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Version 3.14.0 of the Python language has been released. There are a lot of changes this time [...]

Paul McKenney gave a remote presentation at Kangrejos 2025 following up on the talk he gave last year about the lifetime-end-pointer-zapping problem: certain common patterns for multithreaded code are technically undefined behavior, and changes to ...

Systemd v258 was released on September 17 after more than nine months of development. LWN has already covered some of the features and changes being readied for v258 before it was final. Now that the release is out, it is time to look at more of what ...

Taylor Blau has posted an extensive set of notes from the recently concluded Git Contributor's [...]

Version 2025.10 of the U-Boot boot loader has been released with new features, including Python [...]

At the time of writing, there have been 9,099 commits in the 6.18 merge window, 8,475 non-merges and 624 merges. The changes so far include core-kernel, graphics, and networking work, among others. There are no big surprises, but several items that ...

Support for BPF in the kernel has been tied to the LLVM toolchain since the advent of extended BPF. There has been a growing effort to add BPF support to the GNU toolchain as well, though. At the 2025 GNU Tools Cauldron, the developers involved got ...

The 6.17.1, 6.16.11, 6.12.51, and 6.6.110 stable kernels have been released. This time around, [...]

OpenSSH 10.1 has been released. Along with 'a minor security fix' and some other bug fixes, th [...]

Despite its name, the Robot Operating System (ROS) is not an operating system; it is a software development kit (SDK) that provides building blocks for robotic applications. One of the main goals of ROS is to present a common API that abstracts away ...