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The end of OzLabs

https://lwn.net/Articles/1055051/

Published: January 19, 2026 21:33

OzLabs is a collection of Australian free-software developers that was, for most of its history, associated with IBM. Members of OzLabs have included Hugh Blemings, Michael Ellerman, Ben Herrenschmidt, Greg Lehey, Paul Mackerras, Martin Pool, Stephen…

Haas: Who contributed to PostgreSQL development in 2025?

https://lwn.net/Articles/1055033/

Published: January 19, 2026 16:18

PostgreSQL contributor Robert Haas has published a blog post that breaks down code contributions to PostgreSQL in 2025. I calculate that, in 2025, there were 266 people who were the principal author of at least one PostgreSQL commit. 66% of the new lines…

[$] Task-level io_uring restrictions

https://lwn.net/Articles/1054225/

Published: January 19, 2026 16:08

The io_uring subsystem is more than an asynchronous I/O interface for Linux; it is, for all practical purposes, an independent system-call API. It has enabled high-performance applications, but it also brings challenges for code built around classic,…

Wine 11.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1055001/

Published: January 19, 2026 14:32

Version 11.0 of the Wine Windows compatibility layer is out. "This release represents a year of development effort, around 6,300 individual changes, and more than 600 bug fixes." The most notable changes in this release are support for the NTSync Linux…

Two new stable kernels for Monday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1054993/

Published: January 19, 2026 14:01

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 5.15.198, and 5.10.248 stable kernels. As usual, each contains important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to upgrade.

Security updates for Monday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1054992/

Published: January 19, 2026 13:58

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cups, libpq, libsoup3, podman, and postgresql16), Debian (ffmpeg, gpsd, python-urllib3, and thunderbird), Fedora (chromium, foomuuri, forgejo, freerdp, harfbuzz, libtpms, musescore, python-biopython, and…

Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc6

https://lwn.net/Articles/1054924/

Published: January 19, 2026 00:55

Linus has released 6.19-rc6 for testing. "So we finally ended up with a slightly bigger rc than usual for this stage in the release cycle, but it's not _that_ big, and things still seem quite stable and civilized."

Four stable kernels for the weekend

https://lwn.net/Articles/1054815/

Published: January 17, 2026 19:27

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.18.6, 6.12.66, 6.6.121, and 6.1.161 stable kernels. As usual, each has important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to upgrade.

[$] A free and open-source rootkit for Linux

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053099/

Published: January 16, 2026 17:57

While there are several rootkits that target Linux, they have so far not fully embraced the open-source ethos typical of Linux software. Luckily, Matheus Alves has been working to remedy this lack by creating an open-source rootkit called Singularity for…

Security updates for Friday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1054683/

Published: January 16, 2026 14:14

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gnupg2), Debian (firefox-esr), Oracle (cups, gnupg2, libpq, net-snmp, postgresql, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, transfig, and vsftpd), Red Hat (firefox), SUSE (apache2, curl, firefox, gpg2, hawk2,…

A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9 (Project Zero)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1054547/

Published: January 16, 2026 00:04

The Project Zero blog has a three-part series describing a working, zero-click exploit for Pixel 9 devices. Over the past few years, several AI-powered features have been added to mobile phones that allow users to better search and understand their…

Running Debian on the OpenWrt One (Collabora Blog)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1054519/

Published: January 15, 2026 18:57

Sjoerd Simons has published a blog post about running Debian on the OpenWrt One router hardware: With openwrt-one-debian, you can now install and run a full Debian system leveraging the OpenWrt One's NVMe storage, enabling everything from custom services…

Forgejo 14.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1054461/

Published: January 15, 2026 15:04

Version 14.0 of the Forgejo software forge has been released. Notable changes in this release include several database improvements, new options for approving actions execution from pull requests, a new file editor, and progress toward making Forgejo's web…

