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QEMU 11.1 adds big-endian support for RISC-V, nested virtualization on ARM via Apple HVF, new PowerPC defaults and several security fixes.

Flatpak 1.18.1 fixes ten CVEs, including a full-filesystem sandbox escape and a local root privilege escalation. Updating is strongly recommended.

Bottles 66 integrates UMU natively and makes Windows games easier on Linux – with ProtoSoda as the default runtime and automatic performance tuning.

OpenSSH 10.5 lands five weeks after 10.4 and fixes three security issues. The team is responding to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery with a faster cadence.

Modular has released Mojo 1.0: the AI- and performance-focused language now promises API stability, lambda syntax and memory-safety diagnostics.

Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” gets new HWE images with Linux kernel 7.0 for newer hardware – plus a reworked kernel manager. Existing users update in place.

Meta releases Muse Glimmer, an open 30-billion-parameter model under Apache 2.0 that runs locally on a single GPU and is built for AI agents.

SparkyLinux 8.4 on a Debian 13 base restores official 32-bit images for old PCs – with kernel 6.12 LTS and optionally Linux 7.1.

The Linux maintainers have released new stable kernels: 7.1.8 as well as the LTS series 6.18.44, 6.12.103 and 6.6.151 with many security patches.

Xfwl4 4.21.1, the second preview of Xfce’s Wayland compositor, brings better window management, finer input handling and more X11 compatibility.