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Tuesday September 23, 2025. 04:21 PM
Security updates have been issued by Debian (corosync and kernel), Fedora (checkpointctl, chromium, curl, and perl-Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-HTTP), SUSE (firefox, frr, kernel, rustup, vim, and wireshark), and Ubuntu (glibc and pam).
Monday September 22, 2025. 08:37 PM
Version 6.0.0 of the RPM Package Manager has been released. Notable changes in this release include support for multiple OpenPGP signatures per package, the ability to update previously installed PGP keys, as well as support for RPM v4 and v6 packages. See the release notes...
Computers were once relatively static devices; if a peripheral was present at boot, it was unlikely to disappear while the system was operating. Those days are far behind us, though; devices can come and go at any time, often with no notice. That impermanence can create...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg, jetty12, jetty9, jq, and pam), Fedora (curl, libssh, podman-tui, and prometheus-podman-exporter), Oracle (firefox, gnutls, kernel, and thunderbird), and SUSE (bluez, cairo, chromium, cmake, cups, firefox, frr,...
Linus has released 6.17-rc7 for testing. 'Let's keep the testing going, and we'll have the final 6.17 in a week'.
Friday September 19, 2025. 09:14 PM
The Linux kernel generally wants to be in charge of the system as a whole; it runs on all of the available CPUs and controls access to them globally. Cong Wang has just come forward with a different approach: allowing each CPU to run its own kernel. The patch set is in an...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.16.8, 6.12.48, 6.6.107, and 6.1.153 stable kernels; each contains an important set of fixes.
Blender 4.5 LTS was released on July 15, 2025, and will be supported through 2027. This is the last feature release of the 3D graphics-creation suite's 4.x series; it includes quality-of-life improvements, including work to bring the Vulkan backend up to par with the default ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, cjson, and firefox-esr), Fedora (expat, gh, scap-security-guide, and xen), Oracle (container-tools:rhel8, firefox, grub2, and mysql:8.4), SUSE (busybox, busybox-links, element-web, kernel, shadowsocks-v2ray-plugin, and...
Thursday September 18, 2025. 05:30 PM
Time-slice extension is a proposed scheduler feature that would allow a user-space process to request to not be preempted for a short period while it executes a critical section. It is an idea that has been circulating for years, but efforts to implement it became more...
Version 1.90.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include switching to the LLD linker by default, the addition of support for workspace publishing to cargo, and the usual set of stabilized APIs.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gnutls, mysql:8.4, opentelemetry-collector, and python-cryptography), Debian (nextcloud-desktop), Fedora (chromium, firefox, forgejo, gitleaks, kernel, kernel-headers, lemonldap-ng, perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS, and python-pip), Red Hat ...
The Universal Blue project has announced the release of Bluefin LTS, an image-based distribution similar to Bluefin that uses CentOS Stream 10 and EPEL instead of Fedora as its base: Bluefin LTS ships with Linux 6.12.0, which is the kernel for the lifetime of release. An opt...
Version 7.0 of the Tails portable operating system has been released. This is the first version of Tails based on Linux 6.12.43, Debian 13 ('trixie') and GNOME 48. It uses zstd instead of xz to compress the USB and ISO images to deliver a faster start time on most computers....
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Fighting human trafficking; End of 10; Link tags; Healthy subsystem communities; New kernel tools; Rust and Carbon; Typst. Briefs: Brief news items from throughout the community. Announcements: Newsletters, conferences,...
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,...
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