Ardour 9.7 improves MIDI editing, adds MIDI Tools to the Editor, reorganizes control surfaces, and introduces a vertical summary.

Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” roadmap confirms GNOME 51, App Center updates, RISC-V work, and early foundations for Ubuntu 28.04 LTS.

KDE Plasma 6.7 receives another round of bug fixes, covering Kickoff, Spectacle, screen sharing, widgets, RTL layouts, and System Settings.

Kdenlive 26.04.2 open-source video editor fixes a four-year-old Windows bug that blocked exporting videos directly to network drives.

The still-in-development Ladybird browser ends public pull requests as it prepares for its first alpha, citing weakened trust around AI-generated code.

XLibre celebrates its first anniversary with the stable 25.1 Xserver series, new features, distro adoption, and security fixes.

COSMIC Desktop’s Frosted Glass effect moves closer to release with new Settings controls for opacity, thickness, panels, applets, and windows.

Yay 12.6 updates search ranking, improves repository sorting, fixes package lookup errors, and refreshes metadata handling for Arch’s AUR.

HandBrake 1.11.2 video transcoder fixes a 2-pass x265 crash, resolves memory leaks, updates FFmpeg and SVT-AV1, and more.

KaOS Dinit 2026.06 RC follows months of migration work, replacing systemd as init with a Dinit-based stack.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Linux Lite 8.0, KaOS 2026.06 RC, COSMIC 1.0.15, GNOME 50.2, Yay 12.6, XLibre Xserver 25.1.6, Ubuntu 26.10 to ship with GNOME 51, and more.

Firefox 153 lands a Vulkan Video decode path, giving NVIDIA Linux users a long-awaited route to GPU-assisted browser video playback.

Flatpak 1.18 adds /dev/kfd support through DRI permissions, improving AMD GPU compute access for sandboxed Linux apps.

OpenCV 5.0 debuts a new DNN engine, broader ONNX support, VLM inference, C++17 requirements, and legacy API cleanup.

Proton confirms it is actively building a native Drive client for Linux, using its new SDK to bring encrypted file sync closer to desktop users.

Rspamd 4.1 lands with redesigned MX checks, load-aware upstreams, dynamic composites, stronger diagnostics, and broad security hardening.

The Document Foundation disputes Euro-Office’s “first European open-source office suite” claim and criticizes its OOXML default.

AOMedia formally announces AV2, following its first 1.0 release, with better compression, multi-view video, and early ecosystem work.

RefreshOS 3.0 combines Debian 13 (Trixie) with KDE Plasma 6, preconfigured drivers, codecs, apps, and a polished desktop experience.

Alpine Linux 3.24 ships COSMIC Desktop in community, alongside kernel 6.18 LTS, KDE Plasma 6.6, GNOME 50, and major toolchain updates.

Debian 12 Bookworm moves into long-term support, giving servers and desktops two more years of security coverage until mid-2028.