Open-source News

Intel's Linux NPU User-Space Driver Adds Panther Lake Support  Phoronix

Dedicated IP arrives on Surfshark's Linux apps – but how does it compare to its rivals?  Tom's Guide

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS to arrive in April with Linux 6.20 kernel  Neowin

Linux Kernel Rust Component Hit by Vulnerability Causing System Crashes  Cyber Press

Fwupd 2.0.19 Linux Firmware Updater Supports Lenovo Sapphire Folio Keyboard  9to5Linux

As we have been covering over the past year, major investments have been made to better the outlook for running FreeBSD on laptop hardware. From WiFi driver improvements to enhancing suspend/resume, power management, graphics drivers, and other features, it's been a big undertaking to make FreeBSD work better on laptops. The FreeBSD Foundation calls 2025 as having brought "transformative changes" for the FreeBSD laptop experience...

Canonical confirmed their Linux kernel plans today for the Ubuntu 26.04 Long Term Support (LTS) release due out in April...

Cloud Hypervisor 50.0 is out today for this cloud-minded, security-focused and Rust-based hypervisor. Cloud Hypervsior began as an open-source Intel project while in more recent times has shifted to being largely maintained by Microsoft, Crusoe, Cyberus Tech, Rivos, and others...

Cloud Hypervisor 50 Released With QCOW2 Compression, Performance Improvements  Phoronix

The Mageia development team recently met to solidify their plans for releasing Mageia 10 as the next major release of this LInux distribution with its roots that trace back to the days of Mandrake Linux...

Mageia 10 Planning For April Release While Still Maintaining 32-bit Support  Phoronix

New Linux Kernel Rust Vulnerability Triggers System Crashes  gbhackers.com

Vulkan 1.4.337 released a short time ago as what could be the last Vulkan API spec update of 2025 depending upon how much time the working group takes off or not around the holidays. In any case, it's a nice holiday treat with the new VK_EXT_texture_compression_astc_3d and VK_EXT_shader_long_vector extensions...

Cryptsetup 2.8.2 released on Thursday for this open-source utility used for setting up disk encryption with dm-crypt on Linux systems, including for LUKS volumes, TrueCrypt, BitLocker, and other formats...

OpenZFS 2.4 is out as stable in time for the holidays! The big OpenZFS 2.4 feature release is now available for FreeBSD and Linux systems to continue advancing the open-source ZFS file-system support...

EBS 12.2 DB Tier on Oracle Linux 9 and Red Hat Linux 9 Now Certified  Oracle Blogs

I am currently collaborating with my product marketing team on content explaining why organizations—whether they currently use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or not—should standardize on RHEL today. The content is fresh in my mind, and I wanted to share some of it with you in advance, as I believe it contains compelling insights.As you likely know, we launched numerous new features and capabilities this year with RHEL 10, including image mode for RHEL, which enables users to create and manage operating system images for consistent deployment, and the RHEL command-line assistant powered by

General availability (GA) support is now available for Red Hat OpenShift versions 4.18, 4.19, and 4.20 running on VMware vSphere Foundation 9 (VVF9) and VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF9).As organizations continue to modernize their infrastructure, Red Hat remains committed to providing a stable, certified, and high-performance foundation for Kubernetes workloads across diverse environments. This announcement means that all current Red Hat customers deploying OpenShift on vSphere 8/vCenter 8 or VCF 5 can run their workloads on OpenShift clusters deployed on VVF9 or VCF9 as an infrastructure prov

Red Hat Accelerates AI Trust and Security with Chatterbox Labs AcquisitionRed Hat has acquired Chatterbox Labs, a specialist in AI safety and generative AI guardrails. This acquisition integrates model-agnostic security and transparency tools into the Red Hat AI portfolio, helping enterprises deploy trustworthy, production-grade AI across hybrid cloud environments with automated risk metrics and safety testing. Learn more Fierce Network - Red Hat's CTO keeps an 'open' mind on AIRed Hat CTO Chris Wright reaffirms the company's commitment to "default to open" for AI, underscoring how open ecos

At Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gathering in Atlanta on November 10, 2025, Satish Puranam, Director of Cloud and Developer Experience at Ford, and Sitaram Iyer, VP of Emerging Technologies at CyberArk, outlined how Ford manages over 200 Red Hat OpenShift clusters amid a complex digital transition. Their strategy relies on a single, non-negotiable mandate: everything must be keyless. Image 1: From left, Satish Puranam, Director of Cloud and Developer Experience at Ford, and Sitaram Iyer, VP of Emerging Technologies at CyberArk.To achieve this scale, Ford has abandoned static secrets entirely, impl