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[$] Deterministic testing for multithreaded Python

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090579/

Published: September 4, 2026 15:29

Python's support for multithreaded programs has improved considerably over the last few years with the advent of the "free-threaded" version of the language. But testing multithreaded programs is notoriously difficult, because the underlying host system…

Grml 2026.09 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1092660/

Published: September 4, 2026 13:30

Version 2026.09, code-named "Hättiwaritätti", of the Debian-based Grml live Linux distribution for system administrators has been released. It is based on packages from the upcoming Debian 14 ("forky") release. Notable changes include an update to the…

Security updates for Friday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1092659/

Published: September 4, 2026 13:18

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, and pcre2), Fedora (cockpit, expat, freeipa, kbd, kernel, mrtg, python-pip, and valkey), Mageia (libopenmpt and python-gitpython), Oracle (dbus-broker, freerdp, gegl, gegl04, gimp:2.8,…

[$] Recent work in memory tiering

https://lwn.net/Articles/1092001/

Published: September 3, 2026 14:11

Tiered-memory systems are built with multiple types of memory, each of which has different performance characteristics. In addition to the usual DRAM, a tiered system might also provide faster high-bandwidth memory or slower CXL memory. On these systems,…

Audacity 4.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1092439/

Published: September 3, 2026 13:58

Version 4.0 of the Audacity audio editor has been released. Notable changes in this release include a rewritten interface using Qt, ability to save user-interface layouts as "Workspaces", improvements in working with audio clips, and a new .aup4 project…

Security updates for Thursday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1092419/

Published: September 3, 2026 13:07

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp, go-fdo-server, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, kernel, kernel-rt, nodejs:24, perl-DBI, and php), Debian (firefox-esr, libapache2-mod-auth-openidc, and libass), Fedora (dracut, exiv2, firefox,…

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 3, 2026

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090824/

Published: September 3, 2026 00:22

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Python JIT; rnull block driver; steal time; GNOME governance; 7.3 merge window; LUKS. Briefs: Kernel infrastructure; Debian AI; Dolphin 26.08; Firefox 155; Incus 7.4;…

[$] Securely suspending LUKS-encrypted disks

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090568/

Published: September 2, 2026 17:14

When a laptop is asleep, its memory is not unreadable. The right tooling can attach to the computer's memory bus and read out its contents, and cold-boot attacks can theoretically read values from memory for a short time after the computer loses power.…

[$] Governing GNOMEs: how the project's technical decision-making is evolving

https://lwn.net/Articles/1091619/

Published: September 2, 2026 15:03

Emmanuele Bassi kicked off a project to improve GNOME's technical governance with a presentation about his ideas (video) at GUADEC 2025. His nudging has led the project to, slowly, work on creating more formal structures for technical governance. It is…

Incus 7.4 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1092229/

Published: September 2, 2026 15:03

Version 7.4 of the Incus container and virtual-machine management system has been released. Notable changes in this release include UEFI Secure Boot key management, "near-live" migration of containers between Incus instances, as well as burst I/O limits…

Eight stable kernels for Wednesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1092151/

Published: September 2, 2026 13:28

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 7.2.3, 7.1.13, 6.18.49, 6.12.108, 6.6.156, 6.1.187, 5.15.220, and 5.10.269 stable kernels. Each contains a number of important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade.

Security updates for Wednesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1092149/

Published: September 2, 2026 13:16

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (dbus-broker, freerdp, gegl, gegl04, gimp, gimp:2.8, glib2, grafana, gzip, iperf3, libssh, nodejs22, nodejs24, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, php:7.4, php:8.2, pipewire, ruby:3.3, ruby:4.0, tar, wget, and xmlrpc-c),…

A note from LWN

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090585/

Published: September 1, 2026 18:17

The online publication industry, as a whole, is struggling, with challenges coming from multiple directions. Thanks to the support of all of you, our readers, LWN would appear to be doing better than most. But the world has changed around us and, in…

[$] A pause for the Python JIT

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090385/

Published: September 1, 2026 14:40

In 2024 the Python 3.13 release added an experimental just-in-time (JIT) compiler to optimize the way that CPython executes Python code. Since then, work has proceeded on the JIT, albeit perhaps less formally than some might like. In June, Python's…

