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Linux App Release Roundup (April 2026)

 OMG! Ubuntu!

Junichi Uekawa: A rainy day starts May.

 Planet Debian

Linux 7.2 To Set Default DRM Scheduler Priority To "Fair", New AIE4 Hardware In AMDXDNA

 Phoronix

OS Release: Sculpt OS 26-04

 DistroWatch

Shotcut 26.4 Released With Timeline Improvements, Vulkan Accelerated Speech-To-Text

 Phoronix

‘Mentoring Mondays’ Is Otto Kekäläinen’s Way to Support New Debian Devs

 FOSS Force

Shotcut 26.4 Video Editor Adds GPU Acceleration for Speech to Text

 Linuxiac

Linux Mint’s new HWE ISOs improve hardware support

 OMG! Ubuntu!

Sergio Cipriano: My experience at MiniDebConf Campinas 2026

 Planet Debian

Distribution Release: Grml 2026.04

 DistroWatch

Linux Mint Starts Publishing HWE ISOs with Newer Kernels

 Linuxiac

Linux Mint To Begin Publishing HWE ISOs For Better Hardware Support

 Phoronix

Kirigami forms and configurations

 Planet KDE

AerynOS Gets New Branding and Updated Desktop Stacks

 Linuxiac

CachyOS Linux Performance Leading Over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Fedora Workstation 44

 Phoronix

Copy Fail Linux Kernel Flaw Allows Local Users to Gain Root

 Linuxiac

AerynOS Updated With Linux 7.0, Gaming Optimized Kernel Flavor

 Phoronix

LibreOffice 26.2.3 Released with More Than 40 Bug Fixes

 Linuxiac

NVIDIA GeForce NOW gets even more games and RTX 5080 power expands

 GamingOnLinux

You can get some early STAR WARS Day deals with nice discounts on GOG

 GamingOnLinux

Russell Coker: Links April 2026

 Planet Debian

Why Memory Safety Is Becoming a Core Requirement in Modern Software

 LinuxSecurity.com

Distribution Release: Commodore OS Vision 3.1

 DistroWatch

STAR WARS: Galactic Racer releases October 6

 GamingOnLinux

Linux 7.1-rc1 Showing Off Some Wins On AMD Ryzen Threadripper

 Phoronix

GCC 16.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, Algol 68 & Many C++ Improvements

 Phoronix

Save on some epic games in the Capcom Masters Bundle at Fanatical

 GamingOnLinux

3mdeb Gets More Bits Of AMD openSIL & Coreboot Working On Ryzen AM5 Motherboard

 Phoronix

Nintendo 64 emulator gopher64 gets even easier to use

 GamingOnLinux

AMD Posts Newest Linux Patches To Accelerate Page Migration For Better Performance

 Phoronix

Fedora 44 Brings GNOME 50, KDE 6.6, and Better Gaming (With Screenshots)

 FOSS Force

PEAK developers support Make-A-Wish with a charity bundle through Digiphile

 GamingOnLinux

Servo Browser Engine Seeing Progress On FreeBSD Support

 Phoronix

CPPC v4 Support Being Worked On NVIDIA For The Linux ACPI Driver

 Phoronix

Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency launches Sovereign Tech Standards to support open standards

 GamingOnLinux

GameMaker is launching GMRT, a new modern runtime with source access

 GamingOnLinux

Wireshark 4.6.5 Packet Analyzer Fixes Dozens of Vulnerabilities

 Linuxiac

Rocket League adds Easy Anti-Cheat with Steam Deck / Linux still supported

 GamingOnLinux

Qt Contributors Summit 2026: Oslo in October!

 Planet KDE

Proton Experimental updated to get Crimson Desert working again on Linux / SteamOS

 GamingOnLinux

Someone got Ubuntu running on a PS5 – and played Steam

 OMG! Ubuntu!

Sergio Cipriano: How to build reverse dependencies using Salsa CI

 Planet Debian

KDE & Google Summer of Code 2026

 Planet KDE

Otto Kekäläinen: Mentoring Mondays for aspiring Debian contributors

 Planet Debian

Enabling Ubuntu Pro in Security Center is super easy

 OMG! Ubuntu!

Proxmox Backup Server 4.2 Released with S3 Object Storage Support

 Linuxiac

Zed Code Editor Hits 1.0 with GPU-Accelerated UI

 Linuxiac

The End of Patch and Pray: How Rust Is Reshaping Memory Safety in Linux

 LinuxSecurity.com

The Intel Lunar Lake CPU Performance Gains On Linux Over The Past Year

 Phoronix

Distribution Release: Nyarch Linux 26.04

 DistroWatch

Is AI Coming to Your Ubuntu Desktop?

