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The Software in the Public Interest 2024 annual report

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029943/

Published: July 15, 2025 14:12

Software in the Public Interest has released its annual report for 2024. It includes reports from the long list of projects housed under the SPI umbrella, but the financial statements are not included at this time.

[$] Enforcement (or not) for module-specific exported symbols

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029492/

Published: July 15, 2025 13:59

Loadable kernel modules require access to kernel data structures and functions to get their job done; the kernel provides this access by way of exported symbols. Almost since this mechanism was created, there have been debates over which symbols should be…

Security updates for Tuesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029919/

Published: July 15, 2025 13:35

Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg), Fedora (gnutls, linux-firmware, mingw-djvulibre, mingw-python-requests, and salt), Mageia (qtimageformats6), Oracle (gnome-remote-desktop, golang, kernel, libxml2, and perl-File-Find-Rule), SUSE…

Parrot 6.4 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029857/

Published: July 14, 2025 20:29

Parrot is a Debian-based distribution with an emphasis on security improvement and tools; the 6.4 release is now available. "Many tools, like Metasploit, Sliver, Caido and Empire received important updates, the Linux kernel was updated to a more recent…

Four small stable kernel updates

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029837/

Published: July 14, 2025 17:09

The 6.12.38, 6.6.98, 6.1.145, and 5.15.188 stable kernel updates have been released, each contains a single AMD-related fix. "Only users of AMD x86-based processors need to upgrade, all others may skip this release".

[$] Following up on the Python JIT

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029307/

Published: July 14, 2025 08:49

Performance of Python programs has been a major focus of development for the language over the last five years or so; the Faster CPython project has been a big part of that effort. One of its subprojects is to add an experimental just-in-time (JIT)…

Security updates for Monday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029764/

Published: July 14, 2025 08:34

Security updates have been issued by Debian (redis and thunderbird), Fedora (cef, git, gnutls, httpd, linux-firmware, luajit, mingw-djvulibre, mingw-python-requests, perl, php, python-requests, python3.6, salt, and selenium-manager), Mageia (dpkg, firefox,…

Kernel prepatch 6.16-rc6

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029716/

Published: July 14, 2025 00:35

Linus has released 6.16-rc6 for testing; it includes a fix for a somewhat scary regression that came up over the week. So I was flailing around blaming everybody and their pet hamster, because for a while it looked like a drm issue and then a netlink …

[$] SFrame-based stack unwinding for the kernel

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029189/

Published: July 11, 2025 13:42

The kernel's perf events subsystem can produce high-quality profiles, with full function-call chains, of resource usage within the kernel itself. Developers, however, often would like to see profiles of the whole system in one integrated report with, for…

Security updates for Friday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029597/

Published: July 11, 2025 13:20

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gnome-remote-desktop, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, jq, kernel, kernel-rt, libxml2, and podman), Fedora (chromium, git, helix, pam, rust-blazesym-c, rust-clearscreen, rust-gitui, rust-nu-cli, rust-nu-command,…

[$] Anubis sends AI scraperbots to a well-deserved fate

https://lwn.net/Articles/1028558/

Published: July 10, 2025 15:39

Few, if any, web sites or web-based services have gone unscathed by the locust-like hordes of AI crawlers looking to consume (and then re-consume) all of the world's content. The Anubis project is designed to provide a first line of defense that blocks…

Five new stable kernels

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029367/

Published: July 10, 2025 15:18

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.15.6, 6.12.37, 6.6.97, 6.1.144, and 5.15.187 stable kernels. As is the usual case, each contains important fixes all over the kernel tree.

Security updates for Thursday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029418/

Published: July 10, 2025 15:07

Security updates have been issued by Debian (sslh), Oracle (container-tools:rhel8, gnome-remote-desktop, golang, javapackages-tools:201801, jq, libvpx, libxml2, mpfr, and perl-File-Find-Rule-Perl), Red Hat (glib2, libblockdev, and sudo), Slackware (git),…

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 10, 2025

https://lwn.net/Articles/1028368/

Published: July 10, 2025 00:16

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Python packaging; Kernel API specification; Kselftests and KUnit; niri; pedalboard. Briefs: Git security fixes; Amarok 3.3; Bash 5.3; Thunderbird 140; tmux-rs; U-Boot…

