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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has been released. https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-26-04-lts-resolute-raccoon

Transmission 4.1.0 has been released after 3 slow steady years of changes. https://github.com/transmission/transmission/releases/tag/4.1.0

Pop!_OS 24.04 has been released https://blog.system76.com/post/pop-os-letter-from-our-founder/

Linux Kernel 6.18 released. Check the changes here: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.18

Blender 5.0 has been released https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-0/

Ubuntu 25.10 has already transitioned to 'sudo-rs', which is a sudo-replacement written in Rust, for more security and safety. Today, 2 security vulnerabilities were discovered in Ubuntu 25.10 due to 'sudo-rs'. 😂 Rust makes it harder to do bugs, but not…

Ubuntu 25.10 has already transitioned to 'sudo-rs', which is a sudo-replacement written in Rust, for more security and safety. Today, 2 security vulnerabilities were discovered in Ubuntu 25.10 due to 'sudo-rs'. 😂 Rust makes it harder to do bugs, but not impossible of course. https://www.phoronix.com/news/sudo-rs-security-ubuntu-25.10

Firefox 145 has been released: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/145.0/releasenotes/ It adds support for a number of multimedia codecs to be played from inside the browser, as well as editing/commenting on PDF files. The browser is the new OS nowadays. 👻

KDE Plasma 6.5 is out https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.5.0/

Users beware: Xubuntu website serving malware instead of OS downloads https://cybernews.com/security/xubuntu-site-compromise-hackers-peddle-malware/

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7 has been released. Based on Debian 13, away from Ubuntu so that if it pulls the trigger one day Linux Mint will always continue to exist. 👻 https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4924

Ubuntu 25.10 has been released. https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka

openSUSE 16.0 has been released. https://news.opensuse.org/2025/10/01/next-chapter-opens-with-leap-release/

Firefox DNS privacy: Faster than ever, now on Android https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/dns-android/

The TDF 2024 report is here, which highlights the current status of LibreOffice development and its financial situation. They have received around $1.3 million in in funding, 90% of which were from donations. https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/09/15/tdf-annual-report-2024/

Linux Mint 22.2 has been released. https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4881

Someone is DDoS'ing Arch Linux infrastructure. Must be someone who couldn't install it. 👻 https://archlinux.org/news/recent-services-outages/

ffmpeg 8.0 has been released. https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.0

LibreOffice 25.8 has been released. https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/08/20/libreoffice-25-8/

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