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Monday August 18, 2025. 08:37 PM
Rebooting a computer ordinarily brings an abrupt end to any state built up by the old system; the new kernel starts from scratch. There are, however, people who would like to be able to reboot their systems without disrupting the workloads running therein. Various developers ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (go-toolset:rhel8, kernel, and kernel-rt), Fedora (chromium), Oracle (libxml2), Red Hat (go-toolset:rhel8, golang, kernel, kernel-rt, openjpeg2, rsync, and tigervnc), and SUSE (apache-commons-lang3, chromedriver, fractal,...
The second 6.17 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'So it's been a very calm week, and this is one of the smaller rc2 releases we've had lately. I'm definitely not complaining, since I've been jetlagged much of the week, but I have this suspicion that it just means that...
Friday August 15, 2025. 09:26 PM
Mitchell Hashimoto has written a blog post about 'fully embracing the GObject type system' with a rewrite of the GTK version of Ghostty: In addition to memory management [improvements], we can now more easily create custom GTK widgets. This let us fully embrace modern GTK...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.16.1, 6.15.10, 6.12.42, 6.6.102, and 6.1.148 stable kernels. Get them while they're hot!
The purpose of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) is to provide a specification for filesystem layout; it specifies the location for files and directories on a Linux system to simplify application development for multiple distributions. In its heyday it had some success ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel and webkit2gtk3), Debian (aide and postgresql-13), Fedora (libtiff, mupdf, and pandoc), SUSE (cairo, chromium, gstreamer-plugins-base, ImageMagick, iputils, kubernetes1.23, kubernetes1.26, matrix-synapse, Mesa, pgadmin4, ...
Thursday August 14, 2025. 04:38 PM
One might imagine that managing a page full of zeroes would be a relatively straightforward task; there is, after all, no data of note that must be preserved there. The management of the huge zero folio in the kernel, though, shows that life is often not as simple as it...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, python3.11-setuptools, thunderbird, and toolbox), Debian (chromium), Fedora (open62541 and perl-Authen-SASL), Oracle (git, kernel, konsole, and webkit2gtk3), SUSE (framework-inputmodule-control and poppler), and Ubuntu...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Indico; Arch Linux wiki; StarDict; Python debugging; LLM assistants for kernel development; 6.17 Merge window; Signed BPF programs. Briefs: CalyxOS; ACME on NGINX; Debian 13; LVFS sustainability; Go 1.25; Radicle 1.3.0;...
Wednesday August 13, 2025. 07:59 PM
NGINX has announced the preview release of the nginx-acme module, which adds native support to NGINX for the Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol: NGINX's native support for ACME brings a variety of benefits that simplify and enhance the overall...
Version 1.25 of Go has been released. Notable changes include support for generating debug information in the DWARF 5 format, 'container awareness' when setting the maximum number of CPUs to be used, and a new testing/synctest package with support for testing concurrent code....
Version 2.0 of Syncthing, a continuous file synchronization utility, has been released. Notable changes in 2.0 include multiple connections for synchronizing metadata and file data, a new logging format, as well as a switch from LevelDB to SQLite for Syncthing's backend....
The Indico event-management tool has been in development at CERN for two decades at this point. The MIT-licensed web application helps organize conferences, meetings, workshops, and so on; it runs on Python and uses the Flask web framework. Two software engineers on the...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (apache2, kernel, linux-6.1, openjdk-17, and pgpool2), Fedora (glib2, matrix-synapse, openjpeg, python3-docs, and python3.13), Oracle (gdk-pixbuf2, glibc, java-1.8.0-openjdk, kernel, libxml2, python-requests, python3.11-setuptools, ...
Tuesday August 12, 2025. 06:31 PM
BPF programs are loaded directly into the kernel. Even though the verifier protects the kernel from certain kinds of misbehavior in BPF programs, some people are still justifiably concerned about adding unsigned code to their kernel. A fully correct BPF program can still be...
The Arch Linux project is especially well-known in the Linux community for two things: its rolling-release model and the quality of the documentation in the ArchWiki. No matter which Linux distribution one uses, the odds are that eventually the ArchWiki's documentation will...
Version 1.3.0 of the Radicle distributed software forge system has been released. Changes this time around include canonical references, a new radicle-protocol crate, better log rotation, and more. (LWN looked at Radicle in 2024).
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, and python-requests), Debian (ca-certificates-java), Fedora (chromium, clash-meta, mingw-python3, openjpeg, php-adodb, and toolbox), Mageia (kernel and kernel-linus), SUSE (chromium, ImageMagick, libgcrypt,...
Debian's GNU/Hurd team has announced the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2025: This is a snapshot of Debian 'sid' at the time of the stable Debian 'Trixie' release (August 2025), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is an...
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