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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 11, 2026

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Larson: Are insecure code completions a vulnerability?

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[$] AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere

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Buildroot 2026.05 released

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Security updates for Wednesday

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Future of Ubuntu MATE

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[$] Eliminating long-lived credentials with trusted publishing

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Asahi Linux warns users not to upgrade to macOS 27 beta

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[$] BPF loop verification with scalar evolution

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Security updates for Tuesday

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Three stable kernels for Tuesday

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[$] An update on fanotify

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rsync 3.4.4 released with regression fixes

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Security updates for Monday

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Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc7

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[$] Moving beyond fork() + exec()

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Ruby's Bundler adds a cooldown feature

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Security updates for Friday

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Dave Airlie on Linux Kernel Maintenance (SE Radio)

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[$] Splicing out vmsplice()

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One step forward, two steps back on CA age bill (EFF Deeplinks Blog)

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Security updates for Thursday

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 4, 2026

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[$] Open-source security is not a solo activity

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[$] BPF in the agentic era

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Tridgell: rsync and outrage

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Security updates for Wednesday

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[$] Caching for extended attributes

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[$] Trying to make sense of package-manager metadata

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Vim Classic 8.3 released

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Security updates for Tuesday

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Ombredanne: An AI agent ported our codebase from Python to Rust

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[$] Representing the true signatures of kernel functions

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Seven stable kernels for the first day of June

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DistroWatch turns 25

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[$] Reconsidering x32 โ€” again

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Multiple redhat-cloud-services npm packages compromised (StepSecurity Blog)

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Fedora F44 election interviews published

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Security updates for Monday

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Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc6

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[$] A trademark dispute over MeshCore

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[$] A loadable crypto module for FIPS certification

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Nesbitt: Protestware for coding agents

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Security updates for Friday

May 29ยท1 min readยท99 words

Rust 1.96.0 released

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Gรณrny: why Gentoo?

May 28ยท1 min readยท150 words

[$] Policies for merging new filesystems

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IBM's "Project Lightwell"

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[$] Separating memory descriptors from struct page

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Security updates for Thursday

May 28ยท1 min readยท128 words

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 28, 2026

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Interview session with Jonathan Corbet

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[$] MOT: a tool to fight openwashing in AI

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Andrew Morton's 2004 OLS keynote

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[$] Further progress toward removing the page map count

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Security updates for Wednesday

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Arias: Human proof for FOSS contributions

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Stenberg: The pressure

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[$] Better automatic management of transparent huge pages

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Security updates for Tuesday

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[$] Reviewing kernel patches with LLMs

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Comprehensive Response to Bambu's AGPLv3 Violations (Software Freedom Conservancy)

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[$] Tier-aware memory-controller limits

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Security updates for Monday

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[$] Dirk and Linus discuss AI and kernel development

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Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc5

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A large set of stable kernel updates

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[$] Custom page-cache policies with BPF

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[$] Toward better handling of major page faults

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Security updates for Friday

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Vulnerabilities in various GTK-based PDF readers

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[$] BPF support in GCC 16 and beyond

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OpenBSD 7.9 released

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[$] Support for private memory nodes

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Security updates for Thursday

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 21, 2026

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[$] What is to be done about MGLRU?

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Security updates for Wednesday

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[$] The tenth OpenPGP email summit

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Firefox 151.0 released

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[$] openSUSE "terms of site" raise complaints about age restrictions

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[$] In search of faster this_cpu operations

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[$] What's brewing in CXL

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[$] Improving the per-CPU memory allocator

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Security updates for Tuesday

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pgBackRest will continue

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[$] Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more

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Security updates for Monday

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Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc4

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RIP Peter G. Neumann

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Some weekend stable kernel updates

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[$] Controlling memory-management with BPF

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Seven new stable kernels with patches for CVE-2026-46333

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[$] HugeTLB preservation over live update

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Security updates for Friday

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[$] Policy groups for memory management

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[$] Buffered atomic writes, writethrough, and more

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Three stable kernels for Thursday

