2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (411+ words) Microsoft’s 2011 UEFI CA expires this June, affecting future Linux shim signing and Secure Boot compatibility. Microsoft’s legacy Secure Boot signing certificate is nearing expiration, initiating an important transition that impacts the wider Linux ecosystem. The Microsoft UEFI Certificate Authority from…...

3+ mon, 2+ hour ago   (315+ words) Chrome closes another path for classic uBlock Origin as Chromium removes a leftover Manifest V2 flag from the browser codebase. Google Chrome’s long-running Manifest V2 phaseout is reaching another cleanup stage, with Chromium removing one more legacy flag tied to the old…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (448+ words) Alpine Linux 3.24 ships COSMIC Desktop in community, alongside kernel 6.18 LTS, KDE Plasma 6.6, GNOME 50, and major toolchain updates. Alpine, a lightweight, musl-based, and systemd-free (OpenRC is the default init system) Linux distribution, has just released version 3.24, powered by Linux kernel 6.18 LTS,…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (448+ words) The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice 26.2.4 with stability fixes for Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base, and desktop integration. The Document Foundation has announced LibreOffice 26.2.4, the fourth maintenance update to the 26.2 series introduced in early February, now available for download for Windows,…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (461+ words) Red Hat cloud services npm packages were compromised in a supply chain attack that used a preinstall script to steal developer and CI secrets. Several npm packages under Red Hat’s @redhat-cloud-services namespace were compromised in a supply chain attack that…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (359+ words) Clonezilla Live 3.3.2 updates its Debian Sid base, adds Linux kernel 7.0, Partclone 0.3.47, and switches image encryption to gocryptfs. Clonezilla Live 3.3.2 is now available as the latest stable release of the Debian-based live system for disk imaging, cloning, backup, and recovery. This…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (416+ words) KDE Linux is moving back to the vanilla Linux kernel while removing AUR usage, fuse2, and several unused components. In May, KDE Linux, KDE’s in-progress operating system, received infrastructure, security, testing, and application updates, advancing the project toward a cleaner and…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (444+ words) Rust Coreutils 0.9 adds TOCTOU-resistant copy logic, recursive traversal fixes, and broader GNU compatibility updates. Rust Coreutils 0.9 has been released as a security-focused update to the Rust-based reimplementation of GNU Coreutils. This version introduces extensive filesystem hardening, reduces unsafe code, improves…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (396+ words) GNOME Circle is closing new submissions temporarily, citing a large backlog and concerns over low-quality AI-generated software. GNOME Circle, which supports apps and libraries within the broader GNOME ecosystem that are not part of GNOME Core, has temporarily paused new…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (487+ words) QEMU is considering limited acceptance of AI-assisted patches, covering tests, documentation, mechanical changes, and small bug fixes. Paolo Bonzini has proposed updating QEMU’s code provenance documentation to permit AI-assisted patches in limited cases. Previously, QEMU declined contributions believed to include…...