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Budgie 10.10.3, released by Joshua Strobl, is the third minor update of the 10.10 series and one of its most substantive. It revives the Wayland-breaking Keyboard Layout applet, gives the Budgie Menu its own favorites and a focus fix, and finally lets icons be placed freely on the desktop. Multi-display users gain primary monitor selection, while a long tail of unglamorous fixes quiet panel crashes and polkit hang-ups. It's maintenance-mode territory, but it reads like the most useful Budgie 10.x release since the X11-to-Wayland migration.
Nobara Linux 44 has refreshed its Steam-HTPC and Steam-Handheld builds, both now carrying a 2026-09-26 build date while the standard Official, GNOME, and KDE editions remain pinned to the earlier 2026-09-02 base release. The split follows the same pattern Nobara used for version 43, refreshing the console-style editions after the custom kernel, gamescope session packages, and graphics stack have had time to mature. The Steam builds rely on the project's custom gamescope technology to boot straight into a controller-first, console-like interface and switch back to a desktop, with the respin updating everything from the CachyOS-based kernel to controller-remapping tools. Developed by Thomas Crider, the Proton-GE creator, Nobara is an independent Fedora-based distro that trades official Fedora's vanilla approach for a gaming-ready, out-of-the-box experience.
Noctalia has released v5.2.0, the capstone stable build of its Qt-free C++ rewrite of the native Wayland desktop shell. The headline addition is a full calendar system pulling reminders from iCalendar, CalDAV, and Google Calendar, patching one of the most requested feature gaps. It also rounds out window management, screenshots, audio feedback, plugin authoring tools, and a big batch of stability fixes, while staying MIT-licensed and non-invasive.
Steven Barrett released Liquorix Linux Kernel 7.2-13, merging upstream Linux 7.2.8 and bumping the package version to 7.2.8-1. Unlike most of its 7.x siblings, this point release adds no fresh Project-C scheduler patches, since those got baked in across releases 7.2-1 through 7.2-12. The build still carries forward the project's signature interactive tuning, including SMT-aware scheduling, Zen Interactive frequency defaults, and the dmem-ttm-v8 VRAM patchset.
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Valve shipped SteamOS 3.9.2 Beta to the Steam Deck and Steam Machine, bundling every change since the stable 3.8 release. This 3.9 line is among the OS's heaviest updates yet, adding a new desktop environment, a Linux 7.2 kernel rebase, and a steamos- to holo- package rename. A separate SteamOS 0.4.1 Beta for the Steam Frame VR headset followed on September 26, paired with a matching Steam Client update.
Ondřej Surý's sury.org repository has repackaged four PHP security releases for Debian and Ubuntu users: 8.5.8, 8.4.26, 8.3.35, and 8.2.34. Three shipped on 24 September 2026, while 8.5.8 had already gone out on 2 July, so it has been sitting in the repos for a couple of months. All four are tagged as security releases, with many flaws facing the network and 8.4.26 carrying at least eleven assigned CVEs. Debian and Ubuntu admins can patch their systems through a standard apt upgrade.
Six Linux distributions shipped security updates today, with the biggest priorities being a DNS resolver called unbound and major browser patches. Unbound earned Critical ratings across three distros due to remote code execution and DNSSEC flaws that can expose entire networks. The browser bomb came from SUSE (63 vulnerabilities in Firefox ESR), Thunderbird (44 CVEs on AlmaLinux), and Debian's Chromium (108 CVEs), all driven by use-after-free and privilege-escalation bugs. Patch your resolver and browser first, then work through the smaller, more surgical advisories in the coming maintenance window.
GNOME released version 50.5, a deliberately "boring" bugfix update for the GNOME 50 "Tokyo" branch. The release packs in three notable security patches, including a gvfs privilege fix (CVE-2026-88924), a librsvg use-after-free flaw, and Epiphany injection and path-traversal fixes. Beyond security, GNOME Shell now enforces screen-time limits by refusing to unlock the screen once a limit is reached, while Mutter and GDM fix display, compositor, and login-session bugs. Since GNOME 51 is already stable, 50.5 extends the supported lifespan of GNOME 50 for distros that haven't yet upgraded.
Faugus, the open-source launcher that runs Windows games on Linux through UMU-Launcher, has released version 2.4.2 with a custom color picker for the Overview panel and app background. The update also trims the Flatpak build by dropping an unnecessary Wine dependency and bumping to GNOME 51, while fixing a broken "Stop" button and a system tray working-directory bug. Notably, the project moved fast, shipping 2.4.0 through 2.4.2 in a single week after 2.4.1 was forced to rework its backup notifications to pass a Flathub review. It's available as an AppImage, AUR package, RPM, deb, or via Flatpak, with the .deb format proving the most popular download so far.
Debian 14, codenamed "forky," has opened its official call for desktop artwork proposals, with the deadline set for November 26, 2026. The Debian Desktop Team re-sent the July 12 notice after it failed to reach the wider announce list and pushed the deadline out roughly two months. The winning theme would appear across the boot splash, login manager, wallpaper and installer branding. Forky is shaping up as a landmark release, being the first to mandate reproducible builds and add LoongArch64 as an official architecture.
PeaZip 11.3.0 shipped today as a security-focused release from developer Giorgio Tani that the project explicitly recommends you upgrade to. The biggest change makes a master password mandatory for the built-in Password Manager, closing a hole where stored credentials went unprotected. It also brings improved ZPAQ handling for encrypted archives, a new "Open With" picker behind Shift+F12, two new Blue-themed looks, and updated 7z/p7zip and PEA backends. You can grab it now from GitHub and SourceForge, or via Flathub on Linux — just download from the official repos and verify the SHA-256 hashes.
Five hardware reviews published in today's roundup, which spans a Strix Halo mini PC, a "world's fastest" gaming laptop, an AM5 Mini-ITX board, and two power supplies. Across them, bold marketing claims falter under bench scrutiny, from GIGABYTE's title narrowly edged by MSI to a Gamdias "Platinum" PSU measuring like Silver. Value emerges as the recurring battleground, with the $3,099 BOSGAME M5 winning on speed-per-dollar while the $270 ASUS B850I and Gamemax 750G get dinged for pricing. The takeaway is consistent: trust the test bench over the spec sticker before you buy.
XanMod shipped two new kernel builds on September 25, 2026, with 7.2.8-xanmod1 tracking the mainline 7.2 series and 6.18.54-xanmod1 following the 6.18 long-term-support line. Both mirror Greg Kroah-Hartman's upstream point releases of the same week and arrive together, letting enthusiasts grab the newest features or servers pull a more stable build. The dominant theme across both changelogs is security hardening, especially a major round of fixes to the SMB/CIFS client, along with Wi-Fi, IPsec, XFS, btrfs, and AMDGPU updates. Maintained by Alexandre Frade since 2015, the kernels install via a single apt install on supported Debian- and Ubuntu-based systems.
Shelly ALPM, the visual GTK4 package manager for Arch Linux from Seafoam Labs, shipped two releases in under 24 hours, starting with the feature-rich v3.1.5 on September 25. That release adds an optional Atoll-powered AUR browser, a shelly build --install command that chains dependency fetching, building, and installing into one step, and new repo-db tools for maintaining private repositories. The build system also gets broad compatibility fixes for tricky packages like snapd, CUPS, and Heroic, plus predictable PATH handling and new build.extra_path and build.env settings. A next-day v3.1.6 patch followed on September 26 with a single fix for a UI bug that called the wrong CLI command to fetch data.
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