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Kroah-Hartman: Linux kernel security work
6.18.3 stable kernel released
Security updates for Friday
Security updates for Thursday
Shadow-utils 4.19.0 released
Security updates for Wednesday
Stenberg: No strcpy either
Security updates for Tuesday
Graham: [KDE] Highlights from 2025
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc3
[$] An early look at the Graphite 2D graphics editor
Security updates for Friday
A partial ruling in the Vizio GPL suit
Ruby 4.0 released
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 25, 2025
[$] A 2025 retrospective
[$] What's new in systemd v259
Security updates for Wednesday
Elementary OS 8.1 released
[$] A high-memory elimination timeline for the kernel
[$] Verifier-state pruning in BPF
Security updates for Tuesday
Incus 6.20 released
GDB 17.1 released
Qubes OS 4.3.0 released
Jackson: Debian’s git transition
[$] Tools for successful documentation projects
Loong64 is now an official Debian architecture
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc2
Results from the 2025 TAB election
FreeBSD laptop progress
[$] A visualizer for BPF program state
Security updates for Friday
A change of maintainership for linux-next
[$] Episode 29 of the Dirk and Linus show
Systemd v259 released
Three stable kernels for Thursday
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 18, 2025
[$] Going boldly into the COSMIC desktop environment
Asahi Linux 6.18 progress report
[$] The Civil Infrastructure Platform after (nearly) ten years
Security updates for Wednesday
Mozilla gets a new CEO: Anthony Enzor-DeMeo
[$] 2025 Maintainers Summit development process discussions
Security updates for Tuesday
[$] Calibre adds AI "discussion" feature
Announcing Vojtux: a Fedora-based accessible Linux distribution
[$] Better development tools for the kernel
Security updates for Monday
[$] The rest of the 6.19 merge window
Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc1
Conill: Rethinking sudo with object capabilities
[$] The state of the kernel Rust experiment
Three new stable kernels
[$] Best practices for linux-next
KDE Gear 25.12 released
Security updates for Friday
Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS released
Rust 1.92.0 released
[$] Toward a policy for machine-learning tools in kernel development
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 11, 2025
10 Years of Let's Encrypt Certificates
Kroah-Hartman: Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know
[$] Mix and match Linux distributions with Distrobox
Security updates for Wednesday
The (successful) end of the kernel Rust experiment
The 2024 Free Software Awards winners
[$] Bazzite: a gem for Linux gamers
Firefox 146 released
Security updates for Tuesday
[$] Disagreements over post-quantum encryption for TLS
Addressing Linux's missing PKI infrastructure
Security updates for Monday
[$] An open seat on the TAB
Six stable kernels for the weekend
[$] Eventual Rust in CPython
Security updates for Friday
Alpine Linux 3.23.0 released
[$] The beginning of the 6.19 merge window
[$] A "frozen" dictionary for Python
cmocka 2.0 released
Security updates for Thursday
Cro provides commentary on LWN's Zig asynchronicity article
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 4, 2025
Home Assistant 2025.12 released
Django 6.0 released
[$] Just: a command runner
Security updates for Wednesday
A final stable kernel update for 5.4
Let's Encrypt to reduce certificate lifetimes
FreeBSD 15.0 released
[$] Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs
Security updates for Tuesday
[$] Checked-size array parameters in C
[$] Some 6.18 development statistics
Security updates for Monday
Three stable kernels for Monday
The 6.18 kernel has been released
NixOS 25.11 released
Landlock-ing Linux (prizrak.me)
Security updates for Friday
Security updates for Thursday
KDE Plasma 6.8 will be Wayland-only
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates for Tuesday
AlmaLinux 10.1 released
[$] APT Rust requirement raises questions
Three stable kernel updates, two french hens, ...
