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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp), Debian (firefox-esr and libstb), Fedora (389-ds-base, chromium, firefox, munge, opentofu, python3-docs, python3.14, and vim), Oracle (buildah, containernetworking-plugins, gimp, grafana,

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: New flags for clone3(); Discord replacements; virtual swap spaces; BPF memory protection keys; PostgreSQL's lessons in attracting contributors; 7.0 merge window; Network Time Security. Briefs:

The stated support periods for the 6.6, 6.12, and 6.18 kernels has been extended. The 6.6 kerne [...]

On February 12, Yeoreum Yun posted a suggestion for an improvement to the security of the kernel's BPF implementation: use memory protection keys to prevent unauthorized access to memory by BPF programs. Yun wanted to put the topic on the list for ...

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) debuted in 1985; it is a universally used, open specification that is deeply important for all sorts of activities we take for granted. It also, despite a number of efforts, remains stubbornly unsecured. Ruben Nijveld ...

The MetaBrainz Foundation has announced the unexpected passing of its founder and executive dir [...]

LibreOffice online is a web-based version of the LibreOffice suite that can be hosted on anybod [...]

Version 5.4.0 of GNU awk (gawk) has been released. This is a major release with a change in gaw [...]

Version 148 of Firefox has been released. The most notable change in this release is the additi [...]

The facilities provided by the kernel for the management of processes have evolved considerably in the last few years, driven mostly by the advent of the pidfd API. A pidfd is a file descriptor that refers to a process; unlike a process ID, a pidfd ...