Linus Torvalds has released the 7.4-rc2 prepatch and it will come as no surprise that it is a large one ("a big -rc2 to go with the largest ever -rc1"). Much of the size was made up of some automated ...

Version 2026.10 of the OpenIndiana operating system has been released. OpenIndiana is based on Illumos, which in turn was based on OpenSolaris after Oracle discontinued it.

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 ...

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Last week, Google and industry partners dismantled the XCPE backdoor which enrolled more than 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet. We assess with high confidence that the backdoor and botnet ...

LWN looked at the PostgreSQL 19 release and its challenges in September.

The 7.4-rc1 kernel prepatch is out, and the merge window is closed for this development cycle. This is a *BIG* merge window. I think the reason is the by now obvious one, but I'm actually taking it as ...

Version 16.0 of the Tor Browser has been released. This is the first stable version based on Firefox ESR 153. Notable changes in this release include support for Linux on 64-bit Arm, redesigned ...

The Redox OS project, which is a Unix-like microkernel-based operating system written in Rust, has published a report on the work that it has done in the last year to implement io_uring-like I/O.

Ubuntu USN-8994-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 26.04 vips 2026-11-03 ...

Ubuntu USN-8958-1 22.04 24.04 26.04 26.10 dotnet8, dotnet10, dotnet11 2026-10-30 The LWN site is currently under high scraper load, so comment display has been suppressed for anonymous users. If you ...