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Sunday August 10, 2025. 09:38 PM
Linus has released 6.17-rc1 and closed the merge window for this development cycle. Anyway, the merge window did end up looking fairly healthy, despite me having to go through a couple of bisections for trouble spots (one during travels with a laptop - not optimal, but...
The Debian Project has released its latest stable version, Debian 13 ('trixie'), which will be supported through 2030. This release includes GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, Xfce 4.20, Linux 6.12, GCC 14.2, Python 3.13, and systemd 257. This release contains over 14,100 new package...
Friday August 8, 2025. 07:25 PM
CalyxOS is an Android distribution that claims a focus on privacy and security. So when an announcement from the project begins by saying 'we want to assure you that we have no reason to believe the security of CalyxOS and its signing keys have been compromised', chances are ...
Debugging in Python is not like it is for some other languages, as there is no way to attach a debugger to a running program to try to diagnose its ills. Pablo Galindo Salgado noticed that when he started programming in Python ten years ago or so; it bugged him enough that...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gdk-pixbuf2, glibc, kernel, kernel-rt, libxml2, and opentelemetry-collector), Fedora (firefox, mingw-opencv, moby-engine, varnish, webkitgtk, xen, and yarnpkg), Oracle (firefox, gdk-pixbuf2, glibc, kernel, libblockdev, libxml2, ...
Thursday August 7, 2025. 05:23 PM
By some appearances, at least, the kernel community has been relatively insulated from the onslaught of AI-driven software-development tools. There has not been a flood of vibe-coded memory-management patches — yet. But kernel development is, in the end, software...
The release of Rust 1.89 has been announced. Changes this time include support for inferring the length of certain arrays, lint messages suggesting how to clarify potentially confusing uses of lifetime elision in function signatures, and improvements to the C ABI. The full...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (glibc, kernel, libxml2, python-requests, and python-setuptools), Debian (chromium), Fedora (chromium, firefox, gdk-pixbuf2, iputils, libsoup3, libssh, perl, perl-Devel-Cover, perl-PAR-Packer, polymake, and poppler), Gentoo...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Don't fear the TPM; Python performance; Offensive Debian packages; NNCPNET; 6.17 Merge window; Transparent huge pages; SilverBullet. Briefs: AUR malware; Secure boot; kbuild and kconfig maintenance; GPU drivers; NVIDIA on ...
Wednesday August 6, 2025. 07:34 PM
The AlmaLinux project has announced the availability of packages to enable native NVIDIA driver support, including CUDA and Secure Boot, for AlmaLinux 9 and 10. When AlmaLinux started just 5 years ago, this wouldn't have been possible. With NVIDIA's open source version of th...
Daniel Almeida continues his look at graphics drivers on the Collabora blog. The starting point is to understand that a kernel-mode GPU driver connects a much larger UMD (user-mode driver) to the actual GPU. The UMD will actually implement APIs like Vulkan, OpenGL, OpenCL, ...
There is a great deal of misunderstanding, and some misinformation, about the Trusted Platform Module (TPM); to combat this, Debian developer Jonathan McDowell would like to clear the air and help users understand what it is good for, as well as what it's not. At DebConf25...
Version 0.10.0 of the Tuba fediverse client has been released. Notable changes in this release include a new post composer, an in-app web browser, search history, and many other refinements. See this thread for more details and highlights.
For eight years, Masahiro Yamada has been the sole maintainer of the kernel's build and configuration systems — two complex pieces of infrastructure that many people interact with, but few truly understand. Yamada has just stepped down from that position. Maintenance of...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel and python3.12-setuptools), Fedora (perl-Crypt-CBC and unbound), Gentoo (FontForge, GPL Ghostscript, Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS), and PAM), Oracle (gdk-pixbuf2, jq, kernel, mod_security, ncurses,...
Tuesday August 5, 2025. 09:24 PM
Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0, based on Debian 13 ('trixie'), has been released. Notable new features include snapshots for thick-provisioned LVM shared storage, affinity rules for high availability (HA) clusters, and a modernized mobile web interface for managing Proxmox...
The use of huge pages can significantly increase the performance of many workloads by reducing both memory-management overhead in the kernel and pressure on the system's translation lookaside buffer (TLB). The addition of transparent huge pages (THP) for the 2.6.38 kernel...
The call for topics for the 2025 Maintainers Summit has been posted. The Summit, to be held in Tokyo on December 10, will involve around 30 developers gathered to discuss development-process issues for the kernel. Anybody who is interested in attending is encouraged to post...
Antonio Cuni, who is a longtime Python performance engineer and PyPy developer, gave a presentation at EuroPython 2025 about 'Myths and fairy tales around Python performance' on the first day of the conference in Prague. As might be guessed from the title, he thinks that...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (python-requests), Fedora (mingw-libxslt), Red Hat (gdk-pixbuf2, jq, kernel, mod_security, ncurses, nodejs:22, opentelemetry-collector, python-setuptools, python3-setuptools, python3.12-setuptools, qt5-qt3d, redis, redis:6,...
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