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Samba 4.24.0 released
GNOME 50 released
Local-privilege escalation in snapd
Fedora Asahi Remix 43 released
[$] BPF comes to io_uring at last
Security updates for Wednesday
The Sashiko patch-review system
FSFE reports trouble with payment provider
[$] Fedora ponders a "sandbox" technology lifecycle
Security updates for Tuesday
Marknote 1.5 released
Debian Project Leader election underway
GIMP 3.2 released
[$] A safer kmalloc() for 7.0
Security updates for Monday
ECMAScript proposal updates @ 2026-03
Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc4
Stable kernels for Friday the 13th
An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills
A set of AppArmor vulnerabilities
[$] More timing side-channels for the page cache
Security updates for Friday
Why Your AI Extractor Fails on .msg Emails (and How to Fix Decoding)
[$] Practical uses for a null filesystem
Two stable kernels for Thursday
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 12, 2026
[$] California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions
Introducing Moonforge: a Yocto-based Linux OS (Igalia Blog)
Open Education and the Shared Roots of Openness
[$] HTTPS certificates in the age of quantum computing
Security updates for Wednesday
[$] Disabling Python's lazy imports from the command line
SUSE may be for sale, again
[$] Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions
Security updates for Tuesday
OSI Adopts SPDX IDs for License URLs
Help Shape the Research Agenda for Open Technology
[$] Inspecting and modifying Python types during type checking
digiKam 9.0.0 released
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc3
Huston: Revisiting time
[$] Fedora shares strategy updates and "weird research university" model
OpenWrt 25.12.0 released
Security updates for Friday
Rust 1.94.0 released
A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines (grith.ai)
[$] The relicensing of chardet
Buildroot 2026.02 released
New stable kernels to address build failures
[$] Reconsidering the multi-generational LRU
Security updates for Thursday
OSI Joins Apereo Foundation in Calling on Higher Education to Reclaim Its Digital Future
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 5, 2026
New feature: Lazy loading via attribute for video & audio
Seven new stable Linux kernels
Security updates for Wednesday
[$] Magit and Majutsu: discoverable version-control
CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements (404 Media)
[$] Free software needs free tools
Garrett: To update blobs or not to update blobs
Security updates for Tuesday
Google Summer of Code 2026: Advancing Open Source Through Mentorship
[$] The ongoing quest for atomic buffered writes
Høiland-Jørgensen: The inner workings of TCP zero-copy
Texinfo 7.3 released
[$] The exploitation paradox in open source
Motorola announces a partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation
Gram 1.0 released
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc2
groff 1.24.0 released
On the Streams Standard
[$] The troubles with Boolean inversion in Python
Two new stable kernels, possible regression
Security updates for Friday
[$] IIIF: images and visual presentations for the web
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 26, 2026
Support period lengthened for the 6.6, 6.12, and 6.18 kernels
[$] No hardware memory isolation for BPF programs
[$] An effort to secure the Network Time Protocol
MetaBrainz mourns the loss of Robert Kaye
Security updates for Wednesday
Restarting LibreOffice Online
GNU Awk 5.4.0 released
Firefox 148.0 released
[$] As ye clone(), so shall ye AUTOREAP
Security updates for Tuesday
GNU Octave 11.1.0 released
[$] The second half of the 7.0 merge window
Vlad: Weston 15.0 is here: Lua shells, Vulkan rendering, and a smoother display stack
Security updates for Monday
The Ladybird browser project shifts to Rust
[$] Lessons on attracting new contributors from 30 years of PostgreSQL
Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc1
[$] Open-source Discord alternatives
The Book of Remind
Security updates for Friday
Seven stable kernels for Thursday
[$] Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces
openSUSE governance proposal advances
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 19, 2026
[$] More accurate congestion notification for TCP
Fedora now available in Syria
An Asahi Linux progress report
An update to the malicious crate notification policy (Rust Blog)
Security updates for Wednesday
[$] Do androids dream of accepted pull requests?
Plasma 6.6.0 released
An update on upki
Security updates for Tuesday
[$] Open source security in spite of AI
Four stable kernels to fix problematic commit
[$] Compact formats for debugging—and more
Four stable kernels for Monday
Security updates for Monday
Vim 9.2 released
New delegation for Debian's data protection team
[$] The first half of the 7.0 merge window
[$] Open-source mapping for disaster response
Security updates for Friday
[$] Poisoning scraperbots with iocaine
[$] The reverting of revocable
Debian DFSG Team announces new dashboard and queue processes
A single stable kernel for Thursday
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 12, 2026
How to Mount a BitLocker Drive on Linux at Login
Linux man pages 6.17 released
From Brussels to the World: Open Source as a Global Asset
[$] Evolving Git for the next decade
postmarketOS FOSDEM 2026 and hackathon recap
Stable kernels for Wednesday
Security updates for Wednesday
Dave Farber RIP
GTK hackfest, 2026 edition (GTK Development Blog)
[$] FOSS in times of war, scarcity, and AI
Security updates for Tuesday
In Memory of David J. Farber: Internet Pioneer, Mentor, and Internet Society Leader
Europe’s Open Source Opportunity: our vision for the EU Open Digital Ecosystems strategy
[$] Development statistics for 6.19
Offpunk 3.0 released
Debian's tag2upload considered stable
Security updates for Monday
The 6.19 kernel has been released
An in-kernel machine-learning library
Six stable kernels for Friday
Ardour 9.0 released
[$] Kernel control-flow-integrity support comes to GCC
Linux from Scratch to drop System V versions
Security updates for Friday
Open Source at the Heart of Europe’s (and the World’s) Digital Future
[$] Modernizing swapping: the end of the swap map
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 5, 2026
The Wrong Work, Done Beautifully
[$] API changes for the futex robust list
[$] Sigil simplifies creating and editing EPUBs
LibreOffice 26.2 released
Security updates for Wednesday
[$] The future for Tyr
Security updates for Tuesday
Git 2.53.0 released
Ensuring the Long-Term Sustainability of ClearlyDefined: OSI and AboutCode Sign MoU
[$] Modernizing swapping: introducing the swap table
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc8
[$] Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice
The Award for Excellence in Open Source goes to Greg Kroah-Hartman
Three stable kernel updates
Security updates for Friday
OSI Joins OpenForum Europe and the Open Knowledge Foundation to Officially Launch Open Technology Research Initiative
A proposed governance structure for openSUSE
[$] Sub-schedulers for sched_ext
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 29, 2026
Mourning Didier Spaier
OSI pauses 2026 board election cycle
[$] Open source for phones: postmarketOS
2026 OSI Elections Update
PC Gamer on the scx_horoscope scheduler
[$] Who should vote in Fedora elections?
