News, guides and release notes from the LinuxServer.io team. https://linuxserver.github.io/site/blog/ 2026-09-25T16:01:00.000Z https://linuxserver.github.io/site/blog/webtop-5-0-and-selkies-2-0-everything-everywhere-all-in-one-release/ 2026-09-25T16:01:00.000Z 2026-09-25T16:01:00.000Z

Let me start with the TLDR because this one is long, and I mean long even by my standards. Selkies 2.0.0 shipped on September 24th. Every LinuxServer.io Selkies based container has been rebuilt on it, along with pixelflux 2.1.0 and pcmflux 2.1.0 underneath. Five video codecs instead of one. WebRTC as a real first class transport next to our WebSockets protocol. Zero copy encoding on X11, not just…

https://linuxserver.github.io/site/blog/webtop-4-1-x11-is-dead-and-what-is-selkies-anyway/ 2026-04-28T20:14:00.000Z 2026-04-28T20:14:00.000Z

We've now switched our Selkies desktop containers to run in Wayland mode by default, if for any reason you want to got back just set -e PIXELFLUXWAYLAND=false as noted in the change log for each container. For x8664, Wayland mode requires a CPU with AVX2 support (Haswell or better so basically anything made past 2013), without it the server will fall back to X11 mode. The striped x264 encoder has…

https://linuxserver.github.io/site/blog/webtop-4-0-wayland-is-here-engage-the-reality-engine/ 2026-01-07T19:04:00.000Z 2026-01-07T19:04:00.000Z

Let me just start with the TLDR as I have a tendency to write too much, all of our Selkies based images can now be launched into a Wayland mode using the env var -e PIXELFLUX_WAYLAND=true or checking a box in Sealskin. This Wayland mode is an entire ground up stack leveraging a virtual framebuffer in userspace that can live on a GPU or CPU. The net result on any hardware with a GPU is a remote…

https://linuxserver.github.io/site/blog/webtop-3-0-part-3-putting-it-all-together-with-sealskin/ 2025-11-21T18:35:00.000Z 2025-11-21T18:35:00.000Z

It has been a long journey from our first experiments with Taisun to the polished desktop containers we maintain today. We started by simply trying to put a desktop in a browser. With WebTop, we refined that vision using open-source RDP and VNC technologies. Then, we integrated KasmVNC for a modern, web-first VNC experience. After that, we worked with the Selkies project to pioneer a…

https://linuxserver.github.io/site/blog/webtop-3-0-part-2-the-eagle-has-landed/ 2025-08-21T16:56:00.000Z 2025-08-21T16:56:00.000Z

Following the initial rollout of our new technology stack for desktop images, we have reached a significant milestone in stability. After several months of development focused on bug fixes and community-driven feature requests, we have resolved all major issues and are now shifting our focus to refining existing features and future enhancements. A critical aspect of this transition has been the…

https://linuxserver.github.io/site/blog/making-a-gaming-wifi-captive-portal-on-the-cheap/ 2025-08-15T21:47:00.000Z 2025-08-15T21:47:00.000Z

This guide should work with most mini PCs, but the one used for this guide was purchased to test DRI3 support and performance for our internal patched XVFB. The specific model is here; it cost $120 on sale, and similar N100 or N150 builds can generally be found at this price point. This is not an affiliate link or a recommendation; optimally, you already have this type of system and want to try…

https://linuxserver.github.io/site/blog/spring-cleaning-new-images-and-rebasing/ 2025-06-06T21:17:00.000Z 2025-06-06T21:17:00.000Z

We are announcing an evolution in our Docker image catalog, which includes the sunsetting of several legacy images. This focused approach allows us to concentrate our development efforts on a significantly more modern, robust, and feature-rich platform for delivering desktop applications, built in partnership with the Selkies organization. Firstly, our Rdesktop images and their corresponding…

https://linuxserver.github.io/site/blog/webtop-3-0-part-1-a-call-to-revolutionize-web-based-linux-desktops/ 2025-05-22T17:02:00.000Z 2025-05-22T17:02:00.000Z

For years, we've dreamed of running full-fledged Linux desktop applications seamlessly within a web browser. While solutions exist, they often come with a hefty price: sluggish performance, high server costs, or a dependency on powerful, specialized hardware. Today, we're unveiling a new approach, a hybrid VNC and Video Codec protocol, poised to change the game, and we're calling on you, the…

https://linuxserver.github.io/site/blog/backup-your-data-to-b2-with-restic-and-backrest/ 2025-04-19T21:00:00.000Z 2025-04-19T21:00:00.000Z Josh Stark

