Ubuntu 26.10 Is Out — Rust Coreutils, GNOME 51, and Post-Quantum Security Land Together
Canonical shipped Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" on October 15 with a Rust-powered core, GNOME 51, and quantum-safe package signing baked in. »
Firefox 159 Beta Fixes Wayland Tab Detachment and Adds Chrome Bookmark Import
Mozilla's Firefox 159 beta is out ahead of its October 27 stable release, fixing a persistent Wayland bug and adding quality-of-life features including Google bookmark import and better sidebar password access. »
KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands October 14 — A Full Wayland Desktop for KDE's 30th Birthday
KDE Plasma 6.8 ships on KDE's 30th anniversary with Union theming for QtWidgets apps, a complete Wayland transition, and a fix for NVIDIA GPU tiling lag. »
COSMIC Epoch 1.10 Fixes the 1fps Launcher — GPU Acceleration, Tablet Mapping, and More
System76's Rust-based COSMIC desktop just shipped version 1.10 with GPU-accelerated launcher rendering, fixing the painfully slow software renderer that plagued earlier builds. The update also adds drawing tablet display mapping and several quality-of-life improvements. »
OpenSSH 10.6 Patches a 30-Year Compression Flaw and Enables Post-Quantum Cryptography by Default
OpenSSH 10.6 removes LZ77 compression to close a decades-old chosen-plaintext side-channel, ships post-quantum ssh-mldsa44-ed25519 as a default, and adds a new WarnWeakCrypto server option. »