News briefs for October 22, 2018. Greg Kroah-Hartman released Linux kernel 4.19 this morning and handed the kernel tree back to Linus, writing "You can have the joy of dealing with the merge window."

News briefs for October 19, 2018. Two new openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots provide KDE users with a newer version of Applications 18.08.2, and all Tumbleweed users can update kernel 4.18.13. Last week's snapshots included newer versions of KDE's Plasma 5.14 and Frameworks 5.50.0. For more info on the recent updates, visit opensuse.org.

News briefs for October 18, 2018. Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" expected to be released today. According to Phoronix, the biggest change for users will be the revised default theme for the GNOME Shell experience, now known as "Yaru". Ubuntu 18.10 will also have the Linux 4.18 kernel, "which means better hardware support, various performance improvements, and other optimizations compared to Ubuntu 18.04's Linux 4.15".

News briefs for October 17, 2018. elementary OS Juno is now available. This new major version sports a ton of updates and improvements with three major goals: 1) "provide a more refined user experience; 2) "improve productivity for new and seasoned users alike"; and 3) "take our developer platform to the next level".

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News briefs for October 15, 2018. KDE e.V. announces it received a $300,000 USD donation from the Handshake Foundation. According to the KDE blog post, it plans to use $100,000 USD of the donation specifically toward development of the Calligra office suite. Also, KDE celebrated its 22nd anniversary yesterday—Happy Birthday KDE!

News briefs for October 12, 2018. Canonical yesterday announced that Plex has arrived in its Snap Store. You now can download the multimedia platform as a snap for Ubuntu, KDE Neon, Debian, Fedora, Manjaro, OpenSUSE and Zorin. For more details, see the Ubuntu Blog.

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So, the short version is that with the recent licensing changes to several Redis Labs modules making them no longer free and open source, GNU/Linux distributions, such as Debian and Fedora, are no longer able to ship Redis Labs' versions of the affected modules to their users.

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News briefs from October 8, 2018. Linux 4.19-rc7 was released yesterday. Greg KH says it's a bigger release than rc6 was, with networking fixes and lots of driver subsystem fixes. It also looks like there will be an -rc8 next week "just to be sure 4.19 is solid".

News briefs for October 5, 2018. Qt 5.12 LTS beta was released this morning. Qt 5.12 will be a long-term supported release, and it'll be supported for three years. Improved performance and reduced memory consumption have been a focus for this version, and it also now provides the TableView control. See the Qt 5.12 wiki for an overview of all the new features.

News briefs for October 4, 2018. Tomorrow, October 5, 2018, is a Fedora 29 GNOME 3.30 Test Day. If you're interested in participating, see the wiki page. All you need is Fedora 29 (which you can grab from the wiki), and the event will be held in #fedora-test-day on Freenode IRC.

News briefs for October 3, 2018. Google this week released the Android Security Patch for October 2018. Softpedia News reports that the patch fixes 26 vulnerabilities, the most severe of which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. See the Android Security Bulletin for more information.

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