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jeudi 13 novembre 2025, 21:41
The Google Security Blog has a new post on just how well the use of Rust is working out for the Android project. We adopted Rust for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density compared to Android's C and C++ code. But the biggest...
The SUSE Security Team has published an in-depth article on its findings after reviewing a D-Bus service contained in LightDM Greeter by KDE (the lightdm-kde-greeter package) for addition to openSUSE Tumbleweed. The team found a privilege escalation from the lightdm service...
Version 145 of the Thunderbird email client has been released. Notable changes in this release include enabling DNS over HTTPS, support for Microsoft Exchange via Exchange Web Services, and quite a few bug fixes. As of 145, the project is no longer shipping 32-bit binaries...
Many distributions provide support out of the proverbial box for Flatpak packages, but Fedora is unusual in that it also provides, and defaults, to its own repository of Fedora-built Flatpaks. This has been a source of confusion for Fedora users, who expect to get the...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and firefox-esr), Fedora (firefox, rubygem-rack, skopeo, and webkitgtk), Mageia (perl, perl-CPAN, perl-HTTP-Tiny, perl-Data-Entropy, perl-FCGI, perl-File-Find-Rule, perl-YAML-LibYAML, python-tornado, python-urllib3,...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: FUSE performance; Magic kfuncs; Tails Linux; Direct I/O and modifying buffers; Working with bootable containers. Briefs: Kernel LLM policy; Firefox 145; FHS; Homebrew 5.0.0; Mastodon 4.5; Public-inbox 2.0.0; Pytest 9.0.0; ...
mercredi 12 novembre 2025, 20:10
Version 5.0.0 of the Homebrew package manager for Linux and macOS has been released. Notable changes in this release include download concurrency by default, official support for 64-bit Arm on Linux, and more.
Longtime LWN readers will have encountered the concept of 'stable pages' before; it was first covered here nearly 15 years ago. For the most part, the problem that stable pages were meant to solve — preventing errors when user space modifies a buffer that is under I/O — h...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, and libtiff), Debian (kernel, libarchive, rust-sudo-rs, and squid), Fedora (chromium, dotnet8.0, forgejo, ruby, and webkitgtk), Oracle (bind, bind9.18, kernel, kernel-uek*, libtiff, and runc), Red Hat...
mardi 11 novembre 2025, 17:49
Firefox 145 has been released. Notable changes in this release include note-taking features for PDFs viewed in Firefox, enhanced privacy protections, and the ability to access and manage passwords in the sidebar. This release also drops support for 32-bit Linux systems.
Tails is an unusual Linux distribution developed by the Tor Project; it is designed to help users work around internet censorship and avoid surveillance. It is a 'portable' operating system that is meant to be run from a USB stick or ISO image and to leave no trace on the...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, expat, kernel, osbuild-composer, qt6-qtsvg, runc, valkey, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Debian (incus), Fedora (cef and dotnet8.0), Mageia (strongswan), Red Hat (fence-agents and python-requests), SUSE (chromium, colord, ...
lundi 10 novembre 2025, 17:13
Version 2.0.0 of public-inbox, the mail archiving system behind lore.kernel.org and LWN's email archive, has been released. 'This release includes several new features and fixes; mostly around improved integration between inboxes and coderepos for solver. Portability and...
When programs written in BPF (the kernel's hot-loadable virtual-machine bytecode) call kernel functions (kfuncs), it may be useful for those functions to have additional information about the context in which those BPF programs are executing. Rather than requiring it to...
Version 9.0.0 of pytest has been released. Notable changes in this release include the addition of subtests, native support for TOML configuration files, and a new strict mode. See the changelog for a complete list of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (galera and mariadb, kernel, kernel-rt, mingw-libtiff, redis:7, tigervnc, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, bpfman, chromium, dolphin-emu, dotnet9.0, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, kea, libnbd,...
The 6.18-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'In other words: it all looks just the way I like it at this point: small and boring.'
dimanche 9 novembre 2025, 23:45
The KeePassXC project has recently updated its contribution policy and README to note its policy around contributions created with generative AI tools. The project's use of those tools, such as GitHub Copilot, have raised a number of questions and concerns, which the project ...
The kernel community is currently reviewing a proposed policy for contributors who are using large language models to assist in the creation of their patches; the primary focus is on disclosure of the use of those tools. 'The goal here is to clarify community expectations...
vendredi 7 novembre 2025, 17:32
The bootc project allows users to create a bootable Linux system image using the container tooling that many developers are already familiar with. It is an evolution of OSTree (now called libostree), which is used to create Fedora Silverblue and other image-based...
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