Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc5

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A large set of stable kernel updates

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[$] Custom page-cache policies with BPF

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[$] Toward better handling of major page faults

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Security updates for Friday

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Vulnerabilities in various GTK-based PDF readers

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[$] BPF support in GCC 16 and beyond

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OpenBSD 7.9 released

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Security updates for Thursday

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[$] Support for private memory nodes

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[$] What is to be done about MGLRU?

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Security updates for Wednesday

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[$] The tenth OpenPGP email summit

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Firefox 151.0 released

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[$] openSUSE "terms of site" raise complaints about age restrictions

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[$] In search of faster this_cpu operations

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[$] What's brewing in CXL

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Security updates for Tuesday

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[$] Improving the per-CPU memory allocator

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pgBackRest will continue

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[$] Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more

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Security updates for Monday

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Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc4

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RIP Peter G. Neuman

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Some weekend stable kernel updates

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[$] Controlling memory-management with BPF

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Seven new stable kernels with patches for CVE-2026-46333

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[$] HugeTLB preservation over live update

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[$] Policy groups for memory management

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[$] Buffered atomic writes, writethrough, and more

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Three stable kernels for Thursday

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[$] Keeping COWs in context (a.k.a. anonymous reverse mapping)

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 14, 2026

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[$] Friction in Fedora over AI developer desktop initiative

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Yet another Dirty Frag type vulnerability: Fragnesia

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[$] Managing pages outside of the direct map

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[$] Revisiting mshare

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Sovereign Tech Fund invests in KDE

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[$] Using dma-bufs for read and write operations

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[$] Scaling transparent huge pages to 1GB

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Stenberg: Mythos finds a curl vulnerability

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[$] Providing 64KB base pages with 4KB kernels, two different ways

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Two stable kernels with Dirty Frag fixes

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Debian to require reproducible builds

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Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc3

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More stable kernels with partial Dirty Frag fixes

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[$] Forgejo "carrot disclosure" raises security questions

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killswitch for short-term emergency vulnerability mitigation

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[$] A 2026 DAMON update

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Four stable kernels with partial fixes for Dirty Frag

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Dirty Frag: a zero-day universal Linux LPE

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[$] A new era for memory-management maintainership

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An update on KDE's Union style engine

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Three stable kernel updates

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 7, 2026

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[$] LLM-driven security reports disrupt coordinated disclosure

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Incus 7.0 LTS released

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Distributions quote of the week

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[$] Hardware-assisted Arm VMs for s390

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The retirement of the PHP license

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Alpine Linux systems currently offline

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[$] Bug-monitoring expectations and Fedora GNOME packages

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NetHack 5.0.0 released

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Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc2

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Eden: NHS goes to war against open source

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[$] Version-controlled databases using Prolly trees

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[$] Restartable sequences, TCMalloc, and Hyrum's Law

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GCC 16.1 released

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Seven new stable kernels for Thursday

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 30, 2026

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A security bug in AEAD sockets

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[$] Python packaging council approved

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Security review of Plasma Login Manager (SUSE Security Team Blog)

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Remembering Seth Nickell

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Fedora Linux 44 has been released

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[$] Strawberry is ripe for managing music collections

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In Memoriam: Tom Kalibera

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All FOSDEM 2026 videos are online

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pip 26.1 released

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[$] The rest of the 7.1 merge window

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Four new stable kernels for Monday

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pgBackRest is no longer maintained

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[$] Zig explores structured concurrency

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The future of AI in Ubuntu

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Niri 26.04 released

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Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc1

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GnuPG 2.5.19 released

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[$] On pages and folios

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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS released

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[$] Famfs, FUSE, and BPF

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Four stable kernel updates

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 23, 2026

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[$] Dependency-cooldown discussions warm up

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[$] One Sized trait does not fit all

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LilyPond 2.26.0 released

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Four stable kernels for Wednesday

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Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports

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Firefox: The zero-days are numbered

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Fedora Verified: a proposal to recognize Fedora contributor status

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[$] Using LLMs to find Python C-extension bugs

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Firefox 150 released

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Git 2.54.0 released

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Arch Linux now has a reproducible container image

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[$] Digging into drama at The Document Foundation

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Debian Project Leader Election 2026 results

