Ubuntu logo behind stingray in the ocean.

Ubuntu 26.10 ‘Stonking Stingray’ hits feature freeze

Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed ‘Stonking Stingray’, entered feature freeze on 20 August – though the formal announcement arrive later than usual. From this point onwards, development focus shifts from landing major changes to improving them, along […]

25 August 2026

Ubuntu 24.04 gets a big open-vm-tools update

A major update to open-vm-tools, a package that integrates Linux virtual machines with VMware hypervisors, is rolling out to users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. “Without SRUing the newer version users get issues running on more […]

24 August 2026

10-year-old bug action triggered an Ubuntu Phone dev reunion

A decades-old bug on Ubuntu’s Launchpad marked as invalid at the weekend led to an impromptu reunion for many of Canonical’s former engineers. Bug #1589796 was filed in 2016 by a user who’d spent £700 […]

23 August 2026

Postcard is a new email client for GNOME, built with AI

Postcard is a new email client for GNOME sporting a modern design reminiscent of Geary. The app is the work of a solo developer, gxanshu on GitHub, who is upfront about using AI coding tools […]

22 August 2026
GIMP mascot Wilber on a paper document

GIMP is (finally) working on a new project file format

A new project file format is in the works for GIMP, as the existing one can’t handle larger, complex projects. Since 1997, the famed FOSS image editor has used the binary .xcf format to save projects […]

20 August 2026
Ubuntu Dock with dynamic clock, weather and calendar icons

Dynamic icons GNOME extension adds 2 new styles, Yaru fixes

You can bring Ubuntu’s clock, calendar and weather app icons to life with the Dynamic Calendar, Clocks and Weather Icons [Reborn] GNOME Shell extension – which has been updated with new icon styles. The extension […]

20 August 2026
Tuba app icon on a background grid of Mastodon logos

Tuba, the best Mastodon client for Linux, just got a BIG update

Tuba 0.11 adds full Mastodon quote and Collections support, UnifiedPush and an early, experimental Android build. Linux's best Mastodon app, now better!

20 August 2026
PINE64 hardware including PineTab and PinePhone

Pine64 stops making Linux devices as AI inflates component costs

If you’ve been eyeing up one of PINE64‘s Linux-friendly single-board computers, phones or tablets, now would be a good time to buy one. The open-hardware company has announced it will not be “producing more Linux […]

19 August 2026

Firefox 154 released with translation, AI and UI tweaks

Mozilla has released Firefox 154 with some small AI-related changes, an ‘improved’ full-page translations and faster video seeking on “all operating systems”. Firefox 154 serves as the final monthly release of Firefox before browser switches […]

18 August 2026

Ubuntu’s App Center doesn’t know what went wrong

I recently re-encountered my favourite ‘error’ dialog in Ubuntu, which is thrown by the distro’s App Center (snap-store), which is the default GUI software management tool. Now, I don’t see it often, but when I […]

18 August 2026
Wordbook GNOME app shows definition for the word define

Wordbook is a modern offline dictionary for GNOME

They say never judge a book by its cover, and few do if said book is a dictionary, but what about desktop dictionary apps? I recently came across Wordbook, a modern English-English dictionary powered by […]

17 August 2026
Linux kernel 7.2 announced on a mock newspaper with related hardware around it

Linux 7.2 brings cache-aware scheduling, faster ext4 and Btrfs

Linux kernel 7.2 has been released, adding cache-aware scheduling, ext4 filesystem performance boosts and a slew of new and improved hardware drivers for laptops and peripherals. A merge widow record was also set during the […]

17 August 2026