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Kernel prepatch 7.4-rc1

LWN.net

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 44, 2026 (October 26 – November 1)

Linuxiac

Amadeus Reservation System Breach Affects Eight Japanese Airlines, Including JAL and ANA, and Overseas Carriers

Joho no Todai (English)

ChatGPT and Codex to Share Usage Limits Starting in December: Heavy Use of One Will Squeeze the Other

Joho no Todai (English)

VOLTA Infostealer Feeds Stolen Data to AI to Automatically Generate Victim Asset Appraisals

Joho no Todai (English)

Linux 7.4-rc1 Released With Nice Performance Improvements, AMD Ryzen Zen 6 Preparations & AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Default

Phoronix

Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 7.4 Release Candidate

9to5Linux

KDE Linux Enables NTSYNC by Default for Better Wine and Proton Gaming

Linuxiac

System76 Thinks Small With Its Upcoming Thelio Prime

FOSS Force

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (43, 44/2026): Releases, Releases, Releases

LINMOB.net

Enlightenment desktop 0.28 released with better networking

OMG! Ubuntu!

Distribution Release: LCOS 1.0.0

DistroWatch

What Stuck With You From ‘All Things Open’?

FOSS Force

Budgie 10.10.4 Desktop Environment Improves Wayland Panel Auto-Hiding

Linuxiac

Budgie 10.10.4 Desktop Environment Released with More Improvements

9to5Linux

Trinity Desktop R14.1.7 Released with Konsole and Taskbar Improvements

Linuxiac

Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.7 Is Out with Support for Ubuntu 26.10

9to5Linux

PostgreSQL Recovery Race Can Expose Old and New Rows Together: MultiXact Fix Proposed

Joho no Todai (English)

PowerStoreOS 5.1.0.0 Fixes Stale Reads After Hardware Upgrades and Metro Inconsistency After Preferred-Side Restarts

Joho no Todai (English)

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 1st, 2026

9to5Linux

Windows 11 26H2 Reportedly Boots With 128 MB: Pico11's Extreme Reduction Experiment

Joho no Todai (English)

Here's How You Can Use VPNs for FREE on Linux

It's FOSS

Final release for the 7.2 stable series

LWN.net

Gitea 28.3 Released with 20 Security Fixes, Performance Improvements

Linuxiac

Chainalysis Breach Exposes Registered Users' Names, Emails, and Organizational Roles

Joho no Todai (English)

Linux OverlayFS Fixes Information Leaks and Data Loss, Merging Findings From AI-Assisted Review

Joho no Todai (English)

DeepSeek Releases Autonomous Development Agent Prototype That Executes Authorized Requests With the Operator's OS Privileges

Joho no Todai (English)

ChatGPT Shared-Link Flaw Exposed Private Conversations Through MathLive Message Handling

Joho no Todai (English)

Kwi Being Developed As New KDE Terminal Emulator With 3x To 35x Performance

Phoronix

Linux Kernel 7.2 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 7.3

9to5Linux

EU Adds €2 Fee per Declared E-Commerce Item: Product Identifiers Required for Shipments Up to €150

Joho no Todai (English)

Distribution Release: PorteuX 2.9

DistroWatch

Photon Studio Brings Photoshop PSD Compatibility to Linux

Ubuntu Buzz!

Windows 11 Design Chief Explains Why the Taskbar Cannot Be Moved by Dragging

Joho no Todai (English)

PorteuX 2.9 Released with Linux 7.3, KDE Plasma 6.8, GNOME 51, and COSMIC 1.11

9to5Linux

Vasudev Kamath: Releasing debvulns with needrestart and kernel vulnerability handling

Planet Debian

The Linux 7.4 Merge Window Is Easily The Largest In Kernel History

Phoronix

OverlayFS Sees Many Fixes Thanks To AI Code Review

Phoronix

AI Use In The Linux Kernel, Microsoft Defender On Linux & Other October Highlights

Phoronix

Linux's Perf Python Scripts More Robust & Faster With Linux 7.4

Phoronix

Linux 7.4 Merge Window Saw Nearly 20k Commits, Source Tree Approaching 42 Million Lines

Phoronix

Vincent Bernat: Network lab with QEMU

Planet Debian

Arch Linux November 2026 ISO Released with Kernel 7.2.11, systemd 262.1

Linuxiac

Kwi Is a New KDE Terminal Emulator Built on Ghostty Technology

Linuxiac

Tumbleweed Monthly Update - October 2026

openSUSE News

UK High Court Rejects Meta, X, and TikTok's Data Challenge: Regulator Can Examine Harmful Content Exposure

Joho no Todai (English)

