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Fedora 45 released! https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-45/ The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora Linux 45! Whether you use Fedora on your desktop, server, edge device, or cloud instance, Fedora Linux 45 brings polished desktop upgrades, powerful new installer features, and updated toolchains. Every Fedora release is a major community effort – thank you to everyone in our community who helped build, test, and package this release! //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Upgrade If you are already running Fedora Linux, upgrading to the new release is simple. Our user documentation shows you exactly how to start enjoying F45 easily. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Or, start fresh Looking for a clean install or setting up a new device? Head over to getfedora.org to grab installation media for our flagship Editions: https://getfedora.org/ Fedora Workstation Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Fedora Server Fedora Cloud Fedora CoreOS & Fedora IoT You can also explore our Atomic Desktops (including Silverblue, Kinoite, and Sericea) or choose from alternate desktop options via Fedora Spins (such as Cinnamon, Xfce, MATE, or COSMIC). //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// What’s new in Fedora Linux 45? We have a lot of excellent content under the hood in this release. Below is only a snapshot of them. Take a spin through our release notes for individual changes, and details on each change. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f45/release-notes/ One of the biggest highlights in Fedora Linux 45 is integrated support for Stratis storage right inside the Anaconda installer. Stratis brings modern enterprise storage features to local storage while wrapping device-mapper, XFS, and LUKS in an easy-to-use interface. These features include thin provisioning (over-provisioning), storage pooling, dynamic filesystem sizing, … Read in full →

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@SmallsOnline Split our monolithic containerfile into numerous different build scripts, enabling single-image builds and halving build times. Full details can be found here. @Andy10115 has been working diligently to improve testing and onboard new devices, details of their work this cycle can be found here.👇 https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bazzite-45-is-here/12702/4 Vestigial files/packages have been cleaned out across the project. Image chunks are now all ZSTD compressed, enabling faster downloads. Chunkah is now in use and, when combined with greatly expanded rechunking and fixes to reproducibility during build image, have enabled Bazzite updates as low as 100MB in size.👇 https://github.com/coreos/chunkah /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// What’s next Starting today we’ll be testing Kernel 7.3.1 on our unstable branch. Our main focus is on HDMI 2.1/VRR and ensuring no surprise regressions after the rather rocky 7.2 series. You can switch to unstable and help test with brh rebase unstable, let us know what you think! We’ll also be testing the latest version of steamos-manager on these builds, and a huge set of improvements to the Bazzite Portal. If you’re one of the awesome people who helped with testing this cycle, you can now switch to stable Bazzite 45 using brh rebase stable.

Fluxer in November 2026: where we are and what's next A chat app that puts you first Free and open source chat for friends, groups and communities, with text chat, voice and video calls, screen sharing and self-hosting. https://fluxer.com/blog/fluxer-november-2026 Where Fluxer stands in November 2026, how the number of accounts on fluxer.com grew since July 2023, and what I plan to work on next. A new voice system, encryption and federation are coming I'm working on the new voice and video system right now. Every call on it will be end-to-end encrypted, and it's built to fix many voice and screen share problems you've reported. Here's what it changes and which reported problems it fixes. Apart from the iOS app on the App Store, it's the last big thing I plan to ship this year. https://fluxer.com/help/new-voice-system https://fluxer.com/help/new-voice-system-reported-problems I'm also working on getting the iOS app onto the App Store. TestFlight is broken for now because of a long-standing Apple bug we ran into when we removed inactive testers, and here's what happened and when to expect the App Store release. End-to-end encryption is also coming to DMs, group DMs and notes, and it will be on for everyone with no setting to turn it off. Here's the full plan. https://fluxer.com/help/encryption Federation is coming too. With it, people on different Fluxer instances can talk to each other and move their accounts. Here's how federation will work. I'll start on experimental drafts of both in 2026, and by current estimates they'll be stable in the first half of 2027. Both are on our roadmap, and neither has gone anywhere. https://fluxer.com/help/federation Half a million accounts later Every account since July 2023 Accounts on fluxer.com by the date they were created, not counting bots or deleted accounts. July 1, 2023 to November 2, 2026, one point per week. https://fluxer.com/blog/roadmap-2026 If you'd like to help Fluxer has no venture capital, and it's… Read in full →

