Open-source News

PostgreSQL 18.0 is out today as the annual major feature release for this widely-used SQL database server. PostgreSQL 18 is a big one with many exciting performance optimizations and other new features...

Beckhoff launches TwinCAT for Linux with virtualized PLC capabilities  Design World

Queued this week into the BPF subsystem's "bpf-next" Git branch ahead of the Linux 6.18 merge window are some exciting feature additions...

Deutsche Bundesbank is latest central bank to join LF Decentralized Trust  ledgerinsights.com

New LockBit 5.0 Ransomware Variant Attacking Windows, Linux, and ESXi Systems  Cyber Security News

Earlier this month the VMSCAPE CPU security vulnerability was made public and affecting both AMD and Intel processors. VMSCAPE can lead to leaking information from a user-space hypervisor via speculative side channels. An Intel engineer today posted a new set of patches for helping to reduce the mitigation costs of VMSCAPE protections on modern Intel processors...

Intel Posts New Linux Patches To Reduce Overhead Of VMSCAPE Mitigation  Phoronix

LockBit 5.0 Ransomware Surfaces With Support for Windows, Linux, and ESXi  CyberInsider

Switching to Linux: How to Replace Everyday Apps With Open-Source Alternatives  How-To Geek

GE-Proton 10-17 released fixing Warframe as probably other games too  GamingOnLinux

Bcachefs goes DKMS after Torvalds' kernel banishment  theregister.com

While the Mold linker has been very impressive for its speed the past few years compared to the linkers out of the LLVM and GNU toolchain projects, there is a new high speed linker on the scene and it's written in Rust: meet Wild...

Wild: A Very Fast Linker Written In Rust, Aims To Outperform Mold Linker  Phoronix

Fedora 43 Release Date and New Features  It's FOSS News

The Intel Media Driver 2025Q3 release is available today as the quarterly update to this open-source Video Acceleration API (VA-API) driver used by Intel hardware under Linux for video encode/decode...

Intel Media Driver 2025Q3 Prepares For Panther Lake  Phoronix

Yesterday at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoCs for upcoming laptops. In addition Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 mobile platform too. With those announcements out there, the Qualcomm open-source engineers have been busy in rolling out their latest patches for beginning to enable these new platforms with the Linux kernel...

Qualcomm Begins Posting Linux Patches For Snapdragon X2 Elite, 8 Elite Gen 5 SoCs  Phoronix

Overnight Intel released IGSC 1.0 as their library for handling graphics system firmware updates for rolling out firmware updates to Intel discrete graphics card devices...

AMD Enables PyTorch on Radeon RX 7000/9000 GPUs with Windows and Linux Preview  TechPowerUp