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📰 GNOME's Help Viewer Updated Due To Flatpak Sandbox Escape Vulnerability GNOME's help viewer, Yelp, last year was impacted by a serious security issue for arbitrary file reads. There's a new vulnerability affecting the GNOME help viewer that led to the Yelp 49.1 release to address a possible Flatpak sandbox escape vector... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Help-Viewer-2026-Sandbox #flatpak#gnome

📰Manjaro 26.1 Preview Released With GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6 & Xfce 4.20 Options The preview release of the Arch Linux powered Manjaro 26.1 is now available for testing... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Manjaro-26.1-Preview #arch#gnome#kde#linux#plasma

📰 AerynOS Gets New Branding and Updated Desktop Stacks AerynOS 2026.05 arrives with refreshed branding, GNOME 50.1, KDE Plasma 6.6.4, COSMIC 1.0.11, and Linux kernel 7.0.2. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/aerynos-gets-new-branding-and-updated-desktop-stacks/ #gnome#kde#kernel#linux#plasma

📰 Fedora Linux 44 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New Fedora Linux 44 distribution is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.19 and featuring the latest GNOME 50 and KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environments, and many other enhancements. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/fedora-linux-44-is-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new #fedora#gnome#kde#kernel#linux#plasma

📰 GNOME extensions are basically required, but they're a ticking time bomb for Linux desktops The unpredictable nature of GNOME extensions, lacking a standard rulebook, often leads to instability and crashes. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/gnome-extensions-are-reason-linux-desktops-break-themselves/ #gnome#linux

📰 Your GNOME desktop can do what Hyprland does, and you don't need to switch You might think you need a new Linux desktop to get a tiling window manager, but GNOME can give you that with a single extension. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/forge-brings-hyprlands-best-feature-gnome-actually-works/ #gnome#linux

📰 LXQt 2.4 Released With More Wayland Fixes/Improvements The LXQt 2.4 desktop released today for joining the modern open-source desktop party alongside the likes of the recently debuted GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6, and others... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXQt-2.4-Released #gnome#kde#opensource#plasma#wayland

📰 Solus 4.9 “Serenity” Released with Linux 6.18 LTS, KDE Plasma 6.6, and More Solus 4.9 distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.18 LTS, Budgie 10.9.4, KDE Plasma 6.6, GNOME 49.5, and Xfce 4.20. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/solus-4-9-serenity-released-with-linux-6-18-lts-kde-plasma-6-6-and-more #budgie#gnome#kde#kernel#linux#plasma

📰GNOME's Maps, Graphs, RustConn & Other App Improvements For pairing nicely with the GNOME 50 desktop release last month, a number of GNOME-associated apps have been seeing new features and refinements... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Graphs-2.0-Maps-Transit #gnome

📰 GNOME 50.1 Released with Basic Zoom Support for the Captive Portal GNOME 50.1 is now available as the first point release to the GNOME 50 desktop environment series with various bug fixes and improvements across several core components and default apps. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/gnome-50-1-released-with-basic-zoom-support-for-the-captive-portal #gnome

📰 user.* xattrs On Sockets Merged For Linux 7.1 As Sought By GNOME & systemd Developers On this first day of the Linux 7.1 merge window, among the early pull requests merged were beginning to land the various VFS pull requests submitted by Christian Brauner. Among that code merged is enabling support for user.* extended attributes on sockets... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-User-xattrs-Sockets #gnome#linux#systemd

📰Quick Lofi – a GNOME extension for chill beats to study to Quick Lofi is a GNOME Shell extension that puts a lofi radio player in your top bar. If you’ve ever opened a new browser tab to load a “lofi beats to study to” stream on YouTube — lofi girl, perhaps – to act as an ambient backdrop to work to, the appeal will be evident. If not, all you need to know is that mellow, lyric-free, low-tempo sounds are reputedly ideal for focus. 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/quick-lofi-beats-gnome-extension #gnome