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Seven stable kernels for Saturday

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[$] A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm

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[$] The 7.0 scheduler regression that wasn't

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Rust 1.95.0 released

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Forgejo 15.0 released

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[$] The first half of the 7.1 merge window

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KDE Gear 26.04 released

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 16, 2026

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FSF clarifies its stance on AGPLv3 additional terms

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[$] Forking Vim to avoid LLM-generated code

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Zig 0.16.0 released

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[$] Tagging music with MusicBrainz Picard

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OpenSSL 4.0.0 released

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[$] Development statistics for the 7.0 kernel

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[$] A build system aimed at license compliance

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Servo now on crates.io

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The 7.0 kernel has been released

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A set of Saturday stable kernel updates

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[$] Removing read-only transparent huge pages for the page cache

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[$] A flood of useful security reports

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Relicensing versus license compatibility (FSF Blog)

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 9, 2026

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[$] Ripping CDs and converting audio with fre:ac

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[$] An API for handling arithmetic overflow

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Nix privilege escalation security advisory

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[$] Sharing stories on Scuttlebutt

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Introducing the FreeBSD laptop integration testing project

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[$] Protecting against TPM interposer attacks

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6.6.133 stable kernel released

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Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc7

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Hackers breached the European Commission (The Next Web)

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[$] Ubuntu's GRUBby plans

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No kidding: Gentoo GNU/Hurd

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What the FCC router ban means for FOSS

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[$] IPC medley: message-queue peeking, io_uring, and bus1

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Exelbierd: What's actually in a Sashiko review?

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OpenSSH 10.3 released

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New stable kernels for Thursday

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 2, 2026

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Turbulence at the Documentation Foundation

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[$] Pandoc: a workhorse for document conversion

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Servo 0.0.6 released

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[$] The role of LLMs in patch review

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[$] Objections to systemd age-attestation changes go overboard

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Vulnerability Research Is Cooked (sockpuppet.org)

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SystemRescue 13.00 released

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Rspamd version 4.0.0 released

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[$] Rust's next-generation trait solver

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Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc6

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[$] The many failures leading to the LiteLLM compromise

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The telnyx packages on PyPI have been compromised

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Stable kernel update to fix regression on LoongArch platform

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The forge is our new home (Fedora Community Blog)

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[$] Vibe-coded ext4 for OpenBSD

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 26, 2026

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[$] Collaboration for battling security incidents

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Setting up a Tor Relay at National Taiwan Normal University (Tor Blog)

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LibreQoS v2.0 released

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[$] More efficient removal of pages from the direct map

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Five new stable kernels

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Firefox 149.0 released

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[$] A PHP license change is imminent

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LiteLLM on PyPI is compromised

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Krita 5.3.0 and 6.0.0 released

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Down: Debunking zswap and zram myths

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[$] Tracking when BPF programs may sleep

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Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc5

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b4 v0.15.0 released

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Agama 19 released

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[$] A truce in the Manjaro governance struggle

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Two new stable kernels

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[$] Cindy Cohn on privacy battles old and new

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Samba 4.24.0 released

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GNOME 50 released

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Local-privilege escalation in snapd

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Fedora Asahi Remix 43 released

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[$] BPF comes to io_uring at last

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The Sashiko patch-review system

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FSFE reports trouble with payment provider

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[$] Fedora ponders a "sandbox" technology lifecycle

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Marknote 1.5 released

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Debian Project Leader election underway

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GIMP 3.2 released

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[$] A safer kmalloc() for 7.0

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Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc4

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Stable kernels for Friday the 13th

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A set of AppArmor vulnerabilities

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An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills

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[$] More timing side-channels for the page cache

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[$] Practical uses for a null filesystem

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Two stable kernels for Thursday

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[$] California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions

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Introducing Moonforge: a Yocto-based Linux OS (Igalia Blog)

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[$] HTTPS certificates in the age of quantum computing

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[$] Disabling Python's lazy imports from the command line

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SUSE may be for sale, again

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[$] Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions

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[$] Inspecting and modifying Python types during type checking

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digiKam 9.0.0 released

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Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc3

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Huston: Revisiting time

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[$] Fedora shares strategy updates and "weird research university" mod