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[$] Keeping COWs in context (a.k.a. anonymous reverse mapping)

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Security updates for Thursday

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 14, 2026

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[$] Friction in Fedora over AI developer desktop initiative

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Yet another Dirty Frag type vulnerability: Fragnesia

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[$] Managing pages outside of the direct map

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[$] Revisiting mshare

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Security updates for Wednesday

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Sovereign Tech Fund invests in KDE

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[$] Using dma-bufs for read and write operations

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[$] Scaling transparent huge pages to 1GB

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Security updates for Tuesday

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Stenberg: Mythos finds a curl vulnerability

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Two stable kernels with Dirty Frag fixes

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[$] Providing 64KB base pages with 4KB kernels, two different ways

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Debian to require reproducible builds

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Security updates for Monday

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Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc3

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More stable kernels with partial Dirty Frag fixes

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[$] Forgejo "carrot disclosure" raises security questions

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killswitch for short-term emergency vulnerability mitigation

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[$] A 2026 DAMON update

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Security updates for Friday

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Four stable kernels with partial fixes for Dirty Frag

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Dirty Frag: a zero-day universal Linux LPE

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[$] A new era for memory-management maintainership

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An update on KDE's Union style engine

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Security updates for Thursday

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Three stable kernel updates

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 7, 2026

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[$] LLM-driven security reports disrupt coordinated disclosure

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Incus 7.0 LTS released

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Security updates for Wednesday

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[$] Hardware-assisted Arm VMs for s390

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Security updates for Tuesday

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The retirement of the PHP license

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Alpine Linux systems currently offline

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[$] Bug-monitoring expectations and Fedora GNOME packages

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NetHack 5.0.0 released

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Security updates for Monday

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Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc2

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Eden: NHS goes to war against open source

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[$] Version-controlled databases using Prolly trees

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Security updates for Friday

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[$] Restartable sequences, TCMalloc, and Hyrum's Law

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GCC 16.1 released

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Seven new stable kernels for Thursday

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Security updates for Thursday

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 30, 2026

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A security bug in AEAD sockets

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[$] Python packaging council approved

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Security review of Plasma Login Manager (SUSE Security Team Blog)

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Security updates for Wednesday

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Remembering Seth Nickell

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Fedora Linux 44 has been released

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[$] Strawberry is ripe for managing music collections

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In Memoriam: Tomรกลก Kalibera

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All FOSDEM 2026 videos are online

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Security updates for Tuesday

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pip 26.1 released

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[$] The rest of the 7.1 merge window

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Four new stable kernels for Monday

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pgBackRest is no longer maintained

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[$] Zig explores structured concurrency

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The future of AI in Ubuntu

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Niri 26.04 released

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Security updates for Monday

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Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc1

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GnuPG 2.5.19 released

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[$] On pages and folios

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Security updates for Friday

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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS released

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[$] Famfs, FUSE, and BPF

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Security updates for Thursday

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 23, 2026

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[$] Dependency-cooldown discussions warm up

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[$] One Sized trait does not fit all

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LilyPond 2.26.0 released

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Four stable kernels for Wednesday

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Security updates for Wednesday

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Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports

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Firefox: The zero-days are numbered

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Fedora Verified: a proposal to recognize Fedora contributor status

Apr 21ยท1 min readยท9 words

[$] Using LLMs to find Python C-extension bugs

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Firefox 150 released

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Security updates for Tuesday

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Git 2.54.0 released

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Arch Linux now has a reproducible container image

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[$] Digging into drama at The Document Foundation

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Debian Project Leader Election 2026 results

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Security updates for Monday

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Seven stable kernels for Saturday

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[$] A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm

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[$] The 7.0 scheduler regression that wasn't

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Security updates for Friday

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Rust 1.95.0 released

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Forgejo 15.0 released

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[$] The first half of the 7.1 merge window

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KDE Gear 26.04 released

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Security updates for Thursday

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 16, 2026

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FSF clarifies its stance on AGPLv3 additional terms

Apr 15ยท1 min readยท8 words

[$] Forking Vim to avoid LLM-generated code

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Security updates for Wednesday

