Polychromatic 0.9.8 is out with Razer Blade 16 (2023) support, a smoother brightness slider, improved icon lookups, and several fixes.

DietPi 10.6 expands its SBC support with new images for Orange Pi 4 Pro, Zero 3W, and Odroid M1, M1S, and M2 devices.

The SCTPhantom vulnerability, CVE-2026-64564, affects Linux SCTP code and can be exploited for root access and container escape.

Transmission has been forked into ReTransmission following a longstanding disagreement among maintainers over expanding the project’s maintainer team.

CachyOS rolls out its August 2026 ISO with a Zig-based Shelly package manager, revamped update tooling, and experimental Server Edition profiles.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: CachyOS August 2026, DietPi 10.6, KDE Plasma 6.7.4, IceWM 4.1, Wine 11.15, Mesa 26.2, KDE Linux nears Beta, and more.

KDE Plasma 6.7 is now available in Debian Testing “Forky,” giving users access to the latest desktop improvements ahead of Debian 14.

Apache NetBeans 31 adds Java lambda breakpoints, improves code completion, updates Maven and Gradle tooling, and fixes numerous IDE issues.

Linux Mint 22.3 introduces new HWE installation images with Linux kernel 7.0, alongside a preview of upcoming system and Cinnamon improvements.

Cloudflare has open-sourced Cloudflare OS, its platform for creating AI agents, internal applications, and automated workflows.

SparkyLinux 8.4 is out based on Debian 13 “Trixie,” restoring 32-bit i686 images alongside updated packages and Linux kernel 6.12 LTS.

BlueFerry is a new open-source Linux app that lets users send and receive iMessage and SMS from an iPhone directly over Bluetooth.

Xfce’s experimental Wayland compositor xfwl4 gets its second preview release, adding new window management features and a large batch of fixes.

OpenSSH 10.5 ships with several security fixes, as developers say growing AI-assisted vulnerability research is prompting more frequent releases.

Flatpak 1.18.1 is out with security fixes addressing a sandbox escape, local root privilege escalation, path traversal issues, and arbitrary file writes.

Ubuntu users can now run NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model through Canonical’s newly released inference Snap.

QEMU 11.1 is out with RISC-V big-endian target support, ARM nested virtualization improvements, new PowerPC defaults, and multiple security fixes.

OpenAI has released its official ChatGPT desktop app for Linux in preview, bringing ChatGPT, Work, and Codex together in one native experience.

Manjaro’s latest stable update effectively brings the 26.1 “Bian-May” release to its final state, with Linux 7.1, Plasma 6.7, and major package updates.

Bottles 66 is out with UMU integration, ProtoSoda by default, Adaptive Launch for Soda, experimental cpak packaging, and several Linux gaming fixes.

Modular releases Mojo 1.0, delivering a stable foundation, Python-style lambdas, improved LSP support, and stronger memory-safety diagnostics.