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Wednesday December 3, 2025. 05:41 PM
The Django Python web framework project has announced the release of Django 6.0 including many new features, as can be seen in the release notes. Some highlights include template partials for modularizing templates, a flexible task framework for running background tasks, a...
Over time, many Linux users wind up with a collection of aliases, shell scripts, and makefiles to run simple commands (or a series of commands) that are often used, but challenging to remember and annoying to type out at length. The just command runner is a Rust-based...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (containerd, mako, and xen), Fedora (forgejo, nextcloud, openbao, rclone, restic, and tigervnc), Oracle (firefox, kernel, libtiff, libxml2, and postgresql), SUSE (libecpg6, lightdm-kde-greeter, python-cbor2,...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 5.4.302 stable kernel: This is the LAST 5.4.y release. It is now end-of-life and should not be used by anyone, anymore. As of this point in time, there are 1539 documented unfixed CVEs for this kernel branch, and that...
Tuesday December 2, 2025. 04:37 PM
Let's Encrypt has announced that it will be reducing the validity period of its certificates from 90 days to 45 days by 2028: Most users of Let's Encrypt who automatically issue certificates will not have to make any changes. However, you should verify that your automation...
FreeBSD 15.0 has been released. Notable changes in this release include a new method for installing the base system using the pkg package manager, an update to OpenZFS 2.4.0-rc4, native support for the inotify(2) interface, and the addition of Open Container Initiative (OCI)...
The designers of the Zig programming language have been working to find a suitable design for asynchronous code for some time. Zig is a carefully minimalist language, and its initial design for asynchronous I/O did not fit well with its other features. Now, the project has ...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (gnutls, libpng, mingw-python3, python-spotipy, source-to-image, unbound, and webkitgtk), Mageia (libpng), SUSE (bash-git-prompt, gitea-tea, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, kernel, openssh, python, and shadowsocks-v2ray-plugin,...
Monday December 1, 2025. 10:11 PM
There are many possible programmer mistakes that are not caught by the minimal checks specified by the C language; among those is passing an array of the wrong size to a function. A recent attempt to add some safety around array parameters within the crypto layer involved...
Linus Torvalds released the 6.18 kernel as expected on November 30, closing the last full development cycle of 2025. It was another busy cycle, featuring a record number of developers. The time has come for a look at where the code came from for this kernel release, but also ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind9.18, cups, gimp, ipa, kernel, libssh, mingw-expat, openssl, pcs, sssd, tigervnc, and valkey), Debian (gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect, mistral-dashboard, pagure, python-mistralclient, pytorch, qtbase-opensource-src, sogo,...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.17.10, 6.12.60, and 6.6.118 stable kernels. As usual, each contains a number of important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade.
Linus has released the 6.18 kernel, as expected. So I'll have to admit that I'd have been happier with slightly less bugfixing noise in this last week of the release, but while there's a few more fixes than I would hope for, there was nothing that made me feel like this...
Version 25.11 of the NixOS distribution has been released. 'The 25.11 release was made possible due to the efforts of 2742 contributors, who authored 59430 commits since the previous release'. Changes include 7,002 new packages, GNOME 49, LLVM 21, a new COSMIC desktop...
Sunday November 30, 2025. 04:58 PM
The prizrak.me blog is carrying an introduction to the Landlock security module. Landlock shines when an application has a predictable set of files or directories it needs. For example, a web server could restrict itself to accessing only /var/www/html and /tmp. Unlike...
Friday November 28, 2025. 03:55 PM
Security updates have been issued by Debian (krita and tryton-server), Oracle (bind9.18, ipa, kernel, libssh, redis, redis:7, sqlite, sssd, and vim), Slackware (cups), SUSE (containerd, cups, curl, dovecot24, git-bug, gitea-tea, glib2, grub2, himmelblau, java-25-openjdk,...
Thursday November 27, 2025. 03:36 PM
Security updates have been issued by Debian (kdeconnect, libssh, and samba), Fedora (7zip, docker-buildkit, and docker-buildx), Oracle (bind, buildah, cups, delve and golang, expat, firefox, gimp, go-rpm-macros, haproxy, kernel, lasso, libsoup, libtiff, mingw-expat, openssl, ...
Wednesday November 26, 2025. 05:49 PM
KDE's Plasma team has announced that KDE Plasma will drop X11 session support with Plasma 6.8: The Plasma X11 session will be supported by KDE into early 2027. We cannot provide a specific date, as we're exploring the possibility of shipping some extra bug-fix releases for P...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, binutils, delve and golang, expat, firefox, haproxy, kernel, libsoup3, libssh, libtiff, openssh, openssl, pam, podman, python-kdcproxy, shadow-utils, squid, thunderbird, vim, xorg-x11-server-Xwayland, and zziplib), Debian ...
Tuesday November 25, 2025. 03:46 PM
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, firefox, go-rpm-macros, kernel, kernel-rt, podman, and thunderbird), Debian (erlang, python-gevent, and r-cran-gh), Fedora (buildah, chromium, k9s, kubernetes1.33, kubernetes1.34, podman,...
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