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Thursday September 25, 2025. 04:58 PM
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...
A bug in a recent release of systemd's network manager caused headaches for people managing systems that have a virtual LAN (VLAN) interface on a bridge; something one might want to do, for example, when configuring network interfaces for virtual machines. The bug affected...
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.
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