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FocusWriter 1.9 Simple Word Processor Adds Heading Shortcuts

FocusWriter 1.9 Simple Word Processor Adds Heading Shortcuts

FocusWriter 1.9 has been released, bringing a handful of workflow enhancements and maintenance updates to the popular distraction-free writing app. For those unfamiliar, FocusWriter is an open-source writing tool designed to provide a clean, immersive drafting environment. Instead of cluttering…

Checkmate: Your Open-Source Infrastructure Monitoring Solution

Checkmate: Your Open-Source Infrastructure Monitoring Solution

Checkmate is a comprehensive monitoring platform designed to track and monitor server hardware, uptime, response times, and incidents in real-time. Built with beautiful visualizations and a user-friendly interface, it provides everything you need to keep your infrastructure running smoothly. Unlike…

Tails 7.4.2 Released with Emergency Kernel Fix

Tails 7.4.2 Released with Emergency Kernel Fix

Tails 7.4.2 has been released as an emergency update for the privacy-focused Linux distribution that routes all internet traffic through the Tor network. This version addresses serious security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. The update upgrades the kernel to version…

IPFire Introduces Community-Driven DBL for Domain Blocking

IPFire Introduces Community-Driven DBL for Domain Blocking

IPFire has introduced IPFire DBL (Domain Blocklist), a new community-driven filtering platform designed to give administrators greater control over network security policies. Instead of relying on a single massive blocklist, IPFire DBL organizes millions of domains into clearly defined categories.…

OpenVPN 2.7 Released with Multi-Socket Server Support

OpenVPN 2.7 Released with Multi-Socket Server Support

Two years after the 2.6 series, OpenVPN 2.7 has been officially released, introducing significant enhancements to the widely used user-space VPN solution for creating encrypted tunnels over IP networks. The standout feature in this release is multi-socket server support. A…

GNOME 48.9 Released as Stable Bugfix Update for GNOME 48

GNOME 48.9 Released as Stable Bugfix Update for GNOME 48

The GNOME Project has announced the release of GNOME 48.9, a maintenance update for the older GNOME 48 desktop series, delivering bug fixes, stability improvements, and minor enhancements across several core components. Updated Modules The following packages have been updated…

Parrot OS 7.1 Released with Linux kernel 6.17

Parrot OS 7.1 Released with Linux kernel 6.17

Parrot OS 7.1 Released with Key Fixes and New Features Parrot OS, the Debian-based Linux distribution built for ethical hackers and cybersecurity professionals, has released version 7.1, just under two months after the major 7.0 launch. This marks the first…

Ntfy 2.17 Released With Priority Templating and UI Enhancements

Ntfy 2.17 Released With Priority Templating and UI Enhancements

ntfy, the lightweight and self-hosted open-source notification service that enables push notifications via simple HTTP requests, has released version 2.17. The project continues to focus on flexibility, automation, and ease of deployment for developers, system administrators, and homelab users. A…

Redis 8.6 Improves Throughput by More Than Five Times Over Redis 7.2

Redis 8.6 Improves Throughput by More Than Five Times Over Redis 7.2

Less than three months after the 8.4 release, Redis 8.6 is now officially available. This new version of the distributed in-memory key-value store builds on the Redis 8.0 foundation and delivers major performance and efficiency gains. According to the release…

COSMIC Desktop 1.0.6 Released With Clipboard, File Manager, and Applet Fixes

COSMIC Desktop 1.0.6 Released With Clipboard, File Manager, and Applet Fixes

Just one week after the 1.0.5 release, COSMIC 1.0.6 has arrived. This is a small maintenance update focused on bug fixes and minor improvements across System76’s Rust-based desktop environment. The applet status area now runs its own socket-activated daemon for…