Binance Replaces 95% of $6.3 Billion Stolen, Announces Phased Withdrawals as FBI Names North Korea

Joho no Todai (English)

Kwi Is a New Ghostty-Based GPU-Accelerated Terminal Emulator for KDE Plasma

9to5Linux

Birger Schacht: Status update, September + October 2026

Planet Debian

AI Training Copyright Reform Faces a Government Compensation Barrier: Australia's Section 51 Enters the Debate

Joho no Todai (English)

US Declares Industrial Robot Imports a Security Threat: Tariffs Deferred for 180 Days of Trade Talks

Joho no Todai (English)

Over 80% of Roblox's Top 100 Games Use AI: Build Tops 70,000 Releases as External Distribution Takes Shape

Joho no Todai (English)

Toyota bZ4X Becomes Waymo Robotaxi: Integrated Production at Takaoka, Initial Japan Operations in 2027

Joho no Todai (English)

Rufus 4.16 Beta Works Around AMI UEFI NTFS Read Bug, Fixes Boot Media Security Vulnerabilities

Joho no Todai (English)

Unified UEFI Tool Removes Older GeForce AI Compute Limits on Windows and Linux, Fixes Turing Boot Race

Joho no Todai (English)

Brief Server Downtime Expected Tonight

Phoronix

OpenShot 4.1 Video Editor Adds Direct Text Editing, CLI Automation

Linuxiac

October 2026 in KDE Linux

Planet KDE

Full Circle Weekly News 488

Full Circle Magazine

Introducing Kwi, a new KDE terminal emulator

Planet KDE

OpenShot 4.1 Released With Auto-Optimize, CLI Automation & ARM64 Linux Builds

Phoronix

OpenShot 4.1 Adds In-App Text Editing and Native Linux ARM64

Ubuntu Buzz!

Activities BoF report & call for action

Planet KDE

A massive pile of security updates for Saturday

LWN.net

Woodpecker CI 3.20 Released with Pipeline Improvements, Security Fixes

Linuxiac

OpenShot 4.1 Video Editor Is Out with Native ARM64 Linux Builds and Text Editing

9to5Linux

Sanket lets you redesign GNOME’s date menu and Quick Settings

OMG! Ubuntu!

Distribution Release: Linux Lite 8.2

DistroWatch

GNU Mtools 4.0.50 Released With Security Fix

FOSS Force

Haruna 1.9 Media Player Improves YouTube Handling and Playlist Management

Linuxiac

Samuel Henrique: Distributary: my artwork proposal for Debian 14 "forky"

Planet Debian

OS Release: Sculpt OS 26-10

DistroWatch

Linux Mint Devs Introduce New System Monitor and Terminal Emulator Apps

9to5Linux

Enlightenment 0.28 Desktop Adds PipeWire Support, NetworkManager Module

9to5Linux

Enlightenment 0.28 Released With Many Improvements

Phoronix

Linux Mint Developing New Apps For Terminal & System Monitoring

Phoronix

How We Could Have Backdoored Bash (Hacktron blog)

LWN.net

Ludovic Rousseau: New version of PyKCS11: 1.5.21

Planet Debian

Russell Coker: Links October 2026

Planet Debian

Ludovic Rousseau: New version of PySCard: 2.3.2

Planet Debian

New Linux 7.4 Feature For Reducing AI Noise Already Reverted Due To A "Crazy Beast"

Phoronix

Denmark’s Collabora Pilot Was Never The Microsoft Replacement it Was Made Out to Be

It's FOSS

A few days of very small things…

Planet KDE

Ransomware Recovery Firm CEO Indicted Over Secret Ransom Payouts

Ubuntu Buzz!

KDE Plasma 6.9 Lands Some New Performance Optimizations

Phoronix

Ceph In Linux 7.4 Adds Global Mount Option For Lazy I/O

Phoronix

GNOME Now Has An Established RFC Process, GNOME OS Continues Improving

Phoronix

DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 Brings Nice Improvements For Linux Gamers On Latest NVIDIA Drivers

Phoronix

CUDA Oxide 0.3 Vastly Improves Rust Support For NVIDIA CUDA Programming

Phoronix

Sculpt OS 26.10 Released - Now Powered By Genode's Custom Microkernel

Phoronix

Wine 11.21 released with improved WoW64 OpenGL performance

GamingOnLinux

Wasmtime Fixes Flaw That Could Drain Server Memory

LinuxSecurity.com

Wine 11.21 Released With Better WoW64 OpenGL Performance

Phoronix

This Week in Plasma: An Avalanche of Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes

Planet KDE

Canonical Begins Work on Ubuntu 27.04 Tenacious T-Rex

Ubuntu Buzz!

