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Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.5 and 6.18.51 stable kernels. There are [...]

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (apr-util and qt6-qt5compat), Debian (libevent and ruby-rack), Fedora (bluez, corosync, curl, dokuwiki, grpcurl, libevent, and rest), Oracle (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, perl-DBI, python-urllib3, qt5 ...

The Forgejo software-forge project has announced the release of versions 16.0.4 and 15.0.8, whi [...]

PostgreSQL 19 was expected to be released in September, in keeping with the database project's longstanding tradition of a major release every year. However, some late-breaking concerns about several of the features slated for inclusion has some ...

Version 1.13 of the Julia programming language has been released. Highlights include faster pre [...]

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds-base, ansible-core, buildah, expat, glib2, gpsd, gpsd-minimal, gzip, kernel, kernel-rt, opentelemetry-collector, osbuild-composer, perl-DBI, python-lxml, python3.12-lxml, qt5-qtbase, thunderbird,

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Rust's never type; Debian and CERN; memory tiering; testing multithreaded Python; fixing TCMalloc; Typst. Briefs: Rustls; Asahi Linux; Buildroot 2026.08; Grml 2026.09; Audacity 4.0; Jellyfin 12.0;

Joe Birr-Pixton has written a blog post reflecting on a decade of the Rustls TLS-library projec [...]

Heiko Tietze has published a blog post summarizing the results of a recent survey about the use [...]

Typst is a system for typesetting documents into various formats: PDF, SVG, PNG, and, in progress, HTML. It is adept at handling technical material, and is often considered to be an eventual LaTeX replacement. We last looked in on Typst a year ago,