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PeaZip 10.8 has been released today for this open-source, cross-platform, and free file archiver utility based on 7-Zip / p7zip archiver, Zstandard, FreeArc, and other open-source file compression tools.

I used this back when I was on Windows in order to make some much needed tweaks to the windows UI. You can see a list of mods here: https://windhawk.net/mods

OpenJam's rc-servers is a collection of re-implemented Robocraft web services. Robocraft was an online vehicle combat game where you build your own vehicle (robot) out of blocks and then fight others' vehicles in a few different game modes. The official servers were shut down by FreeJam in January 2025.

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MinIO, the widely used high-performance, S3-compatible object storage system for cloud-native applications with millions of deployments worldwide, is about to reach the end of its life cycle. But the way this shift has unfolded has left many in the open-source community raising their eyebrows. Here’s the background.

Share your favorite open-source F-Droid apps so more users can find and enjoy them.

excited to see what this means for the project, the poor UI/UX of libreoffice is easily its most glaring flaw imo

The open-source SVT-VP9 project started by Intel as a high performance VP9 video encoder has seen its first new release in five years.

Audacity, a free, cross-platform open-source audio editing and recording software used by hobbyists, podcasters, musicians, and professionals alike, just released version 3.7.6.

Members of OASIS Open, the global open source and standards organization, have approved the Open Document Format (ODF) for Office Applications V1.4 as an OASIS Standard, the organization’s highest level of ratification. ODF V1.4 improves developer documentation, adds new features, and maintains full backward compatibility.

Wireshark, the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer, has been updated today to version 4.6.2, the second point release to the Wireshark 4.6 series, addressing various bugs and security issues.

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The GStreamer project released GStreamer 1.26.9 today as the ninth maintenance update to the latest GStreamer 1.26 series of this popular and powerful open-source, free, and cross-platform multimedia framework.

VLC 3.0.22 is now available for download as the latest stable version of this open-source, cross-platform, and free media player for GNU/Linux, Android, macOS, Windows, and other platforms.

Slightly more detail in this GitHub issue, however much is still unknown, even after three or so days. The dev hasn't revealed any further details. Some articles on this incident:

Open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb published a blog post today outlining their work on bringing their Coreboot-downstream Dasharo to the ASRock Rack SPC741D8/2L2T, a recent server motherboard for supporting Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids and Emerald Rapids processors.

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Nearly five months after its July update, PhotoPrism, a widely adopted self-hosted open-source photo management tool, has just released a new version, focused on metadata editing, AI capabilities, and performance improvements across the application.

ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.2, an open-source and self-hosted office suite for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, fillable forms, PDFs, and diagrams, has officially landed. The update centers on AI-powered writing assistance, new personalization tools, more robust PDF editing, and clearer form creation features.

VoidAuth is Single Sign-On for Your Self-Hosted Universe! 🐈‍⬛🔒

Collabora Productivity has announced the release of the first desktop version of its Collabora Office, bringing the full Collabora Online interface to Linux, Windows, and macOS as a native application.

As we informed you early this year, Google was open-sourcing the code for Pebble watches, making about 95% of the software available to the community. The last 5%—the mobile app—remained closed. That’s now changed with the announcement of Eric Migicovsky, the founder of Pebble and the person leading its 2025 relaunch under his new company, Core Devices.

It's been two months since there were any notable Intel Linux engineering departures to note following various layoffs and voluntary departures this year that have unfortunately impacted their Linux/open-source talent. Sadly this US Thanksgiving is a new departure to note: one of Intel's maintainers for the Xe open-source Linux kernel graphics driver is leaving the company. This is for the modern Xe driver used by default since Lunar Lake and playing a pivotal role for Intel Linux graphics moving forward

Contrary to headlines suggesting the EU has “backed away” from Chat Control, the negotiating mandate endorsed today by EU ambassadors in a close split vote paves the way for a permanent infrastructure of mass surveillance.

Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

Pinokio is a new software platform that enables users to run their own "personal Internet" locally on Mac, Windows, and Linux computers with a single click[^1]. The platform allows users to run web servers, AI models, and command-line applications directly on their local machines[^3].

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This is based on LibreOffice, but with a new UI.

15 years ago this month, @CiaranG started “an experiment in automated building from source”. And so F-Droid began to automate building all our apps from source. Before this, apps were either built manually or the binary files were fetched from trusted developers like Mozilla. Automating the build process was a key early step that set up F-Droid to lead on trustworthy computing. Since then, we moved to requiring apps to be built from source on our servers. Now we build apps from source as much as possible, and have expanded to Anti-Features, app reviews, privacy checks, reproducible builds, and more.

Pebble, the e-ink smartwatch with a tumultuous history, is making a move sure to please the DIY enthusiasts that make up the bulk of its fans: Its entire software stack is now fully open source, and key hardware design files are available too.

"Upon execution, the malware downloads and runs TruffleHog to scan the local machine, stealing sensitive information such as NPM Tokens, AWS/GCP/Azure credentials, and environment variables.

I have seen folks talk about a pain point for using FF (or forks) being related to YouTube being super slow. The about:config settings the article mentions did seem to lead to YouTube loading faster on both my FF and Zen-Browser installs. So maybe this might help for others that specifically don't like to use FF as their main browser because of YouTube.

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"Upon execution, the malware downloads and runs TruffleHog to scan the local machine, stealing sensitive information such as NPM Tokens, AWS/GCP/Azure credentials, and environment variables.

Dutch open hardware specialist FusionXvision has opened crowdfunding for a design it says can provide lab-grade programmable power from any USB Type-C Power Delivery (PD) power adapter: the BenchVolt PD.

One of the great things about Valve's hardware is that it's not locked down, and they put a lot of money into open source for SteamOS (Linux). With the upcoming new Steam Machine and Steam Frame, the open source never stops.

Yesterday, Pebble watch software was ~95% open source. Today, it’s 100% open source. You can download, compile and run all the software you need to use your Pebble. We just published the source code for the new Pebble mobile app!

"Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model

Six folks pledged lumps of cash to make it happen.

Since the 2022 release of memtest86+ 6.0 as a rewrite of this long-used RAM testing utility, this open-source software has continued advancing nicely after a decade hiatus. Released on Sunday night was memtest86+ 8.0 as the latest iteration of this popular RAM tester for enthusiasts.

Welcome to the 47th week of Linuxiac’s 2025 Weekly Roundup — your go-to source for all things Linux & Open Source. Here’s a look at the biggest Linux and FOSS highlights from the past week (Nov 17 – 23).

In addition to Valve contributing to the open-source Radeon Vulkan driver for enhancing the Linux gaming experience and their AMD-powered Steam Deck, the upcoming Steam Frame VR headset is making use of Mesa's open-source "Turnip" Vulkan driver for Qualcomm Adreno graphics.

The Servo open-source web browser engine has been making good progress in recent times. Long outside the confines of Mozilla and working as a Linux Foundation Europe project, Servo has been advancing thanks to Igalia and other open-source developers while getting by on around ~$5.7k USD per month thanks mostly to donations from individuals. Servo has now announced sponsorship tiers in hopefully to solicit more donations from larger organizations.

The popular open-source e-book management tool, Calibre, has just released version 8.15, bringing improvements in the Comments editor, bug fixes, and updates to its news-source catalog.

Microsoft announced today that they're preserving a bit of history here - with Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III now officially and clearly open source. The source has been around for a while but now it's all proper.

Wireshark, the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer, has been updated today to version 4.6.1, a minor point release to the latest and greatest Wireshark 4.6 series, addressing various bugs and updating protocol support.

