Catch up on the latest Linux news: COSMIC 1.4, VirtualBox 7.2.14, Firefox 153, Wine 11.14, Hyprland 0.56, OBS Studio 32.2, Debian developers debate ban on AI-assisted contributions, and more.

Collabora Online 26.04 is now available with an optional AI assistant, Markdown support, improved document review, and new Calc features.

The GNU Project has released Binutils 2.47, updating its essential assembler, linker, and binary-file manipulation tools with new architecture support and other enhancements.

NVIDIA, the Linux Foundation, Red Hat, Microsoft, IBM, Hugging Face, and dozens of industry leaders unite to develop open technologies for securing AI agents and software.

Canonical introduces an optional virtualization HWE stack for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, bringing newer QEMU, libvirt, EDK2, and SeaBIOS versions.

The Linux firmware update utility fwupd 2.1.7 introduces systemd-pcrlock integration, new security attributes, and multiple reliability fixes.

Hyprland 0.56.1 is a maintenance update addressing monitor regressions, window-rule leaks, input capture, rendering, and more.

Wayfire 0.11 introduces sharper fractional scaling, experimental HDR, ICC color profiles, expanded Vulkan effects, and a new external plugin manager.

Fooyin 0.12 introduces built-in audio conversion, PulseAudio output support, and new Spectrogram, Oscilloscope, and projectM visualizations.

The GNU Compiler Collection will reject copyright-significant contributions derived from LLM output, with limited exceptions for trivial changes and test cases.

System76 releases COSMIC Desktop 1.5 with fixes for Chromium app scaling, excessive panel CPU usage, GPU resets, and external displays.

Krita 5.3.3 and the experimental Qt 6-based Krita 6.0.3 arrive with crash fixes, animation improvements, and better font handling.

Immich 3.1 introduces EXIF metadata filters for workflows, prevents screens from dimming during web uploads, and expands map filtering on mobile.

Fedora Linux 45 will introduce a separate, minimal GRUB package designed for confidential VMs, Unified Kernel Images, and predictable TPM measurements.

The Xen 4.22 hypervisor arrives with x86 FRED support, AMD Bus Lock Threshold, ARM guest suspend and resume, and Xenstore scalability improvements.

Calibre 9.12 introduces AirDrop sharing on macOS, support for the latest Tolino firmware, new Content Server plugin capabilities, and several bug fixes.

GNU Nano 9.2 is now available with a new terminal output check, clearer multibuffer aliases, and restored support for legacy keystrokes.

Today marks the 27th annual SysAdmin Day, celebrating the people who keep servers alive, networks running, and users away from dangerous buttons.

Shotcut 26.7 introduces a new Elements panel with royalty-free media assets, GPU selection on Linux and Windows, and a Shake video filter.

AerynOS rolls out a new unstable update featuring Linux kernel 7.1.5, COSMIC Desktop 1.5, Mesa 26.1.6, systemd 260.4, and more.

Komodo 2.3 introduces paginated resource and container lists, improved search, server-side sorting, and better UI responsiveness.