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Linux 7.4 Merges Slab Updates With A Nice Performance Improvement

 Phoronix

[$] The first part of the 7.4 merge window

 LWN.net

These Projects are Keeping X11 Dream Alive on Linux

 It's FOSS

HPFS Is The Latest File-System Slated For Removal On Linux

 Phoronix

Three PostgreSQL Incremental Backup Bugs Produce Incorrect Restores Despite Passing Verification

 Joho no Todai (English)

Borealis: Asahi Linux's Apple Silicon Mesa Vulkan Driver Forked For Vibe Coding

 Phoronix

Torvalds Uses AI to Write Linux Kernel Code: Let Competent People Use AI

 Joho no Todai (English)

Calibre 9.7 touts faster ebook conversion speeds

 OMG! Ubuntu!

How Did OOXML Become an ISO Standard? LibreOffice's Parent Foundation Revisits Standards Maneuvering From 20 Years Ago

 Joho no Todai (English)

Linux 7.4 Makes Workqueue Flushing Up to About 105x Faster: Removing Waste That Grew With CPU Count

 Joho no Todai (English)

[$] Seeking smaller kernel stacks

 LWN.net

OpenSSL 4.1.0 Released With DTLS 1.3 and GREASE: Four Known Bugs Remain in DTLS

 Joho no Todai (English)

Akademy 2026 Desktop Icon BoF

 Planet KDE

Help shape the future of desktop icons

 Planet KDE

HPE Aruba Wireless LAN Software Has 72 Vulnerabilities, Eight Rated CVSS 10.0: Check Fixes and Management Networks

 Joho no Todai (English)

Fwupd 2.1.9 Linux Firmware Updater Adds New Hardware Support

 Linuxiac

oneDNN 3.14 Released With ACE Support, Initial AMD Zen Optimizations

 Phoronix

Linux 7.4 Power Management Preps For AMD Ryzen Zen 6 & Intel Rugged Panther Lake

 Phoronix

Be ready for spooky season with new games from Fanatical's Build your own Frightmare Bundle (Halloween 2026)

 GamingOnLinux

Linux Restores Throughput by 3.3x on Mixed BIG TCP Paths: Resegmentation Preserves TSO for 64KiB-Limited Devices

 Joho no Todai (English)

Fwupd 2.1.9 Linux Firmware Updater Released with New Features

 9to5Linux

OpenSSL 4.1 Released With More AVX-512 Optimizations

 Phoronix

DeepMind Uses AI to Identify an Antimicrobial Candidate in an Uncharacterized Protein Sequence: Three Types of Evidence Build the Hypothesis

 Joho no Todai (English)

ArmSoM Sige7s Puts the RK3588S on a Raspberry Pi-Sized Board, and There's a Compute Module Too

 It's FOSS

Security updates for Friday

 LWN.net

New Craft cache 26.10 published

 Planet KDE

OpenSSL 4.1 Released with DTLS 1.3 Support, Crypto Optimizations

 Linuxiac

Linux Plans to Remove br_netfilter in 2027: User Namespace Support Disabled First

 Joho no Todai (English)

Linux 7.4 Brings Hibernation Improvement For Helping Meet Energy Certifications

 Phoronix

OpenSSL 4.1 Released with Support for DTLS 1.3, IKEV2 KDF, and GREASE

 9to5Linux

VeloCloud Orchestrator Flaw CVE-2026-114625 Turns Read-Only Access Into Full Control: Arista Confirms Exploitation

 Joho no Todai (English)

AI-Designed Virus Given to a Patient With a Drug-Resistant Infection in Claimed World First: Treatment Outcome Remains Unknown

 Joho no Todai (English)

NVIDIA CEO Huang Dismisses AI Doomsday Predictions as Fiction as Barclays Cuts 5,000 Jobs

 Joho no Todai (English)

Tails 7.15.1 Privacy-Focused Linux Distro Released as Emergency Security Update

 Linuxiac

Vulkan 1.4.366 Released With SMPTE ST 2094-50 HDR Support

 Phoronix

Factorio 2.1 is out now with the native ARM64 Linux build to run on Steam Frame, Raspberry Pi and more

 GamingOnLinux

Stolen RTX 5090 Listed Online and Traced by Serial Number: Three Airport Workers Identified as Suspects

 Joho no Todai (English)

LibreSSL 4.4 Released with Post-Quantum TLS Improvements, Security Fixes

 Linuxiac

PHP2Shell Breaks Through ASLR on Production Servers: VulnCheck Achieves RCE

 Joho no Todai (English)

Web Review, Week 2026-43

 Planet KDE

Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition pulled from sale due to mass complaints

 GamingOnLinux

FFmpeg 9.1 Preps For Release With APV Vulkan Encoder, NVIDIA Optical Flow FRUC

 Phoronix

Linux 7.4 Introduces New Driver For The Nintendo Switch 2 Controllers - Thanks To Valve

 Phoronix

Epic Games has gone completely off the deep end with AI

 GamingOnLinux

Windows Update Error 0x800f0845 Causes Restart Failures for Six Straight Months: Microsoft Acknowledged It Once in 2024

