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The 6.19-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. So normally this would be the last rc of th [...]

Version 2.43 of the GNU C Library has been released. Changes include support for the mseal() a [...]

Filesystems seem to be one of those many areas where the problems are well understood, but there is always somebody working toward a better solution. As a result, filesystem development in the Linux kernel continues at a fast pace even after all ...

Version 1.5.0 of the GNU Guix package manager and the Guix System have been released. Notable i [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.18.7 and 6.12.67 stable kernels. As always, each contains [...]

The Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) is a out-of-tree loadable kernel module that attempts to detect and report violations of the kernel's internal invariants, such as might be caused by an in-progress security exploit or a rootkit. LKRG has been ...

ReactOS, an open-source project to develop an operating system that is compatible with Microsof [...]

Version 1.93.0 of the Rust programming language has been released. Notable changes include in [...]

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Singularity; fsconfig(); io_uring restrictions; GPG vulnerabilities; slab allocator; AshOS. Briefs: Pixel exploit; telnetd exploit; OzLabs; korgalore; Firefox Nightly RPMs; Forgejo 14.0; Pandas 3.0;

As part of the process of writing man pages for the "new" mount API, which has been available in the kernel since 2019, Aleksa Sarai encountered a number of places where the fsconfig() system call--for configuring filesystems before mounting--needs ...