The GNU Project has released Emacs 31.1. The long-running text editor landed on August 24, 2026. This version bundles a broad set of new features. They span the terminal experience, window management, package handling, and first-run friendliness. The full list…
Manjaro has pushed out a new stable update. It’s the first point release in the current 26.1 “Bian-May” series. The update brings fresh kernels and a large batch of package upgrades. Highlights include KDE Frameworks 6.29, Mesa 26.1.7, QEMU 11.1,…
Microsoft shipped Visual Studio Code 1.134 on August 19, 2026. The update leans hard into AI-assisted coding. It adds a shared agent host, side-by-side chats, a prompt timeline, full-conversation search, and new HTML browser options. The release notes cover the full list.…
RPM 6.1 is out, arriving about a year after RPM 6.0. It’s a major update to the package manager behind Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, and their relatives. The headline change is a new release model inspired by the Linux…
KDE has shared another batch of features headed to Plasma 6.8, the next desktop release due on October 14, 2026. The changes touch responsiveness, accessibility, audio, and performance. KDE laid them out in its latest “This Week in Plasma” report.…
The OpenZFS project has published version 2.4.4. It’s a maintenance release for the cross-platform ZFS implementation, and the full change list lives in the release notes. Two items stand out. First, Linux kernel coverage now reaches 7.2. Second, a new…
NetworkManager 1.58.1 has been released as the latest update to the widely used Linux network management service. It’s a stable maintenance release focused on fixes across Wi-Fi, mobile broadband, DNS, DHCP, and 802.1X handling. The full list is in the changelog,…
For twenty years, the reflex for “what’s happening on my network?” was netstat -s. In 2026, that reflex is quietly wrong. On modern Linux, netstat is deprecated, sometimes not even installed, and it reads network state in a way that…
On August 13, 2026, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group shipped an update to every supported branch—18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24—alongside PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3. The headline number: 28 security vulnerabilities closed and over 110 bugs fixed. If you run PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS,…
“Can Claude actually make a PowerPoint?” is one of the most common questions asked about coding agents right now. The short answer is yes — by way of a Claude PowerPoint skill: a compact, installable add-on that teaches your agent…
