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Community Snapshot—September

Around the world, our 130 chapters and special interest groups work locally, regionally, and globally to keep the Internet a force for good: open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy. Each month, we provide a brief overview of just some of the things they have achieved in the previous month.

LinuxGizmos.com

Arduino UNO Q Combines Qualcomm Dragonwing QRB2210 and STM32 MCU

Qualcomm Technologies has announced its plan to acquire Arduino, marking a major development in the embedded and maker ecosystems. The acquisition aims to combine Qualcomm’s edge computing and AI expertise with Arduino’s large developer community and open hardware approach.

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tor Browser 14.5.8

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

Arti 1.6.0 released: Circuit padding, side-channel attack mitigations, OpenTelemetry, and more.

Arti 1.6.0 brings experimental support for circuit padding, mitigations for DropMark side channel attacks, improvements to congestion control, a new arti keys check-integrity command, and experimental support for exporting debugging information via OpenTelemetry.

9to5Linux

ClamAV 1.5 Open-Source Antivirus Engine Released with Major New Features

Highlights of ClamAV 1.5 include checks to determine if an OLE2-based MS Office document is encrypted, regex support for the clamd.conf OnAccessExcludePath configuration option, as well as CVD signing and verification using external .sign files, along with new options to set an alternative CVD certs directory.

GIMP 3.0.6 Is Now Available for Download with Improved Photoshop Brush Support

Coming four and a half months after GIMP 3.0.4, the GIMP 3.0.6 release introduces a new toggle in the Brushes and Fonts dialogs to allow brush and font previews to optionally follow the color theme, an alpha channel for certain transforms and on filter merge, and improves Photoshop brush support.

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Slick New MPD Client Euphonica is Now Available on Flathub

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 09, 2025

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