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2026-09-17
MariaDB Server 13.0.2 reached General Availability on 15 September 2026, marking the latest point release in the 13.0 rolling series that began as a Preview in March. Importantly, it is a rolling release, not an LTS ,MariaDB recommends staying on the 12.3 line if you want long-term maintenance and slow upgrade cycles, while 13.0 is for those chasing the newest features. The standout capability is the ability to run DuckDB as a pluggable, in-process storage engine for fast columnar analytics, though it's still in gamma and carries several limitations.
Today's Linux security roundups show the same flaws spreading across nearly every major distribution, from nginx and Mozilla to .NET. RHEL leads the chaos with 48 advisories, 40 rated Important, while its gstreamer, corosync, and kernel updates demand priority and a reboot. Fedora's smaller batch bites sharpest, with a patched open62541 library carrying 17 CVEs including arbitrary code execution. Ubuntu, Rocky, SUSE, Slackware, and AlmaLinux round out the day with everything from TLS holes to a 21-vulnerability registry patch, so update in order of severity rather than convenience.
Today's roundup covers seven recent reviews, from ACEMAGIC's $1,999 workstation-class mini PC with an i9 and RTX 2000 Ada to the Geekom IT13 Max, a £692.55 Core Ultra 9 rig KitGuru praises as a home-server powerhouse. On the display front, TweakTown gives the Alienware AW3426DWM 87% but flags the MSI MPG 346CQRF X24 as better value. Input and networking round out the list with Corsair's feature-rich £60 SKIFF 100 PLUS membrane keyboard and Zyxel's forward-looking BE15000 Wi-Fi 7 access point. Power supplies close it out, with the CPS PCCooler YT1200 earning strong marks for Asian-market buyers and Endorfy's sub-€100 Enduro L6 850W standing out as a standout budget pick.
Mesa 26.2.3 shipped as the third bugfix update of the 26.2 cycle, bringing roughly 75 commits from 39 contributors with zero new features. The release targets real applications you actually use, fixing crashes and glitches in Counter-Strike 2, X-Plane 12, Minecraft's Voxy mod, and Apple's Portals 2 on Apple Silicon. Under the hood it also patches memory leaks, query-sync races, and driver-level bugs across AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm Adreno, and ARM Mali code. There's no new feature set to get excited about, but it keeps your open-source GPU drivers more stable, with the next bugfix release slated for September 30.
Node.js 26.9.0 shipped September 16, 2026, most notably enabling its Foreign Function Interface by default so JavaScript can call into native libraries without a C/C++ addon. A new node:bench module landed, only for the team to quietly move it behind an --experimental-bench flag after review raised concerns about benchmark integrity. The release also brings first-class Web Workers in thread contexts, an experimental DTLS API, and crypto upgrades like a generic MAC API and OpenSSL provider discovery. Since Node 26 is still in "Current" and won't reach LTS until October 2026, treat this as a testing build rather than a production upgrade.
2026-09-16
Zed Industries shipped its 1.20.1 patch today, marking yet another fast weekly update since the April 2026 1.0 launch. The release adds an optional cursor animation, a setting to open Markdown files straight into rendered preview, and Emmet's long-requested wrap-with-abbreviation command. Behind the cosmetics it also closes real privacy gaps, stopping private files and projects from leaking through project search and the Agent Panel. Ships with the same rapid cadence as Zed's competing AI-forward direction, available now on GitHub for macOS, Linux, and Windows.
Zen Browser 1.22.2b is a new stable release that upgrades its engine to Firefox 156, inheriting Mozilla's MFSA2026-90 security patch that fixes 67 CVEs across high, moderate, and low severity. It adds practical touches like macOS auto-start on boot and five new command-bar actions for faster tab management. The build also tackles day-to-day annoyances, from Picture-in-Picture subtitles and Split View bugs to broken cross-device sync and a Windows taskbar that wouldn't auto-hide. Zen's built-in PDF viewer reportedly loads 45% faster, and open-source users benefit from riding Firefox's engine for rapid, reliable security updates.
Heroic Games Launcher released 2.22.3 today, a hotfix that repairs a regression shipped earlier in v2.22.2. That earlier build rewired how the launcher routes Windows games through UMU, accidentally wrapping every game in the runtime and producing a broken "umu inside of umu" command that stopped launches cold. Players reported failures with titles like Lord of the Rings Online and Satisfactory, and the only workaround was disabling UMU in settings entirely. The fix stops the double-wrapping without disturbing existing store-manager logic, and the maintainer hints a major version is coming.
The GNOME Project has released GNOME 51, codenamed "A Coruña," today. The first major desktop update since March, featuring offline Maps and three new Circle apps. Its headline additions include smoother frame scheduling and monitor-brightness retention in the graphics stack, plus a refreshed Settings app with Auto Rotate and automatic touchpad disabling. Maps, hailed as its best release in years, adds downloadable offline regions, live departures, and real-time delays, while Files, the Papers document viewer (with drawn visual signatures), and Disks also picked up notable fixes. GTK 4.24 ships alongside it, with Fedora 45 Beta and Ubuntu 26.10 as early adopters.
ISC has released both BIND 9.20.29 (stable) and 9.21.26 (development) today, patching 14 security vulnerabilities spanning cache poisoning and denial-of-service. Eight of the flaws rate High severity (CVSS 7.5), though ISC reported no known active exploitation. The updates affect the 9.18, 9.20, and 9.21 lines, with 9.20.29 closing all 14 while 9.21.26 addresses 13. ISC recommends upgrading to the patched release nearest your current version as soon as possible.
