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Coming about two weeks after COSMIC 1.8, the COSMIC 1.9 release introduces two new apps, namely COSMIC Viewer as an image viewer that supports a wide range of formats and features built-in editing capabilities, and COSMIC OSK as an on-screen keyboard that supports both touch and gamepad input.
Highlights of Mir 2.30 include wl_fixes Wayland protocol support, a typed wrapper for wl_array, a run nest command for the workshop tooling, mandatory Rust support at build time alongside the newly packaged Rust-powered evdev input platform, and libxml++ 5.0 compatibility with a 2.6 fallback for older Linux distros.
Coming almost two months after fwupd 2.1.7, the fwupd 2.1.8 release introduces support for ASUS GX5407, Elan PID 0CB6, FocalTech MOC fingerprint sensors, Lenovo ThinkPad Thunderbolt 4 Dock Gen 2 7000, MaxLinear MxL862xx, MediaTek MT9700 FCTE and MT9701 KSMU, Pixart PID 4F01, 4F02, 4F0D and 4F0E, and Rolling RW101 devices.
Coming one and a half months after Wireshark 4.6.8, the Wireshark 4.6.9 release updates support for the AKP, Bencode, BT AVCTP, BSSLAP, Catapult DCT2000, CSN.1, DICOM, F1AP, FP Hint, Frame, GNW, GSM BSSMAP, IEEE 802.11, LBMC, LoRaWAN, NBAP, OBEX, OpenFlow 1.3/1.4/1.5, PKCS12, QUIC, RTPS, SGP.32, SMB, SPDY, SYNCHROPHASOR, UMTS FP, X11, and ZigBee ZCL protocols.
Based on the Debian “Forky” Testing and SparkyLinux Testing repositories as of September 21st, 2026, SparkyLinux 2026.09 is powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.2 kernel series and introduces a Sparky Labwc edition featuring the Labwc wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for Wayland.
KeePassXC 2.8 looks like a major update that promises a long-anticipated Qt 6 port to provide users with a more modern experience, Auto-Type support on Wayland using XDG Desktop Portals, quick unlock via Polkit on Linux, configurable keyboard shortcuts, remote database synchronization with external tools, and quick unlock with password on macOS.
NTFS-3G 2026.9.18 is a security update that adds guards against multiple creator-owner and creator-group ACEs during ACL inheritance and fixes heap buffer overflows in the ntfs_external_attr_find(), ntfs_ea_check_wsldev(), ntfs_check_restart_area(), ntfs_same_sid(), and ntfs_acl_owner() functions.
Coming a month after NVIDIA 595.99.02, the NVIDIA 595.104.02 release addresses a failure that could occur when allocating GPU page tables larger than 2 GiB (INT_MAX) and an issue where unvalidated VkHdrMetadataEXT values were forwarded to the Wayland color-management-v1 protocol, which could cause a crash.
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Another day in Mayfield
The real “Linux”
The timewasting carries on
Beefing up the animals
Still active
As planned
Better late than never
Put away the gadgets
The real and meaningful astronomical event
Building an Internet for everyone takes people who can turn ideas into action.
Orange Pi has published hardware details for the OrangePi O1, a 90 × 70mm SBC based on the Sophgo BM1688 processor. It pairs eight Arm Cortex-A53 cores with a RISC-V C906 coprocessor and a 16-TOPS INT8 TPU, along with up to 16GB of LPDDR4/LPDDR4X memory.
wolfSSL has detailed several embedded security updates covering deterministic networking, post-quantum cryptography and automotive hardware security. The updates include the wolfIP TCP/IP stack, NIST-validated post-quantum algorithms in wolfCrypt, native Falcon and FrodoKEM implementations, and wolfHSM support for Infineon’s AURIX TC4xx family.
OnLogic has added two SoftPLC-oriented industrial computers built around Intel Core Ultra processors and pre-configured CODESYS environments. The Helix 521-PLC targets low-profile deployments, while the larger Helix 524-PLC adds PCIe expansion with an available Hilscher netX fieldbus interface for industrial networking and real-time control applications.
This tutorial will show how to do various common string processing using macro in LibreOffice.
Article contains examples using Calc Macro via Basic to perform various string operations such as join, extract, subtring and more.