FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending July 31, 2026

Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read articles on FOSS Force for the week that just ended.

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   “Oopsies!” FreeBSD Devs Say There’s Still GPL in the Kernel: Not so fast, FreeBSD! Thar still be GPL. FreeBSD thought it had scrubbed all GPL code, but a few kernel leftovers remained.

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   LibreOffice 26.2.5 Demotes Skia Rendering for Mac and Windows: The latest LibreOffice maintenance update pushes Skia back to experimental mode on Mac and Windows.

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   Fedora’s Considering a Conflict-of-Interest Policy: The Fedora Council is considering a formal conflict-of-interest policy and inviting community feedback on the draft.

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   GNU C Library 2.44 Released: The widely used GNU C Library advances with version 2.44, featuring updates across functionality and security. This release includes a long list of new features.

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   GNU Binutils 2.47 Released With New Linker, Disassembler Options: The new release also adds reproducible tarballs and new tools, while dropping Gold from the main tarball.