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KDE Gear 26.08.2 is now available as the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 26.08 open-source software suite series with more fixes for your favorite KDE apps.

The kernel's swap layer has undergone some significant changes over the course of the last year and a number of longstanding problems have been addressed. One problem that has not yet been solved in the mainline is the direct tie between slots in the swap cache and space in persistent swap files, which can cause highly inefficient resource use. There are two competing solutions for this problem, neither of which has, as yet, reached readiness for merging; a lengthy discussion on possible paths forward shows ongoing disagreement over the best path forward.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, firefox, freerdp, ghostscript, glibc, kernel, kernel-rt, perl-DBI, python3.12, rust-rpm-sequoia, rust-sequoia-sq, rust-sequoia-sqv, and vim), Debian (gst-plugins-base1.0, python3.11, and xz-utils), Fedora (7zip, chromium, curl, docker-buildx, kernel, Lmod, and sos), Mageia (tesseract), Oracle (dovecot, firefox, freerdp, gd, ghostscript, kernel, librabbitmq, perl-DBI, python3.12, rust-rpm-sequoia, rust-sequoia-sqv, sg3_utils, vim, and virtuoso-opensource), Slackware (xorg-server), SUSE (aliyun-cli, busybox, cadvisor, chromedriver, chromium, crane, distribution-registry, fetchmail, fio, ghostscript, golang-github-prometheus-alertmanager, google-osconfig-agent, govulncheck-vulndb, libsoup, libXtst, openexr, prometheus-blackbox_exporter, python-fsspec, rpcbind, rsyslog, rustup, wireshark, wpa_supplicant, and zcode), and Ubuntu (erlang, golang-golang-x-net, gst-plugins-ugly1.0, lxml, poppler, and sudo).

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• Front: Kernel bugs; Gentoo's Chromium package; Rust smart pointers; Sashiko; Charon; LAVD scheduler; Python random-number modules.
• Briefs: OpenSSH 10.6; RustConf recordings; Rust 1.99.0; Picard 3.0; Zig 0.17; Quotes; ...
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Ubuntu Summit 26.10 will take place on November 12-13, 2026, for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) release, due out on October 15th.

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