If you're like me (you run a home server with varying levels of personal data on it, but you're a bit lazy) you'll probably want to set up some kind of backup routine to ensure your data has an acceptable level of redundancy. Let's ignore RAID solutions for now (which is of course a valid first port of call) and instead consider how to go about backing up your data. Let's first go over what this…

https://linuxserver.github.io/site/blog/docker-security-practices/ 2025-02-18T23:25:00.000Z 2025-02-18T23:25:00.000Z Quietsy

Follow these practices to secure containers

https://linuxserver.github.io/site/blog/introducing-linuxserver-api/ 2025-02-13T12:53:00.000Z 2025-02-13T12:53:00.000Z Quietsy

Use our API to get information about our images

https://linuxserver.github.io/site/blog/securing-swag/ 2025-02-05T20:48:00.000Z 2025-02-05T20:48:00.000Z Quietsy

How to secure SWAG and prevent malicious activity

https://linuxserver.github.io/site/blog/we-need-to-talk-about-docker-hub/ 2025-01-24T19:30:00.000Z 2025-01-24T19:30:00.000Z

We Need To Talk About Docker Hub

https://linuxserver.github.io/site/blog/introducing-modcache-and-modmanager/ 2025-01-06T14:00:00.000Z 2025-01-06T14:00:00.000Z Spad

If you're the kind of smart arse who already knows how our Docker mods work under the hood, you can skip the next section, but if not then I'm afraid it's necessary reading to properly understand what follows it. Our Docker mods are a workaround for a common problem with container images: how to cater to everyone. Images are immutable, and people have different requirements, so what do you do if…

https://linuxserver.github.io/site/blog/new-and-improved-for-2025/ 2024-12-16T15:00:00.000Z 2024-12-16T15:00:00.000Z Spad

As we approach the end of the year we thought we would take the opportunity to take a look back at some of the things we've achieved in 2024 and how they benefit you now and in 2025. A lot of the changes we make to our pipelines and images take a while to actually reach end users, both because of the time it takes for us to roll them out across our fleet and because some users don't regularly…

https://linuxserver.github.io/site/blog/better-practices-for-docker-networking/ 2024-10-08T13:00:00.000Z 2024-10-08T13:00:00.000Z Spad

Many years ago we wrote a blog post on Docker networks and how to use them, but that was 2017 and this is now so surely everything has changed? Well, not really, but at lot of this stuff is abstracted away by management interfaces and people don't understand what's going on behind the scenes so they make bad decisions that come back to haunt them 6 months down the line. With that in mind we're…

https://linuxserver.github.io/site/blog/own-up-which-one-of-you-broke-the-website/ 2024-09-23T14:30:00.000Z 2024-09-23T14:30:00.000Z Spad

Our infrastructure can be broadly split into three categories: Public Facing, Internal, and Builders.The latter should be pretty self-explanatory and are a mix of amd64 and aarch64 boxes that build all our images. Internal services include things like our wiki, monitoring and metrics, automation, Discord bots, etc. The bulk of our public facing services - our website, Discourse forums, Fleet…

https://linuxserver.github.io/site/blog/why-cant-you-just-implement-thing-i-want/ 2024-06-15T15:56:00.000Z 2024-06-15T15:56:00.000Z

It's a common refrain: "Why can't you just implement this feature that would make my life easier? It's not even that hard, it's just this environment variable or this bit of init logic. There are lots of people just like me who would benefit from it." It should be pretty obvious that we can't implement every feature request we receive, but the important question is why didn't we implement yours?…

https://linuxserver.github.io/site/blog/advanced-wireguard-hub/ 2023-11-16T11:50:00.000Z 2023-11-16T11:50:00.000Z Quietsy

In a couple of prior articles (here and here) we showcased the capabilities of our WireGuard Docker container with some real world examples. At the time, our WireGuard container only supported one active tunnel at a time so the second article resorted to using multiple WireGuard containers running on the same host and using the host's routing tables to do advanced routing between and through…

https://linuxserver.github.io/site/blog/our-support-policy/ 2023-10-26T11:00:00.000Z 2023-10-26T11:00:00.000Z Spad

We maintain a lot of images, which are used by a lot of people, on a lot of platforms, using a lot of tools, and it's not always immediately clear which of those many combinations we support, and will provide support for. This post is an attempt to clarify that situation and provide links to our formal documentation on the matter. Any exceptions to our support policy will be clearly called out in…