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Genode OS 26.02 is out as the latest feature update to this open-source operating system framework that also serves as the basis for their Sculpt general purpose OS.

With Genode OS 26.02 they have been working on technical improvements as well as migrating the project away from GitHub and onto Codeberg. An increasing number of open-source projects are moving off of the Microsoft-owned GitHub with not liking the fact that GitHub Copilot and other AI are trained off Git repositories on GitHub, among other concerns. Thus Genode OS is moving to Codeberg.

Diving into the roots of the POSTAL series, Running With Scissors recently revealed the new horror first person shooter Flesh & Wire. Hopefully it will go down better than the farce that was POSTAL: Bullet Paradise.

Here you play as Angel, a seemingly normal college student that ends up getting swept up in a mission of revenge. Taking matters into your own hands you'll end up facing off against the law, military and some strange cult - all while trying to get to the Postal Dude.

This one seems to blend the real-world together with a special dream-like world that's "a surreal and otherworldly hallucinatory state where memories, monsters, and Angel’s immediate surroundings blend together and warp into a grotesque nightmare version of reality". Sounds intriguing.

The Open Source Endowment, a new nonprofit, aims to bring a university-style endowment model to open source by providing long-term, investment-backed funding for widely used but under-resourced FOSS projects.

As a US 501(c)(3) public charity, the organization invests donations to create a permanent capital base. Only annual investment returns are distributed as grants, while the principal remains intact to ensure ongoing funding. This approach mirrors how academic institutions use endowments to finance operations.

The initiative addresses the FOSS ecosystem where critical infrastructure components, such as libraries, language runtimes, packaging systems, and networking tools, support global technology stacks but often depend on small teams or individual maintainers. While foundations and corporate sponsors offer some support, funding remains inconsistent and often tied to short-term business goals.

Canonical put out a new blog post today highlighting their RISC-V work over 2025 that included switching to the RVA23 profile baseline for Ubuntu 25.10 and moving forward. Now with RVA23-compatible RISC-V hardware coming to market this year, Canonical is talking up the RISC-V possibilities when paired with the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release.

With Canonical having shifted Ubuntu 25.10 RISC-V requirements to RVA23, it limited the support to basically RISC-V on QEMU. But this year RVA23 compliant RISC-V SoCs are coming to market with the likes of the SpacemiT K3 and thus Canonical talking up the new possibilities for Ubuntu on RISC-V.

Shotcut, a popular open-source video editor, has released version 26.2. This update resolves several regressions introduced in recent versions.

A crash when adding long videos to the Timeline with Qt 6.10.1, introduced in version 26.1, has been fixed. Windows users working with HEVC sources also benefit from a fix for a black or green bar at the bottom of the preview when hardware decoding and preview scaling were enabled.

Moreover, the RGB Shift video filter crash from version 25.12 has been resolved, along with a FLAC export issue that produced incorrect duration metadata and disabled scrub bars in some media players. Multiple Playlist actions, such as GoTo, Move Up, Move Down, Add Selected to Timeline, Add Selected to Slideshow, and sorting, no longer crash when triggered without a selection.