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Fedora is running a community Test Day from September 14 to 20, inviting volunteers to stress-test KDE Plasma 6.7 and report where things break. The event pairs KDE developers like Merritt and Nicolas Fella with Fedora QA veterans such as Adam Williamson, a co-branded quality push ahead of Fedora 45's final release. Plasma 6.7, shipped June 16, is notable as the last Plasma to support X11 before 6.8 goes Wayland-only, and it brings long-requested features like per-screen virtual desktops and a comeback from the Oxygen theme. If you want to participate, install Fedora 45, run the test cases, and submit results through the portal before the week ends.
Today's Linux security roundup delivers some of the year's largest browser patches, including Gentoo's 35-CVE roundup for Chrome, Edge, and Chromium alongside SUSE's 230-vulnerability chromedriver fix. The fixes warrant the most scrutiny are the Critical-rated 389-ds-base updates from both AlmaLinux and Oracle Linux, which hand attackers Directory Manager access. DNS tooling appears repeatedly across Fedora, Red Hat, and Debian as the resolver ecosystem keeps generating trouble. The rest of the batch ranges from routine openssl kernel and ffmpeg bumps to a Perl update on Rocky Linux that quietly rewrote more than two hundred downstream packages.
Greg Kroah-Hartman shipped six new Linux kernel versions, spanning the entire supported matrix from the newest 7.2.6 short-term line down to the five-year-old 5.10.270 longterm branch. Each release landed within minutes of the other, carrying only upstream bug fixes and security patches with no new features. Networking and memory-safety defects dominate the fixes, though most are local-privilege-escalation or DoS risks rather than remote code execution. Tarballs, patches, and full diffs are now available on kernel.org across the v7.x, v6.x, and v5.x directories.
Hestia Control Panel 1.10.5 launched today as a security-focused service release that hardens session integrity, closes read-only-mode bypasses, and reworks config parsing to prevent injection. The maintainer, Jaap Marcus, tagged it the fourth patch in the 1.10.x line, landing about three weeks after 1.10.4. It also ends Debian 11 support and bumps core dependencies like hestia-php to 8.5.10 and OpenSSL to 3.5.8. Admins can update via the default automatic updates or apt-get upgrade, with full changelog details on the project's GitHub page.
This week's five reviews cover iFi's redesigned NEO iDSD 3 DAC, Thrustmaster's Airbus flight-stick grip, the EPOMAKER TH65 keyboard, the Kioxia Exceria Pro G2 SSD, and Dell's Pro 5 webcam. The standout value pick is the EPOMAKER TH65 at $59.99, scoring 8.6 out of 10 for its gasket-mounted thocky feel. Not everything earns a buy recommendation: the Kioxia SSD's import pricing swings to $750 versus its expected $340, and the Dell Pro 5 webcam's $119.99 price tag asks too much for solid-but-unremarkable quality. Meanwhile, the Thrustmaster Airbus grip wobbles out of the box, making it hard to justify for everyone.
Debian has released live images of its seventh point update for the Trixie stable branch, delivering a massive security sweep across 70+ packages that includes critical fixes for QEMU, glibc, and OpenSSL. The amd64 live images comes with GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, and traditional desktops like Xfce 4.20, Cinnamon 6.4.10, and MATE 1.27 alongside Firefox ESR 140 and PipeWire 1.4.2. These bootable ISOs run entirely from RAM without modifying your hard drive, making them perfect for testing new environments or performing forensics before committing to an installation. You can download the 1.9 GB to 4.2 GB variants directly from the official cdimage mirrors and verify them with the provided SHA-512 checksums before flashing a USB stick.
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