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mg: fix deferred element ownership Keep a deferred element from freeing the value it is about to use. A deferred element is an lvalue alias for an array or hash element that may not exist yet. It holds the container and an index or key until it can resolve to the element. The alias can hold the…

Your friendly keyring-maint Debian team received one of the weirdest spam messages ever… So, do we want to py to who-knows-whom for promoting the keyring-maint services in a verrrrrry-dark web search site? First time I have to throw this stinky onion at you…

User namespaces are a key part of the kernel's toolkit for assembling containers; processes within a user namespace can appear to have full root access to the system while gaining no extra privileges in the wider system. At least, that is the intent. In practice, keeping privilege contained within…

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (dpdk, httpd:2.4, kernel, kernel-rt, mysql:8.0, php:7.4, php:8.0, qt5, ruby:2.7, ruby:3.0, tesseract, webkit2gtk3, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Debian (imagemagick, puppet-agent, symfony, trapperkeeper-authorization-clojure, and xen), Fedora (3proxy,…

The most interesting thing about these headphones isn't the headphones; it's their case. The good folks at Tozo have sent me a pair of their new ear-blasters. They're a fairly standard pair of in-ear headphones. Sound quality is good, noise cancelling is excellent, battery life is fine. You know,…

It’s been nearly eight months since “building my todo list app”. Did you forget what that was? Probably, because although I talk about it in person all the time (“I made this cool thing!”), I haven’t blogged much about it. I did some more good stuff with it, though, so here’s more blogging.

Version 10.6p2 of OpenSSH has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability that affects Linux systems that use musl libc with PAM disabled, such as Alpine Linux. OpenSSH developer Damien Miller said: If you operate a Linux system that uses musl libc without PAM (Alpine Linux is one…

Stats::LikeR provides fast, minimal dependency statistics in Perl. There's no second language, and writing code in XS means that it's significantly easier on resources than other statistics packages. Results are checked using R and python's own tests to confirm correctness. Bio David Condon, PhD,…

As a person that has lived in Kansas almost all my life, I have never seen such good political news for this state as we got this week. It is a stunning rebuke of fascism from across the country. One of the many pieces of wisdom from mechanic Tom Magliozzi is this question: “Would you rather be…

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Kernel cells; Debian LLM reviews; glibc system-call wrappers; Binder in Rust; Kernel CVE flood; Fedora KDE and X11 removal; 7.4 merge window part two; Portable Python. Briefs: MTCP RCE; Bash security; XCPE botnet;…

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 337. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Mark that the test_nupkg_compressed_files test requires the tlsh Python * module. (Closes: #1151752) You find out more by visiting the project…

Over 180 individual applications plus dozens of programmer libraries and feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear. Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations, including: akonadi: Do not crash with a unknown tracer (Commit, fixes bug…

Servo 0.7.0 contains all of the changes we landed in September, spanning 527 commits! The developer tools console now eagerly evaluates JS inputs, allowing faster feedback (@freyacodes, #47527). We’ve shipped new web platform features: the :checked pseudoclass (@skyz1, #47987) the…

Here comes Kaidan 0.17.0! This release allows to report spam and retract messages. In addition, it automatically reconnects based on your internet connection. As always, it includes several smaller improvements and fixes. Most of the work has been funded by NLnet via NGI Zero Commons Fund with…

Problem: KMail tags ≠ Thunderbird tags¶ Due to technical issues1 at work, I had to temporarily switch to using Thunderbird – or rather, Betterbird – and since there is always way too many e-mail, I mark important and actionable messages as such to better find them afterwards. A nasty surprise then…

Catch up with Astor & Damien, Eloy, Julie, into Cambridge for a shared lunch - arriving an hour late: daylight saving joy. Caught up with the team, chat with Richard. Published the next strip: Blake gets on with it - a triumph for the community, although often whether he is part of the…

So... another few days working on Oxygen’s symbolic icons. 607 commits between November 1 and 4: drawings, revisions, size variants and cleanup. Not 607 new icons... some of these little things need quite a few visits Calendar views, holidays, upcoming events and birthdays. Enlarged artwork with…

Hello, Planet Debian. My blog was added to the Planet today, so I think the polite thing is to introduce myself before you start finding my posts between yours. I am Juan Manuel Méndez Rey, from Sevilla. In Debian I am mendezr, and on OFTC I am Vejeta. I have been using Linux since 1994 and Debian…

On October 19, 2026 the GeoServer project announced three releases: 3.0.2, 2.28.6 and 2.27.7. For most deployments these are maintenance and security updates. For organizations that must run their geospatial infrastructure under formal cryptographic requirements, 3.0.2 carries something more: a new…

The KDE Project announced, in 2025, that Plasma 6.7 would be the last version of the desktop environment that would support X11 sessions. Those who keep up with KDE's announcements no doubt expected it when Plasma 6.8 dropped X11 support as promised. What seems to have come as a surprise, at least…

Here’s what we watched in Horror Movie Month this year!

Version 45 of Bazzite, the image-based gaming distribution based on Fedora Linux, has been released. Notable changes in this release include a rebase to Fedora 45, updated Open Gaming Collective (OGC) kernels, support for Logitech TrueWheel devices, and more. LWN covered Bazzite in December 2025.

A basic Python script is portable: it can be copied between machines with little concern about compatibility. A script that depends on third-party packages requires quite a bit more care and consideration, however. In 2023, PEP 723 ("Inline script metadata") introduced a standard for declaring a…

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cockpit, dpdk, fence-agents, firefox, freerdp, gimp, opentelemetry-collector, python-dns, qemu-kvm, and raptor2), Debian (apt and squid), Fedora (ags, apptainer, chromium, fractal, mingw-harfbuzz, mingw-qt5-qtwebkit, mingw-qt6-qt5compat,…

The latest version of the Firefox Profiler is now live! Check out the full changelog below to see what’s changed: Changes: [Markus Stange] Some FlameGraph changes, for the function list flame graphs (#6402) [Markus Stange] Match source-mapped original filenames in call tree search (#6431) [fatadel]…