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The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) has announced the release of its recommendations for usi [...]

The 7.2 merge window started with the 7.1 kernel release on June 14. As of this writing, just over 7,000 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline for the next kernel release. Many of the core subsystems have been pulled at this point,

Version 4.6 of the Mastodon fediverse platform has been released. The headliner of this rele [...]

How can cloud providers efficiently supply durable virtual block devices? Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) provides a way for servers in a cluster to share chunks of memory, but there still needs to be a protocol that operates on top of RDMA to ...

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (dracut, podman, postfix, rsync, xorg-x11-server, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Debian (atril, firefox-esr, and nginx), Mageia (libcap, perl, and python-pillow), Oracle (firefox, gstreamer-plugins-base ...

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: State of Fedora; mTHP creation; overlayfs; buffer-heads cleanup; 7.1 statistics. Briefs: curl summer of bliss; 7.1 kernel; AUR compromise; Fedora election; FairScan 2.0; Firefox 152.0; Homebrew 6.0.0;

The results are in for Fedora's F44 election cycle for seats on the Fedora Council, Fedora Engi [...]

The Python Software Foundation blog has a post with a summary of the security-related content a [...]

Jan Kara has been working on cleaning up how buffer heads are used by some kernel filesystems. In a short filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, he gave an update on that work and where it ...

Version 2.0 of the FairScan document-scanning app for Android has been released. The headline f [...]