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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, firefox, gimp:2.8, go-toolset:rhel8, ipa, kea, kernel, kernel-rt, pcs, qt6-qtquick3d, qt6-qtsvg, systemd, and valkey), Debian (chromium and unbound), Fedora (alexvsbus, CuraEngine, fcgi,

Version 3.23.0 of Alpine Linux has been released. Notable changes in this release include an up [...]

As of this writing, 4,124 non-merge commits have been pulled into the mainline repository for the 6.19 kernel development cycle. That is a relatively small fraction of what can be expected this time around, but it contains quite a bit of significant ...

Dictionaries are ubiquitous in Python code; they are the data structure of choice for a wide variety of tasks. But dictionaries are mutable, which makes them problematic for sharing data in concurrent code. Python has added various concurrency ...

Andreas Schneider has announced version 2.0 of the cmocka unit-testing framework for C: This [...]

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (expat and libxml2), Debian (openvpn and webkit2gtk), Fedora (gi-loadouts, kf6-kcoreaddons, kf6-kguiaddons, kf6-kjobwidgets, kf6-knotifications, kf6-kstatusnotifieritem, kf6-kunitconversion, kf6 ...

Loris Cro has published a detailed YouTube video talking about the terminology used to discus [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Rust in Debian; Python comprehensions; asynchronous Zig; BPF and io_uring; C safety; 6.18 statistics; just. Briefs: Landlock; Let's Encrypt lifetimes; Last 5.4 kernel; TAB election; AlmaLinux 10.1;

Version 2025.12 of the Home Assistant home-automation system has been released. This month, [...]

The Django Python web framework project has announced the release of Django 6.0 including many [...]