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Ubuntu's documentation lists seven commands configured to use GNU Coreutils in 25.10, five in 26.04 LTS and none in 26.10; press and project sources show bugs surfacing through scripts, an audit and image builds.

Fedora 45 was announced November 3 after two NO-GO calls from its October 20 target; Linuxiac and Phoronix list kmscon, enforced RPM signatures and restricted ptrace.

systemd merged optional Rust support for new leaf programs on 2026-10-24: Meson not Cargo, no_std, core libraries stay C for now. It is in the 263 development branch; project pages disagree on binary sizes and Meson version.

Debian, Ubuntu and APT's developers published fixes on November 4 for CVE-2026-109518, which needs an attacker on the HTTP path and a non-zero Acquire::Retries setting.

Plasma 6.8 retires X11 sessions upstream; Fedora's steering committee rejected a ticket asking to revert the update on Fedora 44 and 45, and Artix Linux made Wayland its Plasma default.

Gentoo has masked its Chromium package and set removal for October 24 unless a volunteer takes over, as maintainers cite long builds, fast releases and a four-release lag.

A Kubernetes Blog post says failCgroupV1 defaults to true since v1.35, so the kubelet won't start on cgroup v1 nodes unless an admin sets a temporary override.

Microsoft's open-source WSL containers feature reached general availability on September 29 with WSL 3.0.1, adding a Docker-style wslc.exe CLI, a Windows API, and enterprise controls.

systemd 262 lets the init system build as a single static binary for tiny containers and adds Linux 6.17 kernel coredump-socket support plus OpenSSL 4.

Homebrew 7.0.0 adds a brew vulns scanner and advisory database, swaps Linux Bubblewrap sandboxing for Landlock, and patches a cask sandbox-escape flaw.

GNOME 51 launched September 16 with reworked Mutter frame scheduling, a Reduced Motion accessibility toggle, and, per OMG Ubuntu, FIDO2 passkey login support.

Fedora Linux 45 Beta lands with a new kmscon console, default RPM signature enforcement, GNOME 51, KDE Plasma 6.7, and an October 20 target for final release.