Notices by Phoronix (phoronix@masto.ai)

Fedora Discussion Raises The Idea Of Replacing LibreOffice With Collabora Office

One of the livelist Fedora Discourse community discussions in recent days -- or even in quite a period of time for that matter -- comes down to a user having suggested that Fedora replace LibreOffice by default with the downstream Collabora Office...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Discuss-Collabora-Office

FreeBSD 14.5 Released With Hardware Support Improvements, Many Bug & Security Fixes

For those that haven't yet made the move to FreeBSD 15 with still relying on FreeBSD 14 in production, out today is FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.5-RELEASE

FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 Released With Several Security Fixes

Ahead of FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE hopefully debuting on 8 September, FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 is out today as the final scheduled development release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.5-RC1

Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS Released With Initial Collection Of Fixes

Canonical today published Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS as their first point release in the long-term support series for the "Resolute Raccoon"...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04.1-LTS-Released

Linus Torvalds Endures A Debug Session From Hell, "Enormously Helped" By AI

It's pretty rare to see Linus Torvalds author patches himself pertaining to the open-source Linux graphics drivers, but waking up this morning I was surprised to see he authored and committed an Intel Xe kernel graphics driver change himself. It ended up being after he encountered a "debug session from hell" but was ultimately helped by AI in fixing a bug that had been irking him...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Debug-AI

X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 Prepares For First Feature Release In Five Years

Following today's release of XWayland 26.1 RC1, X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 was tagged. This xorg-server 26.1 release is aiming to become the first major feature release in five years, succeeding the xorg-server 21.1 series...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-26.1-RC1

COSMIC Epoch 1.6 Released With Per-App Volume Control, Remote Desktop Preparations

COSMIC Epoch 1.6 was released this evening as the latest milestone for this open-source, Rust-based desktop environment led by System76 as part of the work on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.6

GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu Released Following More Driver Cleaning

Following yesterday's release of the Linux 7.2 kernel, GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu is now available for this kernel downstream that strips out support for drivers depending upon non-free-software microcode/firmware, the ability to load closed-source kernel modules, and other restrictions in the name of software freedom...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Linux-Libre-7.2

Debian Marks 33rd Birthday As One Of The Oldest Maintained Linux Distros

Today marks thirty three years since the Debian Linux distribution was started by the late Ian Murdock...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-33-Birthday

Rsync 3.5 Released As "Extraordinary" Update To Fix 33 Security Issues

Rsync as the widely-used, open-source remote sync software for synchronizing files and directories across networks is out today with a very important update...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rsync-3.5

FreeBSD 14.5 Beta 1 Released With Various Backports, Security Fixes

For those still on the FreeBSD 14 N-1 stable series rather than the latest FreeBSD 15 series, FreeBSD 14.5 is working toward release to deliver various security fixes and backports...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.5-Beta-1

FFmpeg 9.0 Released With More Vulkan Acceleration, Animated WebP & More AMD AMF

FFmpeg 9.0 is now available as the latest feature release for this widely used, open-source multimedia library...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-9.0-Released

Nouveau Preparing To Finally Enable Atomic Mode-Setting By Default

In addition to the Nouveau kernel driver unblocking Vulkan Video H.264 support for the Mesa NVK driver, another feature change on the way is this open-source NVIDIA Linux driver finally preparing to enable atomic mode-setting by default...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-Atomic-Mode-Setting-26

Debian Considering General Resolution Over LLM Usage In The Project

Debian developers are discussing a general resolution whether to permit AI large language model (LLM) usage within the Debian software project...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-GR-LLM-Usage

Qualcomm QCE Driver On The Chopping Block With ~48x Slower Than Armv8 Crypto Extensions

A few days back I wrote about upstream Linux kernel developers marking the Qualcomm crypto accelerator driver as "broken" and "harmful" due to its slow performance, history of bugs, and other limitations. Now this Qualcomm Crypto Engine "QCE" driver might be removed outright from the Linux kernel source tree after discovering it's even worse than anticipated...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-QCE-48x-Slower

More ASUS Motherboards To Enjoy Working Sensor Monitoring With Linux 7.3

Thanks to the work of the open-source community, more ASUS desktop motherboards for Intel Core and AMD Ryzen systems are seeing working sensor monitoring under Linux. With the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle, several additional ASUS motherboards will now enjoy working sensor monitoring...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-More-ASUS-Sensors

OpenMandriva GitHub Disrupted & Nefarious Package Push In Sabotage Attempt

The OpenMandriva project put out a statement today concerning an attempted distribution sabotage effort. Part of the OpenMandriva GitHub repository was deleted and there was an empty package push made to OpenMandriva's Cooker repository in trying to obsolete all GNOME and COSMIC packages...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenMandriva-Disrupted

Linux 7.1 Released: New NTFS Driver, Intel FRED For Panther Lake, Faster Arc Graphics

Linus Torvalds just released the stable Linux 7.1 kernel and it's coming a half-day early thanks to his travel plans...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Released

Linux Sees Patches For "Critical" Vulnerability Affecting Many Arm CPUs

Made public today is CVE-2025-10263 as a "critical" security vulnerability affecting many different Arm CPU cores. CVE-2025-10263 could allow for privilege escalation on affected systems due to a specific timing condition during a memory permission change. Fundamentally it comes down to completion of affected memory accesses might not be guaranteed by the completion of a TLBI...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-CPU-Critical-CVE-2025-10263

Ubuntu MATE Is Continuing Despite No Ubuntu MATE 26.04 Release

Back in March, Martin Wimpress stepped down as the longtime Ubuntu MATE leader and was looking for contributors to keep this Ubuntu derivative going with its GNOME2-derived desktop. That change in leadership paired with no Ubuntu MATE 26.04 release having occurred led to some concerns among users, but the plan is still for Ubuntu MATE to continue moving forward...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-MATE-Without-26.04