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Zig 0.16.0 released

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[$] Tagging music with MusicBrainz Picard

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OpenSSL 4.0.0 released

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Security updates for Tuesday

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[$] Development statistics for the 7.0 kernel

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[$] A build system aimed at license compliance

Apr 13ยท1 min readยท8 words

Servo now on crates.io

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Security updates for Monday

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The 7.0 kernel has been released

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A set of Saturday stable kernel updates

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[$] Removing read-only transparent huge pages for the page cache

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Security updates for Friday

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[$] A flood of useful security reports

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Relicensing versus license compatibility (FSF Blog)

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Security updates for Thursday

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 9, 2026

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[$] Ripping CDs and converting audio with fre:ac

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[$] An API for handling arithmetic overflow

Apr 8ยท1 min readยท7 words

Nix privilege escalation security advisory

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Security updates for Wednesday

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[$] Sharing stories on Scuttlebutt

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Security updates for Tuesday

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Introducing the FreeBSD laptop integration testing project

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[$] Protecting against TPM interposer attacks

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6.6.133 stable kernel released

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Security updates for Monday

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Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc7

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Hackers breached the European Commission (The Next Web)

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[$] Ubuntu's GRUBby plans

Apr 3ยท1 min readยท4 words

No kidding: Gentoo GNU/Hurd

Apr 3ยท1 min readยท4 words

Security updates for Friday

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SFC: What the FCC router ban means for FOSS

Apr 2ยท1 min readยท9 words

[$] IPC medley: message-queue peeking, io_uring, and bus1

Apr 2ยท1 min readยท8 words

Exelbierd: What's actually in a Sashiko review?

Apr 2ยท1 min readยท7 words

OpenSSH 10.3 released

Apr 2ยท1 min readยท3 words

Security updates for Thursday

Apr 2ยท1 min readยท4 words

New stable kernels for Thursday

Apr 2ยท1 min readยท5 words

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 2, 2026

Apr 2ยท1 min readยท8 words

Turbulence at the Documentation Foundation

Apr 1ยท1 min readยท5 words

[$] Pandoc: a workhorse for document conversion

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Servo 0.0.6 released

Apr 1ยท1 min readยท3 words

Security updates for Wednesday

Apr 1ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] The role of LLMs in patch review

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[$] Objections to systemd age-attestation changes go overboard

Mar 31ยท1 min readยท8 words

Vulnerability Research Is Cooked (sockpuppet.org)

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Security updates for Tuesday

Mar 31ยท1 min readยท4 words

SystemRescue 13.00 released

Mar 30ยท1 min readยท3 words

Rspamd version 4.0.0 released

Mar 30ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] Rust's next-generation trait solver

Mar 30ยท1 min readยท5 words

Security updates for Monday

Mar 30ยท1 min readยท4 words

Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc6

Mar 29ยท1 min readยท3 words

[$] The many failures leading to the LiteLLM compromise

Mar 27ยท1 min readยท9 words

The telnyx packages on PyPI have been compromised

Mar 27ยท1 min readยท8 words

Stable kernel update to fix regression on LoongArch platform

Mar 27ยท1 min readยท9 words

Security updates for Friday

Mar 27ยท1 min readยท4 words

The forge is our new home (Fedora Community Blog)

Mar 26ยท1 min readยท9 words

[$] Vibe-coded ext4 for OpenBSD

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Security updates for Thursday

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 26, 2026

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[$] Collaboration for battling security incidents

Mar 25ยท1 min readยท6 words

Setting up a Tor Relay at National Taiwan Normal University (Tor Blog)

Mar 25ยท1 min readยท12 words

LibreQoS v2.0 released

Mar 25ยท1 min readยท3 words

[$] More efficient removal of pages from the direct map

Mar 25ยท1 min readยท10 words

Five new stable kernels

Mar 25ยท1 min readยท4 words

Security updates for Wednesday

Mar 25ยท1 min readยท4 words

Firefox 149.0 released

Mar 24ยท1 min readยท3 words

[$] A PHP license change is imminent

Mar 24ยท1 min readยท7 words

LiteLLM on PyPI is compromised

Mar 24ยท1 min readยท5 words

Down: Debunking zswap and zram myths

Mar 24ยท1 min readยท6 words

Krita 5.3.0 and 6.0.0 released

Mar 24ยท1 min readยท5 words

Security updates for Tuesday

Mar 24ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] Tracking when BPF programs may sleep

