1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (407+ words) Fwupd developer Richard Hughes released fwupd 2. 1. 5 today as a new stable update in the fwupd 2. 1 series of this open-source project for updating and managing the firmware of various hardware on your Linux distribution. Coming only two weeks after fwupd 2. 1. 4, the…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (328+ words) AOMedia formally announces AV2, following its first 1. 0 release, with better compression, multi-view video, and early ecosystem work. AOMedia has officially released AV2, its next-generation open video codec and successor to AV1. This follows the codec's 1. 0 milestone, confirming AV2 as the Alliance for Open Media's…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (351+ words) VLC Media Player maker Video LAN announced today the dav2d project as an open-source, cross-platform, and free AV2 decoder focused on speed and correctness, based on the popular dav1d decoder. The idea behind dav2d is to create the fastest AV2 decoder available on all platforms…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (336+ words) Hyprland 0. 55. 3 backports fixes from main to the 0. 55 branch, covering config reloads, rendering, monitors, XWayland, and more. Hyprland 0. 55. 3 is now available as the third patch update in the 0. 55 series, bringing another round of fixes to the Wayland compositor and tiling window…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (322+ words) The still-in-development Ladybird browser ends public pull requests as it prepares for its first alpha, citing weakened trust around AI-generated code. Ladybird, an open-source web browser still in development, is revising its code contribution process as it approaches its first…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (344+ words) Shelly developer Zoey Bauer released Shelly 2. 3. 2. 2 today as a new stable update to this open-source graphical package manager for Arch Linux-based distributions, adding new features and improvements. Shelly 2. 3. 2. 2 is here to improve support for the Arch Linux-based Cachy OS distribution…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (396+ words) Ubuntu 26. 10 "Stonking Stingray" roadmap confirms GNOME 51, App Center updates, RISC-V work, and early foundations for Ubuntu 28. 04 LTS. Ubuntu 26. 10 "Stonking Stingray," scheduled for release on October 15, is now on the roadmap and, according to Canonical, will also serve as an early…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago  (217+ words) Levente "anthraxx" Polyak has been re-elected as Arch Linux Project Lead for another two-year term after the 2026 leadership election. Arch Linux has announced the results of its 2026 Project Leader election, confirming that Levente "anthraxx" Polyak has been re-elected for another…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (339+ words) Clonezilla Live maintainer Steven Shiau released today Clonezilla Live 3. 3. 2 as the latest stable version of this partition and disk imaging/cloning live Linux system based on Debian GNU/Linux. Coming more than three months after Clonezilla Live 3. 3. 1, the Clonezilla Live…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (512+ words) posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 03, 2026 Some time ago we wrote about the need to promote Free (libre) communication tools because some venues didn't offer those to the person who would be called "hypocrite" for not using only Free software…...