Firefox 155 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1091926/

Published: September 1, 2026 14:03

Version 155 of the Firefox web browser has been released. Notable changes include a count in the address bar of how many ad trackers Firefox has blocked, container reordering, and ensuring that mailto: links are only opened by explicit user actions. There…

Security updates for Tuesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1091919/

Published: September 1, 2026 13:17

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gzip, iperf3, libxml2, mingw-sqlite, mysql:8.4, nginx:1.26, nodejs:24, php, and tar), Debian (expat and libdbd-csv-perl), Fedora (apache-ivy, bind, bluez, bubblewrap, curl, emacs, epiphany, expat, freerdp,…

OpenShot 4.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1091606/

Published: August 31, 2026 15:03

Version 4.0 of the OpenShot video editor has been released. OpenShot 4.0 has arrived, bringing some of the biggest creative workflow upgrades in our history. You can now record your screen, webcam, microphone, and system audio directly into a project.…

Netdev 0x1A videos and slides are now live

https://lwn.net/Articles/1091600/

Published: August 31, 2026 14:44

The Netdev 0x1A conference was held in Rome, Italy from July 13 through July 16. Conference organizer Jami Hadi Salim has let us know that the videos and slides for all sessions are now available. Topics include Linux QUIC, shared memory socket transport,…

[$] The rest of the 7.3 merge window

https://lwn.net/Articles/1089791/

Published: August 31, 2026 14:12

By the time Linus Torvalds released 7.3-rc1 and closed the merge window for this release, 15,267 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline repository. That is the second-highest commit count for an -rc1 release in the kernel's history; only…

Security updates for Monday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1091536/

Published: August 31, 2026 13:07

Security updates have been issued by Debian (kernel, libarchive, libdbi-perl, libnet-dns-perl, librabbitmq, roundcube, starlette, and xrdp), Fedora (bluez, postgresql16-anonymizer, pyOpenSSL, python-cryptography, python-pynitrokey, and rust-h2), Gentoo…

Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc1

https://lwn.net/Articles/1091421/

Published: August 30, 2026 22:52

Linus has released 7.3-rc1 and closed the merge window for this release. "Nothing really stands out - except for the fact that it's big. It's not the biggest rc1 we've ever had, but it's certainly up there, at least in number of commits." He pulled…

Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

https://lwn.net/Articles/1091231/

Published: August 29, 2026 13:58

The results of the Debian general-resolution vote on the use of large language models have been posted; the winner is choice 5: Responsible Use of Generative AI. Debian neither endorses nor prohibits the use of generative AI tools in the development,…

Ryabitsev: Creepy crawlies

https://lwn.net/Articles/1091203/

Published: August 29, 2026 09:32

Konstantin Ryabitsev has written a blog post with hard numbers about the impact of AI crawlers on the Linux kernel repositories at git.kernel.org: Today, git.kernel.org receives about 6M daily requests demanding to see random commits. Of these, 66% are…

Car: Dolphin 26.08 and KIO performance improvements

https://lwn.net/Articles/1091177/

Published: August 28, 2026 20:00

Méven Car has written a pair of interesting blog posts (part 1, part 2). The first post is largely about some of the recent new features and performance work that have gone into the Dolphin file manager 26.08 release, as well as the KIO framework. The…

[$] The "rnull" Rust block driver

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090378/

Published: August 28, 2026 18:26

The null block driver (null_blk) is a small driver that is mostly useful for benchmarking block-layer implementations. It accepts all requests and marks them complete as quickly as possible, doing as little work as possible. In June 2026, Andreas Hindborg…

Eight stable kernels with fix for a single vulnerability

https://lwn.net/Articles/1091118/

Published: August 28, 2026 13:42

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.2, 7.1.12, 6.18.48, 6.12.107, 6.6.155, 6.1.186, 5.15.219, and 5.10.268 stable kernels. Each of these contains a single fix for a vulnerability (CVE-2026-80590) that allows marking IPv4 or IPv6…

Security updates for Friday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1091117/

Published: August 28, 2026 13:16

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (assertj-core, golang, httpd, kernel, and libxml2), Debian (chromium and suricata-update), Fedora (rust-h2), Mageia (avahi and python-django), Oracle (kernel and mingw-openssl), SUSE (c-ares-devel, dracut, gh,…

[$] Using steal time to moderate CPU demands

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090381/

Published: August 27, 2026 14:11

Virtualization can increase CPU utilization by allowing a large number of virtual CPUs to share a smaller number of physical CPUs. The amount of CPU time that is actually available does not change, though, so heavy activity on too many virtual CPUs can…

Eight stable kernels for Thursday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090940/

Published: August 27, 2026 13:10

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.1, 7.1.11, 6.18.47, 6.12.106, 6.6.154, 6.1.185, 5.15.218, and 5.10.267 stable kernels. Each of these has important updates throughout the tree; users are advised to upgrade.