Nomad Vulnerability Could Let Apps Change Server Files

LinuxSecurity.com

Ubuntu 27.04 ‘Tenacious T-Rex’ opens for development

OMG! Ubuntu!

Working Exploit for a Linux Kernel Flaw Made Public

Linux Magazine

Proton Experimental brings new fixes for Helldivers 2, BeamNG.drive and more

GamingOnLinux

PostgreSQL 19 Running Behind Schedule Due To AI/LLM Burden

Phoronix

Matthew Garrett: Getting Google Cast on my Soundbar

Planet Debian

Northgard Battlegrounds takes the strategy game into a new auto-battling direction

GamingOnLinux

[$] Removing binder.c

LWN.net

Ubuntu 27.04 "Tenacious T-Rex" Opens For Development

Phoronix

Haas: Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault

LWN.net

Haruna 1.9

Planet KDE

Remote code execution on Linux systems with multipath TCP

LWN.net

AMD Ryzen Zen 6 Looks Like It Will Be In Good Shape With Linux 7.4, Laptop Improvements

Phoronix

[$] System-call wrappers for glibc

LWN.net

Eight more stable kernel updates

LWN.net

r/opensource Bans AI-Assisted and AI-Related Projects

Linux Magazine

Security updates for Friday

LWN.net

Linux Kernel 7.4 Cuts Boot Times with Smarter Memory Search

Ubuntu Buzz!

Another Week, Another Vibe Coded OS; Closed-Source In The Name Of Security

Phoronix

Russell Coker: More Furilabs FLX1s

Planet Debian

The popular idle clicker game Idle Slayer added Linux and macOS support

GamingOnLinux

Check out the demo for INANIMA, a retro survival-horror inspired by Resident Evil and SIGNALIS

GamingOnLinux

Open source evolution sim 'Thrive' v1.7 works towards completing the multicellular stage

GamingOnLinux

AMD PerfOpt Makes it Into Linux 7.4 As A Nice Performance Boost For AMD iGPUs

Phoronix

Dune: Awakening's free Blood and Ice expansion launches December 1

GamingOnLinux

Apple Silicon Linux Driver Adapted To Help Older Intel-Powered Macs

Phoronix

Vulkan 1.4.367 Released With VK_KHR_maintenance12

Phoronix

I3C Hub & HDR-DDR Support Merged For Linux 7.4

Phoronix

Multiplayer music playground 'Vibe Together' sounds like a super-fun idea

GamingOnLinux

Get 18 spooky games in the Fanatical FrightFest Ripper Bundle

GamingOnLinux

Five more classics join the GOG Preservation Program

GamingOnLinux

Epic Games Launcher Preview updated to fix logins on some Linux systems

GamingOnLinux

Denmark’s Digital Sovereignty Effort Stalls Amid Government Shakeup

FOSS Force

Planet News Roundup

openSUSE News

Russell Coker: Fuel Should be More Expensive

Planet Debian

Russell Coker: Radxa Rock 5A RK3588S

Planet Debian

OSM Hack Weekend October 2026

Planet KDE

Interview in SteamOS Gamer magazine

Planet KDE

This app lets you manage Nothing & CMF earbuds on Linux

OMG! Ubuntu!

New Attack Uses Malicious Markdown to Hijack AI Coding Agents

Ubuntu Buzz!

We added a manual dark mode toggle to the site (cos you asked)

OMG! Ubuntu!

RISC-V Has A Nice Portable Performance Optimization With Linux 7.4

Phoronix

Full Circle Magazine 234

Full Circle Magazine

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 336 released

Planet Debian

Gelly is a GTK desktop music player for Jellyfin and Navidrome

OMG! Ubuntu!

Fedora Linux 45 Shipping Next Week On 3 November

Phoronix

Hetzner Warns PXE Boot Users Not to Restart Servers

LinuxSecurity.com

Kafka Security Flaw Could Let Attackers Fake a Login

LinuxSecurity.com

F2FS Adds Opt-In Multi-Grain Timestamps With Linux 7.4, Other Improvements

Phoronix

LibreOffice 26.8.2 Released With Multimedia Fixes and Improved Stability and Format Compatibility

FOSS Force

Kirigami Addons 1.16.0. The material updates

Planet KDE

Jagex are now publishing Melvor Idle 2 as an official RuneScape game

GamingOnLinux

System76 tease the new mini Thelio Prime Desktop coming in November

GamingOnLinux

[$] Containers as a recognized kernel object

LWN.net

GOG and Retrovibe team up for indie game publishing

GamingOnLinux