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Monday November 3, 2025. 04:13 PM
The kernel's namespaces feature is, among other things, a key part of the implementation of containers. Like much in the kernel, though, the namespace API evolved over time; there was no design at the outset. As a result, this API has some rough edges and missing features....
Joel Severin has announced the availability of his port of the Linux kernel to WebAssembly; one can go to this page and watch it boot in a browser. Wasm is similar to every other arch in Linux, but also different. One important difference is that there is no way to suspend ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0,.NET 9.0, and webkit2gtk3), Debian (ruby-rack, strongswan, ublock-origin, and wordpress), Fedora (firefox, kea, openapi-python-client, openbao, python-uv-build, qt5-qtbase, ruby, ruff, rust-astral-tokio-tar,...
Linus has released 6.18-rc4 for testing. 'Last week in fact felt *so* calm that I was surprised to notice that rc4 isn't really smaller than usual: all the stats look very normal, both in number of changes and where the changes are.'
Sunday November 2, 2025. 04:37 PM
The relatively small 6.17.7, 6.12.57, and 6.6.116 stable kernels have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
Saturday November 1, 2025. 07:42 PM
Julian Andres Klode has announced that the Debian APT package-management tool will acquire 'hard Rust dependencies sometime after May 2026. 'If you maintain a port without a working Rust toolchain, please ensure it has one within the next 6 months, or sunset the port.'
Friday October 31, 2025. 08:30 PM
The idea of automatic syntax-aware merging in version-control systems goes back to 2005 or earlier, but initial implementations were often language-specific and slow. Mergiraf is a merge-conflict resolver that uses a generic algorithm plus a small amount of...
Michael Hudson-Doyle, a member of Ubuntu's Foundations team, has announced the introduction of an 'architecture variant' for Ubuntu 25.10: By making changes to dpkg, apt and Launchpad, we are able to build multiple versions of a package, each for a different level of the...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, libtiff, redis, and redis:6), Debian (chromium, mediawiki, pypy3, and squid), Fedora (openbao), SUSE (cdi-apiserver-container, cdi-cloner-container, cdi- controller-container,...
Thursday October 30, 2025. 10:07 PM
Version 1.91.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include promoting aarch64-pc-windows-msvc to a tier-1 platform, a new lint rule to catch dangling raw pointers from local variables, and a fair number of newly stabilized APIs.
The kernel's file-I/O subsystems have been highly optimized over the years in the hope of providing the best performance for a wide variety of workloads. There is, however, one workload type that suffers with current kernels: applications that perform many short reads, in...
The Universal Blue project has announced the Fall update for the Fedora-based Bazzite gaming distribution. This release brings Bazzite up to Fedora 43, includes support for additional handheld gaming systems, as well as drivers for a number of steering wheel devices, and...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (java-21-openjdk and libtiff), Debian (pdns-recursor and xorg-server), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, dtk6core, dtk6gui, dtk6log, dtk6widget, fcitx5-qt, fluidsynth, gammaray, kddockwidgets, LabPlot, mingw-qt6-qt3d,...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Pixnapping attack; Fil-C; Debian ftpmasters; GoFundMe complaints; Safer user-space access. Briefs: Man pages 6.16; Btrfs on AlmaLinux; Fedora Linux 43; ICANN report; PSF grants; Rust Coreutils 0.3.0; Tor Browser 15.0;...
Wednesday October 29, 2025. 06:17 PM
Alejandro Colomar has announced the release of version 6.16 of the GNU/Linux man pages. This release includes new or rewritten man pages for fsconfig(), fsmount(), and fsopen(), as well as a number of newly documented interfaces in existing man pages. The release is also...
ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) has announced a report on 'the critical role of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) within the Domain Name System (DNS)'. The report is aimed at policymakers and examines recent cybersecurity regulations in the US,...
A new class of attacks on Android phones, called 'Pixnapping', was announced on October 13. It allows a malicious app to gather output rendered in a victim app, pixel-by-pixel, by exploiting a GPU side-channel. Depending on what the victim app displays, anything from...
Version 15.0 of the Tor Browser has been released: This is our first stable release based on Firefox ESR 140, incorporating a year's worth of changes that have been shipped upstream in Firefox. As part of this process, we've also completed our annual ESR transition audit,...
Debian's ftpmaster team has been responsible for allowing new packages to enter Debian, removing old packages, and otherwise maintaining Debian's package archive for more than two decades. As of October 26, the team is no more and its duties are being split between two new...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.17.6, 6.12.56, 6.6.115, 6.1.158, 5.15.196, 5.10.246, and 5.4.301 stable kernels. As always, each contains important fixes throughout the tree. Users of these kernels are advised to upgrade.
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