[$] Removing a pointer dereference from slab allocations

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053870/

Published: January 15, 2026 14:49

Al Viro does not often stray outside of the core virtual filesystem area; when he does, it is usually worthy of note. Recently, he wandered into memory management with this patch series to the slab allocator and some of its users. Kernel developers will…

A note for MXroute users

https://lwn.net/Articles/1054410/

Published: January 15, 2026 14:29

We have recently noticed that email from LWN.net seems to be blocked by MXroute. Unfortunately, the company also does not seem to have a way for non-customers to report problems in mail delivery, so we have no good way to get ourselves unblocked. As a…

Security updates for Thursday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1054408/

Published: January 15, 2026 14:04

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, gnupg2, and mongo-c-driver), Fedora (firefox, gpsd, linux-firmware, and seamonkey), Mageia (net-snmp), Oracle (kernel, podman, postgresql16, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, and…

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 15, 2026

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053201/

Published: January 15, 2026 00:03

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: SFC v. VIZIO; GPLv2 requirements; Debian and GTK 2; OpenZL; kernel scheduler QoS; Rust concurrent data access; Asciinema. Briefs: OpenSSL and Python; LSFMM+BPF 2026; Fedora…

The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography

https://lwn.net/Articles/1054258/

Published: January 14, 2026 23:16

Paul Kehrer and Alex Gaynor, maintainers of the Python cryptography module, have put out some strongly worded criticism of OpenSSL. It comes from a talk they gave at the OpenSSL conference in October 2025 (YouTube video). The post goes into a lot of…

[$] Format-specific compression with OpenZL

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053018/

Published: January 14, 2026 17:51

Lossless data compression is an important tool for reducing the storage requirements of the world's ever-growing data sets. Yann Collet developed the LZ4 algorithm and designed the Zstandard (or Zstd) algorithm; he came to the 2025 Open Source Summit…

[$] Debian discusses removing GTK 2 for forky

https://lwn.net/Articles/1051006/

Published: January 14, 2026 16:08

The Debian GNOME team would like to remove the GTK 2 graphics toolkit, which has been unmaintained upstream for more than five years, and ship Debian 14 ("forky") without it. As one might expect, however, there are those who would like to find a way to…

Radicle 1.6.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1054171/

Published: January 14, 2026 14:13

Version 1.6.0 of the Radicle peer-to-peer, local-first code collaboration stack has been released. Notable changes in this release include support for systemd credentials, use of Rust's clap crate for parsing command-line arguments, and more. LWN covered…

Security updates for Wednesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1054167/

Published: January 14, 2026 14:05

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (sssd), Debian (linux-6.1 and python-parsl), Fedora (chezmoi, complyctl, composer, and firefox), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (buildah, libpq, podman, postgresql, postgresql16, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, and…

[$] A high-level quality-of-service interface

https://lwn.net/Articles/1051982/

Published: January 13, 2026 19:04

Quality-of-service (QoS) mechanisms attempt to prioritize some processes (or network traffic, disk I/O, etc.) over others in order to meet a system's performance goals. This is a difficult topic to handle in the world of Linux, where workloads, hardware,…

Firefox 147 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053995/

Published: January 13, 2026 15:13

Version 147.0 of the Firefox web browser has been released. Notable changes in this release include support for the XDG Base Directory specification, enabling local network access restrictions for users with enhanced tracking protection (ETP) set to…

Security updates for Tuesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053988/

Published: January 13, 2026 14:03

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (mariadb10.11, mariadb:10.11, mariadb:10.3, mariadb:10.5, and tar), Debian (net-snmp), Fedora (coturn, NetworkManager-l2tp, openssh, and tuxanci), Mageia (libtasn1), Oracle (buildah, cups, httpd, kernel,…

[$] Asciinema: making movies at the command-line

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053355/

Published: January 12, 2026 17:30

In open-source circles there are many situations, such as bug reports, demos, and tutorials, when one might want to provide a play-by-play of a session in one's terminal. The asciinema project provides a set of tools to do just that. Its tools let users…

Security updates for Monday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053820/

