Catch up on the latest Linux news: CachyOS June 2026 ISO, KaOS 2026.06, COSMIC Desktop 1.1, Fish Shell 4.8, Podman 6.0, Ubuntu ARM64 rebootless kernel updates, and more.

Slackel MATE 9.0 arrives with Slackware Current compatibility, MATE desktop, live ISO support, and installable images for both modern and older hardware.

Mageia 10 lands after a long development cycle, bringing Plasma 6.5, GNOME 49, Xfce 4.20, Linux kernel 6.18 LTS, DNF 5, RPM 4.20, and more.

Kodi 22 “Piers” Beta is out for testing, bringing FFmpeg 8.1, Python 3.14, HDR improvements, and big Linux rendering changes.

Kali Linux 2026.2 arrives with major desktop updates, new tools, faster VM boots, and APT source changes.

Git 2.55 adds Linux support for its built-in FSMonitor daemon, helping large repositories avoid costly working-tree scans.

Wine 11.12 bundles FFmpeg’s libswresample and libswscale, updates Wine Mono to 11.2, and fixes 27 bugs.

Transmission 4.1.3 is out as a bugfix release, addressing a potential CSRF issue affecting users who enable remote access.

Azure Linux 4.0 is now available through Azure images, containers, and downloadable ISOs, but Microsoft still marks it as preview-only and not suitable for production use.

Parrot OS 7.3 is now available, bringing Linux kernel 7.0, optimized builds for newer CPUs, official Vagrant boxes, and refreshed security tools.

KDE Plasma 6.7.2 lands as the second bugfix update in the 6.7 series, polishing KWin, Wayland, networking, and screencasting.

Oracle is adding defined contributor roles, project leadership paths, and a Technical Steering Committee to guide MySQL’s future.

COSMIC Desktop 1.2 lands with archive extraction fixes, better applet behavior, Store loading indicators, and Monitor improvements.

VirtualBox 7.2.12 is out with an important Linux host fix, plus build improvements for Linux host and guest components.

Canonical says Ubuntu kernel updates are available for DirtyClone, a high-severity Linux local privilege escalation flaw tracked as CVE-2026-43503.

The latest Asahi Linux progress report brings good news for Apple M3 Mac users, though installer support for these machines still needs more work.

The privacy-focused Tails 7.9.1 ships with Linux kernel 6.12.94, addressing DirtyClone and another privilege-escalation vulnerability.

Fwupd 2.16 fixes several security-related issues, including safer manifest validation, sealed memfd input handling, and device-version checks.

Arch Linux’s July 2026 ISO ships with Linux kernel 7.0.14, Archinstall 4.4, systemd 261.1, fresh firmware, and updated core packages.

System76’s new Lemur Pro weighs under 3 pounds, packs Intel Core Ultra Series 3 chips, and starts at $1,999 before the current $76 discount.

KDE Gear 26.04.3 delivers another round of maintenance fixes for KDE’s application suite, covering video editing, file transfers, audio output, and more.