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Till Kamppeter, co-founder and lead of the OpenPrinting project, has put out a call for sponsors after being laid off by Canonical:

I want to continue doing OpenPrinting for a living, and need a way to do so. I am currently working with the Linux Foundation to make OpenPrinting an [organization] which can receive sponsor funding. So now I am looking for sponsors.

Even greater would be, if independent of this somebody could hire me to continue OpenPrinting...

The 6.16 development cycle was another busy one, with 14,639 non-merge changesets pulled into the mainline — just 18 commits short of the total for 6.15. The 6.16 release happened on July 27, as expected. Also as expected, LWN has put together its traditional look at where the code for this release came from.

Fedora's quality team is looking to reduce the scope of test coverage and change the project's release criteria to drop some features from the list of release blockers. This is, in part, an exercise in getting rid of criteria, such as booting from optical media, that are less relevant. It is also a necessity, since the Red Hat team focusing on Fedora quality assurance (QA) is only half the size it was a year ago.

OPNsense 25.7 open-source firewall and routing platform is out now, featuring a refreshed frontend, SFTP backups, and FreeBSD 14.3 under the hood.

The post OPNsense 25.7 Brings Revamped GUI and New Firewall Tools appeared first on Linux Today.

Super Productivity isn’t just another to-do app—it’s like having a personal project sidekick that actually gets it. Give your workflow a turbo boost and see what you’ve been missing!

The post Super Productivity: Open Source Project Manager That Does It All appeared first on Linux Today.

Fastfetch 2.48 system information tool adds Fedora variant detection, improves GPU detection on Windows, and more.

The post Fastfetch 2.48 System Information Tool Brings Fedora Variant Support appeared first on Linux Today.

VirtualBox 7.1.12 is here about five weeks after VirtualBox 7.1.10 and promises to add additional fixes to improve support for the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel series for both Linux hosts and guests. Initial support for Linux kernel 6.16 landed in the previous update, VirtualBox 7.1.10.

The post VirtualBox 7.1.12 Improves Support for Linux Kernel 6.16 on Linux Hosts and Guests appeared first on Linux Today.

Blender 4.5 LTS open-source 3D creation suite delivers major updates in animation, geometry nodes, Grease Pencil, Vulkan rendering, and improved UI.

The post Blender 4.5 LTS Arrives with Major UI Overhaul, Animation Improvements appeared first on Linux Today.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (audiofile, libcaca, libetpan, libxml2, php7.4, snapcast, and thunderbird), Fedora (glibc, iputils, mingw-binutils, and thunderbird), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, mod_auth_openidc, and mod_auth_openidc:2.3), SUSE (afterburn, apache2, atop, chromedriver, chromium, cloud-init, deepin-feature-enable, firefox, firefox-esr, grafana, grype-db, gstreamer-plugins-bad, javamail, jupyter-jupyterlab-templates, jupyter-nbdime, konsole, libetebase, libxmp, minio-client-20250721T052808Z, MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE, opera, pdns-recursor, perl-Authen-SASL, polkit, python-Django, python3-pycares, python311-starlette, rpi-imager, ruby3.4-rubygem-thor, spdlog, thunderbird, varnish, viewvc, and xtrabackup), and Ubuntu (openjdk-21-crac).

As mentioned during beta testing, Firefox 141 is a small release that only introduces a couple of new features, one of them being the ability to use less memory on Linux systems and no longer requiring a forced restart after applying an update via a package manager.

The post Firefox 141 Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New appeared first on Linux Today.

Starship offers an unparalleled blend of speed, customisation, and versatility, making your terminal a more efficient and pleasant place to work.

It gives you all the information you need without clutter, looks great out of the box, and offers endless customization for power users.

The post Customize and Speed Up Your Shell with Starship Prompt on Linux appeared first on Linux Today.

Autoswagger is a free, open-source tool that scans OpenAPI-documented APIs for broken authorization vulnerabilities. These flaws are still common, even at large enterprises with mature security teams, and are especially dangerous because they can be exploited with little technical skill.

The post Autoswagger: Open-source tool to expose hidden API authorization flaws appeared first on Linux Today.

Learn how to fix Docker’s “Invalid Reference Format” error by understanding image naming rules, tags, variables, and syntax.

The post How to Fix “Docker: Invalid Reference Format” Error appeared first on Linux Today.

Getting into kernel development can be daunting. There are layers upon layers of knowledge to master, but no clear roadmap, especially when it comes to debugging drivers or navigating userspace-kernel issues.

The post A practical debugging guide for media driver developers appeared first on Linux Today.

The good folks at Linode still have not managed to fix whatever broke in their data center, so we are running on an emergency backup server. Things seem to be working, but the occasional glitch is to be expected. Please accept our apologies for the extended downtime!

Update: we're back on the regular production server, and all seems stable now.

Version:next-20250728 (linux-next) Released:2025-07-28

Linus has released the 6.16 kernel:

It's Sunday afternoon, and the release cycle has come to an end. Last week was nice and calm, and there were no big show-stopper surprises to keep us from the regular schedule, so I've tagged and pushed out 6.16 as planned.

Headline changes in this release include enabling five-level page tables by default on x86 systems, a number of core-dump changes including the ability to send core dumps to a socket, the ability to create pipes in io_uring, atomic-write support in the XFS filesystem, the elimination of block-layer bounce buffering, a new DMA-mapping API, an option to block file descriptors passed in via Unix-domain sockets, and more.

See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the KernelNewbies 6.16 page for more information.

Version:6.16 (mainline) Released:2025-07-27 Source:linux-6.16.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.16.tar.sign Patch:full

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.

After a decade of development, Intel has officially shut down Clear Linux OS. The project’s GitHub repo is now archived and read-only.

The post Clear Linux Discontinued as Intel Pulls the Plug Overnight appeared first on Linux Today.