We’re proud to announce the final release of NeptuneOS 9.0, codename Maja. This brand-new major version is based on Debian 13 Trixie and delivers the latest open source technology to your desktop: KDE Plasma 6.3 - modern, flexible, and elegant desktop experience; Linux Kernel 6.12 - improved performance and hardware support; updated applications and core libraries; new installer with refreshed slideshow; refined look and feel with a brand-new icon theme and many other tweaks. With NeptuneOS 9.0 we are taking a big step into the future, while staying true to Neptune’s focus on stability and ease of use.
This release presents among other things the new Linux kernel 6.8.0-84, the latest upgrade of the web browser google-chrome-stable (version 140.0.7339.207-1) and the new dpkg (Debian Packages) software. In addition, Starbuntu has enhanced its package manager and its URL display app.
SysLinuxOS 13 MATE released. SysLinuxOS 13 follows the release of Debian 13, code name 'Trixie', bringing with it the robustness and security of a stable Debian operating system. SysLinuxOS 13 is now available with several enhancements and new features. Some of these improvements are under the hood, providing additional functionality. SysLinuxOS 13 comes with the MATE desktop environment as the primary option, while the version with GNOME will be released next week. The MATE desktop environment comes with the usual Networking menu, which contains some of the tools for network analysis. Many others are available from the command line. There are many programs that help the user have a ready-to-use distribution, but above all one capable of interacting with Windows programs and systems. Wine is included.
Nexmon is a “patched” firmware, for certain wireless chips, to extend their functionally to allow: Monitor mode - able to sniff packets; Injection mode - frame injection allows for custom raw packets to be sent, outside of the “standard” stack ordering. Both are really useful when it comes to information security! For the record, it is possible to-do both of the features above without Nexmon, as it depends on the device's chipset and drivers. Now, Nexmon supported wireless chips are Broadcom & Cypress, which are in a various devices, including the Raspberry Pi's in-built Wi-Fi! In Kali 2025.1, we changed how we package our Raspberry Pi kernel, as well as bump to a new major version. Now Nexmon support is back as well as supporting Raspberry Pi 5! Other devices can also use Nexmon, its not limited to Raspberry Pis.
The September 20rd, 2025 release of DietPi version 9.17 comes with faster and less disk space consuming DietPi backups, a Roon Server early access toggle, solved SPI storage flashing issues, and more. Our images are now shipped without ext3/ext4 journal and instead the dietpi-fs_partition_resize script creates it after the root filesystem has been expanded. This allows smaller images, but more importantly a properly located and sized journal, depending on the final root filesystem size and layout, potentially enhancing performance.
This release presents among other things the new Linux kernel 6.8.0-83, the latest upgrade of the web browser google-chrome-stable (version 140.0.7339.185-1) and the new CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) software. In addition, Starbuntu has enhanced its help support.
IPFire will now by default clock down its CPUs. When previously all CPU cores have been running on full clock speed by default, we were able to keep latency to a minimum as they were always ready to process any packets. As modern processors have massively improved how quickly they can clock up and down and CPUs with many cores being widely available, we have now decided to change this based on our benchmark results. Where supported, we will use Intel P-State or otherwise fall back to the new schedutil governor which has recently been introduced into the Linux kernel and has proven to not increase any packet forwarding latency in our benchmarks. When clocked down, systems will reduce their power consumption and therefore lowering the amount of emitted heat. The cpufrequtil package which used to implement this feature has been dropped as it is no longer needed.
Omarchy 3.0 is a major upgrade for new installations and a wonderful level-up for existing users. The new ISO image doesn't require internet at all and you can install it in less than two minutes. You can now also install Omarchy on most pre-M MacBooks with support for keyboards, WiFi, and the T1 and T2 security chips. This is a decade-long hardware portfolio that we're trying to cover as well as we can out of the box. Existing installations can upgrade as per-normal using Update, Omarchy. New installations should download the fresh, all-inclusive ISO image before beginning, this is a 7 GB ISO image that includes the entire system for offline installation. Note: Ghostty compatibility requires Ghostty 1.2.0, which is still not released on the Arch repository. New super-fast installation ISO image: add everything needed for new all-inclusive ISO image that doesn't need internet....
Security Onion 2.4.180 is now available and includes several new features, updated components and many quality-of-life improvements. Cancel your own long-running SOC query - Security Onion can now alert on offline agents, if you run a query in Security Onion Console (Alerts, Dashboards, Hunt) that takes a long time, you now have the ability to cancel your own query by clicking the X on the spinner animation. Enable static hostname mapping without reverse DNS lookups - you can now enable static hostname mappings without having to enable reverse DNS lookups. This release updates several components including Elastic 8.18.6, Suricata 7.0.12, Zeek 7.0.10. The Elastic and Suricata updates resolve security issues so we highly recommend upgrading. In the recent 2.4.170 release, we added a new hypervisor feature for Security Onion Pro customers. This release improves on that by allowing you to run the hypervisor on a manager.
We are very excited to present you Tails 7.0, the first version of Tails based on Debian 13 'Trixie' and GNOME 48 'Bengaluru'. Tails 7.0 brings new versions of many applications included in Tails. Tails 7.0 starts 10 – 15 seconds faster on most computers. We achieve this by changing the compression algorithm of the Tails USB and ISO images from xz to zstd. As a consequence, the image is 10% bigger than it would be with the previous algorithm. While testing this change, we noticed that Tails on USB sticks of poor quality can also start 20 seconds slower than on quality USB sticks. If you are in a place where counterfeit electronics are common, we recommend that you buy your USB stick from an international supermarket chain, which should have a more reliable supply chain. Included software: replace GNOME Terminal with GNOME Console; replace GNOME Image Viewer with GNOME Loupe; update Tor Browser to 14.5.7....