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[$] Accelerating the kernel's build process

Two stable kernel updates for Friday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.5 and 6.18.51 stable kernels. There are [...]

Security updates for Friday

Dist. ID Release Package Date AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:66341 9 apr-util 2026-09-10 AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:65816 10…

[$] Even more formal verification for BPF

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Django moves to an annual release cycle

The Django Python web-framework project has announced that it has accepted an annual release cycle proposal. This…

Security updates for Monday

Dist. ID Release Package Date AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:51105 9 LibRaw 2026-08-07 AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:47105 8 firefox…

Kernel prepatch 7.2-rc7

The 7.2-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. It is still bigger than Linus would like, but [...]

Four weekend stable kernel updates

The 7.1.8, 6.18.44, 6.12.103, and 6.6.151 stable kernels have been released; each contains a fa [...]

[$] Changes in shadow-utils password-expiration features

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The Software Stewardship Lab launches

The Software Stewardship Lab, a nonprofit organization based in Scotland, has announced its existence. Our current…

LightDM lives: version 1.33.0 released

Version 1.33.0 of the LightDM display manager has been released. This is the first release in four years: the project…

Stable kernel releases for Friday with a single bug fix

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of several stable kernel versions, including 6.12.102, 6.6.150, 6.1.182,…

Security updates for Friday

Dist. ID Release Package Date AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:47183 8 compat-libtiff3 2026-08-06 AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:50317 9…

Six stable kernels with a security fix

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.1.7, 6.18.43, 6.6.149, 6.1.181, 5.15.214, and 5.10.263 stable…

[$] Bringing BPF to binfmt_misc

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Rust Coreutils 0.10 released

Version 0.10 of the uutils project's Rust Coreutils has been released. This release focused on compatibility with the…

Security updates for Thursday

Dist. ID Release Package Date Debian DLA-4718-1 LTS 7zip 2026-08-05 Debian DLA-4720-1 LTS kernel 2026-08-05 Debian…

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 6, 2026

Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 6, 2026 This edition contains the following feature content: The…

b4 0.16.0 released

Konstantin Ryabitsev has announced the release of version 0.16.0 of the b4 software-development tool. The biggest…

[$] Examining other network namespaces using BPF

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[$] FUSE status and plans

Please consider signing up for a subscription and helping to keep LWN publishing. By Jake EdgeAugust 5, 2026 LSFMM+BPF…

Nelson: rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy

The Rust language team has adopted a new LLM policy, which outlines guidelines for the use of Large Language Models in…

Security updates for Wednesday

Dist. ID Release Package Date AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:49927 8 fence-agents 2026-08-04 AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:49508 10…

An LLM agent attempts to compromise a project on GitHub

The AI Security Institute has released a detailed report on an security incident of its own making. The Institute set…

[$] Fedora considers conflict-of-interest policy

The Fedora Council is drafting a conflict-of-interest policy for its decision‑making bodies after a controversial…

Another NPM worm

A new worm, known as ChainDrop, is spreading rapidly through the npm ecosystem by exploiting captured NPM packager…

[$] The beginning of a process-builder API

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Security updates for Tuesday

Dist. ID Release Package Date AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:49511 8 frr 2026-08-04 AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:49520 8 ldns 2026-08-04…

Twenty years of Pandoc

John MacFarlane has published a lengthy retrospective to commemorate twenty years of the Pandoc document converter. On…

C-Kermit 11 released

C-Kermit 11 has been released, marking the first update to the file-transfer utility in 15 years. The new release…

[$] Buffer sizes for FUSE io_uring

By Jake EdgeAugust 3, 2026 LSFMM+BPF The Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) subsystem provides a way to service filesystem…

SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop? (JFrog blog)

The JFrog blog examines some reported vulnerabilities in SQLite, some of which made their way into high-profile…

Four stable kernels for Monday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.1.6, 6.18.42, 6.12.101, and 6.6.148 stabl [...]

NetBSD 11.0 released

The release of NetBSD 11.0, the 19th major version of the operating system, has been announced. There are many changes…

Security updates for Monday

Dist. ID Release Package Date AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:41897 10 .NET 10.0 2026-07-31 AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:41900 8 .NET 10.0…

Kernel prepatch 7.2-rc6

The Linux kernel 7.2-rc6 prepatch has been released for testing. Linus Torvalds described it as unusually large,…

Servo 0.4.0 released

The Servo web-browser engine project has published an update about all of the changes that landed in June 2026, along…

Security updates for Friday

Dist. ID Release Package Date AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:45114 10 kernel 2026-07-31 AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:48032 10…

[$] The future of libraries in BPF

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Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption

The Arch Linux DevOps team has disabled adoption of orphaned packages in the Arch User Repository due to an influx of…

[$] Reconsidering O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY

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Another batch of single-fix stable kernels

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.18.41, 6.12.100, 6.6.147, 6.1.180, 5.15.2 [...]

Security updates for Thursday

Dist. ID Release Package Date AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:47180 10 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free 2026-07-29 AlmaLinux…

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

Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 30, 2026 This edition contains the following feature content: Hazard…

[$] Debugging information for inlined functions

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Three stable kernels for Wednesday fix a single regression

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.12.99, 6.6.146, 6.1.179 stable kernels. T [...]

[$] Fedora approves a smaller GRUB

Please help out by buying a subscription and keeping LWN on the net. By Joe BrockmeierJuly 29, 2026 Leo Sandoval and…

GCC steering committee announces AI policy

The GCC steering committee adopted an AI contributions policy proposed by its AI policy working group. The policy…

Security updates for Wednesday

Dist. ID Release Package Date AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:46532 8 dovecot 2026-07-28 AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:46394 10…