Fedora CoreOS 45 Test Week kicks off Monday, September 21, 2026, inviting the community to test container-optimized FCOS images built from Fedora 45 content before they reach the testing and stable streams. The event follows the Fedora 45 Beta release on September 15 and targets two major changes: systemd-oomd with zram swap support, and native Butane YAML configuration in Ignition. Participants download test images, run cases on hardware or virtual machines, and log pass/fail results through the CoreOS issue-tracking workflow. This quality-gate effort sits between the beta and the expected November 19 final release, following Fedora's familiar six-month cadence.
Bazzite just released another new stable build, 44.20260916. The release pins linux-firmware to the August 10 snapshot (20260810-1) after the newer version caused audio and performance regressions on handhelds like the Xbox Ally X. It also teaches Bazzite to correctly detect the SuiPlay0X1, an Ayaneo 2S rebadge that had been misidentified as an HTPC, restoring proper controller mapping in Gaming Mode. Despite the firmware downgrade, the entire current gaming and desktop stack is retained, and image-based updates mean users can still roll forward if their hardware doesn't have issues.
Visual Studio Code 1.138 launched today, pushing Microsoft's Agent Host architecture into everyday use. The update lets agent sessions run inside local Dev Containers, jump between the ChatGPT app and VS Code, and switch between Copilot and ChatGPT subscriptions mid-conversation. Microsoft also added session hygiene features like auto-archiving merged sessions, a completion confetti animation, and badges that flag sessions needing attention. Not everything lands immediately, since much of it sits behind Preview toggles and settings, so it's worth knowing before you expect the full stack on launch.
Krita 5.3.4 shipped today, alongside a parallel Krita 6.0.4. The biggest user-facing win is finally being able to render animations and export timelapses directly on Android, though that feature stays beta and tablets-only. The team also removed its long-unmaintained, security-vulnerable GIMP XCF importer, steering users toward the OpenRaster interchange format instead. Krita still recommends 5.3.4 for productive work, flagging 6.0.4 as more experimental because of the ongoing Qt5-to-Qt6 transition.
Fedora's community respin effort has released a fresh batch of live ISOs dated September 15, repackage Fedora 44 around the current Linux kernel 7.2.5. They're available for nearly every desktop spin, including GNOME, KDE Plasma, MATE, Cinnamon, COSMIC, Xfce, Budgie, LXDE, LXQt, i3, and SOAS. The batch landed the same day Fedora 45 Beta dropped, giving users a current-stable-desktop option without an in-place upgrade.
Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS (Noble Numbat) shipped on September 10, 2026 as a maintenance point release packing in security patches and high-severity bug fixes for a shorter post-install update cycle. Just days later, a desktop installer crash on the "Extended selection" option forced Canonical to pull the fresh amd64 Desktop ISO. The company rebuilt and reissued it as 24.04.5.1 on September 15, leaving every other artifact, server, cloud, netboot, WSL, and the official flavors, unchanged. Fresh installers should grab the 24.04.5.1 image, while existing 24.04 users can simply upgrade through Update Manager.
Today's roundup covers seven hardware reviews, spanning mini PCs, CPU coolers, OLED monitors, a foldable controller, and a flagship PSU. The GEEKOM A9 Max 2026 packs AMD's Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 but ships an overpriced single-channel base config that throttles performance. Meanwhile, value stands out in the ASRock Rock White 360 AIO at ~$89 and the pocketable Razer Prio controller at $99.99. Overall, the best picks for most buyers are the ASRock AIO and Razer Prio, while the GEEKOM and Noctua coolers are worth it only if configured correctly.
Godot 4.8 Dev 6, the sixth pre-release snapshot of the current feature cycle, announced by Thaddeus Crews. Its headline feature is screen-space contact shadows for directional lights, built on Bend Studios' approach and deliberately capped to eight lights for performance. It landed in under a week because two blockers, a macOS Metal startup crash and a Google Play upload failure, needed quick fixes ahead of September's feature freeze. XR users should note a new OpenXR Spatial Container regression tied to the multi-layer projection camera
GE-Proton 11-7 delivering an 85-patch Wineland overhaul that makes Wine's native Wayland driver finally usable for cross-process child-window rendering. The build extends work first introduced in 11-6, pushing past Valve's own Proton 11 and maturing the path that Windows launchers and embedded web panels rely on. Alongside it lands dozens of targeted fixes for games like Forza Horizon 5, Diablo IV, Black Desert Online, and DOOM Eternal, plus new Sony-to-XInput controller defaults and a rebased video stack. It's a large release, so GloriousEggroll flags several fixes as still needing retesting rather than declaring a clean sweep. Grab the tarball from the GitHub Releases page and force it per game through Steam's Compatibility settings.
The major Linux distributions coordinated a massive security sweep, targeting critical flaws across OpenSSL, nginx, rsync, and kernel networking stacks. Ubuntu’s NVIDIA kernel update alone quietly stuffed roughly three hundred CVEs into a single notice, while Qubes OS closed a dangerous format-string hole in its primary qube management helper. Most advisories land at "Important" severity, meaning systems administrators should prioritize the OpenSSL and kernel bumps on AlmaLinux, Oracle, Rocky, and RHEL before touching anything else. Keep in mind that several patches overlap with earlier HollowByte advisories and new Oracle kernel signing reworks may require matching package versions to keep secure boot functional.
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