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Wednesday September 3, 2025. 06:46 PM
Version 25.08 of the niri scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor has been released. Notable changes include xwayland-satellite integration, modal exit confirmation, and the introduction of basic support for screen readers: A series of posts by fireborn earlier this year on...
Version 12.4 of Linux From Scratch (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) have been released. LFS provides step-by-step instructions on building a customized Linux system entirely from source, and BLFS helps to extend an LFS installation into a more usable system....
The Linux kernel has to handle many different sources of data that should not be trusted: user space, network connections, and removable storage, to name a few. The kernel has to remain secure even if one of these sends garbled (or malicious) data. Benno Lossin has been...
During the opening of RustConf 2025 in Seattle, Washington, the Rust Foundation announced a new initiative to provide financial and administrative support to open-source Rust projects. The first project to benefit from the new Rust Innovation Lab is Rustls, an...
Cary Coutant has announced a draft for version 4.3 of the Executable and Linking Format (ELF) object file format. The specification was formerly part of the Unix System V Release 4 (SVR4) gABI document: The last published gABI documents were the Fourth Edition and a draft...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (httpd, kernel, and kernel-rt), Debian (python-eventlet and python-h2), Mageia (aide, gnutls, tomcat, and vim), Oracle (httpd, mod_http2, postgresql:15, python3.11, python3.12, python3.9, and udisks2), Red Hat (kernel,...
Tuesday September 2, 2025. 04:20 PM
As a rule, if a package is shipped with a Debian release, users can count on it being available, and updated, for the entire life of the release. If package foo is included in the stable release—currently Debian 13 ('trixie')—a user can reasonably expect that it will...
The FastCode site has a lengthy article on how large language models make open-source projects far more vulnerable to XZ-style attacks. Open source maintainers, already overwhelmed by legitimate contributions, have no realistic way to counter this threat. How do you verify ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, mod_http2, postgresql, postgresql:15, and python39:3.9), Debian (libsndfile), Mageia (ceph, glibc, and golang), Oracle (postgresql and python39:3.9), Red Hat (aide, postgresql:12, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, and...
Monday September 1, 2025. 10:04 PM
The GNOME Foundation has announced that Steven Deobald will be leaving the position of Executive Director after just four months. We are extremely grateful to Steven for all this and more. Despite these many positive achievements, Steven and the board have come to the...
Arnd Bergmann started his Open Source Summit Europe 2025 talk with a clear statement of position: 32-bit systems are obsolete when it comes to use in any sort of new products. The only reason to work with them at this point is when there is existing hardware and software to...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (postgresql16, postgresql:16, python3.11, and thunderbird), Debian (firebird4.0, libcommons-lang3-java, mbedtls, nodejs, openvpn, and ruby-saml), Fedora (cef, chromium, docker-buildx, exiv2, firefox, rocm-rpp, and udisks2),...
Linus has released 6.17-rc4 for testing. 'So it all looks fairly good. Please do keep testing, and we'll get 6.17 out in a timely manner and in good shape.'
Friday August 29, 2025. 07:08 PM
Linus Torvalds has quietly changed the maintainer status of bcachefs to 'externally maintained', indicating that further changes are unlikely to enter the mainline anytime soon. This change also suggests, though, that the immediate removal of bcachefs from the mainline...
Keynote sessions at Open Source Summit events tend not to allow much time for detailed talks, and the 2025 Open Source Summit Europe did not diverge from that pattern. Even so, Daniel Stenberg, the maintainer of the curl project, managed to cram a lot into the 15 minutes...
The next release of systemd has been percolating for an unusually long time. Systemd releases are usually about six months apart, but v257 came out in December 2024, and v258 just now seems to be nearing the finish line; the third release candidate for v258 was published on...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (aide, fence-agents, firefox, kernel-rt, python-cryptography, and thunderbird), Debian (golang-github-gin-contrib-cors, libxml2, and udisks2), Fedora (chromium), Oracle (postgresql16, postgresql:16, python3.11, and thunderbird), ...
Thursday August 28, 2025. 11:46 PM
Attendees at EuroPython had the chance to preview part of Python: The Documentary during a keynote panel. The full film, created by CultRepo, is now available on YouTube: This is the story of the world's most beloved programming language: Python. What began as a side...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.16.4, 6.12.44, 6.6.103, 6.1.149, 5.15.190, 5.10.241, and 5.4.297 stable Linux kernels. Each one contains important fixes.
The GNOME project, which recently celebrated its 28th birthday, has never had a formal technical governance; progress has been driven by individuals and groups that advocated for—and worked toward—a particular goal in an ad hoc fashion. Longtime GNOME contributor...
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