Security updates for Wednesday
A critical GnuPG security update
The GNU C Library is moving from Sourceware
[$] Implicit arguments for BPF kfuncs
Xfwl4: the roadmap for a Xfce Wayland compositor
Security updates for Tuesday
[$] Fedora and GPG 2.5
Stenberg: The end of the curl bug-bounty program
Security updates for Monday
Open Source Software, Public Policy, and the Stakes of Getting It Right
Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc7
GNU C Library 2.43 released
[$] Filesystem medley: EROFS, NTFS, and XFS
GNU Guix 1.5.0 released
Two new stable kernels for Friday
Security updates for Friday
[$] Linux Kernel Runtime Guard reaches its 1.0 release
30 years of ReactOS
Rust 1.93.0 released
Security updates for Thursday
Top 50 Open Source Conferences in 2026
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 22, 2026
[$] Cleanup on aisle fsconfig()
Pandas 3.0 released
[$] Responses to gpg.fail
Security updates for Wednesday
Ryabitsev: Tracking kernel development with korgalore
Remote authentication bypass in telnetd
Mozilla introduces Firefox Nightly RPM package repository
[$] An alternate path for immutable distributions
Security updates for Tuesday
The end of OzLabs
Haas: Who contributed to PostgreSQL development in 2025?
[$] Task-level io_uring restrictions
Wine 11.0 released
Two new stable kernels for Monday
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc6
Four stable kernels for the weekend
[$] A free and open-source rootkit for Linux
Security updates for Friday
A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9 (Project Zero)
Running Debian on the OpenWrt One (Collabora Blog)
Forgejo 14.0 released
[$] Removing a pointer dereference from slab allocations
A note for MXroute users
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 15, 2026
The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography
[$] Format-specific compression with OpenZL
[$] Debian discusses removing GTK 2 for forky
Radicle 1.6.0 released
Security updates for Wednesday
Carrying Open Collaboration into the Year Ahead
[$] A high-level quality-of-service interface
Firefox 147 released
Security updates for Tuesday
[$] Asciinema: making movies at the command-line
Security updates for Monday
Running Ruby in Podman (When rbenv install Fails on Apple Silicon)
The LSFMM+BPF 2026 call for proposals is out
Four stable kernel updates
Evans: A data model for Git (and other docs updates)
[$] READ_ONCE(), WRITE_ONCE(), but not for Rust
Security updates for Friday
Fedora Linux 43 election results
Gentoo looks back on 2025
[$] SFC v. VIZIO: who can enforce the GPL?
[$] GPLv2 and installation requirements
Two new stable kernels
Open Policy Alliance Welcomes the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund as New Member
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 8, 2026
European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
[$] Lessons from creating a gaming-oriented scheduler
[$] 2025 Linux and free software timeline
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 199 released
Google will now only release Android source code twice a year (Android Authority)
Security updates for Wednesday
[$] Questions for the Technical Advisory Board
[$] The difficulty of safe path traversal
Manjaro 26.0 released
Security updates for Tuesday
[$] Predictions for the new year
GNU ddrescue 1.30 released
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc4
Kroah-Hartman: Linux kernel security work
6.18.3 stable kernel released
Security updates for Friday
Security updates for Thursday
Shadow-utils 4.19.0 released
Security updates for Wednesday
Stenberg: No strcpy either
Security updates for Tuesday
Graham: [KDE] Highlights from 2025
Security updates for Monday
Quick and Dirty Admin Pages with Rails scaffold_controller
Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc3
[$] 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
Top Open Source licenses in 2025
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
[$] Best practices for linux-next
KDE Gear 25.12 released
Security updates for Friday
Celebrating Generosity and Growth in the OSI Community
Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS released
Rust 1.92.0 released
[$] 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
Open Source Without Borders: Reflections from COSCon’25
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
[$] An open seat on the TAB
End Point Is a Top Cloud Consulting Company on Techreviewer
Six stable kernels for the weekend
DPGA’s Annual Members Meeting: Advancing Open Source & DPGs for the Public Good
[$] Eventual Rust in CPython
Security updates for Friday
Using ActiveSupport::ExecutionContext to improve Rails logging
Alpine Linux 3.23.0 released
[$] The beginning of the 6.19 merge window
Patents and Open Source: Understanding the Risks and Available Solutions
[$] 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
OFA Symposium 2025 and the Launch of the Open Technology Research Network (OTRN)
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
Build a Smarter Telegram Bot: Integrating a RAG Pipeline for FAQ Answering
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