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      Cloudflare Announces EmDash As Open-Source "Spiritual Successor" To WordPress

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 April 2026

    Cloudflare continues to be full of open-source surprises. Today Cloudflare announced EmDash as an open-source "spiritual successor" to WordPress with an emphasis on better security...
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      HarfBuzz 14.0 Released With New GPU Accelerated Text Rendering Library

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 April 2026

    HarfBuzz is the open-source text shaping engine originally born out of the FreeType project and now widely-used by GNOME, KDE, Java, Flutter, Godot, Chromium, LibreOffice, and countless other applications. HarfBuzz 14.0 released today and making this release quite exciting is introducing a GPU-accelerated text rendering library...
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      April 1 Linux Patches: Verified Birth Date For File Creation, Block Emacs From Running

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 April 2026

    What's more annoying: half-baked AI slop open-source patches or April Fools' Day with programmers trying to have some fun? This year, April 1 is seeming more patches than usual...
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      KDE Linux Hardening Their OS Against Updates Making Systems Unbootable

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 April 2026

    KDE Linux as the in-house, leading-edge Linux distribution for showcasing the latest KDE Plasma innovations has promoted itself as being an atomically updated Linux distribution. But these atomic updates didn't quite work out as planned recently with some users finding their system(s) unbootable. But improvements are being made now for better robustness moving forward...
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      The Linux Kernel's Minimum Rust Version Supported Prepares For Rust 1.85 Baseline

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 April 2026

    The Rust-For-Linux crew is preparing to raise the minimum supported Rust version for building the Linux kernel and and similarly also bumping the minimum supported version of bindgen, the tool for generating Rust FFI bindings for C code in the kernel...
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      Wayland Protocols 1.48 Released With XDG Session Management

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 April 2026

    Wayland Protocols 1.48 is out today with the long-awaited XDG Session Management protocol in tow as well as several new experimental protocols...
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      Dell XPS 13 Snapdragon Elite Laptop Sees New EC Linux Driver To Improve Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 April 2026

    Last month Dell upstreamed the firmware needed for their XPS 13 935 Snapdragon X1 Elite laptop. This makes the Linux outlook for this ARM-based Dell XPS laptop much better than before in not having to worry about extracting necessary firmware blobs from Windows 11. Now another step forward for the Dell XPS 13 9345 is being made with a new EC driver being posted to enhance the hardware support...
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      New Patches Allow Building Linux IPv6-Only, Option To Deprecate "Legacy" IPv4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 April 2026

    Longtime Linux developer David Woodhouse sent out a patch series today to "deprecate legacy IP" support within the Linux kernel. While some of his commentary his April 1st-esque, he does acknowledge much of this work has merit. Ultimately it can allow for building a Linux kernel with IPv6-only support and working on allowing "legacy" IPv4 support to be disabled as part of the kernel build...
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      Raspberry Pi 4 3GB Launches, Raspberry Pi Prices Go Up Again Due To RAM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 April 2026

    Raspberry Pi prices are going up yet again due to the continued memory squeeze on the industry. To help offset the memory prices for some use-cases, Raspberry Pi also announced the introduction of the Raspberry Pi 4 3GB model at $83 to help fill the void between the 2GB and 4GB options...