 Linux Magazine

Linux's sched_ext Sees A Bunch Of Bug Fixes Following Increased AI Code Review

 Phoronix

OpenCL Introducing Cooperative Matrix Extensions For Machine Learning

 Phoronix

Rust-Written Zed 1.0 Code Editor Released

 Phoronix

Hygon C86-4G CPU Support Added To The GCC 17 Compiler

 Phoronix

More retro goodies - Microsoft open sources 86-DOS and PC-DOS

 GamingOnLinux

Ghostty Developer Loses Confidence in GitHub’s Reliability

 Linuxiac

Libcamera 0.7.1 Released With Improved Software ISP

 Phoronix

Cache arrives in Counter-Strike 2 while Valve continue working on ANIMGRAPH 2

 GamingOnLinux

Wayland Developers Target June For Weston 16 Release

 Phoronix

Distribution Release: Bazzite 44

 DistroWatch

Devuan Developer Working On Reviving GTK2 With Modern Fixes

 Phoronix

How Ubuntu Plans to Add AI Without Taking Over Your PC

 FOSS Force

NVIDIA 580.159.03 driver released for Linux with some essential fixes

 GamingOnLinux

Denuvo DRM reportedly fully cracked open, 2K apparently fights back with online checks

 GamingOnLinux

The ps5-linux project can turn some PlayStation 5 consoles into a Linux gaming machine

 GamingOnLinux

Bazzite Linux 44 lands for desktop gamers and it's a big release

 GamingOnLinux

dbrand of course already have Steam Controller skins

 GamingOnLinux

Fedora Linux 44 is out now as one of the best Linux distributions

 GamingOnLinux

Proton Hotfix updated to fix HELLDIVERS 2 on Linux / SteamOS systems

 GamingOnLinux

Steam April 2026 Client Update Adds Remote Downloads Management

 Linuxiac

Steam update adds battery indicator for wireless gamepads, quick chat, remote downloads management and more

 GamingOnLinux

OS Release: ToaruOS 2.3.0

 DistroWatch

AMD Introducing New Linux Driver For Their Halo Box: For Its RGB LED Light Bar

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Valve Updates GameNetworkingSockets After Nearly Four Year Hiatus

 Phoronix

IBM Updates Linux Patches For Introducing ARM64 KVM Virtualization On s390

 Phoronix

Anthropic begin funding Blender as a Corporate Patron

 GamingOnLinux

NVIDIA 595.71.05 stable driver released for Linux

 GamingOnLinux

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Leads Over Windows 11 In Creator Workstation Performance

 Phoronix

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS security support has ended – unless you pay

 OMG! Ubuntu!

AMD's Lemonade SDK 10.3 Now 10x Smaller By Getting Rid Of Electron

 Phoronix

Distribution Release: Fedora 44

 DistroWatch

ClusterAPI Simplifies Provisioning but Leaves Ops Gaps

 LinuxInsider

Sovereign Tech Agency Launches New Initiative To Help Open Standards

 Phoronix

GCC 16's Improved Error Messages, Experimental HTML Output

 Phoronix

Fedora 44 Released For Living On The Leading-Edge Of Linux Innovations

 Phoronix

Facepunch launches s&box, the highly anticipated successor to Garry's Mod

 GamingOnLinux

Proton Experimental and Proton 11 Beta updated to fix issues with the EA App

 GamingOnLinux

Proton 11.0 Beta 2 Updates VKD3D-Proton

 Phoronix

Ubuntu's "AI Kill Switch" Is Achieved By Removing Snaps, Initially Opt-In

 Phoronix

The popular ZSNES emulator returns as SUPER ZSNES with enhanced features

 GamingOnLinux

AMDXDNA Driver Preps Hardware Scheduler Time Quantum For Ryzen AI Multi-User Fairness

 Phoronix

7-Zip 26.01 Now Allows Making Use Of Huge Pages On Linux For Faster Compression

 Phoronix

Canonical clarify their AI plans for Ubuntu Linux - opt-in and easy to remove

 GamingOnLinux

WayVNC 0.10 Released For Advancing This Leading VNC Server For Wayland

 Phoronix

Castle-on-wheels medieval roguelike battler Wanderburg arrives this Summer

 GamingOnLinux

Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes launches May 11

 GamingOnLinux

Clever engineering roguelike Rogue Voltage 1.0 arrives May 1st

 GamingOnLinux

Schedule I dev confirms they're working on gamepad support and Steam Deck certification

 GamingOnLinux

Zenless Zone Zero is heading to Steam in Q2 2026

 GamingOnLinux

Valve have plans for the Steam Deck 2, plus a brief Steam Machine / Steam Frame update

 GamingOnLinux

Abhijith PA: Patience could've saved me time.

