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Wednesday July 23, 2025. 03:18 PM
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cloud-init, fence-agents, git, kernel, and kernel-rt), Debian (openjdk-11), Fedora (firefox, golang, libinput, transfig, and yasm), Mageia (qtbase5, qtbase6), Red Hat (fence-agents, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, kernel, and...
Tuesday July 22, 2025. 06:55 PM
Version 141.0 of the Firefox browser is out. Changes include 'a local AI model' that can perform tab grouping, unit conversions in the address bar, and a change that many of us will find welcome: 'On Linux, Firefox uses less memory and no longer requires a forced restart...
GNOME and Fedora contributor Michael Catanzaro has written a lengthy blog post about the future of Fedora Workstation as an image-based release and the need to enable Flathub by default. He writes that the Fedora Workstation of the future must be 'safe and image-based by...
Google has announced the existence of OSS Rebuild, an infrastructure for the creation and verification of reproducible builds of software projects. Our aim with OSS Rebuild is to empower the security community to deeply understand and control their supply chains by making...
The QUIC transport-layer network protocol is not exactly new; it was first covered here in 2013. Despite carrying a significant part of the traffic on the Internet, QUIC has been anything but quick when it comes to getting support into the Linux kernel. The pace might be...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (tomcat9), Debian (djvulibre, libcommons-fileupload-java, libowasp-esapi-java, and tomcat9), Fedora (cef, dpkg, mingw-gdk-pixbuf, and mingw-python3), Gentoo (Roundcube), Oracle (avahi, cloud-init, fence-agents, git, kernel, and...
The Arch Linux project has sent out an advisory warning that a set of malicious packages, containing a remote access trojan, were uploaded to the Arch User Repository (AUR). The affected packages were librewolf-fix-bin, firefox-patch-bin, and zen-browser-patched-bin. 'We...
Monday July 21, 2025. 04:42 PM
At DebConf25 in Brest, France, the talk 'When Free Software Communities Unite: Tails, Tor, and the Fight for Privacy' was delivered by a man who introduced himself only as intrigeri. He delivered an overview of the Tor Project, its mission, and the projects under the...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (java-1.8.0-openjdk), Debian (angular.js and batik), Fedora (chromium, pypy, screen, unbound, wine, and wine-mono), Mageia (djvulibre, quictls, and redis), Red Hat (avahi, gnome-remote-desktop, java-1.8.0-openjdk,...
Linus has released 6.16-rc7 for testing. Nothing really stands out - the biggest patches in here are for some documentation and self-tests or tooling, not actual kernel code changes. So unlike the week before, it all feels very trivial and I think we're in good shape....
Saturday July 19, 2025. 03:51 PM
Intel has announced the abrupt end of its Clear Linux cloud-oriented distribution: After years of innovation and community collaboration, we're ending support for Clear Linux OS. Effective immediately, Intel will no longer provide security patches, updates, or maintenance...
Friday July 18, 2025. 03:14 PM
The interfaces between C and Rust in the kernel have grown over time; any non-trivial Rust driver will use a number of these. Tasks like allocating memory, dealing with immovable structures, and interacting with locks are necessary for handling most devices. There are also...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cloud-init, glib2, glibc, kernel, and tomcat), Debian (chromium), Fedora (luajit, minidlna, nginx-mod-modsecurity, python-asteval, rust-sequoia-octopus-librnp, and vim), Oracle (cloud-init, glib2, glibc, java-17-openjdk,...
Thursday July 17, 2025. 08:49 PM
The 6.15.7, 6.12.39, 6.6.99, 6.1.146, 5.15.189, 5.10.240, and 5.4.296 stable kernels have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
Version 12.0 of the Forgejo software forge has been released. Changes include a number of user-interface improvements, a mechanism to keep forks in sync with their upstream, and more; see the release notes for the full list.
Decades after its creation, the Linux CPU scheduler remains an area of active development; it is difficult to find a time slice to cover every interesting scheduler change. In an attempt to catch up, the time has come to round-robin through a few patches that have been...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (emacs, java-17-openjdk, kernel, kernel-rt, microcode_ctl, python3.11-setuptools, python3.12-setuptools, and socat), Debian (gnutls28), Fedora (vim), Red Hat (java-1.8.0-ibm), Slackware (bind), SUSE (docker, erlang, erlang26,...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Python JIT; Anubis; Secure Boot certificate expiration; SFrame; Exported symbols; Python packaging in Fedora. Briefs: Parrot 6.4; SPI report; Quotes;... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, ...
Wednesday July 16, 2025. 09:01 PM
Version 0.50.0 of Hyprland, a compositor for Wayland, has been released. Changes include a new render-scheduling option that 'can drastically improve FPS on underpowered devices, while coming at no performance or latency cost when the system is doing alright', an option to...
Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems knowingly or unknowingly rely on a key from Microsoft that is set to expire in September. After that point, Microsoft will no longer use that key to sign the shim first-stage UEFI bootloader that is used by Linux...
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