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FreeRDP 3.33.0 Adds WebAssembly Support to Run in a Browser; Its Build Script Says the Page Needs Two Cross-Origin Headers and a WebSocket Bridge
FreeRDP 3.33.0, released November 2, adds WebAssembly support; its build script says the page needs two cross-origin headers and a WebSocket-to-TCP bridge, and SIMD is opt-in.
Independent Polo 1.0 Brings a libweston Wayland Compositor to MATE; Two mate-panel Tasklist Changes Its Notes Prefer Shipped in 1.29.1 on Nov. 13
Polo 1.0, released November 12, ports Marco's window management to Wayland on libweston; MATE's Wayfire session is labelled experimental, and mate-panel 1.29.1 on November 13 lists two changes Polo's notes prefer.
Three X11 Session Exits Compared: GNOME Went Default-Off First, KDE Named Plasma 6.7 the Last, and a Fedora 44 Update Removed Plasma's Session
GNOME, KDE and Fedora ended X11 sessions by different routes, per The Register, LWN.net, Phoronix and Linuxiac, and the steps, evidence and fallbacks they offered differ for tool authors and packagers.
Cloudflare Says It Is Distributing the First $301,300 of Its $1 Million Vite Ecosystem Fund to 44 Projects and Maintainers
Cloudflare's post of November 9 lists 44 recipients for the first $301,300 of a $1 million Vite fund pledged in June; core maintainers are eligible for stipends of up to $4,000 a month.
Ubuntu's Docs List Seven Commands Kept on GNU Coreutils in 25.10, Five in 26.04 and None in 26.10, as Scripts, an Audit and Image Builds Found Bugs
Ubuntu's documentation lists seven commands configured to use GNU Coreutils in 25.10, five in 26.04 LTS and none in 26.10; press and project sources show bugs surfacing through scripts, an audit and image builds.
Fedora Linux 45 Ships on November 3 After Two NO-GO Calls, Replacing the Kernel Console With kmscon and Dropping Two NetworkManager VPN Plugins
Fedora 45 was announced November 3 after two NO-GO calls from its October 20 target; Linuxiac and Phoronix list kmscon, enforced RPM signatures and restricted ptrace.
Licenses After AI Rewrites: chardet Went From LGPL to MIT to 0BSD, Modular Bars AI Reimplementation of MAX and Asahi Linux Starts Moving to the GPL
Sources describe divergent licensing moves tied to AI-assisted rewrites of open-source code: chardet went from LGPL to MIT to 0BSD, Modular added a clause against AI reimplementation of MAX, and Asahi Linux began a switch to the GPL.
systemd Merges Optional Rust Support for New Standalone Programs, With Meson Only, No Standard Library and Core Libraries Staying in C for Now
systemd merged optional Rust support for new leaf programs on 2026-10-24: Meson not Cargo, no_std, core libraries stay C for now. It is in the 263 development branch; project pages disagree on binary sizes and Meson version.
MinIO, LocalStack, Boundary and Portainer Ended or Froze Community Editions From December 2025 to October 2026, With Differing Security-Fix Positions
MinIO, LocalStack and Boundary archived their community-edition repositories and Portainer kept CE on its 2.x line; sources show four different security-fix statements.
Google Announces Donation of gVisor, Agent Substrate and OpenRL to the CNCF, Now in Sandbox Onboarding, as Agent Substrate 1.0 Reaches GA on GKE
Google says the three projects are in CNCF Sandbox onboarding and Agent Substrate 1.0 is GA on GKE; it says neutral governance opens a path to upstream gVisor kernel patches, while LWN's 2022 report on one proposal records technical objections.
Apache Spark 4.3.0 Adds Stateful Queries to Real-Time Mode and SCD Type 2 to Auto CDC, and Starts a Quarterly Feature-Release Cadence
Apache Spark 4.3.0 supports stateful queries in Real-Time Mode and SCD Type 2 in Auto CDC; Databricks reports P99 latencies of 136 to 141 ms on three workloads.
Fedora 44 KDE users lose the Plasma X11 session in the 6.8 update after FESCo votes against a revert; Artix 2026.11 makes Wayland its Plasma default
Plasma 6.8 retires X11 sessions upstream; Fedora's steering committee rejected a ticket asking to revert the update on Fedora 44 and 45, and Artix Linux made Wayland its Plasma default.