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The shadow-utils project provides the tools that handle /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd, and other related databases; in general, manages users and groups on many Linux systems. While most software releases are notable for what is added, the recent shadow-utils 4.20.0 release is most noteworthy for what…

The Software Stewardship Lab, a nonprofit organization based in Scotland, has announced its existence. Our current research focuses are: Software supply chain security — We're working on an observatory that allows users to identify and monitor the world's critical Open Source …

Shortly after Apple launched the budget MacBook Neo, Dell announced their response, a new low-end XPS 13. Matching the Neo's current pricing, it starts at $699, or $599 with an educational discount. That discount is currently set to expire on November 2, and with the current component pricing…

Version 1.33.0 of the LightDM display manager has been released. This is the first release in four years: the project had been sponsored by Canonical but was effectively unmaintained in recent years. It has been transferred to a new community repository and is now maintained by Joshua Peisach and…

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.12.102, 6.6.150, 6.1.182, 5.15.215, 5.10.264 stable kernels. This round of stable kernel releases contains a fix for a single bug, found by Thomas Lamprecht, that affected several of the kernels released yesterday in response to a…

Last chance to submit your KDE Goals proposal The call for submissions for the next KDE Goals cycle closes tomorrow, August 8. As of the time of writing we've received nineteen proposals, covering a variety of topics like enterprise, gaming, personal well-being, documentation, accessibility,…

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (compat-libtiff3, fence-agents, firefox, freerdp, frr, gimp, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, java-25-openjdk, kernel, kernel-rt, ldns, libgcrypt, libXfont2, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, p11-kit, pipewire, resource-agents, sg3_utils, thunderbird, and yelp), Debian…

Alright, this will be the last review of the Summer. I’ll take a break until September as I really need to unplug for a bit. The next edition will be at the end of the first week of September. See you then! But first… let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-32. Kill the Cookie Banner! Tags:…

How do you tell users that the text they're about to read has been synthetically generated? It is polite to readers that you don't waste their time, it's also important that LLMs don't feed on their own regurgitated slurry lest they pollute their own development. I think there are a number of…

On July 1st, the very first round of GNOME Fellowships started. This program finances contributors within the GNOME project through your donations. We, the fellows, will be giving you monthly updates about our work. This is the very first update from me. Short Introduction Hey, I’m Sophie. I have…

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 327. This version includes the following changes: [ Colin Watson ] * Handle missing openssh-client binaries in autopkgtests. You find out more by visiting the project homepage.

Week 28 This week's icon is for René Fouquet's project: Stencil: "Rename batches of files" Check out all weekly app icons created so far in the gallery and follow my icon creation adventures as they happen (including…

C API and Introspection I spent some time cleaning up the Rust C extension and the FFI layer to make it easier to consume from C and through GObject Introspection. One of the biggest changes was exposing the PitiviTimelineRuler instance type in the public headers instead of treating it as a generic…

Several months ago, as part of my internal move to the “IdP” team at Nextcloud, I started to co-maintain the user_saml application. This application allows Nextcloud users to implement single sign on with the SAML and Kerberos protocol. This protocol is based on XML and is mostly used in combination…

On Saturday 25 July 2026, the annual Debian Developers and Contributors Conference came to a close. Over 270 attendees representing 35 countries from around the world came together for a combined 90 events (including some which took place during the DebCamp) including more than 27 Talks, 21 Short…

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.1.7, 6.18.43, 6.6.149, 6.1.181, 5.15.214, and 5.10.263 stable kernels. These kernels fix a single security vulnerability (CVE-2026-68480) that could allow data leakage through speculative execution. Users of those kernels are advised to upgrade.

--> --> Welcome to the inaugural edition of This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty! This blog series will cover the work done throughout KDE’s software stack that’s funded by the investment KDE received earlier this year from Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency. Commissioned work on a variety of…

The kernel is able to run a few types of executable files, including native binaries in the ELF format and interpreted programs that begin with the #! marker. It also, however, has a mechanism, called binfmt_misc, that can be configured from user space to enable the transparent execution of…

Version 0.10 of the uutils project's Rust Coreutils has been released. This release focused on compatibility with the GNU Core Utilities suite, with Rust Coreutils now passing 645 of 690 tests, up from 625 with version 0.9.0. Notable changes in this release include addition of the…

A Inteligência Artificial já está transformando a maneira como profissionais GIS analisam dados, automatizam processos e desenvolvem soluções geoespaciais. Neste curso, você aprenderá a aplicar IA generativa, agentes inteligentes e automação em ferramentas como QGIS, PostGIS, GeoServer e GeoNode,…

Hey, I’m Philipp. I’m a GNOME Design Team member and I have been contributing to GNOME design as a volunteer for several years. I’m excited to share with you that I have joined the Sovereign Tech Agency as a fellow for GNOME Design & Community Management. Check out the other fellows in the official…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (7zip, kernel, libde265, and p7zip), Mageia (tomcat), Oracle (fence-agents, frr10, kernel, ldns, libgcrypt, mingw-glib2, nodejs24, osbuild-composer, p11-kit, php8.4, sg3_utils, and thunderbird), Red Hat (libXfont2), and SUSE (containerd, evince, libXfont2,…

Introducing Apache® Fluss, a lakehouse-native streaming storage for real-time analytics and AI, and Apache® Pony Mail, a web-based mail archive browser built to scale to millions of archived messages Wilmington, DE –  August 6, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open…

Hi! Past 2 weeks of my GSoC work about font subsetting in Poppler involved a lot of: Acting on code reviews on my MR https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/merge_requests/2220 Solving a lot of bugs. A lot of bugs took me 4-5 hours to troubleshoot and solve. I conquered my fear of GDB a…

Firefox 153 ships the new publicSuffix WebExtensions API. This API lets extensions ask the browser for the registrable domain (eTLD+1) of a hostname. It uses the browser’s built-in, always-up-to-date copy of the Public Suffix List, removing the need for extensions to bundle and maintain a copy of…