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After a two-year hiatus, LWN's Jonathan Corbet presented an updated edition of his Kernel Repor [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Git 2.56; gccrs; NetBSD and compat_linux; io_uring; Desktop UX. Briefs: WordPress vulnerability; Radicle vulnerability; Systemtap 5.6; GNOME 51; Systemd v262; Quotes;

Scott Jenson has been working on user interfaces (UIs) and user experience (UX) for many years at Apple, Google, and other companies. Now, he's trying to convince open-source projects to experiment more and drive the desktop beyond the age-old ...

Systemd v262 has been released. Some of the notable new features include the ability to build s [...]

The Radicle peer-to-peer code-collaboration project has disclosed two critical vulnerabilities [...]

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in WordPress's get_page_template() function for pa [...]

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (coreutils, postgresql18-postgis, and postgresql:16), Debian (memcached), Fedora (chromium, cyrus-imapd, dotnet10.0, dotnet8.0, dotnet9.0, freeipmi, kernel, libxmp, perl-Net-DNS, and postgresql16 ...

Pierre-Emmanuel Patry and Arthur Cohen gave a talk at RustConf 2026 on the status of the Rust frontend for GCC (gccrs), with a particular eye toward the goal of compiling the Linux kernel. Patry gave a follow-up talk for a more kernel-focused ...

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (apr-util, corosync, curl, freerdp, gstreamer1-plugins-base, libarchive, libtiff, libxml2, openexr, openssh, rsyslog, sudo, tomcat, unbound, webkit2gtk3, yggdrasil, and yggdrasil-worker-package-manager),

The open-source consulting firm Igalia has put out an announcement celebrating 25 years of work [...]