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

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.12, 6.18.58, 6.12.114, and 6.6.160 sta [...]

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bubblewrap, emacs, gimp:2.8, glibc, jackson-databind, kernel, kernel-rt, librabbitmq, openexr, openssh, postgresql:16, postgresql:18, python3, resteasy, wireshark, xorg-x11-server, and xorg-x11-server ...

The PHP security team has let it be known that there is a high-stakes security update coming at [...]

Setuid (and setgid) binaries have long been a source of headaches, and security vulnerabilities, on Linux systems. They are largely seen as something to be avoided; SUSE's security team, for example, forbids the inclusion of setuid or setgid binaries ...

The work to support block sizes larger than the page size on XFS has been difficult. Many users of XFS run stable kernels, which means that they aren't testing new XFS code as it is released. That has made Daniel Gomez wonder whether adopting Rust ...

Mozilla has announced that it has received a report that private keys associated with eight eMu [...]

OpenBSD 8.0 has been released. There are many new features, including the addition of hibernate [...]

Mike Rapoport has announced the release of the video recordings from the 2026 Linux Plumbers Co [...]

Linus Torvalds released the 7.3 kernel, at the end of the usual nine-week development cycle, on October 18. This cycle, abundantly fueled by LLM-assisted contributions, broke just about every record imaginable. As usual, we have compiled some ...