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Version 17.1 of the GDB debugger is out. Changes include shadow-stack support, info threads im [...]

Version 4.3.0 of the security-oriented Qubes OS distribution has been released. Changes includ [...]

Ian Jackson (along with Sean Whitton) has posted a manifesto and status update to the effect th [...]

At Open Source Summit Japan 2025, Erin McKean talked about the challenges to producing good project documentation, along with some tooling that can help guide the process toward success. It is a problem that many projects struggle with and one that ...

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz has announced that loong64 is now an official architecture for Debian [...]

The 6.19-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'I obviously expect next week to be even quie [...]

The 2025 election for members of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board has concluded; t [...]

The FreeBSD Foundation has a blog post about the progress it has made in 2025 on the Laptop Sup [...]

The BPF verifier is complicated. It needs to check every possible path that a BPF program's execution could take. The fact that its determination of whether a BPF program is safe is based on the whole lifetime of the program, instead of simple local ...

Stephen Rothwell, who has maintained the kernel's linux-next integration tree from its inceptio [...]