📰 QEMU 10.2 Officially Released with Live Update Support and Improvements

QEMU 10.2 open-source virtualization software is now available for download with new features and improvements for supported architectures. Here’s what’s new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/qemu-10-2-officially-released-with-live-update-support-and-improvements

📰 Wayback 0.3 Preview Arrives With Fedora and Alpine Availability

Wayback 0.3, a X11 compatibility layer that allows running X11 desktop environments using Wayland, is now available in Fedora 42/43 and Alpine Linux stable repositories.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/wayback-0-3-preview-arrives-with-fedora-and-alpine-availability/

📰 Proton Experimental brings improvements for Farlight 84, CHRONO TRIGGER and more

A little holiday update for Proton Experimental from Valve to improve Windows games on Linux, Steam Deck / SteamOS systems..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/proton-experimental-brings-improvements-for-farlight-84-chrono-trigger-and-more/

📰 NVIDIA CUDA Tile IR Open-Sourced

As a wonderful Christmas gift to open-source fans, NVIDIA dropped their proprietary license on the CUDA Tile intermediate representation and has now made the IR open-source software...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-CUDA-Tile-IR-Open-Source

📰 Arch Linux Powered CachyOS To Develop A Server Edition

The Arch Linux based CachyOS has been quite popular with Linux gamers and enthusiasts for offering leading out-of-the-box performance, especially following the shutdown of Intel's Clear Linux. CachyOS has developed quite a following on the Linux desktop while looking ahead to 2026 they will be working on a server edition...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-Server-Edition-Coming

📰 Inkscape 1.4.3 Open-Source SVG Editor Improves PDF Import and Text on Path

Inkscape 1.4.3 open-source SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) editor is now available for download with new features and enhancements. Here’s what’s new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/inkscape-1-4-3-open-source-svg-editor-improves-pdf-import-and-text-on-path

📰 Arch Linux Website Hit by DDoS and Temporarily Limited to IPv6

Arch Linux has confirmed an active DDoS attack during Christmas, with IPv4 access to its website unavailable.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/arch-linux-website-hit-by-ddos-and-temporarily-limited-to-ipv6/

📰 Coreboot 25.12 Released With Qualcomm X1 Plus Platform Support, AMD Turin PoC

Coreboot 25.12 is out today as the latest quarterly feature update to this open-source BIOS/firmware solution...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-25.12-Released

📰 Ubuntu's Rust Infatuation, New Optimizations & Other Ubuntu Linux 2025 Highlights

It was a very interesting year for Ubuntu Linux. Ahead of the important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release due out this coming April, Ubuntu Linux this year was expeditiously migrating to new Rust-based system tools like sudo-rs and Rust Coreutils, new performance optimizations continued to be explored for bettering the out-of-the-box Ubuntu performance, better ARM64 support with its desktop ISO, and enhancing the Snapdragon X Elite laptop support were...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-2025-Highlights

📰 10 quick Raspberry Pi projects that are actually worth your lunch break

Not every Pi project takes days to finish. Here are several you can complete in an hour or less, then immediately enjoy the fruits of your labor.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/raspberry-pi-projects-deliver-impressive-results-less-than-hour/

📰 Critical LangChain Core Vulnerability Exposes Secrets via Serialization Injection

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in LangChain Core that could be exploited by an attacker to steal sensitive secrets and even influence large language model (LLM) responses through prompt injection.LangChain Core (i.e., langchain-core) is a core Python package that's part of the LangChain ecosystem, providing the core interfaces and model-agnostic abstractions for building.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/critical-langchain-core-vulnerability.html

📰 PorteuX 2.5 Is Out with Flatpak Support, Cinnamon 6.6, COSMIC 1.0, and Linux 6.18

PorteuX 2.5 Linux distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.17, GNOME 49.1, KDE Plasma 6.5.2, LXQt 2.3, and more. Here’s what else is new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/porteux-2-5-is-out-with-flatpak-support-cinnamon-6-6-cosmic-1-0-and-linux-6-18

📰 Turntable 5.0 Adds Collapsible Player Controls & Year-End Recap

Turntable 5.0 adds collapsible player controls you can hide on-demand, plus a year-end 'wrapped' recap pulling stats from Last.fm, Libre.fm and more. Free on Flathub.You're reading Turntable 5.0 Adds Collapsible Player Controls & Year-End Recap, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/turntable-linux-desktop-media-controls

📰 Intel Open-Source Software Setback: IWD Development Hiatus

Adding to the unfortunate engineering setbacks at Intel this year as part of cost-cutting measures, the Intel IWD software development has been on a hiatus for the past three months. Going from previously seeing monthly releases and almost constant activity to now development ceasing up with no activity in the past three months...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IWD-Development-Halts

📰 New MongoDB Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Read Uninitialized Memory

A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in MongoDB that could allow unauthenticated users to read uninitialized heap memory.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-14847 (CVSS score: 8.7), has been described as a case of improper handling of length parameter inconsistency, which arises when a program fails to appropriately tackle scenarios where a length field is inconsistent with the.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/new-mongodb-flaw-lets-unauthenticated.html

📰 GitHub Takes Down Rockchip MPP Repository After FFmpeg Copyright Claim

GitHub disabled the Rockchip Linux MPP repository after a DMCA notice from an FFmpeg developer alleging violations of the LGPL license.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/github-takes-down-rockchip-mpp-repository-after-ffmpeg-copyright-claim/

📰 44% Of GNOME Core Apps Are Written In C, 13% In JavaScript & 10% In Rust

GNOME developer Sophie Herold has shared some interesting end-of-year code stats for the GNOME project. The "GNOME" codebase is up to 6,692,516 lines of code at the end of 2025 with 1,611,526 lines of that being from GNOME apps. Where the data gets interesting is on the programming language breakdown in different areas...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-2025-Code-Stats

📰 MINISFORUM DEG2 is now available (graphics dock with OCulink and Thunderbolt 5 support)

The MINISFORUM DEG2 is a small docking station that lets you connect a desktop graphics card to a laptop, mini PC, or other computer that might not have room inside the case for a dGPU. First introduced in China in October, this graphics dock supports both OCuLink and Thunderbolt 5 (or USB4v2) connections, allowing you to use .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/minisforum-deg2-is-now-available-graphics-dock-with-oculink-and-thunderbolt-5-support/

📰 HarfBuzz 12.3 Released - Nice Performance Improvements To This Text Shaping Engine

HarfBuzz 12.3 was just released for ending out 2025 with some nice performance improvements to this widely-used text shaping engine. HarfBuzz in turn is used by the prominent Linux desktop environments, Java, Flutter, various game engines, and apps like Chrome and Firefox for text shaping needs with OpenType fonts and more...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/HarfBuzz-12.3-Released

📰 Debian Officially Welcomes Loong64 as a Supported Architecture

Debian has officially promoted loong64 from Debian Ports, confirming it will ship as a supported architecture in Debian 14 Forky.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/debian-officially-welcomes-loong64-as-a-supported-architecture/