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jeudi 18 décembre 2025, 17:40
Stephen Rothwell, who has maintained the kernel's linux-next integration tree from its inception, has announced his retirement from that role: I will be stepping down as Linux-Next maintainer on Jan 16, 2026. Mark Brown has generously volunteered to take up the challenge....
Linus Torvalds is famously averse to presenting prepared talks, but the wider community is always interested in what he has to say about the condition of the Linux kernel. So, for some time now, his appearances have been in the form of an informal conversation with Dirk...
Systemd v259 has been released. Notable changes include a new '--empower' option for run0 that provides elevated privileges to a user without switching to root, ability to propagate a user's home directory into a VM with systemd-vmspawn, and more. Support for System V...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.18.2, 6.17.13, and 6.12.63 stable kernels. As always, each contains important fixes throughout the tree. He notes that 6.17.13 is the last release of the 6.17.y kernel; users are advised to move to the 6.18.y kernel...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, keylime, mysql:8.4, and tomcat), Debian (c-ares and webkit2gtk), Fedora (brotli, cups, golang-github-facebook-time, nebula, NetworkManager, perl-Alien-Brotli, python-django4.2, python-django5, and vips), Red Hat...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Civil Infrastructure Platform; COSMIC desktop; Calibre adds AI; Maintainer's Summit; ML tools for kernel development; linux-next; Rust in the kernel; kernel development tools; Linux process improvements; 6.19 merge window...
mercredi 17 décembre 2025, 20:33
After three years of development, Linux hardware provider System76 has declared the COSMIC desktop environment stable. It shipped COSMIC Epoch 1 as part of the long-awaited Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS release on December 11, just in time for Linux enthusiasts to have something to...
The Asahi Linux project has published its progress report following the release of Linux 6.18. This time around the project reports progress on many fronts, including microphone support for M2 Pro/Max MacBooks, work queued for Linux 6.19 to support USB3 via the USB-C ports,...
The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) first launched in that form in April 2016, so it has a tenth-anniversary celebration in its near future. At the 2025 Open Source Summit Japan, Yoshitake Kobayashi talked about the goals of this project and where it is headed in the...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (node-url-parse), Fedora (assimp, conda-build, mod_md, util-linux, and webkitgtk), Oracle (firefox), SUSE (chromium, librsvg, poppler, python311, qemu, strongswan, webkit2gtk3, wireshark, and xen), and Ubuntu (linux-azure,...
mardi 16 décembre 2025, 21:09
Mozilla has announced a new CEO, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo. Prior to becoming CEO, Enzor-DeMeo was general manager of Firefox and led its 'vision, strategy, and business performance'. He has published a blog post about taking over from interim CEO Laura Chambers, and his plans for ...
The final part of the 2025 Maintainers Summit was devoted to the kernel's development process itself. There were two sessions, one on continuity and succession planning, and the traditional discussion, led by Linus Torvalds, on any pain points that the community is...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (binwalk, glib2.0, libgd2, paramiko, and python-apt), Fedora (chromium, python3.13, python3.14, qt6-qtdeclarative, and usd), Mageia (ffmpeg, firefox, nspr, nss, and thunderbird), Oracle (kernel, mysql, mysql:8.0, mysql:8.4,...
lundi 15 décembre 2025, 18:54
Version 8.16.0 of the calibre ebook-management software, released on December 4, includes a 'Discuss with AI' feature that can be used to query various AI/LLM services or local models about books, and ask for recommendations on what to read next. The feature has sparked discu...
Vojtěch Polášek has announced an unofficial effort to create a Fedora-based distribution designed for visually impaired users: My ultimate vision for this project is 'NO VOJTUX NEEDED!' because I believe Fedora should eventually be fully accessible out of the box. We...
Despite depending heavily on tools, the kernel project often seems to under-invest in the development of those tools. There has been progress in that area, though. At the 2025 Maintainers Summit, Konstantin Ryabitsev, who is (among other things) the author of b4, led a...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, grafana, kernel, libsoup3, mysql8.4, and wireshark), Debian (ruby-git, ruby-sidekiq, thunderbird, and vlc), Fedora (apptainer, chromium, firefox, golangci-lint, libpng, and xkbcomp), Mageia (golang), SUSE (binutils,...
dimanche 14 décembre 2025, 23:23
Linus Torvalds released 6.19-rc1 and closed the 6.19 merge window on December 14 (Japan time), after having pulled 12,314 non-merge commits into the mainline. Over 8,000 of those commits came in after our first 6.19 merge-window summary was written. The second part of the...
Linus has released 6.19-rc1, perhaps a bit earlier than expected. So it's Sunday afternoon in the part of the world where I am now, so if somebody was looking at trying to limbo under the merge window timing with one last pull request and is taken by surprise by the...
Ariadne Conill is exploring a capability-based approach to privilege escalation on Linux systems. Inspired by the object-capability model, I've been working on a project named capsudo. Instead of treating privilege escalation as a temporary change of identity, capsudo...
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