Saturday, October 31, 2026 13 stories in the last seven days
Welcome to the latest Armbian newsletter! This development cycle brings a massive wave of progress across the entire ecosystem, packed with broad new board enablement, major platform maturation, and essential tooling upgrades.
We moved our Home Assistant to a bigger board, and nothing needed re-pairing Our house runs on Armbian, and it has for years. Its Home Assistant setup started on an Allwinner H5 NanoPi K1 Plus.
Armbian Imager 2.5 sets up your board from a few simple questions, double-checks your storage before it writes, and now speaks Greek and Serbian.
MondayOct 26
This cycle is defined by three themes: broad new board enablement, a coordinated U-Boot v2026.10 refresh across Rockchip and Allwinner platforms, and substantial Rockchip kernel, media, and wireless work.
SundayOct 25
Hello AlmaLinux community! At TuxCare, we’ve contributed free DISA STIG automation for AlmaLinux OS 9 to the ComplianceAsCode project, and the maintainers merged it on October 20, 2026.
We are back with Kali Linux 2026.3, the third release of the year! We have been busy making it easier to build Kali, updating the desktop experience, and bringing in more tools for you. Ready to get your hands on it?
Sega Model 1 and 2, Namco System 22, Nokia N-Gage, Atari Jaguar CD, Acorn Archimedes, FM Towns... Recalbox 11 expands the catalog of machines you can bring back to life. Here are all the new systems in detail. Every…
Oct 242026
The openSUSE Election Committee has announced the start of the 2026 openSUSE Board Election. Three Board seats are up for election, and all eligible openSUSE members are encouraged to take part.
On 2026-10-20, it has been disclosed that the private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates have been compromised. These keys can be used to issue forged CA certificates that would be considered fully…
Oct 232026
A few weeks ago we told you about RISC-V. Today: LoongArch. Another architecture, you ask? Yes. Grab a coffee, and let me tell you why. IPFire is now available for yet another architecture.
This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. This community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from Oct. 16 - 22.
Oct 222026
A new Linux kernel vulnerability, tracked by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) as ZDI-CAN-33367, was reported to the kernel security team and public kernel mailing lists on 2026-10-21.
Oct 212026
As part of an NGI Zero Core grant, musl has now massively improved its support location and internationalization. Although the changes are not yet fully merged in musl and Alpine, they are ready for testing, and you…
Introduction Two critical security vulnerabilities affecting PHP have been identified that result in unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) for any PHP application.
PHP versions prior to 8.5.12 and 8.3.36 are affected by CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, which allow for remote code execution. For any system publicly exposing a PHP application with the help of a prior version of…
On 2026-10-20 it was revealed, that several certificates of the eMudhra intermediate Certificate Authority have been compromised. The compromised certificates have been removed/invalidated with ca-certificates-mozilla…
Recalbox 11 introduces force feedback support for several Logitech and Fanatec racing wheels, along with a new Wheels virtual system, a dedicated menu, and a first-connection wizard. Here is everything that changes for…
Oct 202026
Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, nicknamed php2shell, were disclosed by PHP today: CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. Either one can let an unauthenticated attacker run code on a web server, as the account PHP…
It is our pleasure to announce that the Star Labs StarBook Horizon is officially certified for Qubes OS Release 4! The Star Labs StarBook Horizon The Star Labs StarBook Horizon is a 13.4-inch laptop featuring…
It is our pleasure to announce that the Star Labs StarFighter is officially certified for Qubes OS Release 4! The Star Labs StarFighter The Star Labs StarFighter is a 16-inch laptop featuring open-source coreboot…
Introduction The private keys of the eMudhra Certificate Authority (CA) have been demonstrated on 20 October 2026 to have been compromised.
SparkyOS is a modern, portable, rolling Linux-based operating system, derived from various Linux distributions, designed for … SparkyOS on USB 2026.10 Read more
This week's work centers on expanded board support, Rockchip and Realtek platform maturation, and continued refinement of installation and BSP tooling. New hardware enablement spans several SoC families.
Oct 192026
Personas are easy to create but often ignored. This is the first of two posts about how we developed archetypes to keep our personas fresh at Canonical.
Welcome to our monthly report from the openSUSE Kudos recognition platform, where we take a moment to put a spotlight on the people who stepped up, helped others, and made this community a little brighter.
