Welcome to the 1.14.0 release of Talos. Talos now supports DNS over TLS (DoT) and DNS over HTTPS (DoH) for secure DNS resolution. These features allow Talos to encrypt DNS queries and responses, enhancing privacy and security for DNS traffic. The DNS protocol can be configured on a per-name server basis in the ResolverConfig document, allowing for flexible configuration of DNS resolution. The '--mode=reboot' option has been removed from the talosctl apply-config command; by default, configuration is applied without a reboot. Most configuration changes don't require a reboot; the documentation lists the changes that do. Talos now supports running native BGP routing instances on the host via embedded GoBGP servers, configured with BGPInstanceConfig documents. This removes the need to ship FRR as a system extension for the common fabric-facing use case.
One of the improvements in this milestone is the integration of native Flatpak support directly into the Zenwalk desktop. Flatpak is installed and configured out of the box, with Flathub available as an application source. Installing modern desktop applications no longer requires searching for packages, dealing with dependencies or opening a terminal. Simply open the graphical application store, find the application you want, click Install - and you're done. This provides Zenwalk users with access to a huge ecosystem of up-to-date desktop applications while keeping the traditional Slackware package system available for the core operating system. In other words: Zenwalk packages for the system, Flatpak for applications - and both are ready to use from day one. This milestone moves to the Linux 7.1.7 kernel, providing a modern kernel base together with the BORE (Burst-Oriented Response Enhancer) CPU scheduler patch. BORE is designed with interactive desktop workloads in mind. It aims to improve responsiveness by favoring short, interactive bursts of CPU activity, helping desktop tasks remain responsive even when the system is under heavier CPU load. For a desktop-oriented distribution such as Zenwalk, this makes a particularly good match: applications, window management, multimedia workloads and background processes can coexist while maintaining a responsive user interface. The result is a kernel configuration aimed not simply at benchmark numbers, but at the thing you actually feel when using a desktop: a system that stays responsive.
The 2026.09 release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing/forky. As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases. About the codename. Important changes: This release is based on Debian testing/forky as of September 2026. GNU Screen 5.0.1 landed. The required configuration changes are not backwards compatible. Users of our grml screenrc must either upgrade or use the screenrc_v4 file with GNU Screen 4.9. New and removed features. New software since the Grml 2026.04 release is included, and we continued to clean up the house. Noteworthy changes are: grml-live - build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems: grml-live now requires Linux user namespaces in the build environment. Unfortunately docker and other containerization tools do not provide Linux user namespaces inside containers. This was prompted by systemd changes, and took a substantial effort. Daily images were not built between 2026-06-10 and 2026-09-02. Reading configuration from grml-live.conf was removed.
The Linux From Scratch community announces the release of LFS Version 13.1. Major changes include toolchain updates to Binutils 2.47, GCC 16.2.0 and glibc 2.44. In total, 46 packages were updated or added since the last release. Changes to the text have also been made throughout the book. The Linux kernel has also been updated to version 7.1.8. Packages that have security updates include attr, acl, expat, glibc, Linux kernel, Python, systemd, util-linux, vim and zlib. See the Security Advisories page for details. Overall there have been over 200 commits to LFS since the previous stable version of the book.
This release presents the new version 151.0.7922.173-1 of the web browser Google-Chrome-Stable. In addition, among other things, due to the cooperation end of google with the Linux package translate-shell, Starbuntu has exchanged this package by the package crow-translate and adjusted its software to this new translation app.