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The Microdot web framework is quite small, as its name would imply; it supports both standard CPython and MicroPython, so it can be used on systems ranging from internet-of-things (IoT) devices all the way up to large, cloudy servers. It was ...

The Arch Linux project has posted an update about recent service outages that have affected its [...]

The restartable sequences feature, which was added to the 4.18 kernel in 2018, exists to enable better performance in certain types of threaded applications. While there are users for restartable sequences, they tend to be relatively specialized code ...

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Debian; CPython; huge zero folio; kexec handover; FHS; Koka programming language Briefs: PyPI domain checks; Firefox 142.0; Git v2.51; Ghostty; LibreOffice 25.8; Zig 0.15.1; Quotes;

The Zig project has announced version 0.15.1 of the language. The release, much like the last [...]

Tobias Heider has written an article that explains changes that are coming for Ubuntu's generic [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.16.2, 6.15.11, and 6.12.43 stable kernels [...]

Ken Jin welcomed EuroPython 2025 attendees to his talk entitled "Building a new tail-calling interpreter for Python", but noted that the title really should be: "Measuring the performance of compilers and interpreters is really hard". Jin's efforts ...

Version 25.8 of the LibreOffice open-source office suite has been released. Notable changes inc [...]

After more than two years of development, the Debian Project has released its new stable version, Debian 13 ("trixie"). The release comes with the usual bounty of upgraded packages and more than 14,000 new packages; it also debuts Advanced Package ...