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Wednesday September 17, 2025. 05:53 PM
Version 49 of the GNOME desktop environment has been released. Changes include new default video (Showtime) and PDF-viewing (Papers) applications, a number of calendar improvements, and updates to the Web, Maps, and Software applications.
Ian Jackson has published a blog post summarizing the tag2upload service's first month of handling uploads for the upcoming Debian 14 ('forky') release: We announced tag2upload's open beta in mid-July. That was in the middle of the the freeze for trixie, so usage was fairly...
Version 2.15.0 of libxml2 has been released. Notable changes include the disabling of Python bindings by default, using Doxygen to generate API documentation, as well as bringing HTML serialization and handling of character encodings more in line with the HTML5...
Typst is a program for document typesetting. It is especially well-suited to technical material incorporating elements such as mathematics, tables, and floating figures. It produces high-quality results, comparable to the gold standard, LaTeX, with a simpler markup system...
Systemd v258 has been released with a long list of new features and changes; slice units now have basic workload management features, quotas for tmpfs have been added, the 'systemctl start' command now has a verbose (-v) option, and more. This release also, finally,...
In October, consumer versions of Windows 10 will stop receiving security updates. Many users who would ordinarily move to the next version are blocked by Windows 11's hardware requirements unless they are willing to buy a newer PC. The 'End of 10' campaign is an effort to...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, kernel, and podman), Debian (node-sha.js), Fedora (firefox, kea, and perl-JSON-XS), Mageia (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-latest-openjdk), Oracle (kernel, libarchive, podman,...
Tuesday September 16, 2025. 06:10 PM
Safe, ergonomic interoperability between Rust and C/C++ was a popular topic at RustConf 2025 in Seattle, Washington. Chandler Carruth gave a presentation about the different approaches to interoperability in Rust and Carbon, the experimental '(C++)++' language. His...
Version 143.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes include the ability to pin tabs by dragging them to the edge, previews in the camera permissions dialog, improved fingerprinting protection, and (optional) automatic deletion of files downloaded in private...
The Socket.dev blog describes this week's attack on JavaScript packages in the npm repository. A malicious update to @ctrl/tinycolor (2.2M weekly downloads) was detected on npm as part of a broader supply chain attack that impacted more than 40 packages spanning multiple...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel and kernel-rt), Debian (node-sha.js and python-django), Fedora (chromium, cups, exiv2, perl-Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-HTTP, perl-Catalyst-Plugin-Session, perl-Plack-Middleware-Session, and qemu), Red Hat...
Registration for the 2025 Linux Plumbers Conference (Tokyo, December 11 to 13) is now open. LPC tickets often sell out quickly, so it would be best not to delay if you intend to attend.
Monday September 15, 2025. 09:15 PM
Brooke Deuson is the developer behind Trafficking Free Tomorrow, a nonprofit organization that produces free software to help law enforcement combat human trafficking. She is a survivor of human trafficking herself. She spoke at RustConf 2025 about her mission, and why she...
Version 8.0.0 of Varnish Cache has been released. In addition to a number of changes to varnishd parameters, the ability to access some runtime parameters using the Varnish Configuration Language, and other improvements, 8.0.0 comes with big news; the project is forming an...
The kernel runs in a special environment that makes it difficult to use many of the development tools that are available to user-space developers. Kernel developers often respond by simply doing without, but the truth is that they need good tools as much as anybody else....
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cups, kernel, and mysql-selinux and mysql8.4), Debian (cjson, jetty9, and shibboleth-sp), Fedora (bustle, cef, checkpointctl, chromium, civetweb, cups, forgejo, jupyterlab, kernel, libsixel, linenoise, maturin, niri,...
The 6.17-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'But really, none of it is very large. So everything seems slated for a normal release in two weeks. Please do keep testing, so that we don't get complacent.'
Friday September 12, 2025. 05:50 PM
Creating welcoming communities within open-source projects is a recurring topic at conferences; those projects rely on contributions from others, so making them welcome is important. The kernel has, rather infamously over the years, been an oft-cited example of an...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cups, imagemagick, libcpanel-json-xs-perl, and libjson-xs-perl), Fedora (checkpointctl, chromium, civetweb, glycin, kernel, libssh, ruff, rust-secret-service, snapshot, and uv), Mageia (curl), Red Hat (kernel), SUSE (cups, curl,...
Thursday September 11, 2025. 06:46 PM
The VMScape vulnerability is a Spectre variant that 'allows a malicious KVM guest to leak sensitive information such as encryption/decryption keys from a userspace hypervisor such as QEMU'. Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 6.16.7, 6.12.47, 6.6.106, 6.1.152, 5.15.193, and ...
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