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Canonical has announced the release of Ubuntu 26.10 ("Stonking Stingray"): Ubuntu 26.10 advances enterprise security features, completes the rollout of the Rust-based uutils coreutils, and strengthens integrations for user authentication using Microsoft Entra ID. [...] Ubuntu 26.10 also ships…

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (environment-modules, flatpak-builder, kernel, kernel-rt, librabbitmq, libreoffice, libsoup, mod_auth_openidc:2.3, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, OpenEXR, opentelemetry-collector, pki-core:10.6, postgresql:12, python-tornado, python36:3.6, ruby:3.3, tftp, and…

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.11, 6.18.57, 6.12.113, 6.6.159, 6.1.190, 5.15.223, and 5.10.272 stable kernels. This series includes, among other things, a fix for a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-99999). The flaw in skb_checksum_help() would allow an IPv4 packet with bad…

Creating a direct connection between any two computers (not just from client to server) over the internet is notoriously difficult. Many home networks are behind NATs which prevent new inbound connections. Sometimes these NATs are from the ISP (carrier-grade NATs) which are impossible to work around…

Tagoross published its first open content package, one day after KDE turned thirty. Two good days in a row Yesterday was a great day for me. KDE turned thirty years old. The KDE documentary, published to celebrate the anniversary, was delightful. Today is no less special for me. The first Tagoross…

The gedit text editor version 51 has been released! A previous blog post, News, April-May 2026 already covers most of the changes. A reminder that gedit is still alive and is available to install, as an alternative. Progress has been made since May, but it's mostly…

We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 21 Beta2.

Bugs resolved in Moz-Phab 2.22.1: bug 2078299 Allow overriding base url and repo call sign for development purposes Discuss these changes in #engineering-workflow on Slack or #Conduit Matrix. 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic

Bugs resolved in Moz-Phab 2.22.0: bug 1501077 moz-phab does not update the reviewers list in Phabricator to match local changes bug 2074122 moz-phab --apply-to here --no-branch changed my tree and branch without prompting bug 2077318 moz-phab should block submitting patches that still contain…

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: 2026 Maintainers Summit; Rust goals; GCC and LLMs; GCC CFI; systemd; C types in Rust; LTTng; Swap showdown; KDE Linux. Briefs: 64-day certificates; Nix and Lix security; Asterinas 0.19.0; LineageOS 24; KDE 6.8; Python…

Usually I blog about new additions to the GNOME wallpapers after a release, to give some behind the scenes look on how they were produced. This time I'm asking for some feedback beforehand. Pixels has shipped as a wallpaper before. The wallpaper landed back in 2021 and keeps getting refreshed as…

The fact this movie tanked at the box office just makes the ride all the more enjoyable. I had a bad headache and had to call off the screening with a friend yesterday. Thursday is when the movies rotate in our part of the world where we use the un-American units, so I thought I'd missed yet another…

The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.99.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.99.1 is as easy as: rustup update stable If you don't have…

AI now digitizes, scripts and runs whole QGIS tasks. US mapping jobs are still projected to grow to 2035. Here is what changes, task by task, and what to learn.

How to do a spatial join in QGIS: join attributes by location or by nearest, count points in polygons, pick the right predicate, and avoid the CRS traps.

How to digitize a map in QGIS: draw polygons by hand with snapping and tracing, trace a scanned map, convert a raster, or let AI outline every object at once.

On September 22 we released systemd v262 into the wild. In the weeks leading up to that release (and since then) I have posted a series of serieses of posts to Mastodon about key new features in this release, under the #systemd262 hash tag. In case you aren't using Mastodon, but would like to read…

Here's one that m2c usually gets right itself, but sometimes cannot: if (var_v1_7 != 1) { if (var_v1_7 < 2) { if (var_v1_7 != 0) { spF0 = 40; } else { vram_x = cmt46->vram_x; vram_y = cmt46->vram_y; …

Hello, I am pleased to announce a new Cambalache release. Cambalache is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) tool that allows you to create and edit user interfaces for Gtk 4 and 3 applications. This new version depends on GNOME SDK 51 and includes all new properties and types from Gtk and…

The twenty-second release of the qlcal package arrivied at CRAN yesterday, and has been built for r2u as well as on r-universe. qlcal delivers the calendaring parts of QuantLib. It is provided (for the R package) as a set of included files, so the package is self-contained and does not depend on an…

Welcome to the September 2026 report from the Reproducible Builds project! In our reports, we try to outline the most important things that we have been up to over the past month. As a quick recap about what problem our project intends to solve, whilst anyone may inspect the source code of free…

A few people have asked how the scoring works, and one or two have asked, a bit pointedly, why their pin 40 km from Lagos only got half marks. Here’s the longer version of the info box: how to play, how the points add up, and where it all comes from. The basics Every day you get 5 cities. For…

Introducing Apache Auron™, Apache Reqsign™, and Apache ResilientDB™ Wilmington, DE – October 14, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home for open source software the world relies on, today announced that Apache Auron, Apache Reqsign, and Apache ResilientDB have become Top-Level…

LTTng creator Mathieu Desnoyers seems a bit trapped in something of a catch-22. At the 2026 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), he led a discussion on the problem he is having in trying to collaborate with other tracing projects (e.g. ftrace, perf) in the kernel. The feedback he has gotten, both over…

At the recently concluded Maintainers Summit, Linus Torvalds said that he had been using a large language model to work on a patch series addressing a longstanding problem; he has now posted that series for review. The fairly short series of ten patches basically enhances folio lookup by…