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Debian’s APT 3.2 Released with History, Undo, Redo, and Rollback Support

The biggest new feature in the APT 3.2 release is the long-anticipated rollback and history functionality that other package managers like DNF for Red Hat-based distros. This change was actually implemented in the development version 3.1.7, but it’s now part of the stable APT 3.2 release.

Firefox 149.0.2 Improves the Browser Toolbar on Wayland for Linux Users

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OpenSSL 3.6.2 Is Now Available for Download with Important Security Fixes

OpenSSL 3.6.2 is here two and a half months after OpenSSL 3.6.1 to address several important security vulnerabilities, including incorrect failure handling in RSA KEM RSASVE encapsulation (CVE-2026-31790) and an out-of-bounds read in AES-CFB-128 on x86-64 CPUs with AVX-512 support (CVE-2026-28386).

KDE Plasma 6.6.4 Is Out to Reduce CPU and GPU Load for Full-Screen Windows

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KDE 4’s Air Theme Making a Comeback, Oxygen Gets Major Revamp for Plasma 6.7

KDE officially removed the Air desktop theme with the release of the Plasma 6 desktop environment series in early 2024, but thanks to Filip Fila, Nuno Pinheiro, and Marco Martin, it is making a major comeback with widget transparency with a blur effect behind windows, which improves contrast and legibility.

PeaZip 11.0 Archive Manager Speeds Up File Browsing and Enhances Bookmarks

Coming two months after PeaZip 10.9, the PeaZip 11.0 release introduces a faster file browser by enabling virtual mode by default over 16K items for the GTK2 version, support for dropping items to the Breadcrumb bar and to the Tab bar, and improved zoom and fractional scaling.

Internet Society

Community Snapshot—March

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. Here is an overview of just some of their activities over the last few weeks.

LinuxGizmos.com

Foenix Labs A2560Me Brings MC68LC060 CPU, FPGA Graphics, and PCIe Expansion

Foenix Labs’ A2560Me is a Mini-ITX motherboard built around the Motorola MC68LC060 processor and designed as an updated version of the earlier A2560M platform. The system combines a legacy 68k CPU architecture with FPGA-based subsystems and more recent interfaces such as PCIe and DDR3 memory.

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.9

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

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Good Uptime So Far in 2026

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 07, 2026

A little less than three weeks from now (Apr 24, 2026 21:00 - Apr 25, 2026 09:00 BST) there will be work on the network, potentially having some impact on access to the site/capsule. At the moment the site works very fast, but room for improvement exists, particularly when it comes to serving people as far as Japan (that can take over a second depending on the route).

So far this year we're not aware of any downtime, not even as short as more than a minute though we did reboot once (into a new kernel, back in January). We'd like to think we make a good "use case" or "case study" for avoiding GAFAM and "The Cloud". █

Image source: Wi-fi Internet Router

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