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Outgoing Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller has posted an update on Fedora's high-level plan [...]

Cong Wang and Daniel Borkmann each led session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit about their respective plans to speed up networking in the Linux kernel. Both sessions described ways to remove unnecessary ...

Free software plays a critical role in science, both in research and in disseminating it. Aspects of software freedom are directly relevant to simulation, analysis, document preparation and preservation, security, reproducibility, and usability. Free ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.15.1, 6.14.10, 6.12.32, 6.6.93, 6.1.141, [...]

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (git, krb5, perl-CPAN, and rsync), Debian (tcpdf), Fedora (libmodsecurity, lua-http, microcode_ctl, and nextcloud), Red Hat (osbuild-composer), SUSE (389-ds, avahi, ca-certificates-mozilla, docker, expat ...

This year's Linaro Connect in Lisbon, Portugal featured a number of talks about the use of open-source components in safety-critical systems. Kate Stewart gave a keynote on the topic on the first day of the conference. In it, she highlighted several ...

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (varnish), Debian (asterisk and roundcube), Fedora (systemd), Mageia (golang), Red Hat (ghostscript, perl-CPAN, python36:3.6, and rsync), SUSE (govulncheck-vulndb, libsoup-2_4-1, and postgresql,

Version 3.22.0 of the Alpine Linux distribution has been released. Notable changes in this rele [...]

Kees Cook's "hardening fixes" pull request for the 6.16 merge window looked like a straightforward exercise; it only contained four commits. So just about everybody was surprised when it resulted in Cook being temporarily blocked from his kernel.org ...

Software patents and workarounds for them are, once again, causing headaches for open-source projects and users. This time around, Fedora users have been vulnerable to a serious flaw in the OpenH264 library for months--not for want of a fix, but ...