Mar 23ยท1 min readยท7 words

Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc5

Mar 23ยท1 min readยท3 words

Security updates for Monday

Mar 23ยท1 min readยท4 words

b4 v0.15.0 released

Mar 20ยท1 min readยท3 words

Agama 19 released

Mar 20ยท1 min readยท3 words

[$] A truce in the Manjaro governance struggle

Mar 20ยท1 min readยท8 words

Security updates for Friday

Mar 20ยท1 min readยท4 words

Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps (Ars Technica)

Mar 19ยท1 min readยท12 words

Two new stable kernels

Mar 19ยท1 min readยท4 words

Radicle 1.7.0 released

Mar 19ยท1 min readยท3 words

[$] Development tools: Sashiko, b4 review, and API specification

Mar 19ยท1 min readยท9 words

Security updates for Thursday

Mar 19ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 19, 2026

Mar 19ยท1 min readยท8 words

[$] Cindy Cohn on privacy battles old and new

Mar 18ยท1 min readยท9 words

Samba 4.24.0 released

Mar 18ยท1 min readยท3 words

GNOME 50 released

Mar 18ยท1 min readยท3 words

Local-privilege escalation in snapd

Mar 18ยท1 min readยท4 words

Fedora Asahi Remix 43 released

Mar 18ยท1 min readยท5 words

[$] BPF comes to io_uring at last

Mar 18ยท1 min readยท7 words

Security updates for Wednesday

Mar 18ยท1 min readยท4 words

The Sashiko patch-review system

Mar 17ยท1 min readยท4 words

FSFE reports trouble with payment provider

Mar 17ยท1 min readยท6 words

[$] Fedora ponders a "sandbox" technology lifecycle

Mar 17ยท1 min readยท7 words

Security updates for Tuesday

Mar 17ยท1 min readยท4 words

Marknote 1.5 released

Mar 16ยท1 min readยท3 words

Debian Project Leader election underway

Mar 16ยท1 min readยท5 words

GIMP 3.2 released

Mar 16ยท1 min readยท3 words

[$] A safer kmalloc() for 7.0

Mar 16ยท1 min readยท6 words

Security updates for Monday

Mar 16ยท1 min readยท4 words

Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc4

Mar 15ยท1 min readยท3 words

Stable kernels for Friday the 13th

Mar 13ยท1 min readยท6 words

An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills

Mar 13ยท1 min readยท9 words

A set of AppArmor vulnerabilities

Mar 13ยท1 min readยท5 words

[$] More timing side-channels for the page cache

Mar 13ยท1 min readยท8 words

Security updates for Friday

Mar 13ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] Practical uses for a null filesystem

Mar 12ยท1 min readยท7 words

Two stable kernels for Thursday

Mar 12ยท1 min readยท5 words

Security updates for Thursday

Mar 12ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 12, 2026

Mar 12ยท1 min readยท8 words

[$] California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions

Mar 11ยท1 min readยท9 words

Introducing Moonforge: a Yocto-based Linux OS (Igalia Blog)

Mar 11ยท1 min readยท8 words

[$] HTTPS certificates in the age of quantum computing

Mar 11ยท1 min readยท9 words

Security updates for Wednesday

Mar 11ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] Disabling Python's lazy imports from the command line

Mar 10ยท1 min readยท9 words

SUSE may be for sale, again

Mar 10ยท1 min readยท6 words

[$] Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions

Mar 10ยท1 min readยท9 words

Security updates for Tuesday

Mar 10ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] Inspecting and modifying Python types during type checking

