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PipeWire 1.6.11 Is Out with More Bluetooth and ALSA Plugin Improvements

Coming only a week after PipeWire 1.6.10, the PipeWire 1.6.11 release further improves Bluetooth support by backporting some security fixes, as well as improving handling of multiple concurrent profile registrations and some allocation errors.

Armbian Imager 2.5 Released with First-Boot Profiles, Revamped Settings Page

Coming four months after Armbian Imager 2.0, the Armbian Imager 2.5 release introduces a guided setup flow for first-boot profiles that walks you through network, user, language, time zone, and sign-in options one step at a time, with your answers collected in a summary column beside the questions.

Canonical Plans to Revive Its Immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop Flavor

After a dormant period following a 2023 developer preview, Canonical has assembled a dedicated, cross-functional team to restart development of Ubuntu Core Desktop. The goal? A safer, more resilient Linux desktop built entirely on Snaps, from the bootloader and kernel all the way up to your apps.

System76 Teases Thelio Prime AMD Mini Linux PC Running Pop!_OS with COSMIC

Meet Thelio Prime, a new mini Linux PC from System76 that features an AMD Ryzen 9000 Series processor with AMD Radeon integrated graphics, or a dedicated NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics card. It also comes with up to 96 GB dual-channel DDR5 RAM and up to 8 TB M.2 PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD drives.

Mesa 26.2.6 Released with Fixes for RADV, ANV, Zink, RadeonSI, and Freedreno

Coming two weeks after Mesa 26.2.5, the Mesa 26.2.6 release brings fixes to AMD’s RADV Vulkan driver by addressing a VMA heap size error in the descriptor sets allocator, two memory leaks when pool entry allocation fails, and a stack size overwrite on partial ray tracing cache hits.

Scribus 1.6.7 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released with Improvements

Coming six months after Scribus 1.6.6, the Scribus 1.6.7 release addresses seven security vulnerabilities discovered in Scribus’s image loaders and import filters, ranging from heap and integer overflows to out-of-bounds reads and access, so these alone are a solid reason to update your Scribus installations today.

Mozilla Thunderbird 159 Email Client Improves Tray Icon Support on Linux

Continuing its fast, two-week release cycle, Mozilla Thunderbird 159 is here to update the tray icon support for Linux systems to indicate unread mail and show the message count in the tooltip, and to introduce automatic detection of graph calendars when creating a new account.

KDE Plasma 6.8.2 Desktop Environment Released with Numerous Bug Fixes

Coming a week after KDE Plasma 6.8.1, the KDE Plasma 6.8.2 release improves the Activity Switcher sidebar to no longer stretch wallpaper images on screens without a 16:9 aspect ratio, showing the wallpaper faithfully and cropping it if needed instead.

Mozilla Firefox 159 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

For Linux users, Mozilla Firefox 159 improves memory usage on AMD GPU systems when viewing map or place results, fixes that very annoying tab detaching into a new window issue on Wayland, and fixes an issue with menus and panels fading in when animation effects are turned off in the operating system.

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Xerxes Home Lab adds Jetson support, NVMe, and PoE

Australian company Rapid Analysis has launched a new Kickstarter campaign for its Xerxes Home Lab platform, featuring updated carrier boards for Raspberry Pi Compute Modules and NVIDIA Jetson systems. The lineup includes the Xerxes Pi 2026, Xerxes Nano, and an RK3566-based compute module, targeting home servers, embedded systems, and local AI applications.

Collabora advances Mali GPU support with Kraid compiler and Tyr Rust driver

Collabora has announced two developments for open-source Arm Mali GPU support, with its Rust-based Kraid compiler becoming the default for newer Mali architectures in Mesa 27.0 and the Tyr kernel driver reaching a firmware-boot milestone in Linux 7.3. The updates improve shader compilation efficiency while advancing Rust-based GPU driver development in the Linux kernel.

DietPi v10.8 adds WireGuard management and network improvements

DietPi v10.8 introduces a dedicated WireGuard management utility, named software package identifiers, and an updated HAProxy installation package. The October release also improves network configuration, expands storage device support on Quartz64 platforms, and addresses several bugs affecting system management and applications.

(Updated) ESP-Mosaico centers dual-core RISC-V ESP32-S31 around a 2.16-inch square AMOLED

The Espressif ESP-Mosaico is an expandable smart-interaction development kit based on the ESP32-S31 microcontroller. The compact device integrates a 2.16-inch square touch display, audio hardware, motion and magnetic sensors, NAND storage, haptic feedback and dual expansion interfaces for HMI, edge voice and multimedia applications.

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Internet Governance: Empowering Communities to Shape the Future of the Internet

Keeping the Internet open, connected, and secure takes more than technology. It depends on informed, committed voices from every corner of society who understand how the Internet works and who are empowered to take part in the discussions that determine how it operates and evolves.