Beta versions are not guaranteed to work as expected. We encourage users to create detailed bug reports if any problems arise. Read our blog post for more information about our Android beta programs.
26.3 Release Candidate 3 (known as 26.3-rc-3 in the launcher) is the third release candidate for Java Edition 26.3, released on September 14, 2026, which fixes bugs and reverts a bug.
Full changelog: https://minecraft.wiki/Java_Edition_26.3-rc-3
Raised the default open file descriptor soft limit at startup on Unix/macOS to prevent EMFILE (Too many open files) errors in large workspaces. (#64188)
Added dev: Debug Filesystem Watching to inspect local watcher events, watch roots, and scan exclusions, and export diagnostic captures as JSON. (#64186)
Fixed Linux mailto: URI handling when using Help → Email Us.... (#64090)
Fixed diagnostics batches stopping at paths without a worktree (#64073)
Fixed an issue in SSH remote mode where reopening a newly created file at a path that was previously renamed could incorrectly reuse the buffer for the renamed file. (#64028)
Fixed CRLF line breaks not normalized in completion labels (#63984)
Improved trial descriptions to show $5 of GPT Luna and unlimited edit predictions for 14 days from trial start. (#63972)
An unsually short time between releases means a security fix, and that’s almost all this release is.
You can download the source code or one of the packages. The Windows packages as well as the Linux AppImage are available already. The other Linux packages & the macOS disk image are still being built and will be available over the course of the next couple of hours.
MKVToolNix GUI: executing actions, type “execute a program”: all the variables (<MTX_…>) will now be replaced again in the argument list to the program to be executed. This was broken in v100. Fixes #6306.
Security fixes
CVE-2026-90783: avilib: fixed potential heap overflows/invalid memory access in the ODML index handling due to unsiged integer multiplication wrapping around (colloquially known as “overflowing”) with specifically crafted AVI files. Affects only mkvmerge as the other tools do not read AVIs. Reported by Tristan Madani TristanInSec@gmail.com.
PCI Express errors counters on AMD and Intel GPUs.
New metrics on AMD Strix Point, Strix Halo and Kraken Point : NPU power, NPU clocks, NPU TOPS and TOPS per watt, NPU DRAM bandwidth usage, global platform power and DRAM read and write bandwidths.
New HDD metrics (IOPS, average latency, NVMe controller link speed).
This is a security release which addresses a vulnerability related to social login accounts, to prevent accounts from different services being potentially mis-matched.
Upgrading is strongly advised if the instance has ever used more than one third-party/social login option (including previously used options which are no longer active).
Thanks to Google and Ada Logics for the discovery and responsible disclosure of this issue.
Full List of Changes
Updated social logins to scope social account queries to social system.
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Added
Changed
Fixed
WebDAV: PROPFIND responses do not declare the namespace of every requested property on the DAV:multistatus element.
MTA:
SMTP session state obtained before STARTTLS is discarded once the TLS handshake completes, as required by RFC 3207.
Inbound throttle, outbound throttle and queue quota match expressions evaluate their if/then conditions.
DMARC: Messages without an aligned SPF or DKIM pass from a domain that publishes a DMARC policy are reported as fail instead of none in logs.
DMARC: A temporary DNS error on an SPF or DKIM check whose identifier aligns with the author domain produces temperror instead of fail.
DMARC: A policy record without a p tag is only applied, as p=none, when it contains a rua tag, even if it declares sp or np.
iMIP: Notification subjects and bodies omit the event start date, time and timezone for recurring events.
OIDC: Discovery is retried for 30 seconds before the directory is marked as unavailable, so a provider that is still starting up no longer requires a restart.
WebUI: The cached bundle of an Application is discarded when its resourceUrl changes or the record is deleted, so the next unpack fetches the new resource.
DNS: Append . to MX record hostnames.
Recovery mode: Automatic IP banning is disabled during recovery and initial setup.
FoundationDB: The cached read version is invalidated when a queue refresh or registry change broadcast is received.
Sieve: Messages filed with fileinto by a user script are treated as ham and are no longer moved to Junk when classified as spam.
IMAP:
SELECT, EXAMINE and STATUS on a shared mailbox require the r (read) right.
AUTHENTICATE is refused on clear-text connections unless allowPlainTextAuth is enabled, and the greeting and CAPABILITY response advertise LOGINDISABLED instead of the AUTH= mechanisms in that case.
