Canonical has announced “Resolute Raccoon” as the codename for its next Long-Term Support (LTS) release, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, scheduled for April 2026. The choice is a deliberate nod to stability and a posthumous tribute: the codename was selected by Steve Langasek, a long-time Canonical employee and former Debian and Ubuntu release manager who passed away […]

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The GIMP team has shipped GIMP 3.0.6, the latest stable micro-release, delivering a significant number of bug fixes and performance improvements. The update focuses on enhancing stability across all major platforms by backporting numerous patches from the upcoming 3.2 release candidate, allowing users to benefit from the fixes immediately. This version brings critical workarounds for […]

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The IPFire project has released Core Update 197, a significant stable update to its hardened Linux firewall distribution. This release introduces a complete overhaul of its OpenVPN implementation by upgrading to version 2.6.14 and shifts to a power-saving CPU frequency governor by default, aiming to enhance security and reduce energy consumption without sacrificing performance. OpenVPN […]

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The FreeBSD Project has shipped the fifth alpha build for the upcoming 15.0-RELEASE, delivering a crucial fix for a power management regression. The update reverts a change that caused USB ports to be nonfunctional after a system resumed from S3 sleep. This release pushes the first beta back by one week, but the team remains […]

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Linus Torvalds has pulled the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates for the next kernel release, ushering in a substantial set of improvements for graphics and accelerator hardware. In the pull request, DRM maintainer Dave Airlie emphasized the significant push toward Rust integration as a central theme. The update mainlines new open-source drivers, delivers critical enhancements […]

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The upcoming GCC 16 release will introduce a significant overhaul of the compiler’s diagnostic systems, aimed at providing developers with more powerful and readable code analysis. The enhancements, detailed by Red Hat’s David Malcolm at the GNU Tools Cauldron 2025 in Porto, Portugal, include a new experimental HTML output format, major usability improvements to the […]

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