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Mastodon 4.5 released
Freedesktop.org now hosts the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
[$] Toward fast, containerized, user-space filesystems
Must-See Recordings Now Available
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 6, 2025
Removing XSLT from Chromium
Help us improve the EU Cyber Resilience Act Standards!
LXQt 2.3.0 released
[$] A security model for systemd
OCI Runtime Specification 1.3 adds FreeBSD
Security updates for Wednesday
State of the Source at ATO 2025: State of the “Open” AI
State of the Source at ATO 2025: AI and Data Governance
Incus 6.18 released
[$] Julia 1.12 brings progress on standalone binaries and more
Security updates for Tuesday
CHERIoT 1.0 released
State of the Source at ATO 2025: Cybersecurity
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
State of the Source at ATO 2025: Sustaining the Open Source Ecosystem
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc4
Three stable kernel updates
Debian to require Rust as of May 2026
[$] Mergiraf: syntax-aware merging for Git
State of the Source at ATO 2025: Licensing 201
Ubuntu introduces architecture variants
Security updates for Friday
Rust 1.91.0 released
The Open Source Community and U.S. Public Policy
[$] 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
[$] Debian splits ftpmaster team
Seven stable kernels for Wednesday
Security updates for Wednesday
Adventures in Vibe-Coding with Replit
[$] Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation
Fedora Linux 43 released (Fedora Magazine)
Security updates for Tuesday
[$] BPF signing LSM hook change rejected
Open Source Initiative now accepting your application for Executive Director
Python Software Foundation withdraws security-related grant proposal
Rust Coreutils 0.3.0 released
Security updates for Monday
Valgrind 3.26.0 released
Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc3
Typst 0.14 released
Security updates for Friday
[$] 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
Participate in the 2026 State of Open Source Survey
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
A Preact Web App Without npm Build
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
Creating Agentic AI Applications
[$] Debian Technical Committee overrides systemd change
Four new stable kernels
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc1
Site update: web-features now included + new feature list functionality
Open Source Initiative Executive Director search begins
[$] 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
Open Source Congress 2025 and Stakeholder Day: building a global agenda for Open Source
[$] Progress on defeating lifetime-end pointer zapping
[$] 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
[$] A look at the Robot Operating System
Security updates for Friday
Ian Kelling is the new FSF president
Hacktoberfest and the OSI: Growing Open Source adoption
[$] 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
[$] Managing encrypted filesystems with dirlock
Security updates for Monday
F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree
Making Blog Search Smarter with LLMs and Open WebUI
.NET 10 is Coming: What's New, and Why It Matters
The 6.17 kernel has been released
Onward
[$] 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
Internet Society Announces New Internet Hall of Fame Inductees
[$] Comparing Rust to Carbon
Firefox 143.0 released
Another npm supply-chain attack
Security updates for Tuesday
Linux Plumbers Conference registration open
[$] Fighting human trafficking with self-contained applications
Varnish 8.0.0 and bonus project news
[$] New kernel tools: wprobes, KStackWatch, and KFuzzTest
Keep changing: How Open Source has to continually evolve
OSI charts next phase for the organization with executive director search
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 6.17-rc6
Electron 38.0.0 | Electron
[$] 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 to Download All Videos from a YouTube Channel with yt-dlp
[$] How many ways are there to configure the Linux kernel?
OpenSUSE disables bcachefs
[$] KDE launches its own distribution (again)
Three decades in kernelland
Report from OSS EU 2025 and AI_dev: What’s next for OSAID
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
[$] Introducing Space Grade Linux
Security updates for Tuesday
npm debug and chalk packages compromised (Aikido)
[$] Testing the 2-in-1 Framework 12 Laptop
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 6.17-rc5
Firefox to end 32-bit Linux support in 2026
[$] Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism
Security updates for Friday
No more 32-bit Firefox support
Seven new stable kernels
[$] The dependency tracker for complex deadlock detection
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 4, 2025
Home Assistant 2025.9 released
Niri 25.08 released
Linux From Scratch 12.4 released
[$] Tracking trust with Rust in the kernel
Announcing the Rust Innovation Lab
New ELF specification for public review
Security updates for Wednesday
[$] Removing Guix from Debian
The hidden vulnerabilities of open source (FastCode)
Security updates for Tuesday
GNOME loses another executive director
[$] The future of 32-bit support in the kernel
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 6.17-rc4
Bcachefs goes to "externally maintained"
[$] The challenge of maintaining curl
[$] Highlights from systemd v258: part one
Security updates for Friday
Python: The Documentary
Seven stable kernels for Thursday
Deep Dive: Data Governance brings world-class experts together
[$] Changing GNOME technical governance?