 Planet Debian

Introducing Qt Agentic Development Skills

 Planet KDE

Quantum-Resilient Cryptography in the openSUSE Ecosystem

 openSUSE News

Ravi Dwivedi: A day in Vienna

 Planet Debian

Sealed Fedora Atomic Desktop bootable container images

 Planet KDE

What’s new for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 44

 Planet KDE

Distribution Release: umbrelOS 1.7.0

 DistroWatch

Gunnar Wolf: Heads we win, tails you lose — AI detectors in education

 Planet Debian

The new Steam Controller releases May 4th

 GamingOnLinux

Canonical is ‘ramping up’ AI in Ubuntu this year

 OMG! Ubuntu!

Pick up some robo action in the Mecha Mania Humble Bundle

 GamingOnLinux

Distribution Release: Talos Linux 1.13.0

 DistroWatch

Announcing Sigrún (Run a command)

 Planet KDE

Kdenlive 26.04.0 released

 Planet KDE

Canonical developer lays out some AI plans for Ubuntu Linux

 GamingOnLinux

Conan Exiles Enhanced arrives May 5th with "strong performance on Steam Deck"

 GamingOnLinux

Beda and McLuckie Reunited and Securing AI at Stacklok

 FOSS Force

Free creepy Aliens fan game Aliens: Redacted REDUX released

 GamingOnLinux

Mike Gabriel: KVM Support inside LXC Containers [updated]

 Planet Debian

A brief but exciting teaser for the Alien: Isolation sequel appears

 GamingOnLinux

Framework Laptop 13 Pro is selling out with the Linux version beating Windows

 GamingOnLinux

CachyOS April 2026 release brings a new package manager and even more optimizations

 GamingOnLinux

Linux GPU tool (LACT) gets a new UI and a NVIDIA Voltage-Frequency Curve Editor

 GamingOnLinux

D7VK 1.8 further improves retro Direct3D games on Linux

 GamingOnLinux

Planet News Roundup

 openSUSE News

Sahil Dhiman: Weekly Notes

 Planet Debian

Linux Kernel 7.1 Removes Major Legacy Ethernet and ISDN Driver

 DebugPoint NEWS

Russ Allbery: Review: What We Are Seeking

 Planet Debian

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1170

 DistroWatch

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (17/2026): Slow Seventeen

 LINMOB.net

Firefox’s free VPN is getting the one feature it was missing

 OMG! Ubuntu!

Dirk Eddelbuettel: RProtoBuf 0.4.27 on CRAN: Upstream Adjustment

 Planet Debian

Aurelien Jarno: Running upstream OpenSBI on SpacemiT K1

 Planet Debian

FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending April 24, 2026

 FOSS Force

Steam Beta gets battery indicator for wireless gamepads as the new Steam Controller nears

 GamingOnLinux

Russ Allbery: Review: The Genocidal Healer

 Planet Debian

This Week in Plasma: fanciness in Discover and more power efficiency

 Planet KDE

Automatic brightness in Plasma

 Planet KDE

Canonical finally gives Launchpad (a bit of) a glow-up

 OMG! Ubuntu!

MangoHud 0.8.3 brings new features and fixes to the popular Linux gaming performance monitor

 GamingOnLinux

Second Wind Games Showcase presented lots of games - here's 12 world premieres

 GamingOnLinux

Qt No Contextless Connect

 Planet KDE

Tails 7.7 Surfaces Secure Boot Risk as 2026 Certificate Expiry Approaches

 LinuxSecurity.com

Web Review, Week 2026-17

 Planet KDE

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is getting a free Endless Mode, optimizations and a big expansion

 GamingOnLinux

Inspired by classic Hong Kong action comedies and action games - Knuckle Paradise looks fun

 GamingOnLinux

Get some big games in the Fanatical Legendary Bundle like The Alters and Frostpunk 2

 GamingOnLinux

Classic 90s platformer Moon Child gets the source code released and a modern port

 GamingOnLinux

Toei Company established Toei Games and revealed the first titles

 GamingOnLinux