 Joho no Todai (English)

LibreSSL 4.4 Released With Faster SHA3, Bug Fixes

 Phoronix

Linux 7.4 Fixes AMD CPU TLB Size Reporting For Zen 5 & Newer

 Phoronix

Bazzite Linux announce ROG XBOX Ally X20 and Acer Predator Atlas support is in testing

 GamingOnLinux

GameMaker announce their next-gen runtime GMRT will be free for commercial use

 GamingOnLinux

Check out 'Clicky Islands', a unique blend of incremental and city-builders

 GamingOnLinux

Fanatical's Build your own Legendary Bundle (Fall 2026) has some top hits for cheaps

 GamingOnLinux

Calibre 9.17 E-Book Manager Adds JPEG XL Support, Speeds Up Conversions

 Linuxiac

Planet News Roundup

 openSUSE News

Shelly 3.1.9 Arch Linux Package Manager Adds File Migration Support

 Linuxiac

METRO 2033 Redux and METRO Last Light Redux next-gen updates are out now

 GamingOnLinux

Legacy Games store is closing down

 GamingOnLinux

Steam Client Beta - October 22nd revamps Remote Play HDR support

 GamingOnLinux

Railway Suspects Unauthorized Access to Environment Variables: External Services Remain at Risk After Recovery

 Joho no Todai (English)

PHP2Shell Takes Over 200 Japanese Services and 32 UK Government Services Offline: Attacks Predate Patches

 Joho no Todai (English)

Calibre 9.17 E-Book Manager Adds JPEG XL Support and Performance Improvements

 9to5Linux

Major US Banks Block AI Agents From Operating Accounts as Liability Remains Unclear

 Joho no Todai (English)

A Touchscreen Inside a 1mm Fiber: NUS Turns a Sleeve Into a 96×54-Pixel GUI

 Joho no Todai (English)

Canonical dev mocks up an Ubuntu launcher that uses AI

 OMG! Ubuntu!

Epic Games Brings Its New Linux Launcher Preview to Ubuntu

 Ubuntu Buzz!

Shelly 3.1.9 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves AUR Support

 9to5Linux

Linux 7.4 Workqueue Changes Bring A "10 To 100 Times Faster" Optimization

 Phoronix

KeePassXC 2.8 Adds Wayland Auto-Type and Fingerprint Unlock

 Ubuntu Buzz!

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 335 released

 Planet Debian

Epic’s vibe-coded games launcher is available to test on Ubuntu

 OMG! Ubuntu!

AI Chatbot Privacy on Linux: Auditing Extensions, Desktop Clients, and Browser Policies

 LinuxSecurity.com

Sony Ends Shipments of Its Last Ultra HD Blu-ray Player in Japan, Leaving UHD BD Playback to PS5

 Joho no Todai (English)

Sentry Pledges $1 Million to Open Source Maintainers

 Linuxiac

Fedora 45 Hits A Second NO-GO: Not Releasing Until November

 Phoronix

Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Let Attackers Run Code Without a Login

 LinuxSecurity.com

New DNS Security Flaws Can Disrupt Website and Email Access

 LinuxSecurity.com

AI Helping To Improve Linux's AMD Zen CPU Microarchitecture Detection

 Phoronix

Modular's MAX Source Code Now Fully Opened, Under New MAX License

 Phoronix

Red Hat Funded a Report That Found a Quarter of Incoming Pull Requests May Be AI Slop

 It's FOSS

KeePassXC 2.8 released with Qt6, support for Wayland auto-type

 OMG! Ubuntu!

openSUSE Releases Agama 25 Installer with Web-Based Terminal, Exit Option

 9to5Linux

openSUSE’s Agama 25 Installer Adds Web Terminal, Improves Networking

 Linuxiac

PipeWire 1.6.10 Multimedia Framework Released with JACK Crash Fixes

 Linuxiac

[$] The end of __get_user() and __put_user()

 LWN.net

PipeWire 1.6.10 Is Out to Improve JACK, Bluetooth, Pulse Server, and ALSA Plugin

 9to5Linux

PwnEscape Poses VM Vulnerability

 Linux Magazine

DietPi 10.8 Released with New Tool to Manage WireGuard Servers and Clients

 9to5Linux

Linux 7.4 Improves Scheduling Latency For Short-Slice Tasks, NVIDIA Vera SMT Preference

 Phoronix

Steam Client Update Fixes Vulkan Game Freezes on Linux

 Linuxiac

This Newly Proposed Linux Filesystem Can Fix Corrupted Data

 It's FOSS

Latest Steam Client Update Improves Support for Vulkan Games on Linux

 9to5Linux

KeePassXC 2.8.0 released

 LWN.net

x86 Kernel Shadow Stacks Being Worked On For Linux As Powerful Control Flow Protection

 Phoronix

[$] Rust features in the future

 LWN.net

FOSS Weekly #26.43: Kernel 7.3, Non-Linux OS, de-Googled Phone, DuxOS, Podcasts, De-bloating TVs, KDE Dock and More