IMAP, POP3, ManageSieve: Partial commands received before STARTTLS or STLS are discarded once the TLS handshake completes.
Network: Inbound TLS handshakes, both implicit and STARTTLS, are aborted after the listener's tlsTimeout, releasing the connection slot.
OAuth: A random key is used when the OIDC provider's encryptionKey or HMAC signatureKey cannot be read, instead of an empty key.
LDAP: The {local} and {domain} filter placeholders are escaped.
JMAP:
CalendarEvent/set stores useDefaultAlerts per user, and CalendarEvent/get returns false when it was never set.
CalendarEvent/get returns null for baseEventId unless the id is a synthetic recurrence instance.
CalendarEvent/get returns null for requested recurrenceRule and recurrenceOverrides properties on synthetic recurrence instances.
CalendarEvent/get and ContactCard/get return only id when the properties argument is an empty list, instead of every property.
Who says deliveries are only for trucks? In today's blog, we're taking a closer look at how Quick Jobs and the Freight Market will work in our upcoming Road Trip module for American Truck Simulator. Let's check it out!
Before we continue, we’ve also put together a video version of this blog for you to enjoy. You can check it out below!
Players familiar with American Truck Simulator will already know Quick Jobs and the Freight Market from their trucking careers. Road Trip builds on these systems with its own approach to courier work, customer reviews, and progression.
Just like with trucks, you won't need to have your own vehicle to take on a Quick Job. A suitable vehicle will be provided for you by the company offering the job, allowing you to jump straight into work as a courier driver. Fuel, repairs and any other expenses you encounter will be covered by the company, just as they are with traditional Quick Jobs in American Truck Simulator.
So what kind of jobs can you expect? Drivers can be tasked with delivering small packages and documents, as well as transferring vehicles between car dealerships. The jobs available to you can also vary depending on the type of vehicle involved, so a pickup truck may receive different contracts compared to a sports car or a classic vehicle.
However, completing the journey is only one part of the job. After each delivery, the customer will review your performance across three areas; Time Management, Vehicle Appearance, and Cargo Handling.
These reviews are specific to the delivery you have completed. Damaging valuable documents, for example, may lead to very different feedback compared to successfully delivering delicate plant seedlings without any issues. Our goal is to make each job feel a little more personal, with a customer waiting at the other end to judge how well you handled their delivery.
Some customers may also place a higher priority on one of these three areas. You'll be able to see this before accepting the job, and meeting their expectations will be more demanding. However, taking on that extra risk can also result in a better financial reward.
Time Management also works a little differently from simply beating a deadline. Customers expect you at a particular time, which means arriving too early can be just as unwelcome as arriving late. Each completed delivery is also given a star rating, which contributes towards your overall Courier Rating.
Your Courier Rating determines the types of jobs available to you, the maximum distance of the routes you can take on, and how much you can earn. Maintaining a higher rating will unlock more challenging work, such as fragile or valuable cargo and jobs with tighter delivery windows, while also providing a bonus to the offered payout.
Drivers who consistently achieve five-star deliveries can also build a Perfect Delivery Streak, which will reward drivers with additional money bonus.
Already saved up enough money to purchase your own vehicle? Then you'll have access to even more job opportunities! Players of American Truck Simulator will already be familiar with the Freight Market, and Road Trip introduces its own equivalent, known as the Dispatch Market.
The Dispatch Market works in a similar way to Quick Jobs, but instead of using a borrowed vehicle, you'll complete the job using a vehicle from your own garage. As you're supplying your own vehicle, these jobs will also offer a slightly higher payout, as you'll be responsible for your own expenses, including repairs and fuel.
The same Courier Rating, customer reviews, and performance criteria apply here too. Naturally, some jobs will differ from those found in Quick Jobs, such as car jockey work, after all, asking you to give away your own car would be a little unfair.
Any money you earn from these jobs goes directly into your existing ATS profile, which is shared between your trucking career and Road Trip. There is no separate XP system for this mode, instead, progression is earned by your Courier Rating, customer reviews, and your ability to maintain a Perfect Delivery Streak.
For the initial release of Road Trip, jobs will focus on getting yourself and the delivery safely from point A to point B, with more possibilities we hope to explore in the future.
We hope you’ve enjoyed learning more about how jobs will work in Road Trip. We’re looking forward to seeing how you build up your Courier Rating, tackle different types of deliveries, and make the most of these new opportunities on the roads of American Truck Simulator.
