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Wednesday June 25, 2025. 05:29 PM
Libxml2, an XML parser and toolkit, is an almost perfect example of the successes and failures of the open-source movement. In the 25 years since its first release, it has been widely adopted by open-source projects, for use in commercial software, and for government use. It ...
One of the biggest changes to come to the Python world is the addition of the free-threading interpreter, which eliminates the global interpreter lock (GIL) that kept the interpreter thread-safe, but also serialized multi-threaded Python code. Over the years, the GIL has...
It took time and the writing of over 60 articles, but LWN's coverage from the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit is now complete. We have also made an EPUB book (13MB) containing the full set of coverage available to all readers. This coverage...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (commons-beanutils, dcmtk, nginx, trafficserver, and xorg-server), Fedora (atuin, awatcher, dotnet8.0, firefox, glibc, gotify-desktop, keylime-agent-rust, libtpms, mirrorlist-server, qt6-qtbase, qt6-qtimageformats, udisks2,...
Tuesday June 24, 2025. 06:33 PM
Version 140.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes include more control over vertical tabs, a dialog to add custom search engines, improvements to translation performance, and more.
Working on the kernel can be a challenging task but, for many, configuring a kernel build can be the largest obstacle to getting started. The kernel has thousands of configuration options; many of those, if set incorrectly, will result in a kernel that does not work on the...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (dns-root-data and xorg-server), Fedora (glibc, mingw-glib2, and optipng), Red Hat (iputils, kernel, kernel-rt, krb5, libarchive, mod_auth_openidc, mod_proxy_cluster, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), SUSE (python313), and Ubuntu...
Monday June 23, 2025. 08:35 PM
KDE contributor Nate Graham recently wrote about the KDE Project's plans for Plasma's X11 session. He notes that the project will continue to ensure that Plasma 'continues to compile and deploy on X11' and isn't horribly broken. Major regressions will probably be fixed,...
The postmarketOS project, which creates a Linux distribution for mobile devices, announced it was working on adding a version with systemd last March. That day has arrived with the announcement of version 25.06: We considered supporting an upgrade from OpenRC to systemd in...
Adrian Vovk, a GNOME contributor and member of its release team, recently announced in a blog post that GNOME would be adding new dependencies on systemd, and soon. The idea is to shed GNOME's homegrown service manager in favor of using systemd, and to improve GNOME's...
The Collabora blog has a summary, written by Nicolas Dufresne, about the Linux Media Summit held on May 13 in Nice, France. It was co-located with the Embedded Recipes conference and had sessions on stateless video encoders, camera support, staging drivers, memory...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (libblockdev and open-vm-tools), Debian (debian-security-support, gdk-pixbuf, konsole, and node-send), Fedora (apache-commons-beanutils, chromium, clamav, dotnet9.0, libblockdev, mediawiki, mingw-python-setuptools, pam,...
Sunday June 22, 2025. 10:47 PM
Linus has released 6.16-rc3 for testing. 'So rc2 was smaller than usual, but rc3 seems to be right in the usual ballpark for this time, so everything looks entirely normal.'
Friday June 20, 2025. 08:18 PM
The Linux kernel is seeing a steady accumulation of Rust code. As it becomes more prevalent, maintainers may want to know how to read, review, and test the Rust code that relates to their areas of expertise. Just as kernel C code is different from user-space C code, so too...
A new filesystem was the topic of a session led by Zach Brown at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF). The ngnfs filesystem is not a 'next generation' NFS, as might be guessed from the name; Brown said that he did not think about...
Debian's long-awaited tag2upload service is now ready for Debian maintainers to use in some circumstances. Tag2upload makes it easier for maintainers to upload packages, by allowing them to push a signed Git commit that will automatically be picked up and built, instead of...
Security updates have been issued by SUSE (apache2-mod_security2, augeas, ghc-pandoc, gstreamer, ignition, kernel, libblockdev, libxml2, nodejs20, openssl-3, pam_pkcs11, perl, python3, systemd, ucode-intel, webkit2gtk3, and xen) and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4,...
Thursday June 19, 2025. 06:35 PM
Asterinas is a new Linux-ABI-compatible kernel project written in Rust, based on what the authors call a 'framekernel architecture'. The project overlaps somewhat with the goals of the Rust for Linux project, but approaches the problem space from a different direction by...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.15.3, 6.12.34, and 6.6.94 stable kernels. Each contains a relatively large number of important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gvisor-tap-vsock), Debian (activemq and chromium), Fedora (kea, python-django4.2, python-django5, python-setuptools, and rust-git-interactive-rebase-tool), Oracle (ipa and kernel), Red Hat (buildah, container-tools:rhel8,...
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