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Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, firefox, freerdp, ghostscript, glibc, kernel, kernel-rt, perl-DBI, python3.12, rust-rpm-sequoia, rust-sequoia-sq, rust-sequoia-sqv, and vim), Debian (gst-plugins-base1.0, python3.11, and xz-utils), Fedora (7zip, chromium, curl, docker-buildx, kernel, Lmod, and sos), Mageia (tesseract), Oracle (dovecot…
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 8, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front : Kernel bugs; Gentoo's Chromium package; Rust smart pointers; Sashiko; Charon; LAVD scheduler; Python random-number modules. Briefs : OpenSSH 10.6; RustConf recordings; Rust 1.99.0; Picard 3.0; Zig 0.17; Quotes; ... Announcements : Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
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[$] Analyzing Rust programs with Charon
Nadrieril is a long-time Rust contributor, and the maintainer of the rustc pattern-matching infrastructure. During his involvement with Rust, he has noticed a problem with the usability of the language: it is difficult to automatically extract information from a Rust crate for use with other tooling. The Charon project aims to fix that by providing a stable…
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[$] Evolving the LAVD scheduler from gaming to servers
The extensible scheduler class , which enables the creation of custom CPU schedulers with BPF, has led to a burst of innovation in this area; the LAVD scheduler has, perhaps, been one of the most noteworthy schedulers to emerge. Though it was originally designed for gaming applications , the LAVD scheduler has since grown to serve other types of workloads…
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A new Raspberry Pi Desktop release is finally available for x86-64
Simon Long has announced a long-awaited release of Raspberry Pi OS, based on Debian 13 ("trixie") , for x86-64 systems. We managed to find the time to update the Desktop for the Buster and Bullseye releases of Debian, but then we all just got too busy with other things, and, while we left the Bullseye version on the website for anyone who wanted it, we…
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Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, dovecot, freerdp, kernel, mariadb-connector-c, mod_auth_openidc, nodejs22, nodejs:22, sudo, and vim), Debian (node-shell-quote, puma, rails, ruby-jwt, and suricata-update), Fedora (chromium, cockpit, flocq, freerdp, gappalib-coq, golang-x-mod, httpd, janus, libical, musescore, python3-docs, python3.14…
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[$] Python's two modules for random numbers
Python's random and secrets modules both include utilities for obtaining random values, but only one of them is suitable for generating passwords and security tokens. For much of Python's history, random was used for passwords and tokens anyway, despite documentation that called it unsuitable for cryptography. In 2015, Python's core team debated whether to…
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[$] Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package
Chromium , the open-source upstream project for Google's Chrome web browser, is the browser of choice for many Linux users. It has also gained a reputation as being difficult for Linux distributions to package and build : Chromium has a complex build system, the project bundles many of its dependencies, and it has frequent releases. All of that, plus user…
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OpenSSH 10.6 released
Version 10.6 of OpenSSH has been released. The announcement notes that the OpenSSH team has been receiving a large number of AI-assisted security bug reports. " We very much welcome these reports, especially when combined with human triage, analysis, test-cases and particularly when accompanied by proposed fixes ". As a result, the project expects to be…
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Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gd, gimp, kernel, kernel-rt, libpcap, librabbitmq, mariadb-connector-c, osbuild-composer, ruby:2.5, and sudo), Debian (libmodule-cpants-analyse-perl, libpng1.6, libreoffice, roundcube, ruby-oauth2, and sabnzbdplus), Fedora (0install, alt-ergo, apron, brltty, chromium, coccinelle, cri-o1.36…
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RustConf recordings
The Rust Foundation has posted the recordings from RustConf 2026 in Montreal, Canada. Photos of the event are also available. LWN covered four talks from RustConf this year.
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[$] An update on the Sashiko patch-review system
Patch review has long been one of the limiting constraints for the kernel project (and most others); there just aren't enough people to properly review all of the code that is submitted for inclusion. The Sashiko system, which uses a large language model (LLM) to generate reviews automatically, offers the prospect of some relief, and has already become an…
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Picard 3.0 released
Version 3.0 of the MusicBrainz Picard tag editor has been released. " This release brings many changes, including an upgrade to Qt6, a completely new plugin system, several improvements to the user interface, cover art processing, [ International Standard Recording Code (ISRC) ] submission and many more. " LWN covered Picard in April.
