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Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Free-threaded Python; AUR attacks; Fedora 2FA; 7.2 merge window; BPF arenas; BPF coroutines; BPF JIT; RMR and BRMR; OSPM. Briefs: Tor deprecations; GIMP 0.54.1 flatpak; Mastodon 4.6; Systemd v261;

Compromised accounts are one of the most common ways that attackers can sneak malware into the open-source supply chain. One way to reduce account compromise is for projects to require two-factor authentication (2FA) or multi-factor authentication ...

BPF arenas are areas of memory (potentially shared with user space) where programs have free reign to build their own data structures, unburdened by the verifier's bounds checks. Many of those data structures are potentially usable in multiple ...

The Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel Summit, which still goes by the historical acronym OSPM, was held in Cambridge, UK, in mid-April. As has become traditional, the presenters at that event have since written summaries of their ...

Alexis Lothoré has been working to add support for the kernel's memory-access checker, KASAN, to just-in-time-compiled BPF code. He spoke about that work at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit. KASAN support is ...

The Tor Project has announced that it is planning to actively stop supporting Tor 0.4.8 and ear [...]

The GIMP project reports that GNOME contributor 'balooii' has worked to package GIMP 0.54.1&mda [...]

Probably the biggest change for Python over the last five years or so is the advent of the "free-threaded" version of the language, which removes the global interpreter lock (GIL) and allows multiple threads to run in parallel in the interpreter. At ...

Brian Tarricone has announced the first preview release of xfwl4, a Wayland compositor for the [...]

The Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel Summit, which still goes by the historical acronym OSPM, was held in Cambridge, UK, in mid-April. As has become traditional, the presenters at that event have since written summaries of their ...