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Monday September 15, 2025. 01:26 AM
The 6.17-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'But really, none of it is very large. So everything seems slated for a normal release in two weeks. Please do keep testing, so that we don't get complacent.'
Friday September 12, 2025. 05:50 PM
Creating welcoming communities within open-source projects is a recurring topic at conferences; those projects rely on contributions from others, so making them welcome is important. The kernel has, rather infamously over the years, been an oft-cited example of an...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cups, imagemagick, libcpanel-json-xs-perl, and libjson-xs-perl), Fedora (checkpointctl, chromium, civetweb, glycin, kernel, libssh, ruff, rust-secret-service, snapshot, and uv), Mageia (curl), Red Hat (kernel), SUSE (cups, curl,...
Thursday September 11, 2025. 06:46 PM
The VMScape vulnerability is a Spectre variant that 'allows a malicious KVM guest to leak sensitive information such as encryption/decryption keys from a userspace hypervisor such as QEMU'. Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 6.16.7, 6.12.47, 6.6.106, 6.1.152, 5.15.193, and ...
The Git source-code management system stores a lot of information about changes to code — but it does not hold everything that might be of interest to a developer who needs to investigate a specific change in the future. Commits in a repository are the end result of a...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (python3.12-cryptography), Debian (chromium, hsqldb1.8.0, and imagemagick), Fedora (bustle, cef, maturin, rust-busd, rust-crypto-auditing-agent, rust-crypto-auditing-client, rust-crypto-auditing-event-broker, rust-monitord,...
The F-Droid project has some advice for free-software projects on how to deal with takedown requests. As part of our legal resilience research, we spoke with a range of legal experts, software freedom advocates, and maintainers of mature FOSS infrastructure to understand...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Space Grade Linux; KDE's new distribution; Rug pulls and forks; Dependency tracker; Kernel configuration; Framework 12 laptop. Briefs: npm security; high-memory; Anaconda WebUI; OpenSUSE bcachefs; 32-bit Firefox;...
Wednesday September 10, 2025. 06:10 PM
There are a large number of ways to configure the 6.16 Linux kernel. It has 32,468 different configuration options on x86_64, and a comparable number for other platforms. Exploring the ways the kernel can be configured is sufficiently difficult that it requires specialized...
The openSUSE project has announced that the bcachefs filesystem will be disabled in its kernel builds starting with 6.17; bcachefs users will have to make other arrangements. 'The current 6.16.* is NOT affected. Neither is Slowroll (for now).'
At Akademy 2025, the KDE Project released an alpha version of KDE Linux, a distribution built by the project to 'include the best implementation of everything KDE has to offer, using the most advanced technologies'. It is aimed at providing an operating system suitable for...
At Open Source Summit Europe, LWN's Jonathan Corbet presented 'Three Decades in Kernelland'; the talk provides a look at how the kernel got to where it is, what makes it successful, and what may be coming next. The video of the talk is now online for LWN readers who would...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (buildah, containers-common, glycin, loupe, podman, rust-matchers, and rust-tracing-subscriber), Red Hat (fence-agents, jackson-annotations, jackson-core, jackson-databind, jackson-jaxrs-providers, and jackson-modules-base,...
Tuesday September 9, 2025. 11:53 PM
As a followup to his OSS Europe talk on the future of 32-bit support in the kernel, Arnd Bergmann has put together a detailed plan for the eventual removal of high-memory support, which he calls 'one of the least popular features of the Linux kernel'. The intent is 'to...
The 6.16.6, 6.12.46, 6.6.105, 6.1.151, 5.15.192, 5.10.243, and 5.4.299 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
Fedora's Community Blog has a short update on the progress of Fedora's new installer with a web-based interface. The new installer was introduced for the Workstation edition in Fedora Linux 42, it is now approved to be included in all Fedora spins and the KDE edition for...
A new project, targeting Linux for the proverbial final frontier—outer space—was the subject of a talk (YouTube video) at the Embedded Linux Conference, which was held as part of Open Source Summit Europe in Amsterdam in late August. Ramón Roche introduced Space Grade...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel and kernel-rt), Debian (openafs and qemu), Fedora (buildah, containers-common, podman, python-flask, and snapshot), Mageia (postgresql, python-django, and udisks2), Oracle (kernel and libxml2), Red Hat...
Monday September 8, 2025. 07:45 PM
The Aikido blog describes an apparently ongoing series of phishing attacks against npm package maintainers, resulting in the uploading of compromised versions of heavily used packages: All together, these packages have more than 2 billion downloads per week. The packages...
Framework Computer is a US-based computer manufacturer with a line of Linux-supported, modular, easily repairable and upgradeable laptops. In February, the company announced a new model, the Framework Laptop 12, an 'entry-level' 12.2-inch convertible notebook that can be...
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