📰 Sentry Pledges $1 Million to Open Source Maintainers

Sentry expands its financial support for open source, allocating $1 million to software maintainers, foundations, and critical dependencies.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/sentry-pledges-1-million-to-open-source-maintainers/

#opensource

📰 Fedora 45 Hits A Second NO-GO: Not Releasing Until November

Fedora 45 wasn't released this week as its ideal early release target due to not having a release candidate build in time for last week's Go/No-Go meeting. At today's Go/No-Go meeting, Fedora 45 was delayed by at least one more week due to open blocker bugs...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-Second-NO-GO

#fedora

📰 Shelly 3.1.9 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves AUR Support

Shelly 3.1.9 graphical package manager for Arch Linux distributions is now available for download with file migration support to RLPM, more reliable AUR builds, and other changes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/shelly-3-1-9-gui-package-manager-for-arch-linux-improves-aur-support

#arch #linux

📰 This adorable Raspberry Pi project prints the weather, puzzles, and stories for the family on receipts

Receipt printers are lot more fun than you may originally think.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/this-adorable-raspberry-pi-project-prints-the-weather-puzzles-and-stories-for-the-family-on-receipts/

#raspberry

📰 Calibre 9.17 E-Book Manager Adds JPEG XL Support and Performance Improvements

Calibre 9.17 open-source e-book manager is now available for download with support for JPEG XL images for e-book cover conversion, faster MOBI/AZW3/PDB conversion, and more.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/calibre-9-17-e-book-manager-adds-jpeg-xl-support-and-performance-improvements

#opensource

📰 Steam Client Beta - October 22nd revamps Remote Play HDR support

Valve just released another upgrade with the Steam Client Beta - October 22nd update bringing overhauled Remote Play HDR support.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/steam-client-beta-october-22nd-revamps-remote-play-hdr-support/

#steam

📰 Researchers Demonstrate Node2Shell RCE Exploit on Node.js Build Using Crafted Brotli Data

Malicious Brotli data can make an application on an official build of Node.js run attacker-supplied code, security researchers at Imperva have demonstrated.Their "Node2Shell" proof of concept ran code on the official Node.js 24.22.0 image for Linux arm64, with no debugger or custom build, by feeding crafted data to the bundled Brotli decoder (CVE-2026-111497). Node.js disclosed the flaw.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/researchers-demonstrate-node2shell-rce.html

#linux

📰 Bazzite Linux announce ROG XBOX Ally X20 and Acer Predator Atlas support is in testing

Another release of the popular Bazzite Linux is coming up, with new devices currently in testing like the ROG XBOX Ally X20 and Acer Predator Atlas.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/bazzite-linux-announce-rog-xbox-ally-x20-and-acer-predator-atlas-support-is-in-testing/

#linux

📰 FFmpeg 9.1 Preps For Release With APV Vulkan Encoder, NVIDIA Optical Flow FRUC

The release dance is underway for FFmpeg 9.1 as the newest feature release for this widely-used open-source multimedia library...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-9.1-Releasing

#ffmpeg #opensource

📰 Critical Flaw in Python’s Popular Pillow Image Library Allows Code Execution via a Crafted Image

Pillow, the most widely used image library for Python, can be made to run operating system commands on a server by specifying the name of a file it is told to open.The flaw, CVE-2026-112900, is in the way Pillow handles EPS images, which it opens by passing the file's name to Ghostscript, a separate program it runs to turn the image into pixels, without checking the name first.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/critical-flaw-in-pythons-popular-pillow.html

#python

📰 Factorio 2.1 is out now with the native ARM64 Linux build to run on Steam Frame, Raspberry Pi and more

That day is here! Factorio 2.1 stable has arrived as a big clean-up release along with new platform support with their Native Linux version.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/factorio-2-1-is-out-now-with-the-native-arm64-linux-build-to-run-on-steam-frame-raspberry-pi-and-more/

#linux #raspberry #steam

📰 Tails 7.15.1 Privacy-Focused Linux Distro Released as Emergency Security Update

Tails 7.15.1 addresses compromised CA certificates that could allow attackers to impersonate HTTPS websites through malicious Tor exit nodes.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/tails-7-15-1-privacy-focused-linux-distro-released-as-emergency-security-update/

#distro #linux

📰 Torvalds: AI is fine for competent devs, but spare us the 'drive-by' patches

Kernel maintainers stop asking who used AI, as long as the code is good.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/10/23/torvalds-ai-is-fine-for-competent-devs-but-spare-us-the-drive-by-patches/5304357

#kernel

📰 Fwupd 2.1.9 Linux Firmware Updater Released with New Features

Fwupd 2.1.9 Linux firmware updater is now available for download with support for Pixart PID 38CA, new features, and bug fixes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/fwupd-2-1-9-linux-firmware-updater-released-with-new-features

#linux

📰 oneDNN 3.14 Released With ACE Support, Initial AMD Zen Optimizations

The UXL Foundation announced today the release of oneDNN 3.14 as the latest feature update to this library providing optimized deep learning operations for software like PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenVINO, and others. While oneDNN began as an Intel software project, making this version notable is beginning to see AMD Zen CPU optimizations land in oneDNN proper...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/oneDNN-3.14-Released

#amd #intel

📰 ArmSoM Sige7s Puts the RK3588S on a Raspberry Pi-Sized Board, and There's a Compute Module Too

The small SBC brings a 6 TOPS NPU, Wi-Fi 6, a Pi-compatible 40-pin header, and up to 32GB RAM, starting at $153.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17505121/armsom-sige7s

#raspberry

📰 USB-C DisplayPort Alt Mode on Rockchip RK3588 and RK3576, starting with the Flipper One

A look at the USB-PD, PHY, hotplug, and DRM changes involved in making USB-C DisplayPort Alternate Mode work on RK3588/RK3576, and where they stand on the way to mainline Linux.

🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/usb-c-displayport-alt-mode-on-rockchip-rk3588-and-rk3576-starting-with-the-flipper-one.html

#linux

📰 Linux Moves Closer to Retiring the x32 ABI After Years of Limited Adoption

by George WhittakerLinux kernel developers are renewing efforts to retire the x32 application binary interface (ABI), a little-used compatibility feature that attempted to combine the advantages of 64-bit processors with the smaller memory footprint of 32-bit applications. A revised patch series submitted on October 8, 2026, proposes the first steps toward disabling the interface, potentially ending support for an architecture experiment...

🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-moves-closer-retiring-x32-abi-after-years-limited-adoption

#kernel #linux