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Linkerd 2.20 Cuts Kubernetes Service Mesh Control Plane Memory Use by Nearly 85 Percent
Linkerd 2.20 refactors the CNCF service mesh's destination controller, cutting control plane memory use by almost 85 percent and adding rate-limit-aware load balancing.
OpenMandriva Says Ex-Contributor Deleted Years of Repository Work and Sabotaged Its Cooker Branch
OpenMandriva says former contributor Davide Beatrici deleted years of GitHub repository work and published a package that obsoleted GNOME and Cosmic packages in its Cooker branch after a community dispute.
Box2D Creator Erin Catto Releases Box3D, an Open-Source 3D Physics Engine With Roots in Half-Life: Alyx's Rubikon
Erin Catto, creator of the Box2D physics engine, has released Box3D v0.1.0, an MIT-licensed 3D physics engine for games that blends Box2D code with remnants of Rubikon-Lite, a hobby version of the Half-Life: Alyx physics engine, and already powers Facepunch's s&box.
Kyverno 1.18, the First Release Since CNCF Graduation, Hardens HTTP Policy Calls and Starts the Countdown on ClusterPolicy
Kyverno 1.18 patches two flaws in its HTTP-based policy execution, blocks loopback and metadata addresses by default, and flags ClusterPolicy for deprecation later this year.
FreeBSD 15.1 Ships With Wi-Fi Drivers Rebased on Linux 7.0, Boot-Time Scheduler Selection, and Unicode 17
FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE arrived June 16, 2026 with LinuxKPI wireless drivers tracking Linux 7.0, a tunable to pick the kernel scheduler at boot, and Unicode 17 support.
systemd 261 Ships Final With a Software-TPM Fallback and Promotes sysupdate Out of Experimental Status
The final systemd 261 release adds systemd-tpm2-swtpm, a software TPM fallback for hardware without a TPM chip, and graduates systemd-sysupdate and a new networkd DHCP-relay backend.
Linux 7.1 Ships a Rewritten In-Kernel NTFS Driver, Enables Intel FRED by Default, and Retires i486 in a 140,000-Line Cleanup
Linus Torvalds tagged Linux 7.1 on June 14, 2026, adding a from-scratch in-kernel NTFS driver, switching Intel FRED to opt-out, and deleting roughly 140,000 lines of legacy code.
KDE Plasma 6.7 Ships Per-Screen Virtual Desktops After 21 Years, Revives the Oxygen Theme, and Lets HDR and ICC Color Coexist
KDE released Plasma 6.7 on June 16, 2026, adding independent virtual desktops per monitor, a refreshed KDE 4-era Oxygen theme, and simultaneous HDR and ICC color management.
OpenCV 5.0 Ships a Rewritten DNN Engine and Runs LLMs and Vision-Language Models Inside the Library
OpenCV 5.0, released in early June, rebuilds its deep-learning engine, lifts ONNX coverage past 80%, and can run LLMs and VLMs with no separate runtime.
Linux Foundation Launches OpenSharing, an Open Protocol for Cross-Organization AI Asset Exchange Built on Databricks' Delta Sharing
The Linux Foundation and Databricks unveiled OpenSharing on June 10, a vendor-neutral protocol that extends Delta Sharing's zero-copy model to agent skills, AI models, and unstructured data.
rsync 3.4.4 Ships to Fix Regressions From the Six-CVE 3.4.3 Security Release as Tridgell Pledges Expanded Testing
rsync 3.4.4, released June 8, repairs regressions introduced by the May 20 security update that patched six CVEs, after a debate over the maintainer's AI-assisted test-suite rewrite.
Rust Foundation Launches Maintainers Fund and a 'Maintainer in Residence' Program to Pay Core Compiler, Cargo, and Clippy Developers
The Rust Foundation opened a donation-backed fund on June 2 to pay maintainers of the compiler, standard library, Cargo, and Clippy, with the first Maintainer in Residence expected in the coming months.