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OpenWrt 25.12.0 released

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Rust 1.94.0 released

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A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines (grith.ai)

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[$] The relicensing of chardet

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Buildroot 2026.02 released

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New stable kernels to address build failures

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[$] Reconsidering the multi-generational LRU

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Seven new stable Linux kernels

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[$] Magit and Majutsu: discoverable version-control

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CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples Move

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[$] Free software needs free tools

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Garrett: To update blobs or not to update blobs

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[$] The ongoing quest for atomic buffered writes

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Hiland-Jrgensen: The inner workings of TCP zero-copy

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Texinfo 7.3 released

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[$] The exploitation paradox in open source

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Motorola announces a partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation

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Gram 1.0 released

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Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc2

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groff 1.24.0 released

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[$] The troubles with Boolean inversion in Python

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Two new stable kernels, possible regression

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[$] IIIF: images and visual presentations for the web

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Support period lengthened for the 6.6, 6.12, and 6.18 kernels

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[$] No hardware memory isolation for BPF programs

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[$] An effort to secure the Network Time Protocol

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MetaBrainz mourns the loss of Robert Kaye

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GNU Awk 5.4.0 released

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Firefox 148.0 released

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[$] As ye clone(), so shall ye AUTOREAP

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GNU Octave 11.1.0 released

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[$] The second half of the 7.0 merge window

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Vlad: Weston 15.0 is here: Lua shells, Vulkan rendering, and a smoothe

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The Ladybird browser project shifts to Rust

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[$] Lessons on attracting new contributors from 30 years of PostgreSQL

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Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc1

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[$] Open-source Discord alternatives

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The Book of Remind

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Seven stable kernels for Thursday

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[$] Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces

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openSUSE governance proposal advances

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[$] More accurate congestion notification for TCP

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Fedora now available in Syria

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An update to the malicious crate notification policy (Rust Blog)

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An Asahi Linux progress report

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[$] Do androids dream of accepted pull requests?

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Plasma 6.6.0 released

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An update on upki

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[$] Open source security in spite of AI

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Four stable kernels to fix problematic commit

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[$] Compact formats for debuggingand more

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Four stable kernels for Monday

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Vim 9.2 released

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[$] The first half of the 7.0 merge window

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New delegation for Debian's data protection team

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[$] Open-source mapping for disaster response

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[$] Poisoning scraperbots with iocaine

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[$] The reverting of revocable

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Debian DFSG Team announces new dashboard and queue processes

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A single stable kernel for Thursday

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Linux man pages 6.17 released

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[$] Evolving Git for the next decade

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postmarketOS FOSDEM 2026 and hackathon recap

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Stable kernels for Wednesday

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Dave Farber RIP

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GTK hackfest, 2026 edition (GTK Development Blog)

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[$] FOSS in times of war, scarcity, and AI

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[$] Development statistics for 6.19

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Offpunk 3.0 released

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Debian's tag2upload considered stable

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The 6.19 kernel has been released

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An in-kernel machine-learning library

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Six stable kernels for Friday

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[$] Kernel control-flow-integrity support comes to GCC

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Linux from Scratch to drop System V versions

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Ardour 9.0 released

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[$] Modernizing swapping: the end of the swap map

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[$] API changes for the futex robust list

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LibreOffice 26.2 released

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[$] Sigil simplifies creating and editing EPUBs

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[$] The future for Tyr

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Git 2.53.0 released

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[$] Modernizing swapping: introducing the swap table

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Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc8

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[$] Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice

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The Award for Excellence in Open Source goes to Greg Kroah-Hartman

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[$] Sub-schedulers for sched_ext

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A proposed governance structure for openSUSE

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Mourning Didier Spaier

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OSI pauses 2026 board election cycle

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[$] Open source for phones: postmarketOS

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PC Gamer on the scx_horoscope scheduler

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[$] Who should vote in Fedora elections?

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A critical GnuPG security update

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The GNU C Library is moving from Sourceware

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[$] Implicit arguments for BPF kfuncs

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Xfwl4: the roadmap for a Xfce Wayland compositor

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[$] Fedora and GPG 2.5

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Stenberg: The end of the curl bug-bounty program

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Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc7

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GNU C Library 2.43 released

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Four stable kernels for the weekend

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Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc3

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