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Security updates have been issued by Debian (cups, imagemagick, libcpanel-json-xs-perl, and libjson-xs-perl), Fedora (checkpointctl, chromium, civetweb, glycin, kernel, libssh, ruff, rust-secret-service, snapshot, and uv), Mageia (curl), Red Hat ...

The VMScape vulnerability is a Spectre variant that 'allows a malicious KVM guest to leak sensi [...]

The Git source-code management system stores a lot of information about changes to code -- but it does not hold everything that might be of interest to a developer who needs to investigate a specific change in the future. Commits in a repository are ...

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (python3.12-cryptography), Debian (chromium, hsqldb1.8.0, and imagemagick), Fedora (bustle, cef, maturin, rust-busd, rust-crypto-auditing-agent, rust-crypto-auditing-client, rust-crypto-auditing-event ...

The F-Droid project has some advice for free-software projects on how to deal with takedown req [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Space Grade Linux; KDE's new distribution; Rug pulls and forks; Dependency tracker; Kernel configuration; Framework 12 laptop. Briefs: npm security; high-memory; Anaconda WebUI; OpenSUSE bcachefs; 32 ...

There are a large number of ways to configure the 6.16 Linux kernel. It has 32,468 different configuration options on x86_64, and a comparable number for other platforms. Exploring the ways the kernel can be configured is sufficiently difficult that ...

The openSUSE project has announced that the bcachefs filesystem will be disabled in its kernel [...]

At Akademy 2025, the KDE Project released an alpha version of KDE Linux, a distribution built by the project to "include the best implementation of everything KDE has to offer, using the most advanced technologies". It is aimed at providing an ...

At Open Source Summit Europe, LWN's Jonathan Corbet presented 'Three Decades in Kernelland'; th [...]