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Beginning yesterday and continuing today are several patch series beginning to lay the foundation in the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver for enabling some next-generation graphics IP. Due to the AMD graphics driver block by block enablement strategy and IP-based discovery adopted by their driver over the past few years, it's not clear what this new hardware enablement is for whether it's RDNA5 / UDNA or some RDNA4 refresh. In any event, the Linux driver enablement has begun.

Recordings from the GStreamer Conference 2025, held in London in late October, are now available on the GStreamer Conferences Archive site. Includes the GStreamer State of the Union talk by Tim-Philipp Müller, State of MPEG 2 Transport Stream (MPEG-TS) by Edward Hervey, and many others.

Creator of the popular free and open source video game library manager Playnite has a positive update on a Linux version, with plans for it during 2026.

ClamAV, a widely adopted free and open-source antivirus software developed by Cisco Talos, will undergo a substantial cleanup of its signature databases in December, marking its largest reduction effort since the project began more than two decades ago.

As Snowden told us, video and audio recording capabilities of your devices are NSA spying vectors. OSS/Linux is a safeguard against such capabilities. The massive datacenter investments in US will be used to classify us all into a patriotic (for Israel)/Oligarchist social credit score, and every mega tech company can increase profits through NSA cooperation, and are legally obligated to cooperate with all government orders.

It's the Blender 5.0 release day! Blender 5.0 is a big step forward for this open-source 3D modeling software with better Vulkan viewport support across different GPUs/drivers, HDR support when using Vulkan and Wayland on Linux, and other very nice refinements for this popular cross-platform software package.

pdsink is an open-source USB Power Delivery (PD) 3.2 sink implementation for embedded devices released under an MIT license.

GIMP 3.2 RC1 is now available in the development branch, introducing a broad set of improvements across the core, tools, plug-ins, user interface, and developer APIs, giving a clear picture of what we can expect in the final stable 3.2 version.

Hi folks, this is my first release of server emulators for Robocraft Royale. In case you aren't familiar, Robocraft Royale is a spin off from Robocraft (a multiplayer vehicle combat game) to try to catch the battle royale trend in 2017/2018. The game studio behind Robocraft shut down early this year but RCR has been offline since 2018. The server emulators replicate the behaviour of the original servers so that the game game be played without needing the proprietary servers, since they were never released to the public.

Phosh 0.51.0 is now available, bringing a set of functional improvements to this GNOME-based mobile shell used across many Linux phones.

Three months after its previous 2.51 release, Git, a distributed version control system and cornerstone in software development, helping developers efficiently manage changes in their code across projects, has just released its new 2.52 version.

OpenVPN 2.6.15 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source VPN (Virtual Private Network) system for creating secure point-to-point or site-to-site connections in routed or bridged configurations.

Howdy! Major update just happened with Spotube! Audiophiles get ready! They upgraded YouTube streaming quality to Apple Music quality with 256k instead of 128-154. It also sounds a more lively punch to the sound that beats any other YT music clone out there.

Traefik, a well-known name in cloud-native open-source proxies, released version 3.6, “Ramequin,” bringing together three major additions, with the multi-layer routing support being the most significant one.

Introducing YT-Feeds.

NVIDIA engineers continue working a lot on the in-development and in-tree open-source Nova kernel driver for their GPUs. Sent out on Friday night were the Turing enablement patches for this Rust-written Nova-Core driver code.

The Servo open-source and Rust-based web browser engine made a lot of progress during the month of October. The project has issued its monthly status report to outline all of the exciting new features made on the engine itself as well as its "servoshell" example web browser application.

The Wine Project, a compatibility layer that enables Linux and macOS users to run Windows applications, has officially released version 10.19 as a maintenance update to the stable 10.x series.

Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing.

The team behind the popular open-source, cross-platform password manager KeePassXC has provided a detailed explanation of how AI is utilized in its development workflow, addressing community concerns raised following a recent update to the project’s contribution policy, and, more specifically, in the AI-related aspects.