 It's FOSS

Security updates for Thursday

 LWN.net

Mesa Loosens Rules Around AI Agents For Code Comments / Commit Messages

 Phoronix

Myrlyn 1.1 Released For SUSE/openSUSE GUI Package Manager

 Phoronix

Mesa RADV Change Satisfies More Steam Play Games On Aging AMD GFX8 GPUs

 Phoronix

Cyberpunk 2077 Edgerunners update brings improved modding, better HDR, new content and more

 GamingOnLinux

Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List

 Phoronix

Linux 7.4 Adapts AMD Zen 6 For Less Costly CPU Security Mitigation

 Phoronix

Another set of 15 demos to try in Steam Next Fest - October 2026 edition

 GamingOnLinux

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV has an exciting new gameplay overview trailer

 GamingOnLinux

Serious Sam: The Third Encounter gets teased by Croteam and Devolver Digital

 GamingOnLinux

Terminal Text Editor: Like VS Code But in Linux Terminal

 It's FOSS

Epic Games Launcher Preview is slowly becoming actually usable on Linux

 GamingOnLinux

SteamOS 3.9.4 Beta brings updates for security, hibernation and regression fixes

 GamingOnLinux

Steam Client update fixes Vulkan games hanging after alt-tab, and a security update

 GamingOnLinux

SteamVR 2.18 brings Linux fixes, Steam Frame improvements, new Aurora environment

 GamingOnLinux

Red Diff is Good Diff

 Planet KDE

Node.js Vulnerability CVE-2026-111497: Impact and Mitigation Steps

 Ubuntu Buzz!

KeePassXC 2.8 Delivers Wayland Auto-Type and Qt 6 for Linux

 Ubuntu Buzz!

Ubuntu Patches Critical PHP Vulnerabilities to Prevent RCE

 Ubuntu Buzz!

Locking Down Linux Servers? Move Beyond the Baseline

 LinuxSecurity.com

Linux 7.4 Begins Landing Patches To Speed Up The Kernel Build Process

 Phoronix

Distribution Release: Essora Eos 20261021

 DistroWatch

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 22, 2026

 LWN.net

AI Assistant Flaw Could Let WhatsApp Users Run Commands on Your Computer

 LinuxSecurity.com

Certificate Authority Flaw Requires More Than a Browser Fix

 LinuxSecurity.com

KeePassXC 2.8 Released with ARM64 and Wayland Auto-Type Support on Linux

 9to5Linux

Ubuntu rolls out php2shell, eMudhra certificate fixes

 OMG! Ubuntu!

Steinar H. Gunderson: Decompilation patterns, part 18: Signed division

 Planet Debian

Linus Torvalds Eliminates Unsafe __get_user() & __put_user() Functions In Linux 7.4

 Phoronix

Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security (PHP Foundation)

 LWN.net

Linux 7.4 Kernel Crypto Library Enjoying Optimized AES Implementations On x86 & RISC-V

 Phoronix

Electronic Arts (EA) to shut down BioWare and cancel the next Mass Effect

 GamingOnLinux

You Can Reserve This Small-Factor, De-Googled Phone for $30

 It's FOSS

More vulnerabilities in widely deployed software

 LWN.net

[$] Hash-based module integrity for reproducible distributions

 LWN.net

Upstreaming Tyr: Rust, DRM, and the Linux Kernel (Collabora)

 LWN.net

Snapdragon X2 Performance On Linux Exceeding Expectations In Initial Benchmarks

 Phoronix

[$] Understanding Nix flakes

 LWN.net

Stellaris: Willpower expansion set for launch on November 23

 GamingOnLinux

Local AI Weekly #6: If You Can Reverse Engineer It, It's Open Source!

 It's FOSS

PHP patches released for two critical RCEs

 LWN.net

PHP Updates Released For Two Critical Code Execution Vulnerabilities

 Phoronix

Four stable kernels for Wednesday

 LWN.net

AMD Working On Ryzen Overclocking Driver For Linux

 Phoronix

Combolands will take away all your free time

 GamingOnLinux

Distribution Release: siduction 2026.1.0

 DistroWatch

Linux 7.4 To Close Files Synchronously For close_range, exec & exit

 Phoronix

Debian-Based siduction 2026.1 “Big Crime” Released with Linux 7.2, KDE Plasma 6.7

 9to5Linux

Fwupd Working Toward Proper Android Integration

 Phoronix

HEADCUTTER is a real juicy looking upcoming shooter

 GamingOnLinux

THE FINALS gets a huge update with enhanced destruction and a free for all mode

 GamingOnLinux

DankMaterialShell Becomes Dux Shell as Dank Linux Rebrands to Dux Labs

 It's FOSS

OpenXR gets a cross-platform Spatial Windowing API

 GamingOnLinux

Save Upto 40% on Kubernetes Security Certifications From the Linux Foundation

 It's FOSS

RTS game Theatre of War: Rearmed set for release on December 9

 GamingOnLinux

Here's another 15 demos worth checking out in Steam Next Fest - October 2026 edition

 GamingOnLinux