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Tuesday October 7, 2025. 10:14 AM
Taylor Blau has posted an extensive set of notes from the recently concluded Git Contributor's Summit. Covered topics include the SHA-256 transition, Rust, Change-ID headers, Git 3.0, and many more. The note are also available on Google Docs for those who prefer that format.
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (chromium), Red Hat (kernel, open-vm-tools, and postgresql), SUSE (chromedriver and chromium), and Ubuntu (haproxy and pam-u2f).
Monday October 6, 2025. 10:52 PM
Version 2025.10 of the U-Boot boot loader has been released with new features, including Python tooling improvements, cleanups for implicit header inclusions, better support for numerous Arm platforms, support for new RISC-V platforms, better documentation, and more....
At the time of writing, there have been 9,099 commits in the 6.18 merge window, 8,475 non-merges and 624 merges. The changes so far include core-kernel, graphics, and networking work, among others. There are no big surprises, but several items that were discussed at this...
Support for BPF in the kernel has been tied to the LLVM toolchain since the advent of extended BPF. There has been a growing effort to add BPF support to the GNU toolchain as well, though. At the 2025 GNU Tools Cauldron, the developers involved got together with...
The 6.17.1, 6.16.11, 6.12.51, and 6.6.110 stable kernels have been released. This time around, they contain a relatively small number of important fixes in various parts of the kernel.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel), Debian (dovecot, git, log4cxx, and openssl), Fedora (containernetworking-plugins, firebird, firefox, jupyterlab, mupdf, and thunderbird), Oracle (ipa), Red Hat (container-tools:rhel8, firefox, gnutls, kernel,...
OpenSSH 10.1 has been released. Along with 'a minor security fix' and some other bug fixes, this release disallows control characters in user names passed via the command line, adds better logging around certificate refusals, and a new RefuseConnection server configuration...
Friday October 3, 2025. 05:06 PM
Despite its name, the Robot Operating System (ROS) is not an operating system; it is a software development kit (SDK) that provides building blocks for robotic applications. One of the main goals of ROS is to present a common API that abstracts away the details of particular ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (idm:DL1), Debian (gegl and haproxy), Fedora (ffmpeg, firefox, freeipa, python-pip, rust-astral-tokio-tar, sqlite, uv, webkitgtk, and xen), Oracle (idm:DL1, ipa, kernel, perl-JSON-XS, and python3), Red Hat (git), SUSE (curl,...
The Free Software Foundation has announced the selection of Ian Kelling as the organization's president. Kelling, age forty-three, has held the role of a board member and a voting member since March 2021. The board said of Kelling's confirmation: 'His hands-on technical...
Thursday October 2, 2025. 04:31 PM
The GNU Tools Cauldron is almost entirely focused on user-space tools, but kernel developers need a solid toolchain too. In what appears to be a developing tradition (started in 2024), some kernel developers attended the 2025 Cauldron for the second year in a row to discuss...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.16.10, 6.12.50, 6.6.109, 6.1.155, 5.15.194, 5.10.245, and 5.4.300 stable kernels. All of these kernels have lots of important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (perl-JSON-XS), Debian (chromium and openssl), Fedora (bird, dnsdist, firefox, mapserver, ntpd-rs, python-nh3, rust-ammonia, skopeo, sqlite, thunderbird, and xen), Oracle (perl-JSON-XS), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, and libvpx),...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Fedora and AI; Linting kernel Rust; openSUSE Leap 16; mmap() file operation; 6.17 statistics; dirlock. Briefs: Bcachefs removal; Alpine /usr merge; F-Droid; Fedora AI policy; OpenSUSE Leap 16; PostgreSQL 18; Radicle...
Wednesday October 1, 2025. 07:52 PM
The Alpine Linux project has announced plans to change its base filesystem hierarchy: In the future, /lib, /bin, and /sbin will be symbolic links to their /usr counterparts, and every package shall be installed under the /usr paths. For now, /usr/bin and /usr/sbin will...
The Fedora Council began a process to create a policy on AI-assisted contributions in 2024, starting with a survey to ask the community its opinions about AI and using AI technologies in Fedora. On September 25, Jason Brooks published a draft policy for discussion; so far,...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, mysql:8.0, and openssh), Debian (libcommons-lang-java, libcommons-lang3-java, libcpanel-json-xs-perl, libjson-xs-perl, libxml2, open-vm-tools, and u-boot), Fedora (bird, dnsdist, mapserver, ntpd-rs,...
The openSUSE Leap 16 release is now available. This major version update of our fixed-release community-Linux distribution has a fresh software stack and introduces an unmatched maintenance- and security-support cycle, a new installer and simplified migration options. ...
Tuesday September 30, 2025. 09:54 PM
Version 1.5.0 of the Radicle peer-to-peer Git collaboration platform has been released. This release includes better support for bare repositories, structured logging, and improvements in the output of rad patch show: The previous output would differentiate 'updates', where ...
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