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The 6.10.11, 6.6.52, and 6.1.111 stable kernel updates have all been released. As usual, they contain important fixes throughout the tree. Users of those kernels should upgrade.

Version 6.0 of the Swift programming language has been released. Notable changes include new low-level programming features, expanded Linux support, and a preview release of the Embedded Swift language subset for embedded software development with a ...

Version R1/beta5 for the Haiku project, an open-source "spiritual successor to BeOS", has been released. Notable changes in this release include a TUN/TAP network driver, basic support for USB audio devices, TCP throughput improvements, a rewritten ...

A Linux system is made up of a large number of interdependent components, all of which must support each other well. It can thus be surprising that, it seems, the developers working on those components do not often speak with each other. In the hope ...

Version 19.1.0 of the LLVM compiler suite has been released: This is the first release in the LLVM 19.x series and represents 6 months of work the LLVM community. During this period 1502 unique authors contributed 18925 commits (3605729 lines added ...

Kangrejos 2024 started off with a talk from Benno Lossin about his recent work to establish a standard for safety documentation in Rust kernel code. Lossin began his talk by giving a brief review of what safety documentation is, and why it's needed,

Vanilla OS, an immutable desktop Linux distribution designed for developers and advanced users, has recently published its 2.0 "Orchid" release. Previously based on Ubuntu, Vanilla OS has now shifted to Debian unstable ("sid"). The release has made ...

Four researchers have published a formal proof that Linux's new deterministic random bit generator (DRBG) is secure in a particular sense -- specifically, that the number of queries that would need to be made to it to uncover its internal state ...

The generation of binary code for the kernel's BPF virtual machine has been limited to the Clang compiler since the beginning; even developers who use GCC to build kernels must use Clang to compile to BPF. Work has been underway for some years on ...

The Linux Foundation has announced the creation of the OpenSearch Software Foundation as a vendorneutral home for the OpenSearch search and observability software: Established in 2021 and previously hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), OpenSearch has ...