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Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: MeshCore; x32 ABI; Open-source security; Package-manager metadata; More LSFMM+BPF coverage; Loadable crypto module. Briefs: Lightwell; jqwik protestware; RedHat package compromise; DistroWatch; Fedora ...

Over time, many open-source maintainers face the same problem: they lack the time to do all of the work that their project needs, and no one else is stepping up to provide adequate help. Maintainers, though, are often reluctant to throw in the towel.

Alexei Starovoitov gave "less of a presentation, more of a scream of realization" at the BPF track of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit. He shared a set of ideas for how BPF could change to avoid being swept away ...

Andrew Tridgell has written a blog post responding to complaints that he has begun using LLM to [...]

Security updates have been issued by Debian (php-twig), Fedora (hplip, python-wsgidav, roundcubemail, and xorg-x11-server), Oracle (compat-openssl10, httpd:2.4, and kernel), Red Hat (osbuild-composer), SUSE (busybox, cloudflared, cockpit, cups,

Extended attributes (xattrs) provide a way to attach key/value metadata to inodes--files, directories, and the like--in a filesystem. As with many Linux filesystems, the FUSE filesystem supports xattrs. In a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux ...

Package managers for operating systems and programming languages have been around for decades. Each package manager, and its accompanying packaging format, has been shaped by the needs of its respective ecosystem, but there is a growing need to make ...

Version 8.3 of Vim Classic has been released. This is the first release of the Vim fork since t [...]

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (php:8.2 and php:8.3), Debian (gst-plugins-good1.0, symfony, and yelp), Fedora (dovecot, freeipa, hplip, libpng, perl-Catalyst-Plugin-Authentication, postfix, samba, unbound, and vim), Mageia (assimp,

Over on the AboutCode blog, lead maintainer Philippe Ombredanne writes about an agentic LLM sys [...]