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Version 4.21.0 of the Samba Windows interoperability suite has been released. Changes include some authentication hardening, a number of LDAP improvements, per-user and per-group veto and hide files, group-managed service accounts, and quite a bit ...

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The call for candidates has gone out for the 2024 election of members of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board: The TAB exists to provide advice from the kernel community to the Linux Foundation and holds a seat on the LF's board of directors ...

Version 4.0 of the Tellico collection-management software has been released. This is the first release to use the KDE Frameworks 6 and Qt6 libraries, with a fallback available for Frameworks 5 and Qt5. Other notable changes in 4.0 include importing ...

Much of the early Rust code for the kernel has taken the form of reimplementations of existing drivers as a proof of concept. One project, though, is entirely new: the driver for Apple GPUs written by Asahi Lina. This driver has shipped with Asahi ...

The 6.10.8, 6.6.49, 6.1.108, 5.15.166, 5.10.225, 5.4.283, and 4.19.321 stable kernel updates have all been released. As usual, they contain important fixes throughout the tree. Users of those kernels should upgrade.

Version 130.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Notable in this release is the addition of a Firefox Labs tab in Firefox Settings. This allows users to easily enable experimental features, such as the ability to translate selected text ...

One of the joys of writing about technology is the opportunity to cover interesting talks on opensource and freesoftware topics. One of the pains is creating transcriptions of said talks, or continually referring back to a recording, to be able to ...

At this year's GUADEC in Denver, Colorado, Behdad Esfahbod and Matthias Clasen presented a two-part talk on a topic that's deeply important to desktop environments: fonts. Esfahbod covered advances in font technology that are making their way to ...

Linus has released 6.11-rc6 for testing. "Things look pretty normal, although we have perhaps unusually many filesystem fixes here, spread out over smb, xfs, bcachefs and netfs."