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Kali Linux 2026.2 Ships With GNOME 50, Plasma 6.6 and Faster VM Boots
Kali Linux 2026.2 swaps sources.list for the deb822 format, rebuilds a smaller initrd for faster VM boots, and ships GNOME 50 and Plasma 6.6.
Home Assistant 2026.7 Brings One-Step Raspberry Pi Firmware Updates
Home Assistant 2026.7 adds one-click Raspberry Pi EEPROM firmware updates and makes extensible, plain-language automation triggers the default for everyone.
OpenWrt 25.12.5 Patches Critical DHCPv6 and LuCI Security Holes, Adds 11 New Routers
OpenWrt 25.12.5 patches a critical DHCPv6 buffer overflow and a 9.9-severity LuCI command injection, updates the kernel to 6.12.94, and adds 11 new routers.
Incus 7.2 Adds Per-Instance SELinux Confinement and Patches Six Critical CVEs
Incus 7.2 brings per-instance SELinux confinement with automatic MCS isolation, per-instance BGP routing, and patches six critical image-handling CVEs.
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Home Assistant OS 18 Jumps to Linux 6.18, Adds Raspberry Pi Firmware Updates
Home Assistant OS 18 moves every target to the Linux 6.18 kernel and lets you update Raspberry Pi bootloader firmware straight from the OS, with leaner images that flash faster.
Zabbix Adds Official Monitoring Integration for Proxmox VE
Zabbix's official Proxmox VE template monitors clusters, VMs, and LXC containers over the REST API using a read-only token, keeping the whole observability stack open source and self-hosted.
Kubuntu Focus Ar GEN 1 Pairs Intel Arc B390 Graphics With Kubuntu 26.04 LTS
The Kubuntu Focus Ar GEN 1 pairs Intel's Arc B390 Xe3 integrated graphics with Kubuntu 26.04 LTS, promising gaming-capable iGPU performance and up to 12 hours of battery in a 1.4 kg chassis.
KDE Plasma 6.7.1 Lands With First Fixes for HDR and Wayland Desktop
Plasma 6.7.1 ships the first fixes for the release that brought simultaneous HDR and ICC color management, per-screen virtual desktops, and the final dedicated X11 session.
TrueNAS V140 Adds a 16-Core EPYC Node to the V-Series Lineup
TrueNAS slots a 16-core EPYC node into its V-Series: same Linux + OpenZFS enterprise software as the flagship, up to 16 PB raw, and an in-place controller-swap upgrade to the V160.
Alpine Linux 3.22.5 and 3.23.5 Patch OpenSSL and Xen Vulnerabilities
Alpine Linux 3.22.5 and 3.23.5 land OpenSSL and Xen security fixes, an in-place apk upgrade for the tiny musl-based distro that anchors countless containers and SBCs.
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Valve Devs Improve GPU Crash Recovery for Older AMD Radeon Cards on Linux
Valve's Linux team is adding IP block soft reset to AMDGPU, letting older Radeon GPUs recover from hangs without resetting the whole card or losing VRAM.
Commodore Callback 8020 Flip Phone Brings Sailfish OS Back to Retail Hardware and Blocks Social Media at the System Level
Commodore's retro flip phone runs Jolla's Linux-based Sailfish OS and blocks browsers and social media at the system level, even cutting off sideloaded apps like TikTok at the DNS layer.
KDE Plasma 6.7 Adds Simultaneous HDR and ICC Color Management as Last X11 Release
Plasma 6.7 lets HDR and ICC color management run at once, debuts the Union CSS theming system, and stands as KDE's last desktop release to ship an X11 session.
FreeBSD 15.1 Pulls Its Wi-Fi Drivers From Linux 7.0 and Adds a Boot-Time Scheduler Switch
FreeBSD 15.1 rebases its iwlwifi and other LinuxKPI wireless drivers on Linux 7.0 and adds a boot-time kernel scheduler switch, with arm64 and pkg-managed base images.
Alpine Linux 3.24.1 Ships OpenSSL Security Fixes for Container Hosts
Alpine 3.24.1 patches 15 CVEs including the June 2026 OpenSSL advisory, a priority update for the musl-based distro that underpins countless Docker and Kubernetes base images.
OpenZFS 2.3.8 Keeps the Stable Storage Branch Patched as 2.4 Moves Ahead
OpenZFS 2.3.8 patches the stable branch behind most ZFS NAS and homelab setups, the same line that brought RAIDZ expansion, fast dedup, and the zfs rewrite command.
OpenZFS 2.4.3 Ships Data-Integrity Fixes and Refreshed Platform Support
OpenZFS 2.4.3 lands 64 commits of data-integrity and parsing-hardening fixes, including dedup and redacted-send corrections, plus FreeBSD 15.x, Ubuntu 26.04, and aarch64 build support.
OpenZFS 2.2.10 Released for the Long-Term-Support Branch
OpenZFS 2.2.10 lands as the newest maintenance release on the long-term-support branch, the conservative default for NAS boxes and self-hosted Linux servers.
KDE Frameworks 6.27 Lands With Image-Loading Hardening and New Syntax Definitions
KDE Frameworks 6.27 hardens image decoding against malformed EXR, AVIF, and HEIF files and adds Slint, BNF, and ABNF syntax highlighting, all atop Qt 6.9.0.
Proxmox Mail Gateway 9.1 Adds Client-Side Backup Encryption and Debian 13 Base
Proxmox Mail Gateway 9.1 adds client-side encrypted backups and a Debian 13.5 base with kernel 7.0, and still installs as a lightweight LXC container on Proxmox VE.