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Thursday November 6, 2025. 01:14 AM
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Python thread safety; Namespace reference counting; Merigraf; Speeding up short reads; Julia 1.12; systemd security. Briefs: CHERIoT 1.0; Chromium XSLT; Arm KASLR; Bazzite; Devuan 6.0; Incus 6.18; LXQt 2.3.0; Rust 1.91.0; ...
Wednesday November 5, 2025. 06:59 PM
Mason Freed and Dominik Röttsches have published a document with a timeline and plans for removing Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) from the Chromium project and Chrome browser: Chromium has officially deprecated XSLT, including the XSLTProcessor...
Version 2.3.0 of the Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment (LXQt) has been released. The highlight of this release is continued improvement in Wayland support across LXQt components. Rather than offering its own compositor, the LXQt project takes a modular approach and works...
Linux has many security features and tools that have evolved over the years to address threats as they emerge and security gaps as they are discovered. Linux security is all, as Lennart Poettering observed at the All Systems Go! conference held in Berlin, somewhat random and ...
Version 1.3 of the Open Container Initiative (OCI) Runtime Specification has been released. The specification covers the configuration, execution environment, and lifecycle of containers. The most notable change in 1.3 is the addition of FreeBSD to the specification, which...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (bind9 and gimp), Fedora (chromium, fastapi-cli, fastapi-cloud-cli, gherkin, libnbd, maturin, openapi-python-client, python-annotated-doc, python-cron-converter, python-fastapi, python-inline-snapshot, python-jiter,...
Tuesday November 4, 2025. 04:55 PM
Version 6.18 of the Incus container and virtual-machine management system has been released. Notable changes in this release include new configuration keys for providing credentials to systemd, BPF token delegation, VirtIO support for sound cards, the ability to export ISO...
Julia is a modern programming language that is of particular interest to scientists due to its high performance combined with language features such as Lisp-style macros, an advanced type system, and multiple dispatch. We last looked at Julia in January on the occasion of...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (dcmtk, geographiclib, gimp, pure-ftpd, and ruby-rack), Fedora (dotnet9.0), Oracle (expat, kernel, tigervnc, xorg-x11-server, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Red Hat (git, mariadb:10.5, multiple packages, osbuild-composer, pcs,...
Version 1.0 of the Capability Hardware Extension to RISC-V for IoT (CHERIoT) specification has been released. CHERIoT is a hardware-software system for secure embedded devices, and the specification provides a full description of the ISA and its intended use by CHERIoT RTOS. ...
The Project Zero blog explains that, on 64-bit Arm systems, the kernel's direct map is always placed at the same virtual location, regardless of whether kernel address-space layout randomization (KASLR) is enabled. While it remains true that KASLR should not be trusted to...
Monday November 3, 2025. 07:16 PM
Barry Warsaw, writing for the Python steering council, has announced that PEP 810 ('Explicit lazy imports') has been approved, unanimously, by the four who could vote. Since Pablo Galindo Salgado was one of the PEP authors, he did not vote. The PEP provides a way to defer...
Python already has several ways to run programs concurrently — including asynchronous functions, threads, subinterpreters, and multiprocessing — but all of those options have drawbacks of one kind or another. PEP 703 ('Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPyth...
Version 6.0 ('Excalibur') of the systemd-averse Devuan distribution has been released. It is based on Debian 13 ('trixie'), and includes some of the significant changes from that release, including the merged /usr hierarchy. See the release notes for details.
The kernel's namespaces feature is, among other things, a key part of the implementation of containers. Like much in the kernel, though, the namespace API evolved over time; there was no design at the outset. As a result, this API has some rough edges and missing features....
Joel Severin has announced the availability of his port of the Linux kernel to WebAssembly; one can go to this page and watch it boot in a browser. Wasm is similar to every other arch in Linux, but also different. One important difference is that there is no way to suspend ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0,.NET 9.0, and webkit2gtk3), Debian (ruby-rack, strongswan, ublock-origin, and wordpress), Fedora (firefox, kea, openapi-python-client, openbao, python-uv-build, qt5-qtbase, ruby, ruff, rust-astral-tokio-tar,...
Linus has released 6.18-rc4 for testing. 'Last week in fact felt *so* calm that I was surprised to notice that rc4 isn't really smaller than usual: all the stats look very normal, both in number of changes and where the changes are.'
Sunday November 2, 2025. 04:37 PM
The relatively small 6.17.7, 6.12.57, and 6.6.116 stable kernels have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
Saturday November 1, 2025. 07:42 PM
Julian Andres Klode has announced that the Debian APT package-management tool will acquire 'hard Rust dependencies sometime after May 2026. 'If you maintain a port without a working Rust toolchain, please ensure it has one within the next 6 months, or sunset the port.'
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