If you’re excited to get behind the wheel when Road Trip arrives, be sure to add the Ford Car Pack and RAM & Dodge Car Pack to your Steam Wishlist! Until next time, keep an eye on our official channels for more news and previews from Road Trip. We’ll see you on the road!
Added DMARC support: incoming messages can now be checked against the sender domain's DMARC policy.
Passwords are now stored using Argon2id or PBKDF2, selectable by the administrator.
Delivery status notifications (bounces) now include In-Reply-To and References headers, so mail clients thread them together with the original message.
The IMAP OnClientLogon event is now fired for clients logging on with AUTHENTICATE PLAIN, not just LOGIN.
Bug fixes
Backup and restore now compress and decompress using half of the available processor cores instead of all available.
The bundled 7-Zip used for backup and restore was upgraded to 26.03.
Fixed: several issues with concurrent access to the same IMAP mailbox from multiple clients.
Fixed: an external POP3 fetch account could stay locked after a failed fetch, silently stopping mail collection for that account until the server was restarted.
Fixed: a failed DNS lookup was treated as "no records found", which could cause a message to be scored as spam when the HELO host could not be looked up
Fixed: the data directory synchronizer could have deleted live message files in public folders when run in delete mode.
Fixed: a client could bypass the required HELO/EHLO greeting by sending RSET, or by sending MAIL FROM directly after a STARTTLS handshake
Installation
New installations now run the hMailServer service as Network Service, with data and logs stored in C:\ProgramData\hMailServer
Fixed: the installer overwrote the ValidLanguages setting, discarding any changes the administrator had made to it.
The Debian project is pleased to announce the seventh update of its
stable distribution Debian 13 (codename trixie).
This point release mainly adds corrections for security issues,
along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories
have already been published separately and are referenced where available.
Earlier this year, we shared that we would be taking a temporary pause from running our World of Trucks events. We also know how much these events mean to our #BestCommunityEver and that many of you have missed taking part. Today, we are pleased to confirm that we have decided to resume our World of Trucks events in the familiar format you already know, while the wider rework continues.
This means you can once again look forward to coming together for events throughout the months ahead. First up will be Cruising South Dakota, followed by Cruising Iceland and our seasonal Halloween and Christmas events later this year. We will share full details ahead of each event.
Our teams will continue working on the underlying systems and infrastructure that support these events, with the goal of bringing much more of the event experience directly into Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator. This includes the improvements we previously described, such as the ability to view and redeem rewards, earn and view achievements, and follow event progress and community milestones directly in-game. It also involves broader behind-the-scenes changes to support the World of Trucks service in the future.
Thank you, as always, for your patience, support, and passion. We are excited to welcome you back to World of Trucks events and hope you will join us for the journeys ahead.
As part of the Nova redesign, a “Use Linux system theme” checkbox is being shown on Linux builds for the about:addons theme picker, which will make Firefox’s Nova UI use the colours of the system theme.
Replaced the “more themes” button in the themes list view footer with a promo element when Nova is enabled – Bug 2057200
Removed the testing XPI base url pref from ThemesList.sys.mjs – Bug 2053220
Fixed a mismatch between the popup panel border radius applied by Nova and the border radius applied to the document.body of the WebExtensions popup page loaded into it – Bug 2057844
Moved new strings added as part of the about:addons Nova restyling out of the locales preview – Bug 2052034
As part of legacy telemetry cleanups for the Add-ons related telemetry, migrated addons-search-detection telemetry off the legacy telemetry mirroring path, now collected only through Glean – Bug 2055606
Thanks to Florian Quèze for applying his work on an LLM-based system for investigating intermittent tests to investigating and fixing intermittents and perma failures across the WebExtensions test suite.
DevTools
Ruhollah Majdoddin fixed issues in the Storage panel to make sure we’re only showing relevant cookies (and their values) for the debugged tab (#1856645, #2060029, #2061166) and also did some cleanup in this area (#2061348)
sevenwithawp added a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+B, Cmd+Alt+B on Mac) to disable/enable breakpoints (#1642578)
Did a trainhop last week to help with the remote layouts effort
Doing another trainhop this week to make some spacing optimizations, deploying tomorrow if all goes well
We will be experimenting with some more layout variations over the next few months
Example:
We’ve migrated a bunch of ourunittests to Jest/RTL from the deprecated Mocha / Karma framework we’ve historically used.
