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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

[$] 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

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

[$] 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

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

[$] Bringing restartable sequences out of the niche

Security updates for Thursday

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 21, 2025

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

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

[$] 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

[$] 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

Hughes: LVFS Sustainability Plan

[$] StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers

[$] The rest of the 6.17 merge window

Security updates for Monday

Kernel prepatch 6.17-rc1

Debian 13 ("trixie") released

Some turbulence at CalyxOS

[$] Treating Python's debugging woes

Security updates for Friday

[$] 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

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

[$] Python performance myths and fairy tales

Security updates for Tuesday

[$] Debian grapples with offensive packages, again

Security updates for Monday

[$] 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