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A summary from the 2026 Git Contributors' Summit

Johannes Schindelin has posted a detailed summary of the discussions held at the 2026 Git Contr [...]

Security updates for Friday

Dist. ID Release Package Date AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:71329 8 kernel 2026-09-24 AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:71213 8 kernel…

F-Droid 2.0: A new chapter for Android freedom

The F-Droid project has announced the release of F-Droid 2.0, which is a complete redesign of the official app.…

Research into file-notification attacks on Linux

Sudheendra Raghav Neela, a member of a group of researchers from Graz University of Technology, has announced the…

[$] Listening to the radio with Rust

The Kernel Report 2026 edition

After a two-year hiatus, LWN's Jonathan Corbet presented an updated edition of his Kernel Report at the Kernel Recipes…

Security updates for Thursday

Dist. ID Release Package Date AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:70640 9 buildah 2026-09-24 AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:70391 9…

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 24, 2026

The LWN.net weekly edition for September 24, 2026, highlights the upcoming Git 2.56 release and the community's…

[$] Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop

By Joe BrockmeierSeptember 23, 2026 Akademy Scott Jenson has been working on user interfaces (UIs) and user experience…

Systemd v262 released

Some of the notable new features include the ability to build systemd as a single statically linked binary for small…

Critical security vulnerabilities in the Radicle network protocol

The Radicle peer-to-peer code-collaboration project has disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in the network protocol…

Critical WordPress RCE vulnerability announced

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in WordPress's get_page_template() function for page-template resolution…

Security updates for Wednesday

Dist. ID Release Package Date AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:69964 8 coreutils 2026-09-22 AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:67166 10…

[$] Compiling the kernel with gccrs

By Daroc AldenSeptember 22, 2026 RustConf Pierre-Emmanuel Patry and Arthur Cohen gave a talk at RustConf 2026 on the…

Security updates for Tuesday

Dist. ID Release Package Date AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:69113 8 apr-util 2026-09-21 AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:69277 8 corosync…

Igalia celebrates "Twenty-Five Years Upstream"

The open-source consulting firm Igalia has put out an announcement celebrating 25 years of working on upstream FOSS…

Three new stable kernels

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 7.2.7, 6.18.53, and 6.12.111 stable. As is usual these days [...]

[$] Testing compat_linux on NetBSD with the Linux Test Project

Security updates for Monday

Dist. ID Release Package Date AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:68507 10 kernel 2026-09-19 AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:68786 9 perl-Net-DNS…

Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc4

Linus Torvalds has released the 7.3-rc4 kernel prepatch. It is, unsurprisingly at this point, [...]

[$] Looking forward to Git 2.56 — and 3.0

For humans, by humans Every article on LWN.net is written for humans, by humans. If you've enjoyed this article and…

Systemtap 5.6 released

Version 5.6 of the Systemtap tracing tool has been released. BPF LSM hooks and XDP packet-processing probes for the…

Security updates for Friday

Dist. ID Release Package Date AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:67530 10 .NET 10.0 2026-09-18 AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:68676 8 .NET 10.0…

[$] Thread-identity switcheroo for io_uring

io_uring maintainer Jens Axboe has proposed a new patch set to address performance issues caused by blocking…

GNOME 51 released

Version 51 of the GNOME desktop environment has been released. The list of changes includes a [...]

Security updates for Thursday

Dist. ID Release Package Date AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:67613 9 .NET 10.0 2026-09-16 AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:67525 10 .NET 8.0…

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 17, 2026

Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 17, 2026 This edition contains the following feature content: Ways…

Fedora 45 beta drags the Linux console into the 21st century (Register)

The Register looks forward to the upcoming Fedora 45 release. The biggest surprise is that Linux's legacy in-kernel…

[$] Ways to encrypt data on servers

At the 2026 FOSSY conference, Romeo Solano presented strategies for encrypting server data to protect against physical…

Security updates for Wednesday

Dist. ID Release Package Date AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:67468 8 kernel 2026-09-15 AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:67469 8 kernel-rt…

[$] Adding BPF to blk-iocost

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Vondra: PostgreSQL development activity

PostgreSQL contributor Tomas Vondra has published a blog post looking at development activity in the project, with…

Security updates for Tuesday

Dist. ID Release Package Date Debian DSA-6498-1 stable network-manager-l2tp 2026-09-14 Debian DLA-4780-1 LTS urwid…

GNU Core Utilities 9.12 released

Pádraig Brady has announced GNU Core Utilities (coreutils) version 9.12. "There have been 288 commits by 16 people in…

[$] Lessons learned as the Debian Project Leader

Emacs arbitrary code execution flaw

Sean Whitton has announced that the original fix for an arbitrary code execution flaw in Emacs (CVE-2024-53920) was…

Security updates for Monday

Dist. ID Release Package Date AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:64785 10 389-ds-base 2026-09-14 AlmaLinux ALSA-2026:66392 10…

More than 9,000 patches total in the seven stable kernels for Monday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 7.2.6, 6.18.52, 6.12.110, 6.6.157, 6.1.188, 5.15.221, 5.10.270 stable kernels.…

Reminder: subscription price change coming

Just a reminder that prices for LWN subscriptions will increase after September 15. Until then [...]

Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc3

The 7.3-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: 'Another fairly large rc release, [...]

EuroPython 2026 videos published

All of the videos from the EuroPython 2026 conference, held in Kraków from July 13 through July [...]

[$] Accelerating the kernel's build process

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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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