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Version 0.17 of the Zig programming language has been released. This release features 5 month [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.9, 6.18.55, 6.12.112, 6.6.158, 6.1.189, [...]

Rust has a number of kinds of smart pointers, both in the standard library and defined by users. Still, some operations that are possible with built-in references are not possible to perform with user-defined smart pointers. Tyler Mandry, lead of the ...

The Linux Test Project has announced its latest stable release for September 2026. There have b [...]

By now it is no secret that large language models (LLMs) have made it easy for people to identify security bugs, and that has resulted in a flood of bug reports to almost every free-software project, including the kernel. At the 2026 edition of ...

Version 1.99.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes this time include support for e [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: PostgreSQL and the kernel; Rust on the GPU; KDE Plasma; C and memory safety; Rust radio; KDE funding; Chromium development. Briefs: File-notification attacks; Kernel report; TAB election; F-Droid 2.0;

A lot has happened in the KDE Plasma desktop environment in the last year. Marco Martin, a KDE contributor who spends most of his time working on Plasma, took the stage at Akademy 2026 in Graz, Austria to give an update on Plasma's major new features ...

The full set of videos from the recently concluded Kernel Recipes conference has been posted. [...]

The 2026 Python Language Summit was held on July 14 in Kraków, Poland; there is now a series of [...]