CVE-2026-43499, dubbed GhostLock by Nebula Security, exposes a long-standing Linux kernel futex bug that can lead to local root access.

Orbitiny Desktop Pilot X brings a brand-new dynamic theming system, panel docking improvements, a redesigned Control Panel, and many X11-focused fixes.

Pangolin 1.20 improves daily navigation with a rebuilt Resource Launcher, admin command palette, private resource pages, and VNC login updates.

DMS 1.5 introduces Frame Mode, calendar integration, display profiles, and Hyprland Lua configs for a more complete Wayland desktop experience.

Microsoft’s latest TypeScript release brings a native Go-based compiler, promising dramatically faster builds and lower memory use.

KDE Frameworks 6.28 delivers another round of library updates, touching KIO, Kirigami, KWallet, KTextEditor, KWindowSystem, and more.

Chatto, a privacy-focused group and team chat platform with voice, video, and screen sharing, is now open source and free to self-host.

Wine 11.13 is now available with better pointer input handling, improved X11 keyboard scancode mapping, ARM64EC optimizations, and 22 bug fixes.

KDE Plasma 6.8 will let Spectacle record microphone and system audio during screen recordings, alongside several UI and performance improvements.

Debian 13.6 is out with 120 security fixes, 124 stability updates, and Secure Boot changes, while Debian 12.15 becomes Bookworm’s last point release.

Pop!_OS 24.04 users can now enable COSMIC’s long-awaited Frosted Glass effect, with a wider Linux rollout expected next week.

Navidrome 0.63 introduces word-by-word synchronized lyrics, smarter search, and dramatic speed improvements for large music libraries.

Fastfetch 2.66 adds Azure Linux and Flatcar logos, improves AMD GPU naming, and fixes GPU core counting on Asahi Linux.

PeaZip 11.2 introduces read support for ZIM archives, upgrades to 7-Zip 26.02, and brings major drag-and-drop improvements.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Debian 13.6, Proton 11.0, Wine 11.13, Plasma 6.6.6, COSMIC Desktop Frosted Glass effect, Linux Mint 23 will support Wayland, and more.

IncidentRelay is a new self-hosted platform for on-call scheduling, alert routing, escalations, and incident response.

Apprise 1.12 adds nine notification integrations, built-in HTML-to-Markdown conversion, Discord templates, Teams mentions, and SMTP security improvements.

GNOME OS could gain a TestFlight-like Test Center for installing temporary experimental builds through simple sharing links.

Visor is a new open-source UEFI boot manager for Linux, designed to launch kernels, UKIs, Windows, and other EFI applications.

KDE Plasma 6.7.3 is now available with restored NVIDIA triple buffering, display wake-up fixes, and numerous KWin improvements.

Clonezilla Live 3.3.3 arrives with Linux kernel 7.0, reverse-connection network cloning, new utilities, and important bug fixes.