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Creating fair governance models for open-source projects is not easy; defining criteria for participants to receive membership and voting rights is a particularly thorny problem for projects that have elections for representative bodies. The Fedora ...

There is a new GnuPG update for a 'critical security bug' in recent GnuPG releases. A crafte [...]

GNU C Library maintainer Carlos O'Donell has announced that the project will be moving its core [...]

The kernel's "kfunc" mechanism is a way of exporting kernel functions so that they can be called directly from BPF programs. There are over 300 kfuncs in current kernels, ranging in functionality from string processing (bpf_strnlen()) to custom ...

The Xfce team has announced that it will be providing funding to Brian Tarricone to work on xfw [...]

The GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) project decided to break from the OpenPGP standard for email encryption in 2023, and instead adopted its own homegrown LibrePGP specification. The GPG 2.4 branch, the last one to adhere to OpenPGP, will be reaching the end ...

Curl creator Daniel Stenberg has written a blog post explaining why the project is ending its b [...]

The 6.19-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. So normally this would be the last rc of th [...]

Version 2.43 of the GNU C Library has been released. Changes include support for the mseal() a [...]

Filesystems seem to be one of those many areas where the problems are well understood, but there is always somebody working toward a better solution. As a result, filesystem development in the Linux kernel continues at a fast pace even after all ...