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SUSE/OpenSUSE
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OpenSUSE ☛ Tumbleweed Monthly Update - October 2026
October was a heavy month for both features and fixes, with 23 snapshots landing between Oct. 1 and 28. KDE Plasma 6.8.0 and KDE Frameworks 6.31.0 arrived as new feature releases for the desktop, Qt jumped to 6.12.0, and Firefox shipped 157.0.1, 158.0 and 158.0.1 to close out three rounds of Mozilla security advisories. The Linux kernel advanced through 7.2.9, 7.2.10 and 7.2.11 before moving to 7.3.0 at the end of the month, Mesa moved to 26.2.5, OpenSSH reached 10.6p1, Git landed 2.56.0, and GnuPG 2.5.24 brought RFC 9980 post-quantum support. The late snapshots added KDE Plasma 6.8.1, sqlite3 3.54.1, harfbuzz 15.0.0 and mariadb 13.0.2, while Tumbleweed patterns stopped recommending YaST for new installations. Security work dominated the back half of the month, with curl fixing two dozen flaws, libsoup patching a long list of WebSocket heap overflows, Pillow correcting 28 issues, and the kernel carrying 91 CVEs across its three point releases.
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Fedora Family / IBM
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Fedora 43 approaching end of life
Fedora 43 is currently scheduled to reach end of life (EOL) on 2026-12-09 (approximately one month from the date of this announcement). Please upgrade all of your Fedora templates and standalones by that date. For more information, see Upgrading to avoid EOL.
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Debian Family
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Sparky GNU/Linux ☛ Sparky news 2026/10
The 10th monthly Sparky project and donate report of the 2026: [...]
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Bisco ☛ Birger Schacht: Status update, September + October 2026
The orphaning of
usbguardandusbguard-notifieris because I don’t use those packages anymore. I rather spend my time on FOSS projects in areas I get something out of. This is also due to a growing frustration with the Debian community. The discussions on the mailing lists in the recent months lacked any sense of social etiquette. The delusional conviction that certain tools improve the work environment for EVERYONE took on religious overtones.
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