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jeudi 23 octobre 2025, 22:34
The Ubuntu Project has announced that a bug in the Rust-based uutils version of the date command shipped with Ubuntu 25.10 broke automatic updates: Some Ubuntu 25.10 systems have been unable to automatically check for available software updates. Affected machines include...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.17.5, 6.12.55, and 6.6.114 stable kernels. As usual, each contains important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to upgrade.
The Spectre class of hardware vulnerabilities truly is a gift that keeps on giving. New variants are still being discovered in current CPUs nearly eight years after the disclosure of this problem, and developers are still working to minimize the performance costs that come...
The AlmaLinux project has announced that the upcoming 10.1 release will include support for Btrfs: Btrfs support encompasses both kernel and userspace enablement, and it is now possible to install AlmaLinux OS with a Btrfs filesystem from the very beginning. Initial...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (ipa, kernel, and thunderbird), Debian (gdk-pixbuf, gegl, gimp, intel-microcode, raptor2, request-tracker4, and request-tracker5), Fedora (samba and wireshark), Mageia (haproxy, nginx, openssl, and python-django), Oracle (kernel ...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Git 3.0 topics; Lazy imports for Python; RubyGems; LLMs for patch review; DebugFS. Briefs: Fedora AI policy; OpenBSD 7.8; DigiKam 8.8.0; Forgejo 13.0; KDE Plasma 6.5; RubyGems; Valkey 9.0.0; Quotes;... Announcements:...
mercredi 22 octobre 2025, 19:00
The Fedora Council has approved an AI-assisted contributions policy. This follows several weeks of discussion, some of which was covered by LWN on October 1. The final policy contains substantial differences from the initial proposal, and now requires disclosure of AI tools...
KDE Plasma 6.5 has been released. Notable new features include automatic light-to-dark theme switching based on time of day, support for the experimental Wayland picture-in-picture protocol, as well as a number of usability and accessibility improvements. See the complete...
DebugFS is the kernel's anything-goes, no-rules interface: whenever a kernel developer needs quick access to internal details of the kernel to debug a problem, or to implement an experimental control interface, they can expose them via DebugFS. This is possible because...
OpenBSD 7.8 has been released. As usual, this release includes a long list of changes; see the changelog for all of the details.
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (inih, mingw-exiv2, and mod_http2), SUSE (ffmpeg-4, kernel, libqt5-qtbase, protobuf, python-ldap, and python313), and Ubuntu (erlang, ffmpeg, linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-oem-6.14, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.14,...
mardi 21 octobre 2025, 18:25
Version 9.0.0 of the Valkey distributed key-value database has been released. Notable features of this release include Multipath TCP (MPTCP) support, new filters for client commands, multi-database support for cluster mode and much more. See the Valkey 9.0.0 RC1 release...
The Git source-code management system is a foundational tool upon which much of the free-software community is based. For many people, Git simply works, though perhaps in quirky ways, so the activity of its development community may not often appear on their radar. There is...
Version 8.8.0 of the digiKam photo-management system has been released. 'This version delivers significant improvements in performance, stability, and user experience, with a particular focus on image processing, color management, and workflow efficiency'. Changes include an ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0, firefox, kernel, kernel-rt, libssh, and perl-JSON-XS), Debian (ark and libphp-adodb), Fedora (chromium and gi-docgen), Mageia (quictls), Oracle (.NET 8.0,.NET 9.0, firefox, httpd, kernel, libsoup3, libssh,...
lundi 20 octobre 2025, 22:45
In September, a group of long-time maintainers of Ruby packaging tools projects had their GitHub privileges revoked by nonprofit corporation Ruby Central in what many people are calling a hostile takeover. Ruby Central and its board members have issued several public...
Importing modules in Python is ubiquitous; most Python programs start with at least a few import statements. But the performance impact of those imports can be large—and may be entirely wasted effort if the symbols imported end up being unused. There are multiple ways to...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (imagemagick, incus, lxd, pgagent, svgpp, and sysstat), Fedora (chromium, complyctl, fetchmail, firefox, mbedtls, mingw-binutils, mingw-python3, mingw-qt5-qtsvg, mingw-qt6-qtsvg, python3.10, python3.11, python3.12, python3.9, runc, ...
The 6.18-rc2 kernel prepatch is out. End result: rc2 is on the bigger side, and we still have some of the remaining regressions outstanding, but we should be making slow progress. It's fairly early days yet, so I'm not very worried. Things on the whole look fairly normal.
dimanche 19 octobre 2025, 17:07
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.17.4 6.12.54 6.6.113 6.1.157, and 5.15.195 stable kernels. As usual, each contains important fixes; users of those kernels are advised to upgrade.
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