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc7
Racket 9.0 released
Improving GCC Buffer Overflow Detection for C Flexible Array Members (Oracle)
The 2025 Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election
[$] Unpacking for Python comprehensions
PHP 8.5.0 released
Security updates for Friday
Racing karts on a Rust GPU kernel driver (Collabora blog)
[$] BPF and io_uring, two different ways
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 20, 2025
[$] Debian debates amending architecture support stratagem
Postmortem of the Xubuntu.org download site compromise
GStreamer Conference 2025 video recordings now available
Security updates for Wednesday
Blender 5.0 released
[$] The current state of Linux architecture support
[$] Pouring packages with Homebrew
Security updates for Tuesday
Git 2.52.0 released
[$] Hot-page migration and specific-purpose NUMA nodes
Josefsson: Introducing the Debian Libre Live Images
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc6
[$] A struct sockaddr sequel
Security updates for Friday
Two new stable kernels
Rust in Android: move fast and fix things (Google Security Blog)
Privilege escalation in LightDM Greeter by KDE (SUSE Security Team Blog)
Thunderbird 145 released
[$] Another Fedora Flatpak discussion
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 13, 2025
Homebrew 5.0.0 released
[$] The intersection of unstable pages and direct I/O
Security updates for Wednesday
Firefox 145 released
[$] Protecting privacy with Tails
Security updates for Tuesday
Public-inbox 2.0.0 released
[$] Magic kernel functions for BPF
Pytest 9.0.0 released
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc5
About KeePassXC's code quality control (KeePassXC blog)
A proposed kernel policy for LLM-generated contributions
[$] Bootc for workstation use
Security updates for Friday
Mastodon 4.5 released
Freedesktop.org now hosts the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
[$] Toward fast, containerized, user-space filesystems
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 6, 2025
Removing XSLT from Chromium
LXQt 2.3.0 released
[$] A security model for systemd
OCI Runtime Specification 1.3 adds FreeBSD
Security updates for Wednesday
Incus 6.18 released
[$] Julia 1.12 brings progress on standalone binaries and more
Security updates for Tuesday
CHERIoT 1.0 released
Defeating KASLR by Doing Nothing at All (Project Zero)
Python steering council accepts lazy imports
[$] An explicit thread-safety proposal for Python
Devuan 6.0 released
[$] Namespace reference counting and listns()
A new kernel port — to WebAssembly
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc4
Three stable kernel updates
Debian to require Rust as of May 2026
[$] Mergiraf: syntax-aware merging for Git
Ubuntu introduces architecture variants
Security updates for Friday
Rust 1.91.0 released
[$] The long path toward optimizing short reads
Bazzite Fall update released
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 30, 2025
GNU/Linux man pages 6.16 released
ICANN report: DNS runs on FOSS
[$] Retrieving pixels from Android phones with Pixnapping
Tor Browser 15.0 released
[$] Debian splits ftpmaster team
Seven stable kernels for Wednesday
Security updates for Wednesday
[$] Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation
Fedora Linux 43 released (Fedora Magazine)
Security updates for Tuesday
[$] BPF signing LSM hook change rejected
Python Software Foundation withdraws security-related grant proposal
Rust Coreutils 0.3.0 released
Security updates for Monday
Valgrind 3.26.0 released
Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc3
Typst 0.14 released
Security updates for Friday
[$] GoFundMe to delete unwanted open-source foundation pages
Date bug affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates
Three new stable kernels for Thursday
[$] Safer speculation-free user-space access
Btrfs support coming to AlmaLinux 10.1
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 23, 2025
Fedora Council approves AI-assisted contributions policy
KDE Plasma 6.5 released
[$] DebugFS on Rust
OpenBSD 7.8 released
Security updates for Wednesday
Valkey 9.0.0 released
[$] Git considers SHA-256, Rust, LLMs, and more
DigiKam 8.8.0 released
Security updates for Tuesday
[$] The RubyGems.org takeover
[$] Explicit lazy imports for Python
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc2
Sunday stable kernels
Transition of RubyGems Repository Ownership
[$] A brief history of RubyGems.org
Security updates for Friday
