Plex is tripling its Lifetime Pass price to $750 on July 1, while Jellyfin mocked the move with a satirical $0 “price increase.”

GNOME Commander 2.0 modernizes the classic two-pane file manager with Rust, GTK4, an embedded terminal, and UI improvements.

KDE Plasma 6.7 gains more crash fixes, Discover improvements, KWin memory leak patches, and multi-monitor reliability work.

Linux Mint previews upcoming Cinnamon and Nemo improvements, including faster file browsing, a new screenshot tool, and WPA3 support.

PhotoPrism’s May 2026 release adds an editable viewer sidebar, manual face tagging, Vulkan video transcoding, and better image format support.

Apache NetBeans 30 is now available with JDK 21 as the minimum runtime, Maven 3.9.15, Ant 1.10.17, and Java editor fixes.

Phosh 0.55 adds a Syncthing quick setting, screen dimming fixes, Phoc 0.55 with wlroots 0.20, and more mobile Linux updates.

Valkey 9.1 in-memory data store adds database-level ACLs, JSON logging, Lua modularization, TLS updates, and performance improvements.

z386 is an open-source 80386-class FPGA CPU core that uses recovered Intel 386 microcode to run DOS and protected-mode software.

Ubuntu-based Rhino Linux 2026.1 is out with new Lomiri desktop images for x86_64 and ARM64, updated kernels, and Pacstall improvements.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Rhino Linux 2026.1, Proxmox VЕ 9.2, Nitrux 6.1, Firefox 151, GNOME Commander 2.0, Microsoft Azure Linux 4, Linux Mint’s new screenshot tool, and more.

MX Linux 25.2 is now available with Linux 7.0 on the AHS edition, Debian 13.5 base updates, and refreshed ISO images.

Flatpak’s future sandboxing design may rely more heavily on systemd services, raising questions about compatibility with non-systemd systems.

AppGrid 1.8 updates the KDE Plasma 6 launcher with rewritten favorites, drag-and-drop support, smarter search, and deeper Plasma integration.

Sway 1.12 lands with HDR10 support via the Vulkan renderer, individual window capture, wlroots 0.20, and new Wayland protocols.

KernelScript 0.1 introduces an experimental type-safe DSL for writing eBPF, userspace, and kernelspace code from one codebase.

AerynOS users get Linux kernel 7.0.10, KDE Plasma 6.6.5, COSMIC 1.0.13, Firefox 151, Wine 11.9, and LLVM 22.1.6.

PipeWire 1.6.6 is out with a fix for a server bug that could leave Snap clients without sound, plus filter-graph and Pulse server updates.

Labwc 0.20 window-stacking Wayland compositor lands as the first release based on wlroots 0.20, adding HDR10 support, show desktop action, and capture improvements.

California’s AB 1856 amendment adds an open-source carve-out to OS-level age verification rules, likely excluding most Linux distributions.

AlmaLinux 10.2 ships with Linux kernel 6.12, i686 userspace packages, Btrfs boot support, GNOME 49, Linux 6.12, and expanded hardware support.