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• GNOME Boxes Preparing To Deliver Much Improved Virtualization Experience

  GNOME Boxes lead developer Felipe Borges has been overhauling the application with a major rewrite and today announced the new beta release. GNOME Boxes has migrated to using the GTK4 toolkit and libadwaita. The new GNOME Boxes code can also handle installing Microsoft Windows 11 now without needing any manual workarounds for Secure Boot or TPM requirements. The new GNOME Boxes code also introduces a VSOCK device for accessing VM contexts and other improvements. With the revamped GNOME Boxes...

• Arch Linux AUR Under Another Wave Of Malicious Packages, Package Adoptions Halted

• Flatpak 1.16.4 Brings Important Security Fixes For Sandbox Escape & Deleting Host Files

  First up with Flatpak 1.16.4 is a fix for CVE-2026-34078, which is a security issue allowing a complete sandbox escape leading to host file access and code execution in the host context. Ouch. The issue is due to Flatpak portal accepting paths in the sandbox-expose options that can be app-controlled symlinks pointing at arbitrary paths. Due to this apps can access all host files and can be used as a primitive for gaining code execution in the host context. Disabling Flatpak Portal is another way...

• Linux Mastodon App Tuba Gets a Huge Update

  Linux Mastodon App Tuba Gets a Huge Update

• AppArmor vulnerability fixes available | Ubuntu

  How to check if you are impacted To get the version of the sudo package installed, run the following command: dpkg -l 'sudo*' | grep ^ii The following table lists the fixed versions of the sudo package in all supported Ubuntu releases: Release Package Fixed version Questing Quokka (25.10) sudo 1.9.17p2-1ubuntu1.1 sudo-ldap 1.9.17p2-1ubuntu1.1 sudo-rs Not affected Noble Numbat (24.04 LTS) sudo 1.9.15p5-3ubuntu5.24.04.2 sudo-ldap 1.9.15p5-3ubuntu5.24.04.2 Ja...

• Post #304234

  Distro developers began discussing ways to reduce the size of firmware updates last year. Now, in Ubuntu 26.04, it’s introducing meta-packaging to spread Linux firmware across 17 smaller packages in the resolute archives. This resolves a bug filed in 2022. The sub-packages are: linux-firmware-mellanox-spectrum linux-firmware-intel-wireless linux-firmware-intel-graphics linux-firmware-amd-graphics linux-firmware-nvidia-graphics linux-firmware-intel-misc linux-firmware-broadcom-wireless linux-...