Amarok 3.3 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029313/

Published: July 9, 2025 17:14

Version 3.3 of the Amarok music player has been released. This is the first release of Amarok based on KDE Frameworks 6 and Qt 6. Amarok 3.3 also includes a major rework of its audio engine to use GStreamer for audio playback. The reworked audio engine…

New upgrade paths for ELevate

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029312/

Published: July 9, 2025 17:04

The AlmaLinux project has announced new upgrade paths for its ELevate utility, which allows users to upgrade between major versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives. The new paths include upgrades from AlmaLinux 9 to AlmaLinux 10 and CentOS Stream 9…

[$] Reinventing the Python wheel

https://lwn.net/Articles/1028299/

Published: July 9, 2025 14:05

It is no secret that the Python packaging world is at something of a crossroads; there have been debates and discussions about the packaging landscape that started long before our 2023 series describing some of the difficulties. There has been progress…

Security updates for Wednesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029278/

Published: July 9, 2025 13:06

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, jq, kernel, podman, python-setuptools, socat, and thunderbird), Gentoo (Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge. Opera, ClamAV, Git, NTP, REXML, and strongSwan), Oracle (buildah,…

A set of Git security-fix releases

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029182/

Published: July 8, 2025 18:28

Versions v2.43.7, v2.44.4, v2.45.4, v2.46.4, v2.47.3, v2.48.2, v2.49.1 and v2.50.1 of the Git source-code management system have been released. "This is a set of coordinated security fix releases. Please update at your earliest convenience". See the…

Thunderbird 140 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029175/

Published: July 8, 2025 17:40

Version 140 of the Thunderbird mail client has been released. Notable features include "dark message mode" to adapt message content to dark mode, the ability to easily transfer desktop settings to the mobile Thunderbird client, experimental support for…

[$] Toward the unification of kselftests and KUnit

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029077/

Published: July 8, 2025 13:07

The kernel project, for many years, lacked a formal testing setup; it was often joked that testing was the project's main reason for keeping users around. While many types of kernel testing can only be done in the presence of specific hardware, there are…

Security updates for Tuesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029150/

Published: July 8, 2025 13:02

Security updates have been issued by Debian (djvulibre and slurm-wlm), Red Hat (apache-commons-vfs, container-tools:rhel8, kernel, kernel-rt, podman, python3, rsync, socat, and sudo), SUSE (apache2, helm-mirror, incus, kernel, openssl-3, python-Django, and…

U-Boot v2025.07 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029092/

Published: July 7, 2025 21:04

The U-Boot universal bootloader project has announced the release of version 2025.07. It has multiple new features including "uthreads" (inspired by the "bthreads" coroutines in the barebox bootloader), exFAT support, new architecture and SoC support and…

Bash-5.3-release available

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029079/

Published: July 7, 2025 17:26

The GNU project's Bourne Again SHell (Bash) has released version 5.3, with some significant new features, including some from the associated Readline 8.3 release, which provides command-line editing and other features for Bash and lots of other programs. …

[$] A tour of the niri scrolling-tiling Wayland compositor

https://lwn.net/Articles/1025866/

Published: July 7, 2025 16:04

Niri is a relatively new Rust-based compositor for Wayland with a different take on tiling window management: windows are placed onscreen in an "infinite" row that can expand beyond the bounds of the visible workspace. It is not a full-blown desktop…

Security updates for Monday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029073/

Published: July 7, 2025 14:54

Security updates have been issued by Debian (thunderbird and xmedcon), Fedora (darktable, mbedtls, sudo, and yarnpkg), Mageia (catdoc and php), Red Hat (java-1.8.0-ibm, kernel, python-setuptools, python3, python3.11, python3.12, python3.9, socat, sudo,…

Kernel prepatch 6.16-rc5

https://lwn.net/Articles/1028843/

Published: July 7, 2025 02:42

The 6.16-rc5 kernel prepatch has been released. Quoth Linus: "Please keep testing, but this all feels fairly regular for this phase of the release".

Four new stable kernels

https://lwn.net/Articles/1028826/

Published: July 6, 2025 18:29

The 6.15.5, 6.12.36, 6.6.96, and 6.1.143 stable kernels have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.