The latest patch-level release of Univention Corporate Server bundles all new features and improvements from the past months onto new installation media including a new authorization backend for Nubus Guardian, more control over password hash security, deeper Keycloak observability, and simplified Microsoft 365 classroom management for schools - alongside continued groundwork for the upcoming UCS 5.3. New with UCS 5.2-7 comes a major performance improvement for WLAN authentication at scale.
The underlying GNU/Linux operating system has been upgraded, this release is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2026-09-13. The Linux kernel has been updated to 7.1.13; Partclone has been updated to version 0.3.50, which includes a fix for a Btrfs issue; Clonezilla lite server now supports both PXEBoot and HTTPBoot network boot clients, including Secure Boot support for HTTPBoot mechanism; Implemented LUKS2 repository support; replaced deprecated net-tools commands with iproute2 alternatives and dropped dhclient-related code in favor of dhcpcd; configured dhcpcd to use clientid for stable IP reservations; GRUB display enhancements - configured preferred resolutions and fallback resolution to prevent microscopic boot menus and text distortion on 4K/HiDPI screens; ocs-live-boot-menu - conditionally run efitextmode under secure boot lockdown to prevent 'prohibited by secure boot policy' error messages...
On the MX side, we have pushed most of our updates as we’ve gone along, but there are some specific updates of note this time around. MX-Welcome, MX-Tools and custom-toolbox (used by Fluxbox) received user interface facelifts. Verify-iso-sig, a new tool for verifying digital signatures for not only MX ISOs, but also isos from many popular distribution families. MX-Theme-Colors, a fun tool for creating custom-highlight themes from existing MX themes (GTK). Introduction of siduction 7.X kernels in mx-packageinstaller->popular apps->kernels Many updates to the third-party vpn installers in mx-packageinstaller->popular apps mx/gazelle-installer will set up lazytime in fstab by default (new installations). Updated manual and FAQ entries Translation updates for most mx-tools. All bugfix, maintenance, and feature releases since our last official release. Existing users do not need to reinstall. All updates come through the regular update channel.
Today brings you some optional updates to the Raspberry Pi Desktop, which gains some modern features while keeping its simplicity. What is currently known as the Raspberry Pi Desktop has been around for over a decade now - it started out as a mildly customised version of the stock LXDE desktop, and over the years has slowly evolved into something with almost entirely different underpinnings, based on Wayland and labwc. The look has been refreshed on several occasions, with new icons, themes and desktop backgrounds, to the point where there is very little visually in common between today’s Raspberry Pi Desktop and the original LXDE. But one thing which has never changed is the overall feel of the desktop, which, with its taskbar, status icons and main menu launcher, is very reminiscent of the state of the art in desktop design from 30 years or so ago, with Windows 95 and Apple System 7.
There is a new disk cloner in this release. Wipe Free Space has been rewritten and no longer depends on an outside tool. Every other program I write has been read line by line and then run against real drives on a bench machine kept for that purpose, and the bugs that came out of it are fixed. Underneath all of that the base system has been rebuilt on Slackware 'Current', the desktop moved from Xfce 4.16 to Xfce 4.20, and the wallpaper changed for the first time in over ten years. The release is named differently too, and it is signed. Both are explained at the end. Parted Magic Clone is new. It copies a disk, a partition, or an image of either, and it produces evidence that the copy is right. The rule it is built around is that the source is never written. Not one byte, no matter what. The source is opened read-only, and every corrective action, whether that is filling in a later slice, repairing a filesystem, growing it to fill a larger disk or repointing a boot loader, happens to the copy, after the copy has been read back and verified.