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Thursday September 18, 2025. 05:30 PM
Time-slice extension is a proposed scheduler feature that would allow a user-space process to request to not be preempted for a short period while it executes a critical section. It is an idea that has been circulating for years, but efforts to implement it became more...
Version 1.90.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include switching to the LLD linker by default, the addition of support for workspace publishing to cargo, and the usual set of stabilized APIs.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gnutls, mysql:8.4, opentelemetry-collector, and python-cryptography), Debian (nextcloud-desktop), Fedora (chromium, firefox, forgejo, gitleaks, kernel, kernel-headers, lemonldap-ng, perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS, and python-pip), Red Hat ...
The Universal Blue project has announced the release of Bluefin LTS, an image-based distribution similar to Bluefin that uses CentOS Stream 10 and EPEL instead of Fedora as its base: Bluefin LTS ships with Linux 6.12.0, which is the kernel for the lifetime of release. An opt...
Version 7.0 of the Tails portable operating system has been released. This is the first version of Tails based on Linux 6.12.43, Debian 13 ('trixie') and GNOME 48. It uses zstd instead of xz to compress the USB and ISO images to deliver a faster start time on most computers....
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Fighting human trafficking; End of 10; Link tags; Healthy subsystem communities; New kernel tools; Rust and Carbon; Typst. Briefs: Brief news items from throughout the community. Announcements: Newsletters, conferences,...
Wednesday September 17, 2025. 05:53 PM
Version 49 of the GNOME desktop environment has been released. Changes include new default video (Showtime) and PDF-viewing (Papers) applications, a number of calendar improvements, and updates to the Web, Maps, and Software applications.
Ian Jackson has published a blog post summarizing the tag2upload service's first month of handling uploads for the upcoming Debian 14 ('forky') release: We announced tag2upload's open beta in mid-July. That was in the middle of the the freeze for trixie, so usage was fairly...
Version 2.15.0 of libxml2 has been released. Notable changes include the disabling of Python bindings by default, using Doxygen to generate API documentation, as well as bringing HTML serialization and handling of character encodings more in line with the HTML5...
Typst is a program for document typesetting. It is especially well-suited to technical material incorporating elements such as mathematics, tables, and floating figures. It produces high-quality results, comparable to the gold standard, LaTeX, with a simpler markup system...
Systemd v258 has been released with a long list of new features and changes; slice units now have basic workload management features, quotas for tmpfs have been added, the 'systemctl start' command now has a verbose (-v) option, and more. This release also, finally,...
In October, consumer versions of Windows 10 will stop receiving security updates. Many users who would ordinarily move to the next version are blocked by Windows 11's hardware requirements unless they are willing to buy a newer PC. The 'End of 10' campaign is an effort to...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, kernel, and podman), Debian (node-sha.js), Fedora (firefox, kea, and perl-JSON-XS), Mageia (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-latest-openjdk), Oracle (kernel, libarchive, podman,...
Tuesday September 16, 2025. 06:10 PM
Safe, ergonomic interoperability between Rust and C/C++ was a popular topic at RustConf 2025 in Seattle, Washington. Chandler Carruth gave a presentation about the different approaches to interoperability in Rust and Carbon, the experimental '(C++)++' language. His...
Version 143.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes include the ability to pin tabs by dragging them to the edge, previews in the camera permissions dialog, improved fingerprinting protection, and (optional) automatic deletion of files downloaded in private...
The Socket.dev blog describes this week's attack on JavaScript packages in the npm repository. A malicious update to @ctrl/tinycolor (2.2M weekly downloads) was detected on npm as part of a broader supply chain attack that impacted more than 40 packages spanning multiple...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel and kernel-rt), Debian (node-sha.js and python-django), Fedora (chromium, cups, exiv2, perl-Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-HTTP, perl-Catalyst-Plugin-Session, perl-Plack-Middleware-Session, and qemu), Red Hat...
Registration for the 2025 Linux Plumbers Conference (Tokyo, December 11 to 13) is now open. LPC tickets often sell out quickly, so it would be best not to delay if you intend to attend.
Monday September 15, 2025. 09:15 PM
Brooke Deuson is the developer behind Trafficking Free Tomorrow, a nonprofit organization that produces free software to help law enforcement combat human trafficking. She is a survivor of human trafficking herself. She spoke at RustConf 2025 about her mission, and why she...
Version 8.0.0 of Varnish Cache has been released. In addition to a number of changes to varnishd parameters, the ability to access some runtime parameters using the Varnish Configuration Language, and other improvements, 8.0.0 comes with big news; the project is forming an...
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