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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
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
Migrating from Legacy Networking to systemd-networkd on Ubuntu 24.04
AlmaLinux 10.1 released
[$] APT Rust requirement raises questions
Three stable kernel updates, two french hens, ...
Security updates for Monday
Open Source: A global commons to enable digital sovereignty
Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc7
Racket 9.0 released
Improving GCC Buffer Overflow Detection for C Flexible Array Members (Oracle)
The 2025 Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election
[$] Unpacking for Python comprehensions
PHP 8.5.0 released
Security updates for Friday
Racing karts on a Rust GPU kernel driver (Collabora blog)
[$] BPF and io_uring, two different ways
Security updates for Thursday
Open letter: Harnessing open source AI to advance digital sovereignty
[$] 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
[$] Pouring packages with Homebrew
Security updates for Tuesday
Sustaining Open Source: The Next 25 Years Depend on What We Do Together Now
Git 2.52.0 released
[$] 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
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