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Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in October – click the links to learn more… We announced LibreOffice 26.8.1, with around 40 bug fixes focused on compatibility with Microsoft Office files, along with more reliable text and CSV import across a range of character

Another possible factor is that people expect 7.4 to be the next LTS release.

Two legacy NetworkManager VPN plugins—NetworkManager-vpnc and NetworkManager-fortisslvpn—are retiring and will be obsolete, starting in Fedora Linux 45. This is part of ongoing system maintenance and security cleanup. If you use Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to connect to remote workplace or enterprise networks, take note of this upcoming change in NetworkManager package availability. This…

From earlier in the year you may recall a new experimental open-source Linux driver for modern DisplayLink hardware. That "Vino" driver for DisplayLink driver was a clean-room reverse-engineered DisplayLink driver that was developed in part by AI and written in Rust. Unfortunately, that open-source driver has disappeared following legal threats by Synaptics…

Developers who use Launchpad can now use a USB FIDO2 security key to restrict API access, which makes any stolen login details useless without it. Launchpad is, as I’m sure you know, where Canonical builds Ubuntu’s package, hosts code, PPAs and many other things that end up on a users’ system. Developer tools, like lp-shell and ubuntu-archive-tools, log in with a saved token, normally kept as a…

GIMP 3.2.8 is out, the fourth maintenance update in the current stable series, which first launched in March 2026. No major new features ship, as fixes and fine-tuning are the primary focus. Major work is happening alongside maintenance, but the fruits of that will arrive in the next major series update – those do come out sooner now, so patience. GIMP 3.2.8 changes since the v3.2.6 update…

KDE Plasma 6.8 was released on KDE’s 30 year anniversary and we are proud to have it be the star of Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition 45. The Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition is well suited for many needs. It combines the reliable and trusted Fedora Linux base with the KDE Plasma Desktop environment. It…

GIMP 3.2.8 is out today as the newest stable release of this open-source image editing application that's most popular on the Linux desktop…

On my machines, the upgrade to Fedora 45 replaced gnome-keyring with oo7, and on the first one Brave came out with an almost empty password list. Nothing was actually lost: the old passwords were still on disk, and my real password store is KeePassXC anyway. On a second machine, an XFCE desktop, I upgraded carefully, with backups, and found where it goes wrong and how to fix it.

This article explains how Chromium-family browsers store passwords on Linux, what oo7 does differently, the steps that got every password back under XFCE, and two ways to save what you need before an upgrade: Brave's own password export, and a small script, browser-pwsafe.

At nearly 42 million lines, Linux 7.4 is the largest merge in the history of the kernel.

Fedora 45 is now available! 🎉 So let’s see what this new release for the Fedora Atomic Desktops variants includes for Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway Atomic, Budgie Atomic and COSMIC Atomic. Changes for all Atomic Desktops Completed the migration to the new Fedora forge Everything related to the Atomic Desktops now resides in the atomic-desktops organization.…

Full-disk encryption joins the toolkit, MATE and Xfce stay while Gershwin sits this one out

Fedora Workstation features the latest six months of meticulous polish, under-the-hood responsiveness, and security hardening for F45, based on GNOME 51. Whether you are multitasking across monitors, managng daily appointments, or organizing large sets of files, GNOME 51 brings thoughtful refinements to your daily workflow on Fedora Workstation. Silky-Smooth Responsiveness: Reworked Frame…

IONOS has been picked as a contractor, and the service would run inside data centers in Germany.

Berlin, 3 November 2026 – The Document Foundation today announced the release of LibreOffice 26.2.7, the seventh maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2 branch. Building on the major feature release published on 4 February 2026, this update delivers targeted bug fixes and stability improvements contributed by a global community of

The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora Linux 45! Whether you use Fedora on your desktop, server, edge device, or cloud instance, Fedora Linux 45 brings polished desktop upgrades, powerful new installer features, and updated toolchains. Every Fedora release is a major community effort – thank you to everyone in our…

EN / CA / CZ / ES / JA / EL / NL / SV / ZH-TW Members of the openSUSE Project are excited to announce the release of openSUSE Leap 16.1. This is the first minor release in the Leap 16 series and with this release, openSUSE’s immutable server…

Last week, Google and industry partners dismantled the XCPE backdoor which enrolled more than 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet. We assess with high confidence that the backdoor and botnet were intentionally developed, deployed, and operated for financial gain by...

AerynOS 2026.11 was released today along with a lengthy blog post highlighting the recent development work on this original Linux distribution…

Linux Mint is bringing back a feature most Linux distributions quietly gave up on years ago: hibernation.