October 2026 12 posts
WebKitGTK 2.54: Tiny Star, Massive Memory Leak
While working on PlanetFOSS, I ran into a massive memory leak in WebKitGTK 2.54: a harmless frosted-glass effect via backdrop-filter pushes GNOME Web to as much as 9.8 GB. Firefox …
PHP2Shell: How to check your Docker containers for the PHP vulnerability
The critical PHP vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 also affect self-hosted services. A small loop shows which Docker containers still ship a vulnerable PHP version.
PlanetFOSS: Linux news that sorts itself
PlanetFOSS collects Linux and open source news from German and English sources and organizes it on its own: identical stories become bundles, new topics become comets, big events become supernovas. …
Samba for Sonos S1: Allowing SMB1 without throwing your whole home network wide open
Older Sonos speakers only play your music collection over SMB1 and NTLMv1. A dedicated user, a read-only share, and a few lines in smb.conf keep the speakers playing without leaving …
Microsoft Defender for Linux desktops: Finally I can sleep at night again
Microsoft brings its Defender to the Linux desktop. Against viruses that barely exist, for distributions I don't use, at prices I won't pay. Reason to celebrate, right?
30 Years of KDE: Plasma 6.8 Drops X11, Plus a Birthday Documentary
KDE celebrates its 30th birthday and ships Plasma 6.8, which finally leaves X11 behind and runs on Wayland only.
GNOME Needs Volunteers for the Extensions Team: EGO Reviews Are Drowning in AI Submissions
Javad Rahmatzadeh volunteers to review extensions for extensions.gnome.org and is now asking for help. The team needs reviewers, people to improve the Shexli linter, and donations.
Gnomos: Control Sonos Speakers from the GNOME Desktop, Even Old Models
Gnomos is a free Sonos client for GNOME built with GTK4 and libadwaita. The app plays music, groups rooms and shows synced lyrics, all without a Sonos account. Even first-generation …
MusicBrainz Picard 3.0: Qt6, a New Plugin System and a Setup Wizard
After about three years of development, MusicBrainz Picard 3.0 is here. The tag editor moves to Qt6 and gets a completely new plugin system, sessions and a setup wizard.
scrcpy 5.0 mirrors Android with hardware decoding – now in Arch Linux
scrcpy 5.0 finally decodes the video stream from your Android phone on the GPU. The package has already landed in Arch Linux – I measured the difference and added Aurynk …
