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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

Jun 3ยท1 min readยท110 words

[$] BPF in the agentic era

Jun 3ยท1 min readยท99 words

Tridgell: rsync and outrage

Jun 3ยท2 min readยท236 words

Security updates for Wednesday

Jun 3ยท1 min readยท119 words

[$] Caching for extended attributes

Jun 2ยท1 min readยท80 words

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

Jun 2ยท1 min readยท104 words

Vim Classic 8.3 released

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Security updates for Tuesday

Jun 2ยท1 min readยท91 words

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

Jun 1ยท1 min readยท197 words

[$] Representing the true signatures of kernel functions

Jun 1ยท1 min readยท92 words

Seven stable kernels for the first day of June

Jun 1ยท1 min readยท55 words

DistroWatch turns 25

Jun 1ยท1 min readยท81 words

[$] Reconsidering x32 โ€” again

Jun 1ยท1 min readยท88 words

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

Jun 1ยท1 min readยท200 words

Fedora F44 election interviews published

Jun 1ยท1 min readยท43 words

Security updates for Monday

Jun 1ยท1 min readยท134 words

Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc6

Jun 1ยท1 min readยท49 words

[$] A trademark dispute over MeshCore

May 29ยท1 min readยท81 words

[$] A loadable crypto module for FIPS certification

May 29ยท1 min readยท90 words

Nesbitt: Protestware for coding agents

May 29ยท1 min readยท183 words

Security updates for Friday

May 29ยท1 min readยท99 words

Rust 1.96.0 released

May 28ยท1 min readยท36 words

Gรณrny: why Gentoo?

May 28ยท1 min readยท150 words

[$] Policies for merging new filesystems

May 28ยท1 min readยท93 words

IBM's "Project Lightwell"

May 28ยท1 min readยท111 words

[$] Separating memory descriptors from struct page

May 28ยท1 min readยท69 words

Security updates for Thursday

May 28ยท1 min readยท128 words

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

May 28ยท1 min readยท72 words

Interview session with Jonathan Corbet

May 27ยท1 min readยท44 words

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

May 27ยท1 min readยท120 words

Andrew Morton's 2004 OLS keynote

May 27ยท1 min readยท118 words

[$] Further progress toward removing the page map count

May 27ยท1 min readยท93 words

Security updates for Wednesday

May 27ยท1 min readยท162 words

Arias: Human proof for FOSS contributions

May 26ยท2 min readยท202 words

Stenberg: The pressure

May 26ยท1 min readยท177 words

[$] Better automatic management of transparent huge pages

May 26ยท1 min readยท114 words

Security updates for Tuesday

May 26ยท1 min readยท96 words

[$] Reviewing kernel patches with LLMs

May 25ยท1 min readยท94 words

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

May 25ยท1 min readยท180 words

[$] Tier-aware memory-controller limits

May 25ยท1 min readยท66 words

Security updates for Monday

May 25ยท1 min readยท89 words

[$] Dirk and Linus discuss AI and kernel development

May 25ยท1 min readยท77 words

Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc5

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A large set of stable kernel updates

May 23ยท1 min readยท47 words

[$] 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

May 22ยท1 min readยท60 words

Vulnerabilities in various GTK-based PDF readers

May 21ยท1 min readยท120 words

[$] BPF support in GCC 16 and beyond

May 21ยท1 min readยท83 words

OpenBSD 7.9 released

May 21ยท1 min readยท66 words

[$] Support for private memory nodes

May 21ยท1 min readยท88 words

Security updates for Thursday

May 21ยท1 min readยท79 words

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

May 21ยท1 min readยท50 words

[$] What is to be done about MGLRU?

May 20ยท1 min readยท110 words

Security updates for Wednesday

May 20ยท1 min readยท146 words

[$] The tenth OpenPGP email summit

May 20ยท1 min readยท110 words

Firefox 151.0 released

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

May 19ยท1 min readยท93 words

[$] In search of faster this_cpu operations

May 19ยท1 min readยท70 words

[$] What's brewing in CXL

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[$] Improving the per-CPU memory allocator

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Security updates for Tuesday

May 19ยท1 min readยท105 words

pgBackRest will continue

May 19ยท1 min readยท152 words

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

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Security updates for Monday

May 18ยท1 min readยท127 words

Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc4

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RIP Peter G. Neumann

May 17ยท1 min readยท31 words

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

May 15ยท1 min readยท72 words

[$] HugeTLB preservation over live update

May 15ยท1 min readยท67 words

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

May 13ยท1 min readยท7 words

[$] 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

May 8ยท1 min readยท7 words

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

May 7ยท1 min readยท7 words

[$] A new era for memory-management maintainership

May 7ยท1 min readยท7 words

An update on KDE's Union style engine

May 7ยท1 min readยท7 words

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

May 5ยท1 min readยท6 words

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

Apr 30ยท1 min readยท4 words

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

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A security bug in AEAD sockets

Apr 30ยท1 min readยท6 words

[$] 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

Apr 28ยท1 min readยท6 words

[$] Strawberry is ripe for managing music collections

Apr 28ยท1 min readยท8 words

In Memoriam: Tomรกลก Kalibera

Apr 28ยท1 min readยท4 words

All FOSDEM 2026 videos are online

Apr 28ยท1 min readยท6 words

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

Apr 27ยท1 min readยท5 words

[$] 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

Apr 22ยท1 min readยท5 words

[$] 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

Apr 22ยท1 min readยท8 words

Firefox: The zero-days are numbered

Apr 22ยท1 min readยท5 words

Fedora Verified: a proposal to recognize Fedora contributor status

Apr 21ยท1 min readยท9 words

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

Apr 21ยท1 min readยท8 words

Firefox 150 released

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Security updates for Tuesday