Nvidia 620.70.06 has released https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/283867/ Improved performance of explicit synchronization in high-framerate benchmarks on Wayland. Fixed a regression, introduced in the 595.xx driver series, which caused Assassin's Creed Shadows to hang with Vulkan device lost errors at certain scenes: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/595-release-feedback-discussion/362561/140. Added OpenGL visual indicator (__GL_SHOW_GRAPHICS_OSD) support to all Vulkan backends, including Wayland and direct-to-display. Fixed corruption and flickering seen with Vulkan applications under Wayland when using __VK_ENABLE_DEVICE_GROUPS on multi-GPU systems. Fixed intermittent crashes in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth with VKD3D_CONFIG=descriptor_heap. Fixed some bugs that interfered with the minimumIntervalUs frame rate limit in VK_NV_low_latency2 when frame generation is enabled. Fixed a bug that could cause a kernel crash when using the open GPU kernel modules on NUMA systems where some nodes had no memory. Fixed an 'invalid head number' error that could appear when VT switching away from the X server: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/590-release-feedback-discussion/353310/120. Fixed a bug that could cause nvidia-installer to install libraries outside of the dynamic loader search path in some situations.

If you have been experiencing perf problems on amd gpus just know that kernel 7.3 is causing some of those issues. For me i was having some bad frame timing in deadlock where it felt like the game was being halted by something in the frametiming, no scheduler change fixed this problem. This issue is happening on my rdna2 gpu and changing power profiles did nothing aswell. LTS kernel has no problems :)

🐚 Shelly-ALPM v3.2.0 — The Bug Bash Shelly is a modern package manager for Arch Linux designed to be a more user-friendly alternative. Offering a visual interface with a focus on user experience and ease of use. Shelly supports native package operations through libalpm or Shelly.Rlpm, with libalpm selected by default. It is a complete reimagination of how a user interacts with their Arch Linux system, providing a more intuitive experience. https://github.com/Seafoam-Labs/Shelly-ALPM/releases/tag/v3.2.0 Shelly v3.2.0 is a bug bash: a round of fixes for the things that get between you and your packages. Since v3.1.10, we’ve tackled Flatpak failures, stubborn tray icons, missed restart detection, AUR build errors, and package information that wasn’t telling the whole story. A few quality-of-life improvements came along too, including multi-package downgrades, AppImage update discovery, and a choice of terminal for updates. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 🐛 Flatpak and permissions, untangled Fixed the Flatpak regression affecting Arch Linux after v3.1.10. Elevated operations now hand work back to the invoking user with setpriv, preserving the login session context needed for Flatpak’s system-helper authentication. User-cache handling also gets a cleanup. Shelly writes the invoking user’s cache using that user’s credentials, including when launched through supported privilege-elevation tools, and preserves absolute XDG_CACHE_HOME overrides. Existing ownership problems can be repaired from your regular user session with: shelly utility --fix-permissions This repairs Shelly’s directories; it does not change ownership of the parent ~/.cache directory. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 🔔 A tray icon that keeps up 🔄 Stale update status: The notification service now watches package database changes and refreshes its status after package operations. (#2151)👇 https:… Read in full →

Installed package versions now take priority in the UI and CLI search results, rather than being replaced by the repository version. RLPM also correctly reports installation status and dates. (#2044, #2143)👇 https://github.com/Seafoam-Labs/Shelly-ALPM/pull/2044 https://github.com/Seafoam-Labs/Shelly-ALPM/pull/2143 Upgrade previews now include repository package replacements, making it clearer what will change before you confirm. (#2119)👇 https://github.com/Seafoam-Labs/Shelly-ALPM/pull/2119 Behind the scenes, unnecessary RLPM database snapshot hashing has been removed, reducing repeated database work. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 🧹 Cleaning up the cleanup purify now recognises leftover pacman download-XXXXXX directories, including those containing partial downloads, and includes them in its cleanup plan. (#2150)👇 https://github.com/Seafoam-Labs/Shelly-ALPM/pull/2150 Removing a stale database lock from the desktop app also runs asynchronously, keeping the interface responsive while authentication completes. (#2142)👇 https://github.com/Seafoam-Labs/Shelly-ALPM/pull/2142 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 🖼 AppImages, better connected AppImage desktop integration now uses the application’s shipped desktop-file identity and removes superseded launcher entries during updates, addressing naming mismatches and duplicate menu entries. (#2134)👇 https://github.com/Seafoam-Labs/Shelly-ALPM/pull/2134 Update support gains embedded update-information discovery and .zsync control-file support. GitHub asset matching honours embedded filename patterns, and release selection receives additional fixes. (#2146, #2147)👇 https://github.com/Seafoam-Labs/Shelly-ALPM/pull/2146 https://github.com/Seafoam-Labs/Shelly-ALPM/pull/2147 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ✨ A few extras between the fixes ⏪ Downgrade packages togethe… Read in full →