Mar 9ยท1 min readยท9 words

digiKam 9.0.0 released

Mar 9ยท1 min readยท3 words

Security updates for Monday

Mar 9ยท1 min readยท4 words

Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc3

Mar 9ยท1 min readยท3 words

Huston: Revisiting time

Mar 7ยท1 min readยท3 words

[$] Fedora shares strategy updates and "weird research university" model

Mar 6ยท1 min readยท10 words

OpenWrt 25.12.0 released

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Security updates for Friday

Mar 6ยท1 min readยท4 words

Rust 1.94.0 released

Mar 5ยท1 min readยท3 words

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines (grith.ai)

Mar 5ยท1 min readยท9 words

[$] The relicensing of chardet

Mar 5ยท1 min readยท5 words

Buildroot 2026.02 released

Mar 5ยท1 min readยท3 words

New stable kernels to address build failures

Mar 5ยท1 min readยท7 words

[$] Reconsidering the multi-generational LRU

Mar 5ยท1 min readยท5 words

Security updates for Thursday

Mar 5ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 5, 2026

Mar 5ยท1 min readยท8 words

Seven new stable Linux kernels

Mar 4ยท1 min readยท5 words

Security updates for Wednesday

Mar 4ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] Magit and Majutsu: discoverable version-control

Mar 4ยท1 min readยท6 words

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoplesโ€™ Movements (404 Media)

Mar 3ยท1 min readยท13 words

[$] Free software needs free tools

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Garrett: To update blobs or not to update blobs

Mar 3ยท1 min readยท9 words

Security updates for Tuesday

Mar 3ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] The ongoing quest for atomic buffered writes

Mar 2ยท1 min readยท8 words

Hรธiland-Jรธrgensen: The inner workings of TCP zero-copy

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Texinfo 7.3 released

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[$] The exploitation paradox in open source

Mar 2ยท1 min readยท7 words

Motorola announces a partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation

Mar 2ยท1 min readยท8 words

Gram 1.0 released

Mar 2ยท1 min readยท3 words

Security updates for Monday

Mar 2ยท1 min readยท4 words

Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc2

Mar 2ยท1 min readยท3 words

groff 1.24.0 released

Mar 1ยท1 min readยท3 words

[$] The troubles with Boolean inversion in Python

Feb 27ยท1 min readยท8 words

Two new stable kernels, possible regression

Feb 27ยท1 min readยท6 words

Security updates for Friday

Feb 27ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] IIIF: images and visual presentations for the web

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Security updates for Thursday

Feb 26ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 26, 2026

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Support period lengthened for the 6.6, 6.12, and 6.18 kernels

Feb 25ยท1 min readยท10 words

[$] No hardware memory isolation for BPF programs

Feb 25ยท1 min readยท8 words

[$] An effort to secure the Network Time Protocol

Feb 25ยท1 min readยท9 words

MetaBrainz mourns the loss of Robert Kaye

Feb 25ยท1 min readยท7 words

Security updates for Wednesday

Feb 25ยท1 min readยท4 words

Restarting LibreOffice Online

Feb 24ยท1 min readยท3 words

GNU Awk 5.4.0 released

Feb 24ยท1 min readยท4 words

Firefox 148.0 released

Feb 24ยท1 min readยท3 words

[$] As ye clone(), so shall ye AUTOREAP

Feb 24ยท1 min readยท8 words

Security updates for Tuesday

Feb 24ยท1 min readยท4 words

GNU Octave 11.1.0 released

Feb 23ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] The second half of the 7.0 merge window

Feb 23ยท1 min readยท9 words

Vlad: Weston 15.0 is here: Lua shells, Vulkan rendering, and a smoother display stack