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Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (ghostscript, libvirt, and osbuild-composer), Debian (freecad, linux-6.12, node-lodash, pcre2, perl, php8.2, ruby-rack-session, wireshark, and xen), Fedora (assimp, budgie-control-center, budgie-desktop, budgie-desktop-services, budgie-desktop-view, chromium, cri-o1.36, curl, flatpak, lemonldap-ng, libX11…
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Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc6
The 7.3-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: Next week might look a bit different: we've got the annual maintainer summit and the Linux plumbers conference going on , so I'll be on the road, as will a number of other maintainers. That may or may not end up changing the stats for -rc7. But it's unlikely to affect the release schedule, although…
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Zig 0.17 released
Version 0.17 of the Zig programming language has been released. This release features 5 months of work : changes from 206 different contributors , spread among 925 commits . Originally predicted to be shorter, this release cycle ended up [being] substantial, with the Build System reworked, including the introduction of the Build Server Protocol , and the…
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Seven stable kernels for Saturday
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.9 , 6.18.55 , 6.12.112 , 6.6.158 , 6.1.189 , 5.15.222 , and 5.10.271 stable kernels. Each contains a large number of important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to upgrade.
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[$] Beyond the &
Rust has a number of kinds of smart pointers, both in the standard library and defined by users. Still, some operations that are possible with built-in references are not possible to perform with user-defined smart pointers. Tyler Mandry, lead of the Rust project's language team , spoke at RustConf 2026 about the lengthy effort to change that, and make…
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Linux Test Project suite stable release for September 2026
The Linux Test Project has announced its latest stable release for September 2026. There have been 382 patches from 41 authors since the May 2026 release . See the announcement for a list of new tests, changes, and more.
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Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (dogtag-pki, expat, freerdp, gawk, gdb, ghostscript, gvfs, kernel, kernel-rt, libpcap, openssh, pki-core, rsync, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk3), Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, libio-compress-perl, libpng1.6, nodejs, open-iscsi, redis, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk), Fedora (sos), Mageia (libgcrypt, python-tornado…
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[$] Coping with the onslaught of kernel security bugs
By now it is no secret that large language models (LLMs) have made it easy for people to identify security bugs, and that has resulted in a flood of bug reports to almost every free-software project, including the kernel. At the 2026 edition of Kernel Recipes , Greg Kroah-Hartman took the stage to talk about how the kernel's security team is handling this…
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Rust 1.99.0 released
Version 1.99.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes this time include support for extern "C" variadic functions, the establishment of functions for obtaining the size and alignment of raw pointers, a number of stabilized APIs, and more.
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Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (corosync, gawk, gdb, nodejs24, and thunderbird), Debian (expat, firefox-esr, libsmpp34, mkvtoolnix, network-manager-l2tp, pgextwlist, python-django, ruby-oj, and tor), Fedora (apptainer, ckermit, ffmpeg, freerdp, librabbitmq, openbao, php, python-cssselect2, python-uv-build, ruff, rust-libcst…
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 1, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front : PostgreSQL and the kernel; Rust on the GPU; KDE Plasma; C and memory safety; Rust radio; KDE funding; Chromium development. Briefs : File-notification attacks; Kernel report; TAB election; F-Droid 2.0; Firefox 157.0; GDB 18.1; Git v2.56.0; Quotes; ... Announcements : Newsletters, conferences, security…
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[$] The year in Plasma and what's ahead
A lot has happened in the KDE Plasma desktop environment in the last year. Marco Martin, a KDE contributor who spends most of his time working on Plasma, took the stage at Akademy 2026 in Graz, Austria to give an update on Plasma's major new features, some of the minor-but-interesting ones, and a preview of what's coming soon. The biggest upcoming change…
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Kernel Recipes videos posted
The full set of videos from the recently concluded Kernel Recipes conference has been posted. Also noteworthy are the associated caricature drawings, by Frank Tizzoni, of attendees and the speakers .
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Reports from the 2026 Python Language Summit
The 2026 Python Language Summit was held on July 14 in Kraków, Poland; there is now a series of reports available on the topics that were discussed there. They include the memory buffer protocol, garbage collection, free-threaded Python, and "Spicycrab".
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[$] Comparing Chromium development at Google and Igalia
Sharon Yang is a Chromium developer who worked at Google on the browser and now works on it at Igalia. On the final day of FOSSY 2026, she gave a presentation on her experiences with both of those companies, comparing and contrasting the ways the each operates and how that affects work on the code base. She enjoyed working at Google and feels the same about…
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The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board 2026 election approaches
The election for members of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board will be held electronically after the close of the upcoming Linux Plumbers Conference . The call for candidates is is open, with a nomination deadline of October 7. There are six seats to fill this time instead of the usual five due to the unfortunate passing of Dan Williams. Serving…
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Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds:1.4, container-tools:rhel8, go-toolset:rhel8, grafana, httpd:2.4, nodejs:22, postgresql:12, and postgresql:15), Debian (libwebsockets, openssl, and pcre2), Fedora (adwaita-icon-theme, cinnamon, dconf, epiphany, flatpak-builder, gcr, gdm, gjs, glib-networking, glib2, gnome-backgrounds, gnome-calendar…