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Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.11, 6.18.57, 6.12.113, 6.6.159, 6.1.190 [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: 2026 Maintainers Summit; Rust goals; GCC and LLMs; GCC CFI; systemd; C types in Rust; LTTng; Swap showdown; KDE Linux. Briefs: 64-day certificates; Nix and Lix security; Asterinas 0.19.0; LineageOS 24 ...

LTTng creator Mathieu Desnoyers seems a bit trapped in something of a catch-22. At the 2026 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), he led a discussion on the problem he is having in trying to collaborate with other tracing projects (e.g. ftrace, perf) in ...

At the recently concluded Maintainers Summit, Linus Torvalds said that he had been using a larg [...]

Version 6.8 of the KDE Plasma desktop has been released. The The KDE project has timed the rele [...]

After much deliberation, the GCC project recently came up with a policy on the use of large language models for development of the compiler suite. It is somewhat restrictive, but still leaves room for LLMs in the development process. At the 2026 GNU ...

KDE Linux, the KDE Project's second stab at creating its own distribution, was first introduced as "Project Banana" at the Akademy conference in 2024 by Harald Sitter. Nate Graham announced the first alpha-quality release during Akademy 2025. Graham ...

The Lix and Nix projects have jointly disclosed a set of vulnerabilities that can be used to es [...]

Rust's system of ownership and borrowed references is convenient when it can correctly model a program's needs. The Rust for Linux project has worked to provide adapters between Rust's semantics and the existing C code in the kernel. At Kangrejos ...

PostgreSQL core team member Peter Eisentraut has written a blog post reflecting on the 'unusual [...]