Fossery Tech  Aug 31, 2025

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Linux kernel turns 34 years old (as of the announcement of the project):
https://9to5linux.com/happy-34th-birthday-linux
(Happy birthday, Linux! You're my home since I opened my eyes and left my digital enslavement cell)

GNOME executive director Steven Deobald steps down, Allan Day takes on the role:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steven-Deobald-Steps-Down
(That's really sad, based on what I heard, Steven has been one of the best executive directors in the past couple of years, he had pretty solid plans which would greatly help the foundation come out of the crisis they face right now. Hope Allan will continue Steven's work, implement his plans in practice. It's pretty weird though, why all executive directors leave after a few months, I think the community would deserve some explanation about what's going on beyond the scenes, since the GNOME project is mainly driven by the community, we are your stakeholders, GNOME.)

KDE Plasma 6.5 gets saved clipboard items feature after being requested for 22 years:
https://ostechnix.com/plasma-6-5-saved-clipboard-items/
(Wait, they are also doing the "GNOME thing" and make users wait that much? lol)

Ubuntu 25.10 final snapshot released, beta planned to 18 September, stable release to 9 October, will include experimental TPM-backed full disk encryption, GNOME Xorg session dropped, sudo-rs, GNOME 49, Chrony v4.7 instead of systemd-timesyncd, etc.:
https://ostechnix.com/ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka-final-snapshot-released/

Fedora 43 features delayed to 44: CMake 4.0 packages, change for CMake to use the Ninja generator by default, hardlinking of identical /usr files in packages by default, and more:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-Changes-Delayed

Agama 17 OS installer released, will be available for SUSE Linux Enterprise 16, with better representation of wired network connections, improvements to the storage user interface, more options on the OS registration page, allow skipping the SELinux configuration, etc.:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Agama-17-Installer

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CachyOS August 2025 ISO snapshot available with a new package dashboard, Linux kernel 6.16, fallback Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, support for Niri window manager, support for bootable snapshots when installing CachyOS with Btrfs file system and GRUB, etc.:
https://9to5linux.com/cachyos-iso-snapshot-for-august-2025-introduces-a-new-package-dashboard

Armbian 25.8 released with Linux kernel 6.16, Debian 13 base, support for new ARM boards, board-specific fixes, loong64 architecture support, improved WireGuard support, improved Pi-hole integration, Cockpit support with KVM integration, etc.:
https://9to5linux.com/armbian-25-8-released-with-support-for-linux-kernel-6-16-and-debian-trixie

Leader of Apple graphics driver development, Alyssa Rosenzweig is stepping away from Asahi Linux, to work at Intel to improve their Linux drivers:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Alyssa-Rosenzweig-Joins-Intel
(It sucks for people running Linux on a MacBook, but will benefit other Linux users quite much now that many Intel driver devs are leaving)

Linux kernel 6.17 RC3 available with fixes for various drivers and filesystems, networking improvements, memory leaks fixed, etc.:
https://ostechnix.com/linux-kernel-6-17-rc3-released/

Bcachefs is now marked as externally maintained, no new updates will be pushed to the Linux kernel:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Externally-Maintained

Wine 10.14 released with VKD3D 1.17 for Direct3D 12 over Vulkan API layer, Mono engine 10.2, "ping" application supports pinging on IPv6 connections, etc.:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-10.14-Released

DXVK 2.7.1 released with improvements for various video games, including Team Fortress 2, The Witcher, Dungeon Siege 2 and more:
https://9to5linux.com/dxvk-2-7-1-brings-improvements-for-team-fortress-2-crysis-3-and-other-games

GTK 4.20 released with improved Wayland support, fixes for Vulkan renderer, CSS media query support, improved rendering of symbolic icons, etc.:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-4.20-Released

Btrfs developer Josef Bacik leaves Meta for Anthropic, steps down from Linux kernel development:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Josef-Bacik-Leaves-Meta
(Third departure this week... showing that Linux/FOSS devs are really underpaid)

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FOSS NEWS

OBS Studio 32 beta available with a new plugin manager, hybrid MOV support, NVIDIA improvements:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OBS-Studio-32.0-Beta

Firefox adds experimental web app support on Windows, but without implementing the full PWA specs:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/firefox-web-app-support-progress
(Mozilla implementing another feature which nobody asked for at its current form, ignoring what users actually want, and treating Linux as second class citizen again while 99% of distros ship it ootb. Tipical Mozilla move.)

Firefox's on-device AI features get 10x faster due to replacing the WebAssembly (WASM) build of Microsoft’s ONNX Runtime with native C++ version:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/firefoxs-on-device-ai-features-are-now-up-to-10x-faster

Zen browser 1.15b released with Firefox 142 base, option to create and organize folders from the sidebar, add tabs to folders by dragging them, redesigned icons, etc.:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/8/zen-web-browser-finally-gets-folders-simplifying-tab-grouping-in-the-sidebar/

Proton introduces Emergency Access feature, available in paid plans, which lets trusted contacts have access to accounts, with option to control access and revoke it any time:
https://proton.me/blog/emergency-access

Wireshark 4.4.9 released with updated protocol support and bug fixes:
https://9to5linux.com/wireshark-4-4-9-protocol-analyzer-released-with-updated-protocols-and-bug-fixes

LibreOffice 25.8.1 released with more than 90 bug fixes:
https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-25-8-1-office-suite-is-already-out-with-more-than-90-bug-fixes

Immich 1.139 released with new image rendering pipeline, improved backup asset tracking, more efficient handling of duplicate assets, etc.:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/8/immich-1-139-brings-new-image-rendering-pipeline-better-backup-asset-tracking-and-more/

Arti (experimental Rust-based Tor implementation) 1.5 released with work on Counter Galois Onion encryption, improved path selection through the Conflux feature, enhancements for flow control, congestion control, onion service proof of work, etc.:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/8/tor-project-releases-arti-1-5-with-new-client-features-relay-backend-work-and-bug-fixes/

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OBS Studio 32 Beta Introduces A Plugin Manager, Hybrid MOV Support

Released overnight in beta form is OBS Studio 32.0, the next feature release for this widely-used, open-source and cross-platform application for desktop streaming/recording.

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Apache NetBeans 27 released with Gradle 9 fixes, improved JDK 25 compatibility, Maven 3.9.11, improved refactoring for standalone files, improvements for code formatting and reindentation, etc.:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/8/apache-netbeans-27-released-with-gradle-9-fixes-improved-jdk-25-compatibility-and-more/

Microsoft's DocumentDB (PostgreSQL-based, MongoDB compatible document database) is now under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation:
https://news.itsfoss.com/documentdb-moves-to-linux-foundation/

QEMU 10.1 released with Intel TDX (Trust Domain Extensions) support, ARM, RISC-V and LoongArch improvements, etc.:
https://9to5linux.com/qemu-10-1-released-with-tdx-support-many-risc-v-and-arm-improvements

FreeBSD quarterly status report: bsd-user-4-linux (BSD user-mode emulation for QEMU on Linux), ability to install packages from pkg.freebsd.org in the system installer, Sylve (Proxmox-inspired, unified system management platform), Geomann (partition tool), work on suspend/resume and s0ix sleep support for laptops, porting Apple's HFS+ file-system:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Q2-2025-Status-Report

GhostBSD presents the new macOS-like Gershwin desktop environment, a successor to GNUstep, currently with Xorg support with plans for Wayland, using XFCE4-WM with plans for a custom WM:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GhostBSD-Gershwin-Desktop

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