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Tuesday August 26, 2025. 09:13 AM
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg, firebird3.0, and luajit), Fedora (chromium, python3-docs, and python3.13), Oracle (aide, firefox, glibc, libxml2, and tomcat), Red Hat (aide, git, kernel, kernel-rt, libarchive, pam, python-cryptography, python3,...
Google has announced a new set of restrictions on the ability of users to install apps on their own devices: Starting next year, Android will require all apps to be registered by verified developers in order to be installed by users on certified Android devices. This...
Monday August 25, 2025. 05:29 PM
The PyCon team has announced that all PyCon US 2025 recordings are now available on its YouTube channel. We had an amazing and diverse group of community members join us for PyCon US 2025, attending from 58 different countries! By the numbers, we welcomed a total attendance ...
In July 2024, Let's Encrypt, the nonprofit TLS certificate authority (CA), announced that it would be ending support for the online certificate status protocol (OCSP), which is used to determine when a server's signing certificate has been revoked. This prevents a...
The Linux Foundation, in cooperation with a couple of other groups, has announced the publication on the intersection of businesses and commercial open-source software (deemed 'COSS'). Everything, it seems, is great, and COSS companies make a lot of money for their...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel and tomcat9), Debian (iperf3, mupdf, qemu, thunderbird, and unbound), Fedora (glab, kubernetes1.31, kubernetes1.32, kubernetes1.33, and toolbox), Oracle (kernel and tomcat9), Red Hat (firefox, kernel, kernel-rt, and...
Sunday August 24, 2025. 08:29 PM
Linus has released 6.17-rc3 (called '3.17-rc3' in the email, but the tag in the repository is correct) for testing. 'Anyway, things seem fairly normal for this phase in the release cycle, nothing stands out. Please keep testing,'
Saturday August 23, 2025. 08:26 PM
The 6.16.3 stable kernel update has been released. It contains a set of ext4 filesystem fixes that are probably a good thing for any 6.16 ext4 user to have.
Friday August 22, 2025. 11:01 PM
Version 8.0 of the FFmpeg audio and video toolkit has been released. Thanks to several delays, and modernization of our entire infrastructure, this release ended up being one of our largest releases to date. In short, its new features are: Native decoders: APV, ProRes...
The Microdot web framework is quite small, as its name would imply; it supports both standard CPython and MicroPython, so it can be used on systems ranging from internet-of-things (IoT) devices all the way up to large, cloudy servers. It was developed by Miguel Grinberg, who ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (tomcat), Debian (squid), Fedora (matrix-synapse, rust-slab, socat, and webkitgtk), SUSE (firefox-esr, gdk-pixbuf, gdk-pixbuf-devel, govulncheck-vulndb, rust-keylime, and wicked2nm), and Ubuntu (linux-nvidia, linux-oracle,...
The Arch Linux project has posted an update about recent service outages that have affected its infrastructure: The Arch Linux Project is currently experiencing an ongoing denial of service attack that primarily impacts our main webpage, the Arch User Repository (AUR), and...
Thursday August 21, 2025. 06:12 PM
The restartable sequences feature, which was added to the 4.18 kernel in 2018, exists to enable better performance in certain types of threaded applications. While there are users for restartable sequences, they tend to be relatively specialized code; this is not a tool that ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (libarchive, mingw-sqlite, pki-deps:10.6, and tomcat), Debian (chromium and firefox-esr), Fedora (python3.6 and suricata), Oracle (go-toolset:rhel8, kernel, libarchive, mingw-sqlite, tomcat, and xterm), Red Hat (kernel),...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Debian; CPython; huge zero folio; kexec handover; FHS; Koka programming language Briefs: PyPI domain checks; Firefox 142.0; Git v2.51; Ghostty; LibreOffice 25.8; Zig 0.15.1; Quotes;... Announcements: Newsletters,...
Wednesday August 20, 2025. 10:58 PM
The Zig project has announced version 0.15.1 of the language. The release, much like the last one, includes incremental progress toward the goal of completely dropping LLVM and improving compile time, as well as a handful of breaking changes as the language team wrestles...
Tobias Heider has written an article that explains changes that are coming for Ubuntu's generic Arm64 desktop ISO images in the 25.10 release. The current solution, Heider says, depends on GRUB features that are unavailable in secure boot mode and require adding...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.16.2, 6.15.11, and 6.12.43 stable kernels. He notes that this is the last release in the 6.15.y series, and recommends that users move to the 6.16.y kernel branch at this time.
Ken Jin welcomed EuroPython 2025 attendees to his talk entitled 'Building a new tail-calling interpreter for Python', but noted that the title really should be: 'Measuring the performance of compilers and interpreters is really hard'. Jin's efforts to switch the CPython inter...
Version 25.8 of the LibreOffice open-source office suite has been released. Notable changes include several new functions in the Calc spreadsheet application, ability to export to the PDF 2.0 format, better PowerPoint font compatibility with Impress, and significant...
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