BleachBit 6.0 cleaner and privacy tool adds a new cookie manager, deeper browser cleaning, support for Vivaldi and Zen, and over 100 improvements.

CachyOS April 2026 ISO replaces Octopi with Shelly and adds installer, DNS-over-HTTPS, hardware, and NVIDIA updates.

Tested and proven step-by-step guide for smoothly upgrading from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon).

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, CachyOS April ISO, COSMIC 1.0.11, LXQt 2.4, VirtualBox 7.2.8, Mozilla Firefox quietly adds Brave’s adblock engine, and more.

Trinity Desktop R14.1.6 updates the classic KDE 3-style desktop with new app refinements, bug fixes, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS support.

With the end of standard ESM support for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, users must now choose between a staged upgrade or extended paid security coverage.

Kdenlive 26.04 is now available, offering enhanced timeline navigation, improved transitions, better audio capture, updated subtitle features, and a new Heatmap effect.

Canonical plans to gradually introduce AI features into Ubuntu, prioritizing local inference and providing clear interfaces to cloud services.

DietPi 10.3 adds Orange Pi 4 LTS images, Prometheus support, USB auto-mounting, Home Assistant changes, and multiple SBC fixes.

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 201 introduces DNS Firewall, replacing the old URL Filter with DNS-level domain blocking.

Notepad Next 0.14 improves security with a Lua injection fix and adds line sorting, previous search support, UTF-8 BOM handling, and build system updates.

Fedora Linux 44 arrives with GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6, Budgie 10.10, Nix tooling, updated developer stacks, and Linux kernel 6.19.

Microsoft is reportedly considering a Fedora-based foundation for Azure Linux, citing potential x86_64-v3 performance improvements in Fedora ELN meeting logs.

A Devuan community developer has launched GTK2-NG, a fork designed to maintain compatibility for legacy GTK2 software on current Linux systems.

Valve’s April 2026 Steam client update adds remote downloads management, quick chat for Big Picture Mode, and Remote Play improvements.

Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub’s outages and workflow failures have made the platform unsuitable for Ghostty’s active development.

Zed Code Editor reaches version 1.0, moving beyond its pre-release phase with a GPU-accelerated UI and cross-platform support.

Proxmox Backup Server 4.2 adds official S3-compatible object storage support, Debian 13.4, Linux kernel 7.0, and ZFS 2.4.

Wireshark 4.6.5 network protocol analyzer fixes dozens of vulnerabilities, including crashes, infinite loops, and memory issues.

LibreOffice 26.2.3 arrives with over 40 fixes, improving stability across DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, Writer, Calc, and Impress.

Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) is a Linux kernel vulnerability that allows local unprivileged users to gain root access on affected systems.