Joel added a WebNotifications badge to Top Sites on the New Tab Page which surfaces per-origin unread web-notification state directly on TopSites tiles by rendering a compact badge in the activity-stream/TopSites component—users can now glance at NTP tiles to see which sites have pending web notifications without changing navigation or site state (affects desktop and mobile NTP Top Sites UI). This is something we plan on experimenting with later this year.
Similarly, Joel added a TopSites hover card with notifications which expands the to show per-site notification items and actions on hover or long-press, enabling users to read and dismiss notifications from the NTP itself rather than opening each site.
Dre fixed the “Show more widgets” visibility by adjusting the widget container overflow/visibility logic so the Show more control is reliably revealed on constrained viewports, restoring widget discoverability.
Joel fixed newtab.closed and newtab.sections_impression firing unexpectedly on the New Tab Page by gating event emission on section visibility and tab lifecycle, which stops spurious impression and close telemetry pings and improves the accuracy of NTP impression/close counts for affected users.
Joel added a topsite display customization event to newtab ping, updating the New Tab ping schema so user topsite layout and appearance changes are emitted as topsite.display_customization events, enabling reliable capture of pin/remove/resize/customization actions in Telemetry.
Nina Pypchenko [:nina-py] added widgets.stocks.interaction and flip it on user actions so explicit click/tap interactions with the Stocks widget now generate widgets.stocks.interaction events, improving engagement capture for the Stocks surface.
Scott Downe added support for five-column content feed layouts, which enables denser content grids for large displays by updating grid logic and responsive breakpoints and affects NTP rendering on wide screens.
Irene Ni updated the New Tab topsite context menu button to respect prefers-reduced-motion via CSS/media-query changes, so users with reduce-motion enabled no longer see the button’s motion/animation.
Dre reduced the Privacy Widget celebration sparkles on the New Tab Page in Privacy Widget Celebration: Reduce the Sparkles by lowering particle counts and throttling animation cadence in the widget’s CSS/JS animation code, reducing visual noise and a small amount of GPU/animation work for users during the celebration without changing privacy settings.
Nova: continued work on the Nova redesign, focusing on CSS fixes, tab group and container styling, and tab/address bar polish. Efforts are underway to ensure the UI integrates correctly with platform themes and high-contrast modes.
IPC Urlbar / Multi-Context Address Bar (MCAB) on New Tab: Significant progress has been made on the IPC Urlbar implementation. The CI variant is now live and upgraded to Tier 2, allowing for better bug detection. Currently focused on making content modules content-process-safe and preparing for new tab search bar integration. Here’s moz-urlbar rendering something on about:newtab for the first time:
Search & Suggest Telemetry: Development is ongoing for search term telemetry, specifically regarding fetching results from Merino for online suggestions. Also preparing to retire legacy telemetry for certain search service metrics.
In today's blog, we bring you another one of our Community Stories. This time with Trucker Cassie, one of the content creators playing our games, who will tell you all about her job as a real-life truck driver, as well as her passion for Euro Truck Simulator 2!
You might know Trucker Cassie from her YouTube or Twitch channels, where she regularly posts videos from her life as a truck driver in Scandinavia, and also gameplay live streams, mostly from ETS2. And today, she will tell you all about her love for trucks!
"It's quite random that I started working as a truck driver. I never had any drivers in my family. It was a friend who showed me the world of trucks. He had just gotten his heavy license, and one morning he gave me a ride to school in the oldest Scania I had ever seen. But from that moment, a spark was lit. Maybe I could drive a truck too? It felt so cool and free! So I applied to a trucking school, and the rest is history," Cassie told us.
Cassie discovered her passion for truck driving, and now, it's been 13 years since she started this way of life, as she now works part-time as a truck driver and shares her stories on social media. "At the start of my career, I never wanted to stop working. I wanted to beat my earlier record on how many deliveries I could make in a day. I had really found my place in life! But a few years with this lifestyle caused me to burn out, and it forced me to rethink my situation. Today, I work part-time, and I've learnt how important it is to wind down and relax when I can," she says.
