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Deno Team Joins Cloudflare: Deno Runtime Gets One More Year of Monthly Releases, Deno Deploy Shuts Down in Six Months and celld Merges Into workerd
Deno's team is joining Cloudflare; Deno says it will support the runtime for one more year, run Deno Deploy for six months, and merge celld into workerd.
Let's Encrypt Will Default to 64-Day Certificates on February 10, 2027, With Staging Testing From October 14
Let's Encrypt says it will issue 64-day certificates by default from February 10, 2027, shortening authorization reuse to 10 days; 45-day certificates follow in 2028.
COSMIC Bans AI-Generated Contributions as a GNOME Developer Urges Projects to Accept AI-Found Vulnerability Reports
System76's COSMIC desktop now requires contributors to declare no AI-generated content in pull requests, while GNOME's Michael Catanzaro argues projects should still accept AI-generated vulnerability reports.
Ladybird's September Update Adds macOS Hardware Video Decoding and a Separate Media Process After a Week of Security Testing With Trail of Bits
Ladybird's September report covers a week of Trail of Bits security testing, VideoToolbox hardware decoding on macOS, a separate media process, OffscreenCanvas and a crash reporter.
Pico CSS Is No Longer Maintained: v2.1.1 Is the Final Release, Repositories Archived, and the MIT License Lets Anyone Fork
The minimalist Pico CSS framework says v2.1.1 is its final release and its repositories are archived, while its MIT license allows forks that use a different name.
Siemens Ends OpenRadioss, Removing Public Repositories for the AGPL Crash-Simulation Solver
Siemens is retiring the OpenRadioss project it inherited from Altair; its GitHub organization shows no public repositories, and source access moves to an approved-partner program.
Samba 4.25 Ships Experimental SMB3 Persistent Handles, Cluster Functional Levels and a Ceph Object Gateway Module
The first stable Samba 4.25 release adds experimental SMB3 Persistent Handles, a cluster functional level for safer rolling upgrades, and Ceph Object Gateway shares.
postmarketOS Rebrands as Nura After an 18-Month Naming Process, Citing Trademark and Pronunciation Problems
The mobile Linux OS postmarketOS is now Nura, moving to nura.eco and filing a trademark after a naming process of roughly a year and a half.
systemd 262 Ships a Statically Linked Container Binary, Linux 6.17 Coredump Sockets, and OpenSSL 4 Support
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.
F-Droid Ships Version 2.0, Its Biggest Update in a Decade, as Google's Developer Verification Deadline Looms
F-Droid's Kotlin/Compose rewrite modernizes the open-source Android app store as Google's developer verification rules, which F-Droid once said could end its project, begin rolling out September 30.
GNOME 51 Ships With Smoother Mutter Frame Scheduling, a Reduced Motion Option, and FIDO2 Passkey Login
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 Ships KMSCON Console, Default RPM Signature Enforcement, and GNOME 51
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.