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Alpine Linux systems currently offline
[$] Bug-monitoring expectations and Fedora GNOME packages
NetHack 5.0.0 released
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc2
Eden: NHS goes to war against open source
[$] Version-controlled databases using Prolly trees
Security updates for Friday
[$] Restartable sequences, TCMalloc, and Hyrum's Law
GCC 16.1 released
Seven new stable kernels for Thursday
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 30, 2026
A security bug in AEAD sockets
[$] Python packaging council approved
Security review of Plasma Login Manager (SUSE Security Team Blog)
Security updates for Wednesday
Remembering Seth Nickell
Fedora Linux 44 has been released
[$] Strawberry is ripe for managing music collections
In Memoriam: Tomáš Kalibera
All FOSDEM 2026 videos are online
Security updates for Tuesday
pip 26.1 released
[$] The rest of the 7.1 merge window
Four new stable kernels for Monday
pgBackRest is no longer maintained
[$] Zig explores structured concurrency
The future of AI in Ubuntu
Niri 26.04 released
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc1
GnuPG 2.5.19 released
[$] On pages and folios
Security updates for Friday
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS released
[$] Famfs, FUSE, and BPF
Security updates for Thursday
Four stable kernel updates
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 23, 2026
[$] Dependency-cooldown discussions warm up
[$] One Sized trait does not fit all
LilyPond 2.26.0 released
Four stable kernels for Wednesday
Security updates for Wednesday
Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports
Firefox: The zero-days are numbered
Fedora Verified: a proposal to recognize Fedora contributor status
[$] Using LLMs to find Python C-extension bugs
Firefox 150 released
Security updates for Tuesday
Git 2.54.0 released
Arch Linux now has a reproducible container image
[$] Digging into drama at The Document Foundation
Debian Project Leader Election 2026 results
Security updates for Monday
Seven stable kernels for Saturday
[$] A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm
[$] The 7.0 scheduler regression that wasn't
Security updates for Friday
Rust 1.95.0 released
Forgejo 15.0 released
[$] The first half of the 7.1 merge window
KDE Gear 26.04 released
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 16, 2026
FSF clarifies its stance on AGPLv3 additional terms
[$] Forking Vim to avoid LLM-generated code
Security updates for Wednesday
Zig 0.16.0 released
[$] Tagging music with MusicBrainz Picard
OpenSSL 4.0.0 released
Security updates for Tuesday
[$] Development statistics for the 7.0 kernel
[$] A build system aimed at license compliance
Servo now on crates.io
Security updates for Monday
The 7.0 kernel has been released
A set of Saturday stable kernel updates
[$] Removing read-only transparent huge pages for the page cache
Security updates for Friday
[$] A flood of useful security reports
Relicensing versus license compatibility (FSF Blog)
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 9, 2026
[$] Ripping CDs and converting audio with fre:ac
[$] An API for handling arithmetic overflow
Nix privilege escalation security advisory
Security updates for Wednesday
[$] Sharing stories on Scuttlebutt
Security updates for Tuesday
Introducing the FreeBSD laptop integration testing project
[$] Protecting against TPM interposer attacks
6.6.133 stable kernel released
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc7
Hackers breached the European Commission (The Next Web)
[$] Ubuntu's GRUBby plans
No kidding: Gentoo GNU/Hurd
Security updates for Friday
SFC: What the FCC router ban means for FOSS
[$] IPC medley: message-queue peeking, io_uring, and bus1
Exelbierd: What's actually in a Sashiko review?
OpenSSH 10.3 released
Security updates for Thursday
New stable kernels for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 2, 2026
Turbulence at The Document Foundation
[$] Pandoc: a workhorse for document conversion
Servo 0.0.6 released
Security updates for Wednesday
[$] The role of LLMs in patch review
[$] Objections to systemd age-attestation changes go overboard
Vulnerability Research Is Cooked (sockpuppet.org)
Security updates for Tuesday
SystemRescue 13.00 released
Rspamd version 4.0.0 released
[$] Rust's next-generation trait solver
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc6
[$] The many failures leading to the LiteLLM compromise
The telnyx packages on PyPI have been compromised
Stable kernel update to fix regression on LoongArch platform
Security updates for Friday
The forge is our new home (Fedora Community Blog)
[$] Vibe-coded ext4 for OpenBSD
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 26, 2026
[$] Collaboration for battling security incidents
Setting up a Tor Relay at National Taiwan Normal University (Tor Blog)
LibreQoS v2.0 released
[$] More efficient removal of pages from the direct map
Five new stable kernels
Security updates for Wednesday
Firefox 149.0 released
[$] A PHP license change is imminent
LiteLLM on PyPI is compromised
Down: Debunking zswap and zram myths
Krita 5.3.0 and 6.0.0 released
Security updates for Tuesday
[$] Tracking when BPF programs may sleep
Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc5
Security updates for Monday
b4 v0.15.0 released
Agama 19 released
[$] A truce in the Manjaro governance struggle
Security updates for Friday
Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps (Ars Technica)
Two new stable kernels
Radicle 1.7.0 released
[$] Development tools: Sashiko, b4 review, and API specification
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 19, 2026
[$] Cindy Cohn on privacy battles old and new
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
[$] A safer kmalloc() for 7.0
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc4
Stable kernels for Friday the 13th
An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills
A set of AppArmor vulnerabilities
[$] More timing side-channels for the page cache
Security updates for Friday
[$] Practical uses for a null filesystem
Two stable kernels for Thursday
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 12, 2026
[$] California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions
Introducing Moonforge: a Yocto-based Linux OS (Igalia Blog)
[$] 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
[$] Inspecting and modifying Python types during type checking
digiKam 9.0.0 released
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc3
Huston: Revisiting time
[$] 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
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 5, 2026
Seven new stable Linux kernels
Security updates for Wednesday
[$] Magit and Majutsu: discoverable version-control
CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements (404 Media)
[$] Free software needs free tools
Garrett: To update blobs or not to update blobs
Security updates for Tuesday
[$] The ongoing quest for atomic buffered writes
Høiland-Jørgensen: The inner workings of TCP zero-copy
Texinfo 7.3 released
[$] The exploitation paradox in open source
Motorola announces a partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation
Gram 1.0 released
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc2
groff 1.24.0 released
[$] 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
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 12, 2026
Linux man pages 6.17 released
[$] 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)
[$] FOSS in times of war, scarcity, and AI
Security updates for Tuesday
[$] 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
[$] Kernel control-flow-integrity support comes to GCC
Linux from Scratch to drop System V versions
Security updates for Friday
[$] Modernizing swapping: the end of the swap map
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 5, 2026
[$] 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
[$] Modernizing swapping: introducing the swap table
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc8
[$] 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
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
[$] Open source for phones: postmarketOS
PC Gamer on the scx_horoscope scheduler
[$] 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
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
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 22, 2026
[$] 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?