Microsoft on Monday released Azure Linux 3.0.20251206 as the newest monthly update to its in-house Linux distribution used within the Azure cloud and elsewhere at the Windows company.

Azure Linux 3.0.20251206 adds the DM-CACHE module to its kernel for allowing better performance out of block devices, enables additional kernel build options like SCHED_core, and continues expanding its AArch64 support with enabling more packages like Kata Containers there

One of the lesser known Fedora spins under the "Fedora Labs" initiative is the Fedora Games Lab that showcases some open-source games and can serve as an easy demonstrator for Linux gaming. Looking forward to 2026 with Fedora 44, there is a proposal to revitalize Fedora Games Lab to become a better showcase for the modern potential of Linux gaming.

Fedora Games Lab as it is right now just is a showcase of Fedora with the Xfce desktop and installing a few open-source games by default.

GIMP 3.2-RC2 is out today as what could be the last release candidate of GIMP 3.2 before its stable release. This leading open-source image editor/creation alternative to the likes of Adobe Photoshop continues becoming much more refined and polished in the GIMP 3 series.

Prior to releasing GIMP 3.0 there was a goal to ship GIMP 3.2 within one year and it looks like they will make it. GIMP 3.2 RC1 came in November and 3.2 RC

Stemming from a security researcher and his team proposing a new Linux Security Module (LSM) three years ago and it not being accepted to the mainline kernel, he raised issue over the lack of review/action to Linus Torvalds and the mailing lists. In particular, seeking more guidance for how new LSMs should be introduced and raised the possibility of taking the issue to the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB).

This mailing list post today laid out that a proposed TSEM LSM for a framework for generic security modeling was

Longtime Red Hat engineer Hans de Goede who worked on many Intel/AMD laptop enhancements over the years left Red Hat and ended up joining Qualcomm . Now it turns out one of his projects at Qualcomm is enhancing the Fedora Linux support for running nicely out-of-the-box on Snapdragon-powered Windows on ARM laptops.


Hans de Goede filed a change proposal for providing automatic DTB selection on AArch64 EFI systems. The change proposal still needs to be voted on by FESCo but given it's rather straight

Back in November Flatpak 1.17 released with support for sideloading from OCI images and other improvements in working toward the Flatpak 1.18 stable release. Out today is Flatpak 1.17.1 and was then followed quickly by Flatpak 1.17.2 to fix a mistake in the release artifacts.

Flatpak 1.17.1 introduces support for building OCI bundles with Zstd compressed layers. Leveraging Zstd rather than the default Gzip is said to speed-up compression by "several times"

Back in July 2024, Ampere Computing announced AmpereOne M on their road-map for Q4'2024 to provide AmpereOne with 12 channel DDR5 memory compared to eight memory channels with the original AmpereOne processors. Then this past May the AmpereOne M SKUs were announced while Ampere Computing stated these "M" processors had been shipping since Q4 of last year. Since then we haven't seen or heard anything more about AmpereOne M nor the AmpereOne MX processors with up to 25

Following the Color Management protocol introduced in Wayland Protocols 1.41 , out today is Wayland Protocols 1.47 with various revisions to that color management and HDR support.

The Wayland color management protocol has now loosened restrictions on maxCLL and maxFALL since it isn't mandated by the ANSI/CTA-861-H specification and some movies having a maxCLL rather than the Mastering Display Luminance. Thus the prior behavior was determined to be too strict and is now loosened.

Another shortcoming of color-management-