Published: January 12, 2026 14:14

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and sogo), Fedora (chromium, foomuuri, libpng, libsodium, mariadb10.11, musescore, nginx, python-pdfminer, python-urllib3, python3.12, seamonkey, wasmedge, and wget2), Mageia (curl, libpcap, sodium,…

The LSFMM+BPF 2026 call for proposals is out

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053698/

Published: January 11, 2026 21:05

The 2026 edition of the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit will be held May 4-6 in Zagreb, Croatia. The call for proposals has gone out for anybody who would like to attend this invitation-only meeting. "We are asking that you…

Four stable kernel updates

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053664/

Published: January 11, 2026 15:41

The 6.18.5, 6.12.65, 6.6.120, and 6.1.160 stable updates have been released. They all contain a small patch set fixing a scheduling regression associated with idle balancing; the 6.6.120 and 6.1.60 updates also contain a large set of other important…

Evans: A data model for Git (and other docs updates)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053595/

Published: January 10, 2026 01:06

On her blog, Julia Evans writes about improving Git documentation, including a new data model man page she wrote with Marie LeBlanc Flanagan, and updates to the pages for several other Git sub-commands (add, checkout, push, and pull). As part of the…

[$] READ_ONCE(), WRITE_ONCE(), but not for Rust

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053142/

Published: January 9, 2026 15:47

The READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() macros are heavily used within the kernel; there are nearly 8,000 call sites for READ_ONCE(). They are key to the implementation of many lockless algorithms and can be necessary for some types of device-memory access. So…

Security updates for Friday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053492/

Published: January 9, 2026 13:59

Security updates have been issued by Debian (pdfminer and vlc), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, and microcode_ctl), Slackware (libtasn1), SUSE (apptainer, curl, ImageMagick, libpcap, libvirt, libwget4, php8, podman, python311-cbor2, qemu, and rsync), and…

Fedora Linux 43 election results

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053333/

Published: January 8, 2026 17:56

The Fedora Project has announced the results of the Fedora 43 election cycle. Five seats were open on the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo), and the winners are Kevin Fenzi, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Timothée Ravier, Dave Cantrell, and…

Gentoo looks back on 2025

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053289/

Published: January 8, 2026 16:06

Gentoo Linux has published a 2025 project retrospective that looks at how the community has evolved, changes to the distribution, infrastructure, and finances for the Gentoo Foundation. Gentoo currently consists of 31663 ebuilds for 19174 different…

[$] SFC v. VIZIO: who can enforce the GPL?

https://lwn.net/Articles/1052734/

Published: January 8, 2026 15:36

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) is suing VIZIO over smart TVs that include software licensed under the GPL and LGPL (including the Linux kernel, FFmpeg, systemd, and others). VIZIO didn't provide the source code along with the device, and on…

[$] GPLv2 and installation requirements

https://lwn.net/Articles/1052842/

Published: January 8, 2026 15:36

On December 24 2025, Linus Torvalds posted a strongly worded message celebrating a ruling in the ongoing GPL-compliance lawsuit filed against VIZIO by the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). This case and Torvalds's response have put a spotlight on an old…

Two new stable kernels

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053279/

Published: January 8, 2026 15:06

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.18.4 and 6.12.64 stable kernels. As always, each contains important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade.

Security updates for Thursday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053277/

Published: January 8, 2026 14:52

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gcc-toolset-14-binutils, gcc-toolset-15-binutils, httpd, kernel, libpng, mariadb, mingw-libpng, poppler, python3.12, and ruby:3.3), Debian (foomuuri and libsodium), Fedora (python-pdfminer and wget2), Oracle…

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 8, 2026

https://lwn.net/Articles/1051994/

Published: January 8, 2026 01:36

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: What to expect in 2026; LAVD scheduler; libpathrs; Questions for the TAB; Graphite; 2025 timeline. Briefs: shadow-utils 4.19.0; Android releases; IPFire 2.29-199; Manjaro…

