PostgreSQL contributor Tomas Vondra has published a blog post looking at development activity in the project, with data from the late 1990s to today.

OpenSSH 10.4 has been released. In addition to a number of security and bug fixes, there are a few notable changes; this release adds experimental support for a composite post-quantum signature scheme ...

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 -A option for uname which ...

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 editing untrusted files in modes ...

Version 5.0 of the Blender animation system has been released. Notable improvements include improved color management, HDR capabilities, and a new storyboarding template. See the release notes for a ...

According to Kroah-Hartman, this batch may set a record for the number of patches with more than 9,000 in total between them. There are more than 1,800 patches in 7.2.6 alone. Users of these kernels ...

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 ...

In general, the more specific you make the rules regarding some choice, the less room you leave for sound judgement for things that weren't considered before. It's better to go for general principles ...

To: linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, akpm-AT-linