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Touchscreen Smart Box Based on ESP32-P4 with Wi-Fi 6 or Ethernet

The ESP32-P4 Smart 86 Box is a compact development board with a 4-inch capacitive touchscreen, designed for HMI, smart control panels, and edge processing. Its 86 mm form factor allows it to be easily installed in wall-mounted enclosures for use in embedded automation and smart terminal applications.

PocketBeagle 2 Rev A1 Upgrades to Quad-Core AM6254 Processor

BeagleBoard.org has released an updated revision of the PocketBeagle 2 featuring the Texas Instruments AM6254 processor. The new Rev A1 replaces the earlier AM6232-based Rev A0, offering a significant performance boost with no change in pricing. The upgraded AM6254 brings a quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU and an integrated GPU, targeting more demanding embedded applications.

Banana Pi Previews BPI-R4 Pro Router Board with MediaTek MT7988A and Wi-Fi 7 Support

Banana Pi has revealed early details about the BPI-R4 Pro, an upcoming router board powered by the MediaTek MT7988A (Filogic 880). Designed as a successor to the BPI-R4, it targets high-speed wireless and wired networking for applications such as Wi-Fi 7 access points and multi-gigabit gateways.

Olimex Showcases Open Source €20 Smart Home Server Project

Olimex has recently highlighted a new open-source hardware and software project aimed at creating a €20 smart home server. The initiative was introduced during a lightning talk at TuxCon 2025, a community-driven open-source conference held earlier this month in Bulgaria.

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Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.1 Is One of the First Distros to Ship with Linux 6.15

Coming two months after PorteuX 2.0, the PorteuX 2.1 release is powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.15 kernel series and ships with NTFS3 as the default driver for handling NTFS filesystems instead of NTFS-3G. The devs warn that all symlinks stored on NTFS partitions will need to be regenerated.

CachyOS ISO Snapshot for May 2025 Improves Support for Older NVIDIA GPUs

Still powered by the Linux 6.14 kernel series, the CachyOS ISO snapshot for May 2025 features the latest KDE Plasma 6.3.5 desktop environment, which is accompanied by the latest KDE Gear 25.04.1 and KDE Frameworks 6.14 software suites, all built against the Qt 6.9 open-source application framework.

Alpine Linux 3.22 Released with GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, and LXQt 2.2

Powered by Linux kernel 6.12 LTS and coming more than six months after Alpine Linux 3.21, the Alpine Linux 3.22 release introduces support for the latest GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, and LXQt 2.2 desktop environments, as well as the replacement of the gummiboot (formerly systemd-boot) boot manager with systemd-efistub.

GStreamer 1.26.2 Improves the D3D12 Video Decoder for NVIDIA GPUs, WAV Playback

Coming a little over a month after GStreamer 1.26.1, GStreamer 1.26.2 is here to add a new Skia-based video compositor element, workaround crashes with the D3D12 video decoder on NVIDIA GPUs, which occurred when changing the resolution, and further improve the performance of the dav1d AV1 decoder.

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Navidrome 0.56 Music Server & Streamer Brings Major Overhaul

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on May 31, 2025

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Navidrome, a lightweight, self-hosted music server and streaming service, has just unveiled version 0.56, which includes an extensive set of new features, critical security fixes, and notable improvements to the user experience.

This release prioritizes security, with a key fix addressing a potential SQL injection vulnerability in artist role filtering. This patch mitigates a serious risk and is set to receive a formal CVE designation soon.

Additionally, the ability to modify transcoding configurations has been tightened, restricting changes exclusively to admin users to prevent unauthorized tampering.

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