[$] Large language models for patch review
Security updates for Thursday
Forgejo 13.0 released
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 16, 2025
[$] A new API for interrupt-aware spinlocks
Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7 released
Security updates for Wednesday
Four new stable kernels released
The FSF's Librephone project
[$] The end of the 6.18 merge window
Julia 1.12 released
Firefox 144.0 released
[$] The FSF considers large language models
Security updates for Tuesday
[$] Debian Technical Committee overrides systemd change
Four new stable kernels
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc1
[$] Enhancing FineIBT
Security updates for Friday
[$] Gccrs after libcore
[$] Last-minute /boot boost for Fedora 43
Ubuntu 25.10 released
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 9, 2025
Better profile management coming to Firefox
[$] Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development
Security updates for Wednesday
Python 3.14.0 released
[$] Progress on defeating lifetime-end pointer zapping
[$] Highlights from systemd v258: part two
Notes from the 2025 Git Contributor's Summit
Security updates for Tuesday
U-Boot v2025.10 released
[$] 6.18 merge window, part 1
[$] Next steps for BPF support in the GNU toolchain
Four new stable kernels
Security updates for Monday
OpenSSH 10.1 released
[$] A look at the Robot Operating System
Security updates for Friday
Ian Kelling is the new FSF president
[$] Kernel hackers at Cauldron, 2025 edition
Seven new stable kernels
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 2, 2025
Alpine Linux plans /usr merge
[$] Fedora floats AI-assisted contributions policy
Security updates for Wednesday
OpenSUSE Leap 16 released
Radicle 1.5.0 released
[$] Linting Rust code in the kernel
Security updates for Tuesday
Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel
[$] Development statistics for 6.17
NixOS moderation team resigns
[$] Managing encrypted filesystems with dirlock
Security updates for Monday
F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree
The 6.17 kernel has been released
Onward
[$] Jumping into openSUSE Leap 16
Security updates for Friday
Cuni: Tracing JITs in the real world @ CPython Core Dev Sprint
[$] The phaseout of the mmap() file operation
Fedora considers an AI-tool policy
Four stable kernels released
Security updates for Thursday
PostgreSQL 18 released
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 25, 2025
[$] Canceling asynchronous Rust
[$] CHERI with a Linux on top
Security updates for Wednesday
Open Infrastructure is Not Free: A Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship
[$] An unstable Debian stable update
Security updates for Tuesday
RPM 6.0.0 released
[$] Revocable references for transient devices
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 6.17-rc7
[$] Multiple kernels on a single system
Four Friday stable kernel updates
[$] Blender 4.5 brings big changes
Security updates for Friday
[$] Extending the time-slice-extension discussion
Rust 1.90.0 released
Security updates for Thursday
Bluefin LTS released
Tails 7.0 released
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 18, 2025
GNOME 49 released
Jackson: tag2upload in the first month of forky
Libxml2 2.15.0 released
[$] Typst: a possible LaTeX replacement
Systemd v258 released
[$] Providing support for Windows 10 refugees
Security updates for Wednesday
[$] Comparing Rust to Carbon
Firefox 143.0 released
Another npm supply-chain attack
Security updates for Tuesday
Linux Plumbers Conference registration open
[$] Fighting human trafficking with self-contained applications
Varnish 8.0.0 and bonus project news
[$] New kernel tools: wprobes, KStackWatch, and KFuzzTest
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 6.17-rc6
[$] Creating a healthy kernel subsystem community
Security updates for Friday
Six stable kernels patching the VMScape Spectre variant
[$] A policy for Link tags
Security updates for Thursday
How FOSS Projects Handle Legal Takedown Requests (F-Droid)
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 11, 2025
[$] How many ways are there to configure the Linux kernel?
OpenSUSE disables bcachefs
[$] KDE launches its own distribution (again)
Three decades in kernelland
Security updates for Wednesday
A path toward removal of kernel high-memory support
A new pile of stable kernels
Anaconda WebUI: progress update and roadmap
[$] Introducing Space Grade Linux
Security updates for Tuesday