Linux

The Arch distribution CachyOS ships its August 2026 ISO with KDE Plasma 6.7.4, a revamped installer and a package manager rewritten in Zig.

The anonymity-focused live system Tails 7.11 fixes a Persistent Storage bug and updates the Tor Browser to 15.0.20.

TUXEDO OS leaves Ubuntu behind and moves to Debian Testing. An open beta has been available for testing since 16 August 2026.

Barely after Linux 7.2, the 7.3 merge window opens – with AMD UALink, the first CXL Type-2 driver and initial Apple M3 support.

The Linux flaw SCTPhantom (CVE-2026-64564) in the SCTP code allows local root access and container escape. Fixes are available.

Go 1.27 is out – with long-awaited generic methods, a stricter encoding/json/v2 and more SIMD support.

Rust 1.98 is here: new “algebraic” methods for f32 and f64 give the compiler more room to optimise floating-point calculations.

Canonical is funding a three-year research project on automatically translating C code to Rust – with AppArmor and snap-confine as case studies.

VirtualBox 7.2.16 adds FRED support for Linux hosts, improves the shared clipboard on Wayland, and boosts the VMSVGA 3D graphics driver.

Kagi’s privacy-focused WebKit browser Orion brings private windows and link previews to Linux – plus Flatpak builds for x86_64 and ARM64.