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2026-09-18

Software 44888 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

MangoWC 0.17.2 shipped on September 17, 2026 as a lean stability patch fixing crashes, build problems, and memory leaks. It marks the third release in a single week, following the feature-packed 0.17.0 milestone and the regression-cleaning 0.17.1. The sparse notes mask real work visible in the commit history, including a dangling-pointer fix tied to config hot-reloading. For users on the 0.17 line, upgrading before adopting newer commits is the recommended move.

Reviews 52746 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Today's roundup of seven reviews spans laptops, cooling, keyboards, motherboards, and portable storage, with a few standout picks across every price point. The Acer Swift Air 14 earns praise as a $699.99 port-rich ultrabook with class-leading battery life, even as its modest CPU and dim screen keep it short of premium. On the enthusiast side, the Corsair iCUE LINK Titan II 360 RX LCD cooler delivers beast-level cooling behind a desktop-mirroring screen, while thermal Grizzly's split Pro paste line and the Razer Huntsman V3 HE's sub-6ms latency round out the performance picks. Apple users in particular may appreciate the Team Group T-Create Expert P34F, a $238 portable SSD with built-in Find My tracking.

Ubuntu 7218 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Canonical released Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" Snapshot 4, the fourth and final monthly development preview before the stable interim release due October 15. This second September snapshot is intentionally close to the upcoming beta and should be treated as a throwaway artifact, not a production install. Snapshot 4 packs Linux 7.2, GNOME 51, Mesa 26.2, and a fully Rustified coreutils, plus a new experimental Amd64-v3 build for newer CPUs.

Software 44888 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Amethyst Mod Manager has released v2.5.0, its most feature-heavy update yet, bringing native support for browsing and installing Wabbajack modlists. The same release adds Project Zomboid to its nearly 100 supported games, along with usability tweaks like a content column, hideable buttons, and a data-tab file blacklist. Developer Chris DKN quietly signals a shift toward stability, explicitly pausing new feature requests to shore up reliability instead of piling on capabilities. You can grab it as an AppImage, Flatpak, or from the AUR, though the new Wabbajack integration still carries some rough edges for early adopters.

Alpine Linux 59 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Alpine Linux released simultaneous security updates across all four of its supported branches: 3.21.8, 3.22.6, 3.23.6, and 3.24.2. The three newest branches jumped to OpenSSL 3.5.8 while the older 3.21 line stayed on 3.3.7, a divergence that reflects Alpine's backporting approach as branches near end of support. For 3.21 in particular, this is one of the final security patches, since the branch loses support on November 1, 2026, giving operators about six weeks to plan a migration. Those upgrading a major version should run apk upgrade --available and re-run grub-install afterward if they use GRUB.
2026-09-17

AlmaLinux 2629 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

AlmaLinux OS Foundation released the 9.9 Beta, "Chartreuse Bobcat," today, adding the GCC Toolset 16 alongside the current GCC 15. The build also carries a Linux kernel fix for systemd and ps CPU spikes that RHEL 9.9 hasn't adopted, shipped via ALESCo's community-led model. Node.js 26 and PHP 8.4 join as new module streams, with security updates for SSSD, SELinux, Keylime, and Clevis. Notably, fapolicyd jumps to a major 2.0.1 release and authselect reverts its 9.8 group-merging default to opt-in, making both key things to test before going live.

Software 44888 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

pgAdmin 4 v9.18 shipped today, bundling 29 changes with four freshly patched vulnerabilities, all credited to outside researchers. The most serious, CVE-2026-86863, is an authentication bypass in Webserver mode that lets anyone assert any identity, including admins, without a credential. Two more CVEs close repeated injection holes in the Backup and Restore tools by routing database names through PGDATABASE instead of libpq's connection-string expansion. Alongside a much-welcomed VS Code-style Object Explorer toggle, the release also refreshes core dependencies and is strongly advised for every server-mode deployment.

Software 44888 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

MariaDB Server 13.0.2 reached General Availability on 15 September 2026, marking the latest point release in the 13.0 rolling series that began as a Preview in March. Importantly, it is a rolling release, not an LTS ,MariaDB recommends staying on the 12.3 line if you want long-term maintenance and slow upgrade cycles, while 13.0 is for those chasing the newest features. The standout capability is the ability to run DuckDB as a pluggable, in-process storage engine for fast columnar analytics, though it's still in gamma and carries several limitations.

Security 11011 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Today's Linux security roundups show the same flaws spreading across nearly every major distribution, from nginx and Mozilla to .NET. RHEL leads the chaos with 48 advisories, 40 rated Important, while its gstreamer, corosync, and kernel updates demand priority and a reboot. Fedora's smaller batch bites sharpest, with a patched open62541 library carrying 17 CVEs including arbitrary code execution. Ubuntu, Rocky, SUSE, Slackware, and AlmaLinux round out the day with everything from TLS holes to a 21-vulnerability registry patch, so update in order of severity rather than convenience.

Reviews 52746 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Today's roundup covers seven recent reviews, from ACEMAGIC's $1,999 workstation-class mini PC with an i9 and RTX 2000 Ada to the Geekom IT13 Max, a £692.55 Core Ultra 9 rig KitGuru praises as a home-server powerhouse. On the display front, TweakTown gives the Alienware AW3426DWM 87% but flags the MSI MPG 346CQRF X24 as better value. Input and networking round out the list with Corsair's feature-rich £60 SKIFF 100 PLUS membrane keyboard and Zyxel's forward-looking BE15000 Wi-Fi 7 access point. Power supplies close it out, with the CPS PCCooler YT1200 earning strong marks for Asian-market buyers and Endorfy's sub-€100 Enduro L6 850W standing out as a standout budget pick.

Software 44888 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Mesa 26.2.3 shipped as the third bugfix update of the 26.2 cycle, bringing roughly 75 commits from 39 contributors with zero new features. The release targets real applications you actually use, fixing crashes and glitches in Counter-Strike 2, X-Plane 12, Minecraft's Voxy mod, and Apple's Portals 2 on Apple Silicon. Under the hood it also patches memory leaks, query-sync races, and driver-level bugs across AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm Adreno, and ARM Mali code. There's no new feature set to get excited about, but it keeps your open-source GPU drivers more stable, with the next bugfix release slated for September 30.

Software 44888 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Node.js 26.9.0 shipped September 16, 2026, most notably enabling its Foreign Function Interface by default so JavaScript can call into native libraries without a C/C++ addon. A new node:bench module landed, only for the team to quietly move it behind an --experimental-bench flag after review raised concerns about benchmark integrity. The release also brings first-class Web Workers in thread contexts, an experimental DTLS API, and crypto upgrades like a generic MAC API and OpenSSL provider discovery. Since Node 26 is still in "Current" and won't reach LTS until October 2026, treat this as a testing build rather than a production upgrade.

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