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• Firefox 149 Beta Released With Convenient Split-View Mode Following the Firefox 148 release with the new AI controls, Mozilla promoted Firefox 149 to beta today • Most notable fo

• 1 Released With Important Security Fix For OOB Memory Access From WebGPU Mesa 26 • 1 is now available as the first point release of this quarter’s Mesa 26 • Besides the usual bug

• systemd 260-rc1 Released: New ‘mstack’ Feature, System V Service Scripts No Longer Supported The first release candidate of systemd 260 is now available for testing • Systemd 260

• Systing 1.0 Released For Rust-Based eBPF-Based Tracing Tool Leveraging AI Josef Bacik, of Btrfs notoriety before leaving Meta and stepping back from kernel development last year,

• OpenZFS 2.4.1 Released With Linux 6.19 Compatibility, Many Fixes Following the big OpenZFS 2.4 release back in December, OpenZFS 2.4.1 was released overnight to ship support for

• COSMIC Epoch 1.0.8 Released With More Desktop Refinements While System76 has been hard at work on a redesigned Thelio desktop chassis design, this hasn’t slowed down their softwa

• D7VK 1.4 Released With More Improvements For Old Direct3D On Vulkan Under Linux D7VK is the open-source project that began implementing the Direct3D 7 APIs atop Vulkan and with t

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• LLVM/Clang 22 Compiler Officially Released With Many Improvements LLVM/Clang 22.1 was released overnight as the first stable release of the LLVM 22 series. • This is a nice, feat

• KDE Plasma 6.6.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Bug Fixes Following last week’s Plasma 6.6 release, KDE developers today shipped Plasma 6.6.1 as the first point release with an a

• CGIT 1.3 Web Frontend For Git Released After Six Years Jason Donenfeld of WireGuard and Linux cryptography fame has taken a break from that to release a new version of CGIT, the

• LLVM 22.1.0 Released! • We are happy to announce that LLVM 22.1.0 is now released! • This includes the main LLVM project, and its subprojects including clang, lld, libc++, and ML

• Swift 6.2 Released We’re excited to announce Swift 6.2, a release aimed at making every Swift developer more productive, regardless of where or how you write code. • From improve

• Swift Configuration 1.0 released Every application has configuration: in environment variables, configuration files, values from remote services, command-line flags, or repositor

• The Firefox 148 update sees its stable release today, bringing with it a much-request ‘AI kill switch’ to easily disable all AI-powered features within the browser. • Mozilla has

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• Linux 7.0-rc1 Released With Many New Features: Linus Torvalds just capped off the Linux 7.0 merge window with the release of Linux 7.0-rc1. • While the big version bump is coinci

• GNU Gawk 5.4 Released With New MinRX Regex Matcher, Faster Reading Of Files Developers behind the widely-used GNU Awk text processing utility today released Gawk 5.4. • Gawk 5.4

• Swift 6.2 Released We’re excited to announce Swift 6.2, a release aimed at making every Swift developer more productive, regardless of where or how you write code. • From improve

• Swift Configuration 1.0 released Every application has configuration: in environment variables, configuration files, values from remote services, command-line flags, or repositor

• ollama 0.17 Released With Improved OpenClaw Onboarding The open-source ollama project that makes it easy to get up and running with a variety of LLMs under Windows, macOS, and Li

• From the GitHub release page : This is CircuitPython 10.1.3 , the latest bugfix revision of CircuitPython, and is a new stable release. • (The 10.1.2 release was discarded due to

• Drgn v0.1 Released For Very Versatile Programmable Debugger Drgn is the programmable debugger developed by Meta engineer Omar Sandoval that has proven quite versatile and popular

• Vulkan 1.4.344 Released With New Extension From Valve Vulkan 1.4.344 is out today as the latest routine spec update for this high performance graphics and compute API. • Besides

• Weston 15.0 Wayland Compositor Released With Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols After delays, Weston 15.0 shipped this morning as the latest feature release to this reference Wayland

• PipeWire 1.6 Released With Many New Features PipeWire 1.6 is out today as the newest feature release for this software widely used by the Linux desktop for managing of audio and

• Swift 6.2 Released We’re excited to announce Swift 6.2, a release aimed at making every Swift developer more productive, regardless of where or how you write code. • From improve

• Swift Configuration 1.0 released Every application has configuration: in environment variables, configuration files, values from remote services, command-line flags, or repositor

• AsteroidOS 2.0Linux-based, open-source smartwatch operating system has just been released with features such as always-on display support, Tilt-to-Wake, a customizable QuickPanel

• From the GitHub release page : This is CircuitPython 10.1.1 , the latest minor revision of CircuitPython, and is a new stable release. • CircuitPython 10.1.0 was withdrawn due to

• DNF 5.4 Released With Some New Options & AI Contributions Policy DNF 5.4 is out today as the latest release for this next-generation RPM package management solution used by Fedor

• KDE Plasma 6.6 Released With Many Excellent Improvements KDE Plasma 6.6 is now officially out as the newest feature update to this prominent open-source desktop environment. • Pl

• Linux 6.19.2 & Other LTS Kernels Released To Fix Systems Not Booting Linux 6.19.1 was released earlier today while it’s since been replaced by Linux 6.19.2 to address fallout fro

• InputPlumber 0.74 Released With Hardware Support Improvements InputPlumber 0.74 is now available for this open-source input routing and control daemon for Linux systems. • InputP

• Linux 6.19.1 Released To Ship Some Early Fixes & Device Quirks For those preferring to wait for the first point release of a new Linux kernel version before upgrading, Linux 6.19

• New Chrome Zero-Day (CVE-2026-2441) Under Active Attack - Patch Released Google on Friday released security updates for its Chrome browser to address a security flaw that it said

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• Google hasjust announcedthe release of Android 17 Beta 1 with performance improvements, H.266/VVC video codec support, smoother camera mode transitions, privacy and security enha

• Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS is now available to download. • This is the fourth point release in the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ‘Noble Numbat’ series since it launched in April 2024. • The new insta

• CodeWeavers has announced the release of CrossOver 26, the latest version of their paid software that lets you run Windows games and apps on Linux and macOS. • CrossOver 26 ships

• The Go Blog Go 1.26 is released Carlos Amedee, on behalf of the Go team10 February 2026 Today the Go team is pleased to release Go 1.26. • You can find its binary archives and in

• LibreOffice 26.2 has been released with multi-user’ database support, improved Excel clipboard compatibility and a new x86-64-v2 hardware baseline for Linux users. • The Document