Security updates for Thursday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090938/

Published: August 27, 2026 13:00

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (assertj-core, attr, firefox, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, grafana, gstreamer1-plugins-good, httpd, kernel, mingw-openssl, mod_http2, nginx, nginx:1.24, pam, polkit, and sqlite), Debian (bubblewrap, cockpit,…

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 27, 2026

https://lwn.net/Articles/1089643/

Published: August 27, 2026 00:54

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: AGPL violations; OpenMDW license; quantum computing and encryption; 7.3 merge window; Remind; Quickshell. Briefs: arrayref; RIP Steve French; Armbian 26.8; Vanilla OS 3;…

[$] An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation

https://lwn.net/Articles/1089390/

Published: August 26, 2026 15:29

At FOSSY 2026, several people from the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), which organizes the conference, gave a presentation about an ongoing violation of the Affero General Public License version 3 (AGPLv3). Bradley Kühn, Karen Sandler, and Denver…

Armbian 26.8 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090741/

Published: August 26, 2026 13:54

Version 26.8 of the Armbian distribution for Arm hardware has been released. Most releases are a long list of small improvements. This one had three larger pieces landing at roughly the same time, and all three touch parts of Armbian that people use…

Security updates for Wednesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090732/

Published: August 26, 2026 13:16

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, gstreamer1-plugins-base, kernel, kernel-rt, and sqlite), Debian (freecad, kernel, libvncserver, and openssl), Fedora (apr-util, chromium, nnn, perl-DBI, python-tablib, python3.10, python3.11,…

LibreOffice 26.8 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090606/

Published: August 26, 2026 12:50

Version 26.8 of the LibreOffice suite has been released. LibreOffice 26.8 concentrates on three areas: the typographic quality of what the suite produces, the range of writing systems it handles correctly, and the fidelity with which documents survive…

mklinux-v7.0-mk2 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090582/

Published: August 25, 2026 20:34

For people who would like to experiment with the multi-kernel Linux concept, Cong Wang has announced the release of mklinux v7.0-mk2. mklinux lets one machine run several independent Linux kernels at the same time on bare metal, without a hypervisor. A…

[$] Old-school calendaring at the command line with Remind

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090376/

Published: August 25, 2026 14:03

Remind is a command-line calendar and alarm program, with an optional Tk-based graphical interface, for Linux and Unix-like operating systems. It has its own scripting language that allows users to create reminders that are difficult (if not impossible) to…

Vanilla OS 3 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090527/

Published: August 25, 2026 13:54

Vanilla OS 3, an immutable desktop Linux distribution, has been released. Notable changes in this release include support for Arm64, introduction of a Vanilla OS SDK, a rewrite of the Apx package manager using the new SDK, and much more. LWN covered…

Security updates for Tuesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090524/

Published: August 25, 2026 13:12

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cups-filters, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, kernel, mrtg, NetworkManager, nginx, nginx:1.24, nodejs24, perl-Date-Manip, python-pyasn1, python-urwid, python3.12, python3.14, and qemu-kvm),…

[$] How to be safe from quantum computing

https://lwn.net/Articles/1088305/

Published: August 24, 2026 14:57

Practical quantum computers have been ten years away for the last several decades. Now, however, it's beginning to look as though they will be possible in just a few years. Recent research with obfuscated results demonstrated much lower memory…

Emacs 31.1 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090308/

Published: August 24, 2026 13:36

Version 31.1 of the Emacs editor has been released. There is a long list of changes including the removal of the Emacs dumper, a new user Lisp directory feature, a "Send to..." menu item in context-menu-mode, and many other changes; see the NEWS file for…

Security updates for Monday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090304/

Published: August 24, 2026 13:02

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (ansible-core, cups-filters, curl, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, java-25-openjdk, kbd, kernel, perl-Date-Manip, php:8.2, and php:8.3), Debian (designate, firefox-esr,…