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Friday August 15, 2025. 04:33 PM
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...
Monday August 11, 2025. 07:03 PM
Richard Hughes, creator and maintainer of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS), has written a blog post about the sustainability plan he has put together for the service. He is calling for the vendors that use the service to help fund its development and maintenance...
StarDict is a GPLv3-licensed cross-platform dictionary application. It includes dictionaries for a number of languages, and has a rich plugin ecosystem. It also has a glaring security problem: while running on X11, using Debian's default configuration, it will send a user's...
The 6.17-rc1 prepatch was released by Linus Torvalds on August 10; the 6.17 merge window is now closed. There were 11,404 non-merge changesets pulled into the mainline this time around, a little over 7,000 of which came in after the first-half merge-window summary was...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (jackson-annotations, jackson-core, jackson-databind, jackson-jaxrs-providers, and jackson-modules-base and libxml2), Debian (distro-info-data, gnutls28, modsecurity-crs, and node-tmp), Fedora (chromium, incus, perl,...
Sunday August 10, 2025. 09:38 PM
Linus has released 6.17-rc1 and closed the merge window for this development cycle. Anyway, the merge window did end up looking fairly healthy, despite me having to go through a couple of bisections for trouble spots (one during travels with a laptop - not optimal, but...
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