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 28, 2025
Rosenzweig: Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end
[$] The tangled web of XSLT browser support
GhostBSD 25.02 released
[$] The need to reliably preserve our community history
Security updates for Wednesday
[$] Shadow-stack control in clone3()
Security updates for Tuesday
New restrictions on Android app sideloading
PyCon US 2025 recap and recordings
[$] Linux's missing CRL infrastructure
Report: the state of commercial open source
Security updates for Monday
Using esbuild and pnpm to Set Up Frontend Asset Bundling in an ASP.NET Core Web App
Kernel prepatch 6.17-rc3
Stable kernel 6.16.3
FFmpeg 8.0 released
[$] The "impossibly small" Microdot web framework
Security updates for Friday
Arch Linux recent service outages
New resource on AI & Open Source for U.S. policymakers
[$] Bringing restartable sequences out of the niche
In Memory of Liane Tarouco: Brazilian Internet Pioneer and Educator
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 21, 2025
Announcing End Point Ecommerce, Our New Open Source Project
Zig version 0.15.1
Adding stubble to Ubuntu's generic Arm64 Desktop ISOs
Three stable kernels for Wednesday
[$] Python, tail calls, and performance
LibreOffice 25.8 released
[$] Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie
Security updates for Wednesday
Preventing domain-resurrection attacks (PyPI blog)
Firefox 142.0 released
[$] The Koka programming language
Security updates for Tuesday
The State of Python 2025
Git v2.51 released
[$] Kexec handover and the live update orchestrator
Security updates for Monday
Risks of Paper Checks for Secure Transactions
Kernel prepatch 6.17-rc2
Hashimoto: We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application
Five Friday stable kernels
[$] Finding a successor to the FHS
Security updates for Friday
Using Razor templates to render HTML emails in ASP.NET Core
[$] Simpler management of the huge zero folio
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 14, 2025
NGINX adds native support for ACME protocol
Go 1.25 released
Syncthing 2.0 released
[$] Indico: event management using Python
Security updates for Wednesday
Designing the Built-in AI Web APIs
Vector Search for the End Point Blog
[$] Possible paths for signing BPF programs
[$] Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian
Radicle 1.3.0 released
Security updates for Tuesday
Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 released
White House releases AI Action Plan, includes Open Source
Hughes: LVFS Sustainability Plan
[$] StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers
[$] The rest of the 6.17 merge window
Security updates for Monday
Processing payments with Authorize.Net in a Blazor app
Kernel prepatch 6.17-rc1
Debian 13 ("trixie") released
Some turbulence at CalyxOS
[$] Treating Python's debugging woes
Security updates for Friday
Announcing Our 30th Anniversary!
[$] On the use of LLM assistants for kernel development
Rust 1.89 released
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 7, 2025
Building Offline-Capable Rails Apps Using Service Workers and Turbo
Native NVIDIA support for AlmaLinux OS 9 and 10
Almeida: a brief introduction on how GPU drivers work
[$] Don't fear the TPM
Tuba v0.10.0 released
A kbuild and kconfig maintainer change
Security updates for Wednesday
Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 released
[$] Improving control over transparent huge page use
The 2025 Maintainers Summit call for topics
Case study: enhancing SBOMs with cdsbom at the Linux Foundation
[$] Python performance myths and fairy tales
Security updates for Tuesday
A Rusty Web? An Excursion of a Perl Guy into Rust Land
[$] Debian grapples with offensive packages, again
Security updates for Monday
Integrating Grape with Sidekiq for Asynchronous Processing in Rails
[$] The NNCPNET email network
More malware uploaded to Arch Linux AUR (Linuxiac)
Security updates for Friday
Three more stable kernel updates
[$] A look at the SilverBullet note-taking application
Garrett: Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you
[$] 6.17 Merge window, part 1
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 31, 2025
We need a European Sovereign Tech Fund (GitHub blog)
[$] Extending run-time verification for the kernel
[$] On becoming a Python contributor
Security updates for Wednesday
HeliumOS 10 released
[$] A proxy-execution baby step
GNU C Library 2.42 released
Security updates for Tuesday
Help for OpenPrinting needed
[$] Some 6.16 development statistics
[$] Smaller Fedora quality team proposes cuts
Security updates for Monday
LWN is back
The 6.16 kernel is out
[$] Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs
Security updates for Friday
Wayback 0.1 released
Four new stable kernels
[$] Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 24, 2025
Discovering and recovering from PostgreSQL corruption on Matrix.org
[$] Understanding Debian's security processes
An update on Home Assistant's Android app
Prokop: What to expect from Debian/trixie
[$] Deep immutability for Python
Security updates for Wednesday
Firefox 141.0 released
Catanzaro: Fedora must (carefully) embrace Flathub
Google launches OSS Rebuild
[$] QUIC for the kernel