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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 organizers.
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 has a complex build system; it is probably fair to say that few developers trul...
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 advised to upgrade.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (apr-util and qt6-qt5compat), Debian (libevent and ruby-rack), Fedora (bluez, corosync, curl, dokuwiki, grpcurl, libevent, and rest), Oracle (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, perl-DBI, python-urllib3, qt5-qt...
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 allow remote-code execution (RCE): When generating a new repository from a templat...
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-breaking concerns about several of the features slated for inclusion has some deve...
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 graphical interface for the Julia version manager. A full list of changes can be foun...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds-base, ansible-core, buildah, expat, glib2, gpsd, gpsd-minimal, gzip, kernel, kernel-rt, opentelemetry-collector, osbuild-composer, perl-DBI, python-lxml, python3.12-lxml, qt5-qtbase, thunderbird,...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Rust's never type; Debian and CERN; memory tiering; testing multithreaded Python; fixing TCMalloc; Typst. Briefs: Rustls; Asahi Linux; Buildroot 2026.08; Grml 2026.09; Audacity 4.0; Jellyfin 12.0; Lib...
Joe Birr-Pixton has written a blog post reflecting on a decade of the Rustls TLS-library project and looking ahead to the upcoming 0.24 release and an eventual 1.0 release. Rustls began with a first commit on May 2, 2016. Progress was quick: a month ...
Heiko Tietze has published a blog post summarizing the results of a recent survey about the use of LibreOffice's database application, Base. 455 people participated in the survey, including more than 330 who use Base on Linux, with use cases ranging ...
Typst is a system for typesetting documents into various formats: PDF, SVG, PNG, and, in progress, HTML. It is adept at handling technical material, and is often considered to be an eventual LaTeX replacement. We last looked in on Typst a year ago, w...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (expat, glib2, microcode_ctl, mrtg, pam, redis, thunderbird, and valkey), Debian (fort-validator, gst-plugins-base1.0, kernel, and slurm-wlm), Fedora (complyctl, libevent, openvpn, and tar), Mageia (dove...
A function's return type is supposed to indicate the kind of data that it produces. Rust's "never" type, which is denoted by an exclamation mark ("!"), is the type the language uses to mark a function that never returns and other places where a valu...
Version 12 of the Jellyfin media-management system has been released. Notable changes include database performance improvements, an upgrade to FFmpeg 8.1 for media transcoding, as well as better handling of book and comic media. See the release notes...