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The scheduling of block I/O requests has long been a challenge for operating-system kernels. For many years, the performance characteristics of rotating drives meant that
PostgreSQL contributor Tomas Vondra has published a blog post looking at development activity in the project, with data from the late 1990s to today. We're doing ~50 comm
Security updates have been issued by Debian (network-manager-l2tp and urwid), Fedora (perl-Dancer2, perl-Data-Entropy, perl-DBI, perl-Protocol-HTTP2, podman-tui, rust-lru
Pádraig Brady has announced GNU Core Utilities (coreutils) version 9.12. " There have been 288 commits by 16 people in the 21 weeks since 9.11 ". New features include an
What is it like to be a Debian Project Leader (DPL), or a former one? According to Andreas Tille, who stepped down this year after two consecutive terms as DPL, you'd hav
Sean Whitton has announced that the original fix for an arbitrary code execution flaw in Emacs ( CVE-2024-53920 ) was incomplete. Bas Alberts discovered that viewing or e
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds-base, apr-util, coreutils, freerdp, git-lfs, glib2, gstreamer1-plugins-base, kernel, libkcapi, nginx, nodejs:22, no
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 7.2.6 , 6.18.52 , 6.12.110 , 6.6.157 , 6.1.188 , 5.15.221 , 5.10.270 stable kernels. According to Kroah-Hartman , this batch may set
Just a reminder that prices for LWN subscriptions will increase after September 15. Until then, the older rate still applies. See this article for details on this change.
The 7.3-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: " Another fairly large rc release, and again one with a bigger filesystem footprint that we usually see. "
All of the videos from the EuroPython 2026 conference, held in Kraków, Poland from July 13 through July 19, are now online along with a recap of the event from conference
Kernel developers do a lot of kernel builds. Since the kernel is not a small program, those builds can take a fair amount of time, even on a fast machine. The kernel also
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.5 and 6.18.51 stable kernels. There are more than 550 patches in each with fixes throughout the tree; users are ad
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (apr-util and qt6-qt5compat), Debian (libevent and ruby-rack), Fedora (bluez, corosync, curl, dokuwiki, grpcurl, libevent,
The Forgejo software-forge project has announced the release of versions 16.0.4 and 15.0.8 , which fixes two security vulnerabilities. One is a critical flaw that would a
PostgreSQL 19 was expected to be released in September, in keeping with the database project's longstanding tradition of a major release every year. However, some late-br
Version 1.13 of the Julia programming language has been released. Highlights include faster precompilation of packages, improvements to Julia's REPL, and Juliaup , a grap
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds-base, ansible-core, buildah, expat, glib2, gpsd, gpsd-minimal, gzip, kernel, kernel-rt, opentelemetry-collector, os
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