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Git 2.54.0 released

Apr 20ยท1 min readยท3 words

Arch Linux now has a reproducible container image

Apr 20ยท1 min readยท8 words

[$] Digging into drama at The Document Foundation

Apr 20ยท1 min readยท8 words

Debian Project Leader Election 2026 results

Apr 20ยท1 min readยท6 words

Security updates for Monday

Apr 20ยท1 min readยท4 words

Seven stable kernels for Saturday

Apr 18ยท1 min readยท5 words

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

Apr 17ยท1 min readยท8 words

[$] 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

Apr 16ยท1 min readยท9 words

KDE Gear 26.04 released

Apr 16ยท1 min readยท4 words

Security updates for Thursday

Apr 16ยท1 min readยท4 words

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

Apr 16ยท1 min readยท8 words

FSF clarifies its stance on AGPLv3 additional terms

Apr 15ยท1 min readยท8 words

[$] Forking Vim to avoid LLM-generated code

Apr 15ยท1 min readยท7 words

Security updates for Wednesday

Apr 15ยท1 min readยท4 words

Zig 0.16.0 released

Apr 14ยท1 min readยท3 words

[$] Tagging music with MusicBrainz Picard

Apr 14ยท1 min readยท6 words

OpenSSL 4.0.0 released

Apr 14ยท1 min readยท3 words

Security updates for Tuesday

Apr 14ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] Development statistics for the 7.0 kernel

Apr 13ยท1 min readยท7 words

[$] A build system aimed at license compliance

Apr 13ยท1 min readยท8 words

Servo now on crates.io

Apr 13ยท1 min readยท4 words

Security updates for Monday

Apr 13ยท1 min readยท4 words

The 7.0 kernel has been released

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A set of Saturday stable kernel updates

Apr 11ยท1 min readยท7 words

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

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Security updates for Friday

Apr 10ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] A flood of useful security reports

Apr 9ยท1 min readยท7 words

Relicensing versus license compatibility (FSF Blog)

Apr 9ยท1 min readยท6 words

Security updates for Thursday

Apr 9ยท1 min readยท4 words

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

Apr 9ยท1 min readยท8 words

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

Apr 8ยท1 min readยท8 words

[$] An API for handling arithmetic overflow

Apr 8ยท1 min readยท7 words

Nix privilege escalation security advisory

Apr 8ยท1 min readยท5 words

Security updates for Wednesday

Apr 8ยท1 min readยท4 words

[$] Sharing stories on Scuttlebutt

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Security updates for Tuesday

Apr 7ยท1 min readยท4 words

Introducing the FreeBSD laptop integration testing project

Apr 6ยท1 min readยท7 words

[$] Protecting against TPM interposer attacks

Apr 6ยท1 min readยท6 words

6.6.133 stable kernel released

Apr 6ยท1 min readยท4 words

Security updates for Monday

Apr 6ยท1 min readยท4 words

Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc7

Apr 6ยท1 min readยท3 words

Hackers breached the European Commission (The Next Web)

Apr 5ยท1 min readยท8 words

[$] Ubuntu's GRUBby plans

Apr 3ยท1 min readยท4 words

No kidding: Gentoo GNU/Hurd

Apr 3ยท1 min readยท4 words

Security updates for Friday

Apr 3ยท1 min readยท4 words

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

Apr 1ยท1 min readยท7 words

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

Mar 31ยท1 min readยท8 words

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

Mar 31ยท1 min readยท8 words

Vulnerability Research Is Cooked (sockpuppet.org)

Mar 31ยท1 min readยท5 words

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

Mar 26ยท1 min readยท5 words

Security updates for Thursday

Mar 26ยท1 min readยท4 words

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

Mar 26ยท1 min readยท8 words

[$] 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

Mar 6ยท1 min readยท3 words

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)

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[$] Free software needs free tools

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Garrett: To update blobs or not to update blobs

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Security updates for Tuesday

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[$] The ongoing quest for atomic buffered writes

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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

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Motorola announces a partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation

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Gram 1.0 released

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Security updates for Monday

Mar 2ยท1 min readยท4 words

Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc2

Mar 2ยท1 min readยท3 words

groff 1.24.0 released

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[$] The troubles with Boolean inversion in Python

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Two new stable kernels, possible regression

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Security updates for Friday

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

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Security updates for Thursday

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[$] 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

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[$] 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

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GNU Octave 11.1.0 released

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[$] 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

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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

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

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[$] More accurate congestion notification for TCP

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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)

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Security updates for Wednesday

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[$] 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

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[$] Open source security in spite of AI

Feb 16ยท1 min readยท8 words

Four stable kernels to fix problematic commit

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[$] Compact formats for debuggingโ€”and more

Feb 16ยท1 min readยท6 words

Four stable kernels for Monday

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Security updates for Monday

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Vim 9.2 released

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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

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[$] Poisoning scraperbots with iocaine

Feb 12ยท1 min readยท5 words

[$] The reverting of revocable

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Debian DFSG Team announces new dashboard and queue processes

Feb 12ยท1 min readยท9 words

A single stable kernel for Thursday

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Security updates for Thursday

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

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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

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Stable kernels for Wednesday

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Security updates for Wednesday

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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

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Security updates for Thursday

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

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