Developer & Open Source
84 stories · all topicsProgramming, open source, languages, frameworks and the tooling around them — the developer desk gathered in one report.
Varlock Releases Bumpy: A File-Based Versioning Alternative to Changesets
Bumpy is an MIT-licensed, TypeScript tool for version management and changelogs in monorepos. It follows the changesets workflow, …
Vulkan 1.4.368 Released With New Extensions From Valve & NVIDIA
Vulkan 1.4.368 is out as the newest weekly spec update for this high performance graphics and compute API...
Sound Subsystem Seeing Lots Of Fixes & Laptop/Device Quirks For Linux 7.4-rc2
The sound subsystem is seeing a "unsurprisingly high amount" fixes and device workarounds/quirks for this weekend's Linux 7.4-rc2 …
Linux x86 32-bit Patches Clean Old Kernel Code After Recently Removing Vintage CPUs
With the Linux kernel having phased out i486 CPU support and dropping old AMD Elan SoC code along with removing other obsolete and…
FEX Awaits The Linux Kernel To Align With Windows & macOS On ARM Register Usage
FEX 2611 is out for running Linux (and Wine) x86/x86_64 games/applications on AArch64 Linux. FEX 2611 brings JIT improvements whil…
ReactOS Lands Initial USB3 Driver Support
After years of work, ReactOS as the "open-source Windows" operating system striving for Windows program and driver compatibility n…
Open Source pg_vectorsearch Brings More Scalable Vector Search to PostgreSQL
Tiger Data has released pg_vectorsearch, an open source PostgreSQL extension for vector similarity search, currently in alpha. Its…
GitHub Actions Lockfiles Reach GA to Secure Workflow Dependencies
GitHub has made workflow dependency lockfiles for GitHub Actions generally available on October 28, 2026, two weeks after the feat…
Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.2022 Ships With More Than 470 Security Fixes
Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.2022 on Friday night as the newest version of their in-house Linux distribution. Given the ramp…
Linux 7.4's Build Time Performance From Optimizations But Also Larger Codebase
With Linux 7.4 the patches to speed-up the kernel build process began to land. This is the work that's yielded extremely fast incr…
Servo Browser Engine Continues Broadening Web Compatibility, New Features
The Servo open-source browser engine project is finally out with their status report highlighting the improvements made back in Se…
KDE Plasma 6.9 Will Stop Leaking Memory When Right Clicking Files/Folders On Desktop
With Plasma 6.8 stable approaching one month old, KDE developers continue ramping up work toward Plasma 6.9. Here is some of the i…
7 apps that still look terrible on foldables, and Google should call them out first
Developers are gradually adapting to the iPhone Duo, but these app makers still haven't adapted to Android foldables.
FreeBSD 15.2 Beta 1 Allows Experimental Cross-Building Of Base Packages On Linux/macOS
FreeBSD 15.2 Beta 1 is out today as the release dance kicks off in working toward the next installment of FreeBSD 15...
Asahi Linux Makes Progress On Gaming, More Apple Silicon Upstreaming
Given the recent Linux 7.3 upstream kernel release, the Asahi Linux project published a new status report to outline recent code t…
Yelp Combines Native and Server-Driven UI for Its AI Assistant
Yelp combines native mobile controls with server-driven conversation rendering in its AI Assistant using the CHAOS framework. The …
AMDGPU Driver Seeing HDMI 2.2 FRL Fixes For Linux 7.4
With Linux 7.4 the AMDGPU driver enables HDMI 2.1 FRL functionality by default for driving higher refresh rate and higher resoluti…
OpenAI Found 948 Linux Security Flaws—And Figured Out How to Exploit Them
An automated OpenAI system produced working exploits and draft fixes at roughly $1,279 per flaw, raising new questions about how c…
Linux's RAID6 Check Tool Sees 3x Performance Via Batching
For those that use Linux's raid6check command for checking/repairing an MD RAID6 software RAID array's device for errors, newly-me…
Ripple-65B Preview delivers strong agentic coding results as a fully Apache 2.0 open US model
Ricursive Intelligence is releasing Ripple-65B Preview, a 65-billion-parameter open-weight language model that the company says ac…
Ubuntu Moving Ahead With Plans For Splitting Up Linux-Firmware, HWE Option
A few months back were discussions of a Linux firmware HWE package for Ubuntu to carry updated firmware blobs under the hardware e…
Inside GitHub’s new Git storage architecture
GitHub's new Git storage architecture is built so thousands of agents can push to a single repository at once. Here's how it works…
CSS Modules Explained: Say Goodbye to Global CSS Collisions in React
What is a CSS Module? A CSS Module is a build system configuration that automatically scopes Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) class na…
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