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FreeBSD 15.1 Ships With Wi-Fi Drivers Rebased on Linux 7.0, Boot-Time Scheduler Selection, and Unicode 17
FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE arrived June 16, 2026 with LinuxKPI wireless drivers tracking Linux 7.0, a tunable to pick the kernel scheduler at boot, and Unicode 17 support.
systemd 261 Ships Final With a Software-TPM Fallback and Promotes sysupdate Out of Experimental Status
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.
Linux 7.1 Ships a Rewritten In-Kernel NTFS Driver, Enables Intel FRED by Default, and Retires i486 in a 140,000-Line Cleanup
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.
KDE Plasma 6.7 Ships Per-Screen Virtual Desktops After 21 Years, Revives the Oxygen Theme, and Lets HDR and ICC Color Coexist
KDE released Plasma 6.7 on June 16, 2026, adding independent virtual desktops per monitor, a refreshed KDE 4-era Oxygen theme, and simultaneous HDR and ICC color management.
OpenCV 5.0 Ships a Rewritten DNN Engine and Runs LLMs and Vision-Language Models Inside the Library
OpenCV 5.0, released in early June, rebuilds its deep-learning engine, lifts ONNX coverage past 80%, and can run LLMs and VLMs with no separate runtime.
Linux Foundation Launches OpenSharing, an Open Protocol for Cross-Organization AI Asset Exchange Built on Databricks' Delta Sharing
The Linux Foundation and Databricks unveiled OpenSharing on June 10, a vendor-neutral protocol that extends Delta Sharing's zero-copy model to agent skills, AI models, and unstructured data.
rsync 3.4.4 Ships to Fix Regressions From the Six-CVE 3.4.3 Security Release as Tridgell Pledges Expanded Testing
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.
Rust Foundation Launches Maintainers Fund and a 'Maintainer in Residence' Program to Pay Core Compiler, Cargo, and Clippy Developers
The Rust Foundation opened a donation-backed fund on June 2 to pay maintainers of the compiler, standard library, Cargo, and Clippy, with the first Maintainer in Residence expected in the coming months.
systemd 261 Reaches Its First Release Candidate With a Built-In OS Installer, a Cloud Metadata Subsystem, and Live-Update Kernel Handover
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.
Automotive Grade Linux Ships First Open Source SoDeV Reference Platform for Software-Defined Vehicles, Adds Five New Members
AGL released the initial SoDeV reference platform in its 'Ultimate Unagi' code base on May 14, 2026, bundling Xen, Zephyr, and Linux containers to decouple vehicle software from hardware.
Hyprland 0.55 Completes Its Move to Lua-Based Configuration and Adds a User-Defined Layout API
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.
Google Ends Gemini CLI for Free Users After 6,000 Community Contributions, Replacing Open Source Tool With Closed-Source Antigravity CLI
Google will shut down free access to the Apache 2.0-licensed Gemini CLI on June 18, replacing it with a closed-source Go rewrite that enterprise subscribers alone will inherit.