According to the Open Source Initiative, MIT and Apache 2.0 remain the most widely used open source licenses in 2025.

Chimera Linux has published new December 2025 images based on kernel 6.18, delivering updated desktops and refreshed system components.

Ventoy 1.1.10 adds support for the musl libc, fixes Wayland GUI crashes, and improves boot reliability across Linux and Windows systems.

Darktable 5.4, an open-source raw photo editing tool, introduces AgX tone mapping, capture sharpening, multi-workspace support, and more.

MPV 0.41 open-source media player makes GPU-Next the default renderer, delivering better color handling, Wayland improvements, and more.

The Linux Foundation reports over $310M in 2025 revenue, with $8.41M allocated to the Linux Kernel Project.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Mint 22.3 Beta, Systemd 259, mpv 0.41, OpenZFS 2.4, Debian gets its own PPA-like system, MIT and Apache 2.0 lead open source licensing in 2025, Mageia 10 enters alpha phase, and more.

The Qubes OS 4.3 release updates default templates to Fedora 42, Debian 13, and Whonix 18, dropping support for older template versions.

Clapper 0.10, an open-source media player, strengthens its enhancer plugin system, adding configurability, new plugins, and more.

Ubuntu-based elementary OS 8.1 is now available with the Wayland-based Secure Session set as the default and fixes over 1,100 reported issues.

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.3 improves flashing performance with real-time bottleneck detection, faster async I/O, smarter sync handling, and detailed write timing analysis.

The Lua 5.5 programming language introduces explicit global variable declarations alongside major improvements to memory and garbage collection.

QEMU 10.2 expands emulation support for RISC-V, PowerPC, and s390x, adding performance improvements, new machine support, and fixes.

The postmarketOS 25.12 release updates all major mobile Linux interfaces, including GNOME 49, Plasma Mobile 6.5.3, and Phosh 0.51.

Watchtower, a widely used Docker container update tool, is no longer maintained after its core developers stepped away.

Fabrice Bellard, founder of QEMU and FFmpeg, has published Micro QuickJS, a minimal JavaScript engine targeting embedded and low-memory environments.

Parrot OS 7.0 is now available, introducing KDE Plasma 6, Wayland by default, a Debian 13 base, and a fully rewritten system architecture.

Pinta 3.1, an open-source image-drawing/editing app, is out with improvements to canvas performance, reduced memory usage, and smoother zooming for large images.

OpenMediaVault 8.0 is now available, upgrading the NAS platform to Debian 13 and officially dropping support for legacy CPU architectures.

Kitty 0.45 GPU-accelerated terminal introduces a new keyboard-first file selector kitten with fast navigation and rich previews for text, images, videos, and e-books.

Ruby 4.0 is now available, introducing the experimental Ruby Box isolation feature, the new ZJIT compiler, and performance and concurrency improvements.