European Commission issues call for evidence on open source

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053107/

Published: January 7, 2026 19:00

The European Commission has opened a "call for evidence" to help shape its European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy. The commission is looking to reduce its dependence on software from non-EU countries: The EU faces a significant problem of dependence on…

[$] Lessons from creating a gaming-oriented scheduler

https://lwn.net/Articles/1051430/

Published: January 7, 2026 17:24

At the 2025 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), held in Tokyo in mid-December, Changwoo Min led a session on what he has learned while developing the "latency-criticality aware virtual deadline" (LAVD) scheduler, which is aimed at gaming workloads. The…

[$] 2025 Linux and free software timeline

https://lwn.net/Articles/1051808/

Published: January 7, 2026 16:08

Last year we revived the tradition of publishing a timeline of notable events from the previous year. Since that seemed to go over well, we decided we should continue the practice and look back on some of the most noteworthy events and releases of 2025.

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 199 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053083/

Published: January 7, 2026 15:45

The IPFire project, an open-source firewall Linux distribution, has released version 2.29 - Core Update 199. Notable changes in this release include an update to Linux 6.12.58, support for WiFi 6 and 7 features on wireless access points, as well as native…

Google will now only release Android source code twice a year (Android Authority)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053061/

Published: January 7, 2026 14:54

Android Authority reports that Google will be reducing the frequency of releases of code to the Android Open Source Project to only twice per year. A spokesperson for Google offered some additional context on this decision, stating that it helps…

Security updates for Wednesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053057/

Published: January 7, 2026 14:26

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (resource-agents, ruby:3.3, thunderbird, and xorg-x11-server), Fedora (libpcap), Red Hat (brotli), Slackware (libsodium), SUSE (dcmtk, govulncheck-vulndb, libpcap, mozjs60, qemu, rsync, and usbmuxd), and…

[$] Questions for the Technical Advisory Board

https://lwn.net/Articles/1051768/

Published: January 6, 2026 17:14

The nature and role of the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board (TAB) is not well-understood, though a recent LWN article shed some light on its role and history. At the 2025 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), the TAB held a question and answer…

[$] The difficulty of safe path traversal

https://lwn.net/Articles/1050887/

Published: January 6, 2026 17:14

Aleksa Sarai, as the maintainer of the runc container runtime, faces a constant battle against security problems. Recently, runc has seen another instance of a security vulnerability that can be traced back to the difficulty of handling file paths on…

Manjaro 26.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1052986/

Published: January 6, 2026 16:30

Version 26.0 ("Anh-Linh") of the Arch-based Manjaro Linux distribution has been released. Manjaro 26.0 includes Linux 6.18, GNOME 49, KDE Plasma 6.5, Xfce 4.20, and more.

Security updates for Tuesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1052955/

Published: January 6, 2026 14:09

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, ruby, and thunderbird), Debian (libsodium and ruby-rmagick), Fedora (gnupg2 and proxychains-ng), Oracle (gcc-toolset-14-binutils, rsync, tar, and thunderbird), Red Hat (buildah, mariadb, mariadb10.11,…

[$] Predictions for the new year

https://lwn.net/Articles/1052269/

Published: January 5, 2026 18:16

The calendar has flipped over to 2026; a new year has begun. That means the moment we all dread has arrived: it is time for LWN to put out a set of lame predictions for what may happen in the coming year. Needless to say, we do not know any more than…

GNU ddrescue 1.30 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1052796/

Published: January 5, 2026 14:27

Version 1.30 of the GNU ddrescue data recovery tool has been released. Notable changes in this release include improvements to automatic recovery of a drive with a dead head, addition of a --no-sweep option to disable reading of skipped areas, and more.

Security updates for Monday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1052795/

Published: January 5, 2026 14:19

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (tar), Debian (curl and gimp), Fedora (doctl, gitleaks, gnupg2, grpcurl, nginx, nginx-mod-brotli, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-headers-more, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-mod-vts, and usd),…