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Last Notes

2026-07-23 13:27:54 UTC

Codeberg: Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
https://lwn.net/Articles/1084404/ #LWN #Linux

2026-07-20 18:27:10 UTC

[$] Fedora grapples with change
The Fedora Project is known for, among other things, having a well-defined set of processes for just about everything. It has extensive packaging guidelines that deal with the comp [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1081557/ #LWN #Linux #RedHat #Git

2026-06-18 16:01:14 UTC

The Software Freedom Conservancy's LLM-backed generative AI recommendations
https://lwn.net/Articles/1078521/ #LWN #Linux

2026-06-02 13:14:08 UTC

Vim Classic 8.3 released
https://lwn.net/Articles/1075967/ #LWN #Linux

2026-05-15 13:35:28 UTC

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Here you go: https://lwn.net/Articles/1073060/ -- stable kernels published with a patch this morning.

2026-05-15 13:34:36 UTC

Seven new stable kernels with patches for CVE-2026-46333
https://lwn.net/Articles/1073060/ #LWN #Linux #kernel

2026-04-28 18:51:12 UTC

Remembering Seth Nickell
https://lwn.net/Articles/1070213/ #LWN #Linux

2026-04-28 14:13:05 UTC

[$] Strawberry is ripe for managing music collections
There are dozens of music-player applications for Linux; the options range from bare-bones programs that only play local files to full-blown music-management projects with a full s [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069368/ #LWN #Linux #Git

2026-04-05 13:56:12 UTC

Hackers breached the European Commission (The Next Web)
https://lwn.net/Articles/1066371/ #LWN #Linux #security

2026-04-03 14:13:02 UTC

No kidding: Gentoo GNU/Hurd
https://lwn.net/Articles/1066241/ #LWN #Linux #Gentoo

2026-04-03 11:26:36 UTC

We are aware that LWN.net is down at the moment and are looking into fixing the problem. Thanks to everyone who has notified us so far. We will post more information as we have it.

2026-03-26 14:36:16 UTC

[$] Vibe-coded ext4 for OpenBSD
A number of projects have been struggling with the question of which submissions created by large language models (LLMs), if any, should be accepted into their code base. This dis [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1064541/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Python

2026-03-24 13:49:02 UTC

LiteLLM on PyPI is compromised
https://lwn.net/Articles/1064479/ #LWN #Linux #security

2026-03-20 18:42:38 UTC

Agama 19 released
https://lwn.net/Articles/1064067/ #LWN #Linux #SUSE

2026-03-20 18:07:05 UTC

[$] A truce in the Manjaro governance struggle
Members of the Manjaro Linux distribution's community have published a "Manjaro 2.0 Manifesto" that contains a list of complaints and a demand to restructure the project to provide [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1063717/ #LWN #Linux #ArchLinux #Git #Firefox #systemd

2026-03-11 17:35:36 UTC

[$] California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions
A recently enacted law in California imposes an age-verification requirement on operating-system providers beginning next year. The language of the Digital Age Assurance Act does n [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1062112/ #LWN #Linux #security #Debian

2026-03-06 14:39:50 UTC

OpenWrt 25.12.0 released
https://lwn.net/Articles/1061746/ #LWN #Linux

2026-02-25 14:22:23 UTC

MetaBrainz mourns the loss of Robert Kaye
https://lwn.net/Articles/1060189/ #LWN #Linux

2026-02-08 21:33:29 UTC

The 6.19 kernel has been released
https://lwn.net/Articles/1057417/ #LWN

2026-01-19 16:11:05 UTC

[$] Task-level io_uring restrictions
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 app [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1054225/ #LWN

2026-01-15 14:49:43 UTC

[$] Removing a pointer dereference from slab allocations
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 [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1053870/ #LWN

2026-01-15 14:04:38 UTC

Security updates for Thursday
https://lwn.net/Articles/1054408/ #LWN

2025-11-19 16:16:35 UTC

Postmortem of the Xubuntu.org download site compromise
https://lwn.net/Articles/1047056/ #LWN

2025-11-14 04:35:59 UTC

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...and LWN is back now - apologies for the outage.

2025-11-14 03:00:13 UTC

LWN, alas, is down at the moment, seemingly the result of more trouble at Linode, stay tuned.

2025-11-03 14:55:21 UTC

A new kernel port — to WebAssembly
https://lwn.net/Articles/1044786/ #LWN

2025-09-30 07:10:56 UTC

Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel
https://lwn.net/Articles/1040120/ #LWN

2025-08-09 22:15:23 UTC

Debian 13 ("trixie") released
https://lwn.net/Articles/1033134/ #LWN

2025-07-28 03:42:25 UTC

The 6.16 kernel is out
https://lwn.net/Articles/1031534/ #LWN

2025-06-25 17:37:12 UTC

NLnet announces funding for 62 projects
https://lwn.net/Articles/1026895/ #LWN

2025-06-19 16:37:49 UTC

[$] Asterinas: a new Linux-compatible kernel project
Born from research at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzen, China, Asterinas is a new Linux-ABI-compatible kernel project written in Rust, based o [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1022920/ #LWN

2025-06-03 13:16:44 UTC

Security updates for Tuesday
https://lwn.net/Articles/1023625/ #LWN

2025-05-29 20:29:23 UTC

[$] The first half of the 6.16 merge window
As of this writing, 5,546 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline kernel repository for the 6.16 release. This is a bit less than half of the total commits for 6.15 [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1022512/ #LWN

2025-05-29 14:24:34 UTC

Two new stable kernels
https://lwn.net/Articles/1023076/ #LWN

2025-05-26 03:45:43 UTC

The 6.15 kernel has been released
https://lwn.net/Articles/1022457/ #LWN

2025-05-12 15:33:50 UTC

Guix project migrating to Codeberg
https://lwn.net/Articles/1020885/ #LWN