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Tuesday July 8, 2025. 08:28 PM
Versions v2.43.7, v2.44.4, v2.45.4, v2.46.4, v2.47.3, v2.48.2, v2.49.1 and v2.50.1 of the Git source-code management system have been released. 'This is a set of coordinated security fix releases. Please update at your earliest convenience'. See the announcement for details; ...
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Version 140 of the Thunderbird mail client has been released. Notable features include 'dark message mode' to adapt message content to dark mode, the ability to easily transfer desktop settings to the mobile Thunderbird client, experimental support for Microsoft Exchange, as ...
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The kernel project, for many years, lacked a formal testing setup; it was often joked that testing was the project's main reason for keeping users around. While many types of kernel testing can only be done in the presence of specific hardware, there are other parts of the...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (djvulibre and slurm-wlm), Red Hat (apache-commons-vfs, container-tools:rhel8, kernel, kernel-rt, podman, python3, rsync, socat, and sudo), SUSE (apache2, helm-mirror, incus, kernel, openssl-3, python-Django, and systemd), and...
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Monday July 7, 2025. 11:04 PM
The U-Boot universal bootloader project has announced the release of version 2025.07. It has multiple new features including 'uthreads' (inspired by the 'bthreads' coroutines in the barebox bootloader), exFAT support, new architecture and SoC support and improvements to...
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The GNU project's Bourne Again SHell (Bash) has released version 5.3, with some significant new features, including some from the associated Readline 8.3 release, which provides command-line editing and other features for Bash and lots of other programs. Bash 5.3 has a 'new...
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Niri is a relatively new Rust-based compositor for Wayland with a different take on tiling window management: windows are placed onscreen in an 'infinite' row that can expand beyond the bounds of the visible workspace. It is not a full-blown desktop environment, but niri may ...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (thunderbird and xmedcon), Fedora (darktable, mbedtls, sudo, and yarnpkg), Mageia (catdoc and php), Red Hat (java-1.8.0-ibm, kernel, python-setuptools, python3, python3.11, python3.12, python3.9, socat, sudo, tigervnc, webkit2gtk3, ...
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The 6.16-rc5 kernel prepatch has been released. Quoth Linus: 'Please keep testing, but this all feels fairly regular for this phase of the release'.
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Sunday July 6, 2025. 08:29 PM
The 6.15.5, 6.12.36, 6.6.96, and 6.1.143 stable kernels have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
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Friday July 4, 2025. 03:18 PM
The pedalboard library for Python is aimed at audio processing of various sorts, from converting between formats to adding audio effects. The maintainer of pedalboard, Peter Sobot, gave a talk about audio in Python at PyCon US 2025, which was held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ...
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 9.0, container-tools:rhel8, ghostscript, git-lfs, grafana-pcp, pandoc, perl-FCGI:0.78, ruby:2.5, ruby:3.3, tigervnc, and varnish:6), Debian (jpeg-xl and mediawiki), Fedora (darktable, guacamole-server, mingw-gdk-pixbuf,...
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Thursday July 3, 2025. 10:40 PM
Collin Richards has announced version 0.0.1 of tmux-rs, a port of the tmux terminal multiplexer to Rust. For the [past] 6 months or so I've been quietly porting tmux from C to Rust. I've recently reached a big milestone: the code base is now 100% (unsafe) Rust. I'd like to...
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The kernel project makes a strong promise to its users: the kernel ABI will not be changed in ways that break user-space code. The occasional failure notwithstanding, kernel developers do try to live up to that promise. They are handicapped by one little problem, though:...
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 9.0, aardvark-dns, apache-commons-beanutils, bootc, buildah, corosync, delve and golang, exiv2, expat, firefox, ghostscript, git, git-lfs, gnutls, grafana, grafana-pcp, grub2, gstreamer1, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free,...
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Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Kernel features from Python; i686 in Fedora; Kernel development with LLMs; Rust drivers; Load balancing with machine learning; Transparent huge pages. Briefs: Bcachefs removal; Coccinelle for Rust; Netdev Foundation;...
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Wednesday July 2, 2025. 05:32 PM
Debian's Bananas team has put out a call for people with Apple M1 or M2 systems to help test Debian on those machines: The Bananas Team has set up an installer at with images for GNOME, KDE and console installations. While we'd like to build an actual Debian installer...
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The Netdev Foundation, which is 'a user-led effort under the supervision of the Linux Foundation, focused on financially supporting Linux networking development', has announced its existence. The initial motivation was to move the NIPA testing outside of Meta, so that more ...
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Every release of the Linux kernel has lots of new features, many of which are accessible from user space. Usually, though, the GNU C Library (glibc) and tools that access the Linux user-space API lag behind the kernel releases. Geoffrey Thomas showed how Python programs can...
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The copyleft-next project is an effort to develop a next-generation copyleft license; it was covered here back in 2013 (as well as in 2015 and 2021). The project has stalled in recent years, but now Richard Fontana and Bradley Kuhn have announced a new effort to push...
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