If you wonder what kind of work Cassie usually does and what her days on the long and beautiful Scandinavian roads look like, she also shares this with us: "I have tried various delivery types, such as gravel, wood chips, and powder tanker. Now I'm delivering various goods from Sweden to Norway. And when I'm done with that delivery, I normally load fish in Norway. The fishing industries can be located in tricky places! Through small towns and up and down steep and curvy hills. It can really be a challenge during wintertime. After the fish is loaded, I drive to Denmark, where another driver picks up my trailer and drives it somewhere in Europe! Then I pick up a load from Denmark and drive home to Sweden again."
What Cassie loves the most about her job are the amazing views she sees along the way as well as the solitude this life can bring. "I get to listen to music and podcasts, and I rarely talk to customers. I also get to bring my Chihuahua, Happy," she told us.
This interesting merge of the two worlds is something we really love, as we have heard similar stories where either members of our community started driving trucks for a living because of our games, or long-term truck drivers that found their passion in Euro Truck Simulator 2 or American Truck Simulator.
"I have been a truck driver for a while before I discovered Euro Truck Simulator 2. A colleague of mine showed me the game, and I thought it was a silly idea to drive a truck for work, then get home, and play a truck simulator after work. And now look at me," Cassie shared.
So what is actually so satisfying about playing a truck simulator when you are a real-life truck driver?
"I am having the time of my life when I play ETS2 on my livestreams! Because in a real truck, you have a lot of responsibility; to deliver the cargo, the truck, and yourself to the delivery place safely. Always being alert. But when I'm playing the game, I can be social with the chat, drive together with the viewers, answer questions, and just have a good time. And the consequences won't be too big when my digital truck makes a kickflip off a mountain because I was focusing on what the chat is saying. I also like to compare the real-life roads to the simulator! And point out the landmarks and differences from the real places," Cassie explained.
What actually inspired Cassie to start creating content on social media was kind of a coincidence, but from there, it helped her to grow a big community of over 160 thousand followers on YouTube alone.
"I started my main YouTube channel after I got the offer of being in a reality TV show years ago. I had to film my workday as a truck driver myself, and then send the footage to the TV production. The TV show was canceled before it had even started, though, and there I was with a vlog. I realized I could put it together myself and post it on YouTube! So that's what I did. A few videos in, and I suddenly gained thousands of subscribers in a few weeks' time. It was crazy! I also have a smaller YouTube channel, where I post gaming content and previous livestreams. I decided to have two separate channels since the content is quite different. And of course, my Twitch channel, where I do livestreams when I have the energy for it," Cassie told us.
This gave us a great opportunity to ask Cassie, a real truck driver, how Euro Truck Simulator 2 compares with the real world, and she was happy to answer that:
"I think Euro Truck Simulator 2 is very accurate to real life trucking! Especially when you have a steering wheel and pedals. I know a few people who have practiced reversing trailers in the game, then tried it out in real life. And they nailed it! All because they have practiced in the game."
We were also curious how Cassie's driving differs from the real world to how she drives in Euro Truck Simulator 2. "I definitely test the limits and do more daring stuff in the game! Somehow, people get surprised when they see my real-life work videos, and notice I actually know how to drive a truck. But I don't blame them, after seeing my stunts in ETS2. It would be nice to have a pink MAN truck in real life as well! But until now, I'll get to be pretty in pink in the simulator," she answered.
If you think this life would be for you and you are also thinking about taking on a truck driver career, Cassie has a message for you! "I really recommend people try out Euro Truck Simulator 2 if they are curious about becoming truck drivers in real life. It is a pretty big decision, with lots of money needed to get a heavy license with all the needed certificates. And I think ETS2 gives a great hint of what trucking can feel like! Also, it's a really fun activity to bring home your non-trucking friends and let them reverse a trailer in the game! Better than any board game I have played :)," she concluded.
We hope you have enjoyed Cassie's story! If you did, remember to give our X/Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, and TikTok a follow so you won't miss similar blogs and also updates from our games straight to your feed. Or subscribe to our newsletter to stay informed. Keep on trucking!
26.3 Release Candidate 2 (known as 26.3-rc-2 in the launcher) is the second release candidate for Java Edition 26.3, released on September 11, 2026, which fixes a bug.
Full changelog: https://minecraft.wiki/Java_Edition_26.3-rc-2
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Utkarsh Gupta has announced an update to the Ubuntu 24.04 long-term support (LTS) branch of Canonical's operating system. The new update, version 24.04.5, introduces fixes and improvements: "Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS, code-named 'Noble Numbat', is here. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, together with the....
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