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.

AerynOS 2026.05 arrives with refreshed branding, GNOME 50.1, KDE Plasma 6.6.4, COSMIC 1.0.11, and Linux kernel 7.0.2.

Linux Mint introduces Hardware Enablement ISOs to improve installation reliability on new hardware.

Shotcut 26.4 adds Vulkan GPU support for Speech to Text, timeline improvements, export metadata, 10-bit VP9 presets, and many fixes.

Calibre 9.8 adds support for local OpenAI-compatible AI providers, improves mobile book details access, and fixes TTS and GIF conversion issues.

Arch Linux’s May 2026 ISO is out with Linux kernel 7.0, Plasma 6.6.4, GNOME 50.1, updated firmware, and refreshed core packages.

APT 3.3 package manager removes the long-standing unstable CLI warning and adds support for requesting a specific CLI version.

EndeavourOS Titan Neo arrives six weeks after Titan with Calamares fixes, refreshed packages, and updates for new installations.

Canonical confirms Ubuntu web infrastructure is facing a sustained cross-border DDoS attack, causing service disruption.

Wine 11.8 updates Mono to version 11.1, improves MSXML and VBScript support, and fixes 22 bugs across games and Windows apps.

KDE Plasma 6.7 prepares Background Apps portal support, sharper KWin zoom upscaling, and several System Tray and Discover refinements.

Uptime Kuma 2.3 adds OracleDB monitoring, collapsible status page groups, new notification providers, and several uptime and metrics fixes.

DavMail 6.7 adds TOTP MFA support, improves the Microsoft Graph backend, and fixes Office 365 authentication issues.

GCC 16.1 arrives as the first GCC 16 release, switching the default C++ dialect from GNU C++17 to GNU C++20.

National Health Service England reportedly plans to make most public code repositories private due to concerns about AI-assisted vulnerability scanning.

VideoLAN releases dav2d 0.0.1 “Merbanan,” an early preview AV2 decoder and successor to its widely used dav1d AV1 project.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Fedora 44, EndeavourOS Titan Neo, APT 3.3, Arch Linux May ISO, Wine 11.8, GCC 16, Copy Fail Linux kernel flaw, and more.

Omarchy 3.7 arrives as The Gaming Edition, adding Steam, RetroArch, Lutris, Heroic, Moonlight, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and more.

Podman 6 is now targeted for release the week of May 25 at the earliest, allowing the team additional time to complete major release tasks.