Feb 23ยท1 min readยท14 words

Security updates for Monday

Feb 23ยท1 min readยท4 words

The Ladybird browser project shifts to Rust

Feb 23ยท1 min readยท7 words

[$] Lessons on attracting new contributors from 30 years of PostgreSQL

Feb 23ยท1 min readยท11 words

Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc1

Feb 23ยท1 min readยท3 words

[$] Open-source Discord alternatives

Feb 20ยท1 min readยท4 words

The Book of Remind

Feb 20ยท1 min readยท4 words

Security updates for Friday

Feb 20ยท1 min readยท4 words

Seven stable kernels for Thursday

Feb 19ยท1 min readยท5 words

[$] Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces

Feb 19ยท1 min readยท6 words

openSUSE governance proposal advances

Feb 19ยท1 min readยท4 words

Security updates for Thursday

Feb 19ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 19, 2026

Feb 19ยท1 min readยท8 words

[$] More accurate congestion notification for TCP

Feb 18ยท1 min readยท7 words

Fedora now available in Syria

Feb 18ยท1 min readยท5 words

An Asahi Linux progress report

Feb 18ยท1 min readยท5 words

An update to the malicious crate notification policy (Rust Blog)

Feb 18ยท1 min readยท10 words

Security updates for Wednesday

Feb 18ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] Do androids dream of accepted pull requests?

Feb 17ยท1 min readยท8 words

Plasma 6.6.0 released

Feb 17ยท1 min readยท3 words

An update on upki

Feb 17ยท1 min readยท4 words

Security updates for Tuesday

Feb 17ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] Open source security in spite of AI

Feb 16ยท1 min readยท8 words

Four stable kernels to fix problematic commit

Feb 16ยท1 min readยท7 words

[$] Compact formats for debuggingโ€”and more

Feb 16ยท1 min readยท6 words

Four stable kernels for Monday

Feb 16ยท1 min readยท5 words

Security updates for Monday

Feb 16ยท1 min readยท4 words

Vim 9.2 released

Feb 14ยท1 min readยท3 words

New delegation for Debian's data protection team

Feb 13ยท1 min readยท7 words

[$] The first half of the 7.0 merge window

Feb 13ยท1 min readยท9 words

[$] Open-source mapping for disaster response

Feb 13ยท1 min readยท6 words

Security updates for Friday

Feb 13ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] Poisoning scraperbots with iocaine

Feb 12ยท1 min readยท5 words

[$] The reverting of revocable

Feb 12ยท1 min readยท5 words

Debian DFSG Team announces new dashboard and queue processes

Feb 12ยท1 min readยท9 words

A single stable kernel for Thursday

Feb 12ยท1 min readยท6 words

Security updates for Thursday

Feb 12ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 12, 2026

Feb 12ยท1 min readยท8 words

Linux man pages 6.17 released

Feb 11ยท1 min readยท5 words

[$] Evolving Git for the next decade

Feb 11ยท1 min readยท7 words

postmarketOS FOSDEM 2026 and hackathon recap

Feb 11ยท1 min readยท6 words

Stable kernels for Wednesday

Feb 11ยท1 min readยท4 words

Security updates for Wednesday

Feb 11ยท1 min readยท4 words

Dave Farber RIP

Feb 10ยท1 min readยท3 words

GTK hackfest, 2026 edition (GTK Development Blog)

Feb 10ยท1 min readยท7 words

[$] FOSS in times of war, scarcity, and AI

Feb 10ยท1 min readยท9 words

Security updates for Tuesday

Feb 10ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] Development statistics for 6.19

Feb 9ยท1 min readยท5 words

Offpunk 3.0 released

Feb 9ยท1 min readยท3 words

Debian's tag2upload considered stable

Feb 9ยท1 min readยท4 words

Security updates for Monday

Feb 9ยท1 min readยท4 words

The 6.19 kernel has been released

Feb 8ยท1 min readยท6 words

An in-kernel machine-learning library

Feb 6ยท1 min readยท4 words

Six stable kernels for Friday

Feb 6ยท1 min readยท5 words

Ardour 9.0 released

Feb 6ยท1 min readยท3 words

[$] Kernel control-flow-integrity support comes to GCC

Feb 6ยท1 min readยท7 words

Linux from Scratch to drop System V versions

Feb 6ยท1 min readยท8 words

Security updates for Friday

Feb 6ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] Modernizing swapping: the end of the swap map

Feb 5ยท1 min readยท9 words

Security updates for Thursday

Feb 5ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 5, 2026

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