Announcing NetBSD 9.5. Note: this will be the final release from the netbsd-9 stable branch and also marks the end-of-support for this branch. There will be no further security pullups to this branch! Users running netbsd-9 in production are strongly encouraged to transition to a newer release series, such as netbsd-11 or netbsd-10. Changes since 9.4: system improvements and hardware support - build.sh - various tools build fixes for newer compilers and non-NetBSD platforms; aarch64 - fixed thread-local storage support; x86 - fixed MSI/MSI-X configuration on some machines; mbsnrtowcs(3), wcsnrtombs(3) - added manual pages; acpiout(4) - fixed display brightness controls on certain machines; eap(4) - restore the full set of supported hardware encodings from netbsd-7; uftdi(4) - added support for a range of Brainboxes USB to Serial adapters; urtwn(4) - added support for Mercusys MW150USV2 USB WiFi adapters; urtwn(4) - added support for Asus USB-N10 Nano B1 Wi-Fi adapters; &man.viaide.4 - various improvements in support for several controllers.
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.
OpenAtom openKylin (hereafter referred to as "openKylin") version 3.0 is officially released. In this version upgrade, openKylin has upgraded the system kernel across generations to Linux 7.0, completing the comprehensive iteration of more than 180 core components, building an open foundation for intelligent agents, enabling AI to run through the entire system chain, innovating multimodal interaction such as air gestures, voice input and screen reading, scenario coverage extends from smart desktops to mobile devices, servers and other full scenarios. openKylin 3.0 upgrades the system kernel directly from Linux 6.6 to Linux 7.0. GCC 15, glibc 2.42, LLVM 22, JDK 25, with more than 180 core components comprehensively upgraded around the new kernel. Core base libraries and compilation toolchains are aligned with the latest versions of international upstream communities. This version integrates the three NIST post-quantum cryptography standards (ML-KEM, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA), enabling system-level invocation through the openHiTLS open-source cryptographic suite....
AI-generated content and tools have been removed from the default Liya Linux experience. While AI can be useful in some situations, a number of users found the previous implementation difficult to use, and it also didn't really fit with the general philosophy and preferences of the Linux community. Because of that, we've decided to move away from it rather than keep something around simply for the sake of having it. Modularisation of tweaks and configurations - the way Liya's tweaks and configuration files are handled has been changed. Previously, many of these tweaks were statically built into the system. They are now handled through pacman, which means they can be updated independently instead of requiring changes to the entire system. The same approach is being used for configuration files as well. This should make future updates easier to maintain and allow individual components to be changed without rebuilding everything. A big thanks to CachyOS for their tweaks and the work that helped inspire some of these changes. XLibre instead of X11 - Liya Linux now uses XLibre instead of the traditional X11/X.Org stack.
Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS, code-named 'Resolute Raccoon', is here. This release continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open-source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, together with the community and our partners, to introduce new features and fix bugs. As usual, this point release includes many updates and updated installation media has been provided, so that fewer updates will need to be downloaded after installation. These include security updates and corrections for other high-severity bugs, with a focus on maintaining stability and compatibility with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
Everest ships as five editions: Cosmic, Hyprland, GNOME, KDE Plasma, and Other. The edition controls the live ISO experience, while all 23 supported desktop profiles remain available during installation. The release adds non-destructive installation onto an existing partition, Abora adoption for existing NixOS systems, ANIX v2 with pluggable configuration languages, GPU driver selection for NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel, optional Abora Gaming, a dedicated Abora Gaming Welcome GTK app, TinyPM rewritten in Rust, Linux kernel 7.2, MediaTek MT7902 Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth support, and expanded MINT installer support. The App Catalog continues to provide optional Fan Favorites, Essentials, Social, Creator, Developer, Gaming, and System Tools bundles.