The openSUSE Leap 16.0 Release Candidate (RC) has been made available for testing, marking a significant milestone in its development. This version includes the latest Agama installation tool for both online and offline setups, alongside the newly integrated support for Xfce on Wayland. Users can now explore minimalistic alternatives to the traditional LightDM display manager, such as greet and gtkgreet, which are designed to work seamlessly with Wayland. A key focus for this release is the support for Cockpit, enhancing system management capabilities.

Debian has released a security update for Chromium on Debian GNU/Linux 12 (Bookworm) as per the advisory DSA-5971-1. This update addresses multiple security vulnerabilities identified by CVE identifiers ranging from CVE-2025-8576 to CVE-2025-8583. These vulnerabilities could potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code, denial of service, or information disclosure.

Gentoo Linux has released updates addressing multiple security vulnerabilities across several key packages, including Composer, Spreadsheet-ParseExcel, Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS), FontForge, GPL Ghostscript, and PAM. Each package exhibits various levels of severity, with some vulnerabilities potentially allowing arbitrary code execution or privilege escalation.

A recent security update has been released for Poppler, a PDF rendering library, affecting Ubuntu Linux versions 20.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS, and 16.04 LTS. The update, identified as Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7687-1, was published on August 6, 2025, and addresses several vulnerabilities that could potentially be exploited by attackers.

AlmaLinux has recently implemented a series of security updates addressing vulnerabilities within various packages, including the kernel, Python libraries, libxml2, and glibc. The updates are classified as moderate in severity and were released on August 6, 2025. The following notable updates were issued:

SUSE Linux has announced important security updates for two key components: libarchive and Python 3.11. These updates are critical for maintaining system security and addressing vulnerabilities present in the software.

Oracle Linux has recently issued a series of security and enhancement updates across various packages, impacting both Oracle Linux 10 and earlier versions such as Oracle Linux 8 and 7. The updates include bug fixes and improvements for a variety of software components, including nvme-cli, python-dateutil, at, which, man-pages, awscli2, nbdkit, greenboot, python-websockets, python-awscrt, crash-gcore-command, fprintd, bind, stalld, kernel, libxml2, glibc, pam, sqlite, and python-setuptools.

Summary of Linux Kernel Updates for Ubuntu As of August 5, 2025, several significant security updates for the Linux kernel on Ubuntu have been announced. These updates address vulnerabilities across different releases and distributions, impacting systems used on Oracle, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Raspberry Pi, and more.

Fedora Linux has recently rolled out a series of security updates for various packages, including Chromium, Poppler, Firefox, and several Perl modules. These updates aim to enhance the security and performance of the system by addressing multiple vulnerabilities.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has recently implemented a range of security updates affecting various components, including glibc, python-requests, the kernel, libxml2, pcs, and the OpenShift Container Platform. Notable updates include:

AlmaLinux has introduced native NVIDIA driver support in its versions 9 and 10, integrating essential functionalities such as CUDA and Secure Boot. This advancement has been made possible through the collaboration of ALESCo, NVIDIA, and an authorized Request for Comments (RFC). Users can now access NVIDIA's open-source graphics driver as a kernel module, along with a repository configuration that includes standard userspace and CUDA components. This seamless integration allows users to enhance their experience with just a few simple dnf commands.

Debian GNU/Linux has recently released two important security updates for its Extended LTS (ELTS) versions. The updates include ELA-1492-1 for the Python package manager, python-setuptools, applicable to both Debian 9 (Stretch) and Debian 10 (Buster), and ELA-1493-1 for the libphp-adodb library, specifically for Debian 9.

Oracle Linux has recently released a series of important security updates and bug fixes across various components, including GDK-Pixbuf2, Python3-Setuptools, and several kernel updates. Here are the highlights of the updates:

SUSE Linux has announced a series of important security updates for various components, including several crucial updates for the Linux Kernel, Python, DjVuLibre, Grub2, and the govulncheck-vulndb tool. The updates address multiple vulnerabilities that could potentially compromise system security.

Fedora Linux has rolled out significant security updates, specifically addressing vulnerabilities in two packages: `perl-Crypt-CBC` and `unbound`.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has rolled out a series of important security updates addressing vulnerabilities across various components, including kpatch-patch, unbound, sqlite, ncurses, redis, mod_security, gdk-pixbuf2, jq, kernel, glibc, and python-cryptography.

The Fedora QA team is organizing a test week dedicated to the Anaconda Web UI Installer for the upcoming Fedora Linux 43 release, specifically focusing on its functionality across different Spin environments and Fedora KDE. This event, scheduled from August 4 to August 8, 2025, aims to ensure that the newly implemented WebUI operates seamlessly throughout the Fedora ecosystem.

The ML4W Dotfiles for Hyprland version 2.9.9 have been officially released, showcasing an enhanced configuration for the dynamic tiling window manager Hyprland. This update is particularly user-friendly, featuring a streamlined installation script specifically designed for Arch and Fedora-based Linux distributions.

KDE has released the latest bugfix update for KDE Plasma, version 6.4.4, in August 2023, following the June launch of Plasma 6.4, which introduced various feature refinements and new modules aimed at enhancing the desktop experience. This update addresses numerous issues, primarily focusing on bug fixes and minor enhancements reported by contributors.

New live images of Debian GNU/Linux 13 Trixie are now available for testing, featuring a selection of popular desktop environments. These include GNOME 48.3, KDE 6.3.5, Xfce 4.20, Cinnamon 6.4.10, MATE 1.26, LXQt 2.1.0, and LXDE 0.99.3. The final release of Debian 13 is expected to be launched on August 9, 2025.