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System76 released COSMIC Epoch 1.5.0, fixing Chromium/Electron scaling bugs, a D-Bus deadlock, and raising the wallpaper limit from 100 to 500.

Debian has opened a General Resolution with four competing proposals on AI-assisted contributions, from an outright ban to conditional acceptance, with no vote date set yet.

A 16-year-old use-after-free bug in Linux's KVM hypervisor, dubbed Januscape and rated CVSS 8.8, lets malicious VMs escape to the host on both Intel and AMD systems; OVHcloud patched roughly a million VMs across its fleet in an 11-day campaign.

OpenMandriva says former contributor Davide Beatrici deleted years of GitHub repository work and published a package that obsoleted GNOME and Cosmic packages in its Cooker branch after a community dispute.

The final systemd 261 release adds systemd-tpm2-swtpm, a software TPM fallback for hardware without a TPM chip, and graduates systemd-sysupdate and a new networkd DHCP-relay backend.

Linus Torvalds tagged Linux 7.1 on June 14, 2026, adding a from-scratch in-kernel NTFS driver, switching Intel FRED to opt-out, and deleting roughly 140,000 lines of legacy code.

rsync 3.4.4, released June 8, repairs regressions introduced by the May 20 security update that patched six CVEs, after a debate over the maintainer's AI-assisted test-suite rewrite.

systemd 261-rc1 adds systemd-sysinstall, an IMDS subsystem, a storagectl tool, and PID1 support for the kernel's Live Update Orchestration and Kexec Handover.

CISA added the 2022 Linux kernel cgroups release_agent flaw CVE-2022-0492 to its KEV catalog on June 2, 2026, with a June 5 federal patch deadline.

The Wayland compositor's 0.55 release shifts configuration to Lua while keeping the old Hyprlang format working, and lets users define custom window layouts directly in the config.

RHEL 10.2 and 9.8, released May 20, add ML-KEM post-quantum SSH, kernel livepatching without reboots, the goose AI CLI tool, and extensive language stack updates.

Mesa 26.1.0, released May 6, 2026, delivers over 40 new Vulkan extensions across major GPU drivers, adds VirtIO-GPU native-context support for Intel, and marks the end of VirGL maintenance.