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Version 26.08 of the KDE Gear collection of applications has been released. Notable changes in [...]

The Rust blog reports on a malicious crate, called proc-macro1, that was uploaded to the crates [...]

Version 6.1.0 of the RPM Package Manager has been released. Notable changes include the ability [...]

As of this writing, 2,346 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline repository for the 7.3 kernel release. That, clearly, is a mere down payment on the flood that is to come. Even so, those early pulls brought in some noteworthy changes ...

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Debian AI GR; Python pathlib; bootstrappable builds; Fedora and AF_ALG; Arm 128-bit PTEs; BPF CI; 7.2 statistics. Briefs: Brief news items from throughout the community. Announcements: Newsletters,

Go 1.27, the most recent version of the Go programming language, has been released with a numbe [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.1.9, 6.18.45, 6.12.104, 6.6.152, 6.1.183, [...]

The Debian Project is voting on the usage of large language models (LLMs) to make contributions to the project. The first proposal, sent in late July by Matthias Geiger, would expressly forbid any contributions to Debian that are created by or with ...

Version 0.11 of the Tuba fediverse client has been released. Notable changes in this release in [...]

At the outset of his PyCon US 2026 talk, Trey Hunner said that his goal was for attendees to stop representing filesystem paths as strings and to use pathlib instead. That's kind of a tall order, at least for longtime Python users, since string-based ...