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Linus Torvalds rarely writes significant amounts kernel code these days, so the merging of a 48-part patch series from him is an unusual event. This series, destined for the 7.4 kernel release, performs some long-delayed kernel cleanup by removing a ...

Version 2.8.0 of the KeePassXC password-management application has been released. The new rel [...]

There are several Rust features that kernel developers have been hoping to stabilize, but Josh Triplett wanted to describe all of the other features that the Rust project is currently working on. He spoke about the topic at Kangrejos 2026, leaving ...

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Android vendor hooks; Reproducible builds and kernel integrity; Rust data structures; NFS server changes; Setting no_new_privs for PID 1; Rust XArray; Rust cross-crate declarations; 7.3 statistics;

The PHP Foundation has put out a blog entry explaining how the vulnerabilities disclosed today [...]

The Node.js project has released a number of security updates to fix, among other vulnerabilit [...]

We last looked in on hash-based integrity checking for kernel modules just over a year and half ago. Since that time, the patch set has undergone multiple revisions. At the 2026 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), Thomas Weißschuh described the need ...

The Collabora blog provides an update on Tyr, a driver for Arm Mali GPUs. One of our biggest [...]

Nix flakes are an experimental feature of the Nix package-management tool designed to build projects in a more self-contained and reproducible way. Despite the feature's experimental status, it has become increasingly popular for open-source projects ...

The PHP project has published PHP versions 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 to address two cri [...]