Do you waddle the waddle?
This version includes important security updates to Firefox.
This release continues our ongoing development towards using Arti as a relay and as a directory authority, with much of the work focusing on document parsing, directory mirror support, and DNS stream handling. Additionally, arti now has RPC support for modifying and inspecting its configuration.
The Persistent Storage on the USB stick will be lost if you install instead of upgrading.
It’s coming!
Better ill than dead
Things have progressed:
All good so far
Good cause
Less so over time
Penalties
Babysitting
Still doing well, even better
Trying “addiction”
The open Internet is made up of countless interconnected networks. At its best, it is resilient enough to withstand disruptions. But even narrow policy and commercial choices can have ripple effects that shape what people can access, how information moves, and who gets to participate online.
How can we best help people have a safe and secure experience online? How can we help them protect themselves from scams? Detect false information? Protect their data and systems?
Pinetek Networks has developed the IOL Core4, a compact IO-Link-compatible master module for embedded systems. It connects up to four industrial sensors or actuators over IEC 61131-9 SDCI and is intended for integration into custom control, monitoring and IIoT hardware.
Shenzhen Graperain Technology has featured an Allwinner A733 development platform with a gold-finger system-on-module and carrier board. It provides an octa-core Arm processor, 3-TOPS NPU, LPDDR5 memory, M.2 storage, GbE and multiple display and camera interfaces.
Makerfabs has added a 7.5-inch model to its MaTouch E Ink family, pairing an 800 × 480 four-color electrophoretic display with an ESP32-S3 controller, four-microphone array, six-axis IMU, microSD storage and optional camera. The board is intended for applications including information displays, voice-controlled interfaces and low-power dashboards.
Coming a little over a month after LibreOffice 26.8, the LibreOffice 26.8.1 update is packed with bug fixes for various issues, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users, as well as more reliable import of text and CSV files with various character encodings, including UTF-16, ISO Latin 1, Chinese, and Japanese.
Yes, you’re reading it right, the new Debian 13 Linux kernel security update is a massive one, probably the biggest kernel security release ever, and it patches no less than 1313 security vulnerabilities in the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series that powers Debian Trixie.
Powered by the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel series and using the latest Mesa 26.2 graphics stack, Ubuntu 26.10 Beta ships today with the recently released GNOME 51 desktop environment and the 100% Rust coreutils migration, as the default core utilities now run entirely on the Rust-based uutils implementation.
Powered by Linux kernel 7.2.7, the Arch Linux 2026.10.01 ISO snapshot ships as a refreshed installation image that incorporates all the security patches, bug fixes, and updated packages that have been pushed to the Arch Linux software repositories throughout September 2026.
Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.2 kernel series, OpenMandriva Lx 26.09 ROME features the latest KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment with the KDE Gear 26.08.1 and KDE Frameworks 6.29 software suites, as well as GNOME 50.3, Xfce 4.20, LXQt 2.4, MATE 1.28, Spectrwm, Hyprland 0.56.2, COSMIC 1.7, Sway 1.12, and others.
Coming more than four months after Nitrux 6.1, the Nitrux 7.0 release is powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.2 kernel series with CachyOS patches, namely Linux 7.2.6, and uses the Hyprland 0.55.4 Wayland compositor with the Lüv 0.8.9 icon theme, KDE Frameworks 6.26 software suite, and MauiKit 4.0.4.
Mozilla Thunderbird 157 introduces two new enterprise policies, namely DisableChat and DisableFileLink, to disable the Thunderbird Chat functionality and the Thunderbird FileLink functionality, respectively, makes the IMAP/POP manual configuration port field optional, and updates the built-in Thundermail add-on to version 2.0.16.
Audacity 4.0.1 adds support for exporting each track or each labelled region to its own file, restores the missing keyboard shortcuts from the Audacity 3 series, adds clickable carousel dots on the Welcome screen, adds a Liquid Glass app icon on macOS, and adds an “Open in file manager” option to the Cloud projects tab.
New data out today:
At the moment Clownflare measures GNU/Linux at around 6.3% in Japan, but it's nighttime there and it goes lower in daytime.
statCounter, however, continues to show sharp increases or uptake of GNU/Linux in the land of the rising sun.
If true, or if the trend is accurate, then revisit "Software Freedom, a Japanese Perspective" (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, and Part V). █
Image source: Tokyo Tower