Over four years after the debut of OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 and in the interim since also working on the ROME rolling-release platform, OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 finally debuted today.

OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 is a fixed-point release of the OpenMandriva Linux distribution and their last to be using the Plasma 5 desktop before switching to the Plasma 6.0 desktop, which itself is being released in February. The upgrade to OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 means the Linux 6.6 LTS kernel, Mesa 23

Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.41 debuted this week as the newest version of this OpenJDK JVM focused on a small footprint and fast performance.

Eclipse OpenJ9 0.41 brings several new JVM options for altering its behavior: ShowCarrierFrames, ContinuationCache, CompactStrings, EnableDynamicAgentLoading, and UseZlibNX.

The OpenJ9 0.41 release also adds support for OpenSSL 3.x and performance improvements for various algorithms like AES, SHA-256, and ChaCha20. The OpenJ9 0.41 release

Released on Tuesday was a new version of wlroots, the Wayland compositor support library that was born out of the i3-inspired Sway compositor project. With this new release are new Wayland protocols, continued work on their Vulkan renderer, and the ability for the Wayland back-end to embed a wlroots compositor inside an existing Wayland client.

The wlroots 0.17 release brings the content-type-v1 protocol to tag surfaces with their content type, xwayland-shell-v1 for improving XWayland reliability,