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Tuesday September 30, 2025. 09:10 AM
After marking bcachefs 'externally maintained' in 6.17, Linus Torvalds has removed it entirely for 6.18. 'It's now a DKMS module, making the in-kernel code stale, so remove it to avoid any version confusion.'
Monday September 29, 2025. 10:18 PM
The 6.17 development cycle ended on September 28 with the release of the 6.17 kernel. This cycle brought in 13,089 non-merge changesets, a slowdown from its predecessor but still within the normal bounds for recent kernels. The time has come for a look at where those changes...
The NixOS moderation team, which is theoretically in charge of ensuring that community participation on the project's repositories and discussion forum remains welcoming and useful, has released a joint resignation statement. This action was motivated by conflict with...
As with a mobile phone, a portable gaming device like the Steam Deck can contain lots of personal information that the owner would like to keep secret—especially given that such devices can do far more than gaming. Alberto Garcia worked with his colleagues at Igalia and...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (avahi, cups, firefox, gnutls, golang, httpd, kernel, libtpms, mysql, opentelemetry-collector, php:8.2, podman, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, python3, python3.11, python3.12, python3.9, thunderbird, and udisks2), Debian...
The F-Droid project has posted an urgent message regarding Google's plan to require developer registration to install apps on Android devices. The F-Droid project cannot require that developers register their apps through Google, but at the same time, we cannot 'take over' ...
Linus Torvalds has released the 6.17 kernel. He notes that the shortlog for the changes since -rc7 are pretty tame: It's not exciting, which is all good. I think the biggest patch in there is some locking fixes for some bluetooth races that could cause use-after-free...
Friday September 26, 2025. 04:08 PM
The openSUSE project is nearing the release of Leap 16, its first major release since openSUSE Leap 15 in May 2018. This release brings some changes to the core of the distribution aside from the usual software upgrades; YaST has been retired, SELinux has replaced AppArmor...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, kernel, and thunderbird), Debian (ceph and thunderbird), Fedora (chromium, mingw-expat, python-deepdiff, python-orderly-set, python-pip, rust-az-cvm-vtpm, rust-az-snp-vtpm, rust-az-tdx-vtpm, and...
Thursday September 25, 2025. 09:13 PM
Longtime PyPy developer Antonio Cuni has a lengthy blog post that describes his talk at the recently completed 2025 CPython Core Dev Sprint, held at Arm in Cambridge, UK. The talk, entitled 'Tracing JIT and real world Python — aka: what we can learn from PyPy' was meant to ...
The file_operations structure in the kernel is a set of function pointers implementing, as the name would suggest, operations on files. A subsystem that manages objects which can be represented by a file descriptor will provide a file_operations structure providing...
The Fedora project has posted a proposal for a policy regarding the use of AI tools when developing for the distribution. You are responsible for your contributions. AI-generated content must be treated as a suggestion, not as final code or text. It is your responsibility...
The 6.16.9, 6.12.49, 6.6.108, and 6.1.154 stable kernels have been released. As usual, they all contain important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (grub2 and kernel), Debian (chromium and libxslt), Fedora (chromium, expat, libssh, and webkitgtk), Oracle (avahi, firefox, ImageMagick, kernel, libtpms, and mysql), Red Hat (kernel), SUSE (bird3, expat, kernel, and tiff), and...
Version 18 of the PostgreSQL database has been released. Notable improvements in this release include 'skip scan' lookups for multicolumn B-tree indexes, virtual generated columns, better text processing, oauth authentication, and a new asynchronous I/O (AIO) subsystem to...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Debian stable bug; Canceling async Rust; CHERI Linux; Time-slice extension; Multikernel; Revocable references; Blender 4.5. Briefs: Bluefin LTS; RPM 6.0.0; Tails 7.0; Rust 1.90.0; Infrastructure costs; Quotes;... ...
Wednesday September 24, 2025. 05:15 PM
Asynchronous Rust code has what Rain Paharia calls a 'universal cancellation protocol', meaning that any asynchronous code can be interrupted in the same way. They claim that this is both a useful feature when used deliberately, and a source of errors when done by accident....
The Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) project is a rethinking of computer architecture in order to improve system security. Carl Shaw gave a presentation at Linux Security Summit Europe (LSS EU) about CHERI and the efforts to get Linux running on it. He...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel and kernel-rt), Fedora (expat), Red Hat (kernel and multiple packages), SUSE (avahi, busybox, busybox-links, kernel, sevctl, tcpreplay, thunderbird, and tor), and Ubuntu (isc-kea, linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-gke,...
Tuesday September 23, 2025. 05:25 PM
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has put together a joint statement from many of the public package repositories for various languages about the need for assistance in maintaining these commons. Services such as PyPI for Python, crates.io for Rust, and many...
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