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Linus Torvalds rarely writes significant amounts kernel code these days, so the merging of a 48-part patch series from him is an unusual event.

Version 2.8.0 of the KeePassXC password-management application has been released.

There are several Rust features that kernel developers have been hoping to stabilize, but Josh Triplett wanted to describe all of the other features that the Rust project is currently working on.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, cockpit-files, cockpit-machines, fetchmail, glycin-loaders, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, hostapd, jackson-core, kernel, kernel-rt, librsvg2, lrzsz, mariadb11.8, openexr, openssh,…

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Android vendor hooks; Reproducible builds and kernel integrity; Rust data structures; NFS server changes; Setting no_new_privs for PID 1; Rust XArray; Rust cross-crate declarations; 7.3 statistics; Nix fla…

The PHP Foundation has put out a blog entry explaining how the vulnerabilities disclosed today came about and why they took so long to fix.

The Node.js project has released a number of security updates to fix, among other vulnerabilities, a remote-code-execution bug affecting programs that use Brotli compression.

We last looked in on hash-based integrity checking for kernel modules just over a year and half ago.

The Collabora blog provides an update on Tyr, a driver for Arm Mali GPUs.

Nix flakes are an experimental feature of the Nix package-management tool designed to build projects in a more self-contained and reproducible way.

The PHP project has published PHP versions 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 to address two critical vulnerabilities that could allow unauthenticated remote code execution.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.12, 6.18.58, 6.12.114, and 6.6.160 stable kernels.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bubblewrap, emacs, gimp:2.8, glibc, jackson-databind, kernel, kernel-rt, librabbitmq, openexr, openssh, postgresql:16, postgresql:18, python3, resteasy, wireshark, xorg-x11-server, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayla…

The PHP security team has let it be known that there is a high-stakes security update coming at 14:00 UTC on October 21.

Setuid (and setgid) binaries have long been a source of headaches, and security vulnerabilities, on Linux systems.

The work to support block sizes larger than the page size on XFS has been difficult.

Mozilla has announced that it has received a report that private keys associated with eight eMudhra intermediate certificates have been compromised: These keys could allow attackers to issue fraudulent HTTPS certificates for websites they do not control.

OpenBSD 8.0 has been released.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (environment-modules, kernel, pcs, perl-URI, python3.14-urllib3, and webkit2gtk3), Debian (python-django), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, chromium, cifs-utils, curl, haveged, python3.15, qt5-qtbase, rust-rbw,…

Mike Rapoport has announced the release of the video recordings from the 2026 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), which was held in Prague from October 5 through October 7.

Linus Torvalds released the 7.3 kernel, at the end of the usual nine-week development cycle, on October 18.

Rust has several ad-hoc mechanisms to allow user code to influence how the standard library executes.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (idm:DL1, kernel, libsoup, perl-URI, python3.14-urllib3, and webkit2gtk3), Debian (apache2, cifs-utils, haproxy, jq, kernel, and xen), Fedora (aom, chezmoi, chromium, docker-buildx, freeipa, freerdp, GitPytho…

Linus Torvalds has released the 7.3 kernel, as expected.

The GNOME Project has provided GNOME OS for some time; until now, the project only provided a "Nightly" edition that was built from the latest commits and was aimed solely at GNOME developers.

Self-referential structures that can be used without unsafe code have posed a problem for Rust for years.

The NFS network filesystem protocol has a long history on Unix-like operating systems (and beyond).

The results from the 2026 election for members of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB) have been announced.