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It is no secret that the Python packaging world is at something of a crossroads; there have been debates and discussions about the packaging landscape that started long before our 2023 series describing some of the difficulties. There has been ...

Versions v2.43.7, v2.44.4, v2.45.4, v2.46.4, v2.47.3, v2.48.2, v2.49.1 and v2.50.1 of the Git s [...]

Version 140 of the Thunderbird mail client has been released. Notable features include 'dark me [...]

The kernel project, for many years, lacked a formal testing setup; it was often joked that testing was the project's main reason for keeping users around. While many types of kernel testing can only be done in the presence of specific hardware, there ...

The U-Boot universal bootloader project has announced the release of version 2025.07. It has m [...]

The GNU project's Bourne Again SHell (Bash) has released version 5.3, with some significant new [...]

Niri is a relatively new Rust-based compositor for Wayland with a different take on tiling window management: windows are placed onscreen in an "infinite" row that can expand beyond the bounds of the visible workspace. It is not a full-blown desktop ...

The 6.16-rc5 kernel prepatch has been released. Quoth Linus: 'Please keep testing, but this all [...]

The 6.15.5, 6.12.36, 6.6.96, and 6.1.143 stable kernels have been released; each contains anoth [...]

The pedalboard library for Python is aimed at audio processing of various sorts, from converting between formats to adding audio effects. The maintainer of pedalboard, Peter Sobot, gave a talk about audio in Python at PyCon US 2025, which was held in ...