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Tuesday July 29, 2025. 03:52 PM
Version 2.42 of the GNU C Library has been released. Changes include the addition of a number of new math functions, support for arbitrary baud rates in the termios.h interface, support for SFrame-based stack tracing (described in this article), support for memory guard...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp, git-lfs, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, grafana, grafana-pcp, icu, ipa, iputils, krb5, libvpx, nodejs:22, osbuild-composer, perl, python-tornado, qt6-qtbase, sqlite, unbound, valkey, wireshark, and yggdrasil),...
Monday July 28, 2025. 10:04 PM
Till Kamppeter, co-founder and lead of the OpenPrinting project, has put out a call for sponsors after being laid off by Canonical: I want to continue doing OpenPrinting for a living, and need a way to do so. I am currently working with the Linux Foundation to make...
The 6.16 development cycle was another busy one, with 14,639 non-merge changesets pulled into the mainline — just 18 commits short of the total for 6.15. The 6.16 release happened on July 27, as expected. Also as expected, LWN has put together its traditional look at where...
Fedora's quality team is looking to reduce the scope of test coverage and change the project's release criteria to drop some features from the list of release blockers. This is, in part, an exercise in getting rid of criteria, such as booting from optical media, that are...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (audiofile, libcaca, libetpan, libxml2, php7.4, snapcast, and thunderbird), Fedora (glibc, iputils, mingw-binutils, and thunderbird), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, mod_auth_openidc, and mod_auth_openidc:2.3), SUSE (afterburn,...
The good folks at Linode still have not managed to fix whatever broke in their data center, so we are running on an emergency backup server. Things seem to be working, but the occasional glitch is to be expected. Please accept our apologies for the extended downtime! ...
Linus has released the 6.16 kernel: It's Sunday afternoon, and the release cycle has come to an end. Last week was nice and calm, and there were no big show-stopper surprises to keep us from the regular schedule, so I've tagged and pushed out 6.16 as planned. Headline...
Friday July 25, 2025. 04:55 PM
There is an inherent limit to the privacy of the public cloud. While Linux can isolate virtual machines (VMs) from each other, nothing in the system's memory is ultimately out of reach for the host cloud provider. To accommodate the most privacy-conscious clients,...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (git, kernel, nginx:1.24, and sudo), Fedora (dpkg, java-21-openjdk, java-25-openjdk, java-latest-openjdk, and valkey), Oracle (apache-commons-vfs, sudo, tigervnc, and xorg-x11-server), Red Hat (kernel, krb5, and openssh), SUSE...
Thursday July 24, 2025. 04:19 PM
Version 0.1 of the Wayback project has been released: Wayback is an X11 compatibility layer that allows for running full X11-only desktop environments using Wayland. It is essentially an X11 server backed by Wayland, leveraging wlroots and Xwayland. Our goal is for Wayback...
The 6.15.8, 6.12.40, 6.6.100, and 6.1.147 stable kernels have been released. Each contains important fixes throughout the kernel tree, as usual.
People tend to put a lot of trust into their phones. Those devices have access to no end of sensitive data about our lives — our movements, finances, communications, and more — so phones belonging to even relatively low-profile people can be high-value targets. Android...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, and mediawiki), Fedora (firefox), Oracle (git, kernel, redis, and sudo), Red Hat (aardvark-dns, firefox, kernel, and thunderbird), Slackware (httpd), SUSE (php7, php8, and salt), and Ubuntu...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Debian's security processes; Tor; Immutability for Python; CPU scheduler; QUIC; Rust abstractions. Briefs: Brief news items from throughout the community. Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates,...
Wednesday July 23, 2025. 07:46 PM
Richard van der Hoff, a member of the team that runs the Matrix.org homeserver, has written a detailed blog post about diagnosing and fixing a problem where Matrix rooms would simply stop working: We know that there are plenty of users out there who will have been affected...
Providing security updates for a Linux distribution, such as Debian, involves a lot of work behind the scenes—and requires much more than simply shipping the latest code. On July 15, at DebConf25 in Brest, France, Samuel Henrique walked through the process of providing securi...
The Home Assistant project has published an update on improvements in its Android app, and plans for upcoming releases: In our latest update of the Android app 2025.7.1, we've added a couple of useful features. Including a new basic invite flow, which will be shared between ...
Michael Prokop has posted a lengthy list of changes coming in the Debian 'trixie' release, due in early August. 'As usual with major upgrades, there are some things to be aware of, and hereby I'm starting my public notes on trixie that might be worth for other folks. My...
Python has recently seen a number of experiments to improve its parallel performance, including exposing subinterpreters as part of the standard library. These allow separate threads within the same Python process to run simultaneously, as long as any data sent between them ...
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