon, KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE or Xfce desktops) that includes a wizard to configure a connection to Calculate Directory Server. Calculate Linux Scratch (CLS) is a live CD with a build framework for creating a custom distribution.

Q4OS is a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution offering a choice of a classic-style user interface (Trinity) and a modern desktop environment (KDE Plasma). The project also develops various utilities, such as Desktop Profiler and Software Center, as well as installers for third party applications. In late 2024, Q4OS started offering FreeXP and Free10, two Q4OS variants with Windows-like themes to help users migrate from unsupported Windows versions to Linux.

PelicanHPC is a Debian-based live CD image with a goal to make it simple to set up a high performance computing cluster. The front-end node (either a real computer or a virtual machine) boots from the CD image. The compute nodes boot by Pre-Execution Environment (PXE), using the front-end node as the server. All of the nodes of the cluster get their file systems from the same CD image, so it is guaranteed that all nodes run the same software. The CD image is created by running a single script, which makes it possible to customise the live CD image with extra Debian packages.

Version:next-20250912 (linux-next) Released:2025-09-12

Refracta is a Linux distribution based on Devuan GNU+Linux (a systemd-free fork of Debian), designed primarily for home computer users and also for use as a system rescue and recovery disk. It provides a simple and familiar layout using the Xfce desktop. Other desktop environments and additional software packages are available from the Devuan package repository. Besides providing a Linux distribution on a live CD, the project also develops useful tools, such as refractainstaller, refractasnapshot and refracta2usb which allow users to customize the installation and create custom live CD or live USB images.

KDE neon is a Ubuntu-based Linux distribution and live DVD featuring the latest KDE Plasma desktop and other KDE community software. Besides the installable DVD image, the project provides a rapidly-evolving software repository with all the latest KDE software. Two editions of the product are available - a "User" edition, designed for those interested in checking out the latest KDE software as it gets released, and a "Developer's" edition, created as a platform for testing cutting-edge KDE applications.

The VMScape vulnerability is a Spectre variant that "allows a malicious KVM guest to leak sensitive information such as encryption/decryption keys from a userspace hypervisor such as QEMU". Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 6.16.7, 6.12.47, 6.6.106, 6.1.152, 5.15.193, and 5.10.244 stable kernels, which add a mitigation for the hardware bug.

Version:6.16.7 (stable) Released:2025-09-11 Source:linux-6.16.7.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.16.7.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.16.7

Version:6.12.47 (longterm) Released:2025-09-11 Source:linux-6.12.47.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.47.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.47

Version:6.6.106 (longterm) Released:2025-09-11 Source:linux-6.6.106.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.106.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.106

Version:6.1.152 (longterm) Released:2025-09-11 Source:linux-6.1.152.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.1.152.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.152

Version:5.15.193 (longterm) Released:2025-09-11 Source:linux-5.15.193.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-5.15.193.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.15.193

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.

Version:5.10.244 (longterm) Released:2025-09-11 Source:linux-5.10.244.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-5.10.244.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.10.244

The Git source-code management system stores a lot of information about changes to code — but it does not hold everything that might be of interest to a developer who needs to investigate a specific change in the future. Commits in a repository are the end result of a (sometimes extended) discussion; often, that discussion will result in changes to the code that are not explained in the changelog. For some years now, many maintainers have followed the convention of applying a Link tag to commits that points back to the mailing-list posting of the change. Linus Torvalds has been expressing his dislike for this convention for a while, though, and its time appears to be coming to an end.