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Ubuntu 25.10 Reached End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Ubuntu 25.10 was released on October 9th, 2025, and, since it’s not an Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support) release, it only received support for nine months, until July 2026. Ubuntu 25.10 was powered by the Linux 6.17 kernel series and featured the GNOME 49 desktop environment series with a Wayland-only session.

PipeWire 1.6.8 Improves JACK/MIDI Support for Ardour, SOFA Filter, and More

Coming three weeks after PipeWire 1.6.7, the PipeWire 1.6.8 release fixes a data race in JACK’s jack_port_get_buffer() function that could cause lost MIDI events in the Ardour DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) when called from concurrent threads, and adds normalize and latency options to the SOFA filter.

Wireshark 4.6.7 Released with Updated Protocol Support, Bug and Security Fixes

Coming a month and a half after Wireshark 4.6.6, the Wireshark 4.6.7 release updates support for the ALC, BACapp, C2P, Catapult DCT2000, COTP, CSN.1, DCERPC, DCERPC MAPI, DCERPC NSPI, DNS, DVB-S2-TABLE, eDonkey, EPL, FC ELS, FMP/NOTIFY, H.265, HiPerConTracer, IEEE 802.11, LLS, MEGACO, MIH, MPEG DSM-CC, MS-WSP, RELOAD, SGP.32, SSH, STANAG 4607, UMTS FP, WOWW, and Z39.50 protocols.

GStreamer 1.28.5 Multimedia Framework Adds Support for H.266/VVC Decoding

Coming about a month after GStreamer 1.28.4, the GStreamer 1.28.5 release is here to add support for H.266/VVC decoding to the gopbuffer element, fix subtitle green flickering with VA decoders on AMD GPUs, improve HEVC with alpha decoding in the H.265 decoder, and add ts-clocksync to the threadshare element.

Linux Mint’s Cinnamon 6.8 Desktop Environment Will Fully Support Wayland

The Linux Mint devs have been working hard on making Cinnamon’s Wayland session as stable as possible, and it looks like Cinnamon 6.8 will finally remove the “experimental” status of the Wayland session and fully support Wayland. Here are some of the features they’ve implemented so far:

LinuxGizmos.com

LILYGO showcases new IoT devices with ESP32-C5 and Nordic nRF52840 MCUs

LILYGO has listed two compact development boards for wireless IoT applications: the T-Display C5, a small ESP32-C5-based board with a color LCD and dual-band Wi-Fi 6, and the T-Echo Card, a rugged LoRa-enabled device with GNSS, Bluetooth, NFC, solar charging, and an IP66-rated enclosure.

WINSYSTEMS SBC-477 PowerTier Series delivers Raptor Lake performance in a rugged SBC design

WINSYSTEMS’ SBC-477 PowerTier Series is a family of compact rugged single board computers for industrial and MIL/COTS applications, combining 13th Gen Intel Core Raptor Lake processors with DDR5 memory, dual Ethernet, Mini PCIe expansion, TPM 2.0 security, and extended-temperature operation.

Internet Society

Safety Over Bans: Internet Society Challenges App Store Age Verification

Imagine having to provide a government ID before downloading an app to clock in at work, submit homework, check the weather, or access your bank account. Under a new Texas law, that could become a reality for millions of people.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 06, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. The Internet is Failing to Protect Democratic Processes and Human Knowledge
    Amplifying lies, rewarding plagiarists
  2. Links 05/11/2024: Criminal Referrals Regarding Patent Trolls and Disinformation About the Election Process (Already)
    Links for the day
  3. Disinformation About Election Outcomes Even Before Any Election Outcomes (or Election/Voting!)
    seeding doubt about election outcomes
  4. Against Outsourcing of Sites and E-mail
    Software Freedom is great, but it is not enough if you let someone else do it 'for you'
  5. Drew DeVault: People Talking About My Attack Site (Against the Founder of GNU/Linux) is "Spam"
    "Spam on sr.ht mailing lists"

    New

  6. Birthday Tomorrow
    Many cakes and drinks are ready; we're one day away now
  7. Gemini Links 05/11/2024: 'App' Needed for Parking, NNCP, Gomphotherium
    Links for the day
  8. How Voting Does Not Work
    You cannot vote from an "app"
  9. Links 05/11/2024: Bluesky and Enshittification, Pugad Baboy, and Lots of Disinformation Flooding the Web
    Links for the day
  10. [Meme] Sweaty Under the Belly
    "OK, my critics are 'spam'"
  11. Microsoft Bribing Canonical (to Stop Competing) and Bribing Users to Shun the Competition
    Canonical is worth shunning
  12. [Meme] The 2024 'Info Bros'
    And prehistoric googling
  13. Computers Getting Worse (for the User) Over Time
    This is like Windows-ism coming to "Linux" through the hardware
  14. [Meme] How NOT to Vote
    Another form of (mostly-unspoken-of) election interference
  15. An LLM Inside a 'Search' Engine Means That Companies Tell You What They Want, Not What Web Pages to Visit
    The future of 'googling' things might be as unreliable as using Social Control Media as a source of information
  16. Google's Debt Has Increased and 'Cash on Hand' Fell by 22.27% This Past Year
    These are the numbers that the corporate media intentionally leaves out
  17. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  18. IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 04, 2024
    IRC logs for Monday, November 04, 2024
  19. There's a Reason Why Techrights is Turning 18 and Tux Machines Will Turn 20.5 Next Month
    I started advocating GNU/Linux when I was a teenager
  20. "Oppose the Fascist"
    what the founder of GNU/Linux said
  21. Techrights Has a Long History of Fighting to Expose 'Team Mono' or Microsofters Inside GNOME
    Never downplay the malice of Microsoft and its operatives
  22. Halloween, All Saints Day & Swiss citizenship
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  23. Gemini Links 05/11/2024: Halloween Over, Intention and Implementation, Bookmark Syncing
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-10-30 to 2024-11-05
    1532 /n/2024/11/04/GNU_Linux_Users_Are_Not_Cheaters.shtml
    1172 /n/2024/11/04/Shout_out_to_Christine_From_FOSSForce.shtml
    976 /n/2024/10/31/SCO_Darl_McBride_Dead_at_Age_64.shtml
    798 /n/2024/11/02/GNU_Linux_Usage_Surveys_Up_to_6_8_With_ChromeOS_Based_on_StatCo.shtml
    788 /n/2024/10/30/Links_30_10_2024_TSMC_Concerns_and_North_Koreans_in_Ukraine_War.shtml
    663 /n/2024/11/02/Python_Software_Foundation_is_Cancel_Culture_Rehomed.shtml
    627 /n/2024/11/04/Apple_s_MacOS_Shows_Us_the_Vision_of_Computing_That_GAFAM_Has_f.shtml
    574 /n/2024/11/01/Technology_rights_or_responsibilities_Part_V.shtml
    574 /n/2024/10/29/Linux_Fork_or_Community_Fork_of_Linux_in_Russia.shtml
    556 /n/2024/10/30/The_Role_of_Publishers_on_the_World_Wide_Web_and_Gemini_Protoco.shtml
    542 /n/2024/10/30/All_Systems_Operational.shtml
    539 /n/2024/10/30/More_Than_a_Week_Has_Passed_DeVault_Has_Declined_to_Deny_Seriou.shtml
    528 /n/2024/11/01/Links_01_11_2024_Few_Things_Are_Cheaper_Than_This_Antenna_and_N.shtml
    526 /n/2024/10/30/Volkswagen_Cheated_Us_and_Created_Cars_We_Didn_t_Ask_For.shtml
    521 /n/2024/11/02/The_Luddite_Complex.shtml
    511 /n/2024/10/30/Links_30_10_2024_Extreme_Surveillance_in_Schools_More_Openwashi.shtml
    509 /n/2024/10/31/Facebook_is_for_Zombies.shtml

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