Flatpak 1.18.4 Releases With Six Security Fixes, Including Two Root File-Destruction Bugs

Flatpak 1.18.4 has been released today, closing six vulnerabilities, two of which let a malicious app empty or delete host files like /etc/passwd as root during an upgrade.

Posted on: 28 September 2026 | 10:57 am

Linux Security Roundup: Red Hat Flags 3 Critical CVEs, Ubuntu PyJWT Fix Ships

Debian, Fedora, Red Hat, Rocky Linux, SUSE, and Ubuntu all pushed fresh security updates this week. Red Hat flagged three Critical advisories led by the unbound DNS resolver, while Ubuntu's PyJWT notice adds a signature-bypass that lets attackers forge valid tokens.

Posted on: 28 September 2026 | 6:57 am

MangoWC 0.17.4 Released: Returns confine_pointer with Wayland Fixes

DreamMaoMao released version 0.17.4 of MangoWC, the lightweight dwm but Wayland tiling compositor built on dwl and wlroots. The headline change re-adds the confine_pointer window rule that pins the cursor to a focused window, accompanied by a batch of fixes targeting fullscreen scanout, XWayland scaling blurriness, ...

Posted on: 28 September 2026 | 6:19 am

Bazzite Linux 44.20260928 Stable Release Now Available With Anbernic Win600 Support

Bazzite shipped its latest stable build, 44.20260928, today adding official support for the Anbernic Win600 handheld. The release bumps the Open Gaming Collective kernel to v7.

Posted on: 28 September 2026 | 6:06 am

Reviews Roundup: RTX 5070, Melt-Proof PSU, and a Silent Keyboard Reviewed

Today's reviews span eight products, with the ASUS T1 RTX 5070 earning a strong 90% but a pricey tag, and the Sandisk Optimus GX Pro 850P drawing fire for costing $115 more than its WD Black cousin.

Posted on: 28 September 2026 | 1:15 am

OpenShot 4.0.1 Released: Qt6 Fixes and Linux Snap Support Now Live

OpenShot released v4.0.1 yesterday, delivering a maintenance build that repairs the preview, recording, snapping, and logging regressions from the recent Qt6 rewrite.

Posted on: 28 September 2026 | 12:47 am

GNOME 49.10 Released: Final Bugfix Update for GNOME 49 Brescia

GNOME has released 49.10, the last bugfix update for the GNOME 49 Brescia series, which is now officially end-of-life following the September 16 launch of GNOME 51.

Posted on: 28 September 2026 | 12:37 am

Linux Kernel 7.3-rc5 Released: 577 Commits, Unusual Diffstat, Same Old Fixes

Linux Kernel 7.3-rc5 has landed as the fifth release candidate of the 7.3 cycle, bringing 577 commits from 275 contributors. Linus Torvalds flagged an atypical diffstat where drivers make up less than a third and selftests claim roughly a quarter, though he attributes this to small driver patches and a few large te ...

Posted on: 28 September 2026 | 12:26 am

Budgie 10.10.3 Release: Wayland Fixes, Free Desktop Icons, and a Revived Applet

Budgie 10.10.3, released by Joshua Strobl, is the third minor update of the 10.10 series and one of its most substantive. It revives the Wayland-breaking Keyboard Layout applet, gives the Budgie Menu its own favorites and a focus fix, and finally lets icons be placed freely on the desktop.

Posted on: 27 September 2026 | 12:48 pm

Nobara Linux 44 Refreshes Steam HTPC and Handheld Images with 2026-09-26 Build

Nobara Linux 44 has refreshed its Steam-HTPC and Steam-Handheld builds, both now carrying a 2026-09-26 build date while the standard Official, GNOME, and KDE editions remain pinned to the earlier 2026-09-02 base release.

Posted on: 27 September 2026 | 12:11 pm

Noctalia v5.2.0 Ships: Calendar Reminders and a Ground-Up C++ Rewrite for Wayland

Noctalia has released v5.2.0, the capstone stable build of its Qt-free C++ rewrite of the native Wayland desktop shell. The headline addition is a full calendar system pulling reminders from iCalendar, CalDAV, and Google Calendar, patching one of the most requested feature gaps.

Posted on: 27 September 2026 | 10:32 am

Liquorix Linux Kernel 7.2-13 Released: Merges Linux 7.2.8

Steven Barrett released Liquorix Linux Kernel 7.2-13, merging upstream Linux 7.2.8 and bumping the package version to 7.2.8-1.Unlike most of its 7.x siblings, this point release adds no fresh Project-C scheduler patches, since those got baked in across releases 7.

Posted on: 27 September 2026 | 12:33 am

Valve Ships SteamOS 3.9.2 and 0.4.1 Betas for Steam Deck, Machine, and Frame

Valve shipped SteamOS 3.9.2 Beta to the Steam Deck and Steam Machine, bundling every change since the stable 3.8 release. This 3.9 line is among the OS's heaviest updates yet, adding a new desktop environment, a Linux 7.

Posted on: 26 September 2026 | 12:02 pm

Sury.org Releases PHP 8.5.8, 8.4.26, 8.3.35, 8.2.34 for Debian and Ubuntu

Ondřej Surý's sury. org repository has repackaged four PHP security releases for Debian and Ubuntu users: 8.5.8, 8.4.26, 8.3.35, and 8.2.34.Three shipped on 24 September 2026, while 8.

Posted on: 26 September 2026 | 11:47 am

Linux Security Roundup: Unbound Criticals and a Chromium Flood Across Six Distros

Six Linux distributions shipped security updates today, with the biggest priorities being a DNS resolver called unbound and major browser patches. Unbound earned Critical ratings across three distros due to remote code execution and DNSSEC flaws that can expose entire networks.

Posted on: 26 September 2026 | 11:12 am

GNOME 50.5 Released: Security Fixes and Screen-Time Lockout for Tokyo Branch

GNOME released version 50.5, a deliberately boring bugfix update for the GNOME 50 Tokyo branch. The release packs in three notable security patches, including a gvfs privilege fix (CVE-2026-88924), a librsvg use-after-free flaw, and Epiphany injection and path-traversal fixes.

Posted on: 26 September 2026 | 10:54 am

Faugus 2.4.2 Adds Custom Colors and a Slimmer Flatpak for Linux Gamers

Faugus, the open-source launcher that runs Windows games on Linux through UMU-Launcher, has released version 2.4.2 with a custom color picker for the Overview panel and app background.

Posted on: 26 September 2026 | 10:31 am

Debian 14 Forky Artwork Call Opens: Submit Your Theme by Nov 26

Debian 14, codenamed forky, has opened its official call for desktop artwork proposals, with the deadline set for November 26, 2026.The Debian Desktop Team re-sent the July 12 notice after it failed to reach the wider announce list and pushed the deadline out roughly two months.

Posted on: 26 September 2026 | 9:29 am

PeaZip 11.3.0 Release: Security Fixes, Improved ZPAQ Support, and New Open-With Picker

PeaZip 11.3.0 shipped today as a security-focused release from developer Giorgio Tani that the project explicitly recommends you upgrade to. The biggest change makes a master password mandatory for the built-in Password Manager, closing a hole where stored credentials went unprotected.

Posted on: 26 September 2026 | 6:27 am

Reviews Roundup: Strix Halo vs Grace Blackwell and a Platinum PSU Measuring Like Silver

Five hardware reviews published in today's roundup, which spans a Strix Halo mini PC, a world's fastest gaming laptop, an AM5 Mini-ITX board, and two power supplies.

Posted on: 26 September 2026 | 2:17 am