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Version 1.97.0 of the Rust programming language has been released. Changes include using a new [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Cryptography API; Iomap explanation; Negative dentries; Faster RCUs and lockless allocation for BPF; Negative dentries; LLMs in memory-management code Briefs: Guix vulnerabilities; OpenSSH 10.4;

Over on the OpenMandriva forum, the Linux distribution has reported sabotage of its repositorie [...]

At the 2026 Linux Security Summit North America, Eric Biggers spoke about some of the problems with the kernel's cryptography framework, as well as the recent progress in adding library APIs to allow developers to use cryptographic functions without ...

William Woodruff, better known online as 'yossarian', has published a blog post to make the cas [...]

Puranjay Mohan shared some of the work he's been doing recently on improving the performance of read-copy-update (RCU) at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit; his talk would have been nice context to have earlier in ...

OpenSSH 10.4 has been released. In addition to a number of security and bug fixes, there are a [...]

Conversations about the kernel's filesystem implementations often involve a layer called "iomap", but relatively few people can reliably say what iomap actually is. That is just the kind of gap that LWN exists to fill. In short, iomap handles the ...

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, grafana, grafana-pcp, kernel, ruby:2.5, and ruby:3.3), Debian (bird3, chromium, kernel, linux-6.1, mediawiki, nginx, openvpn, php-phpseclib, php8.2, php8.4, and sympa), Fedora ...

The 7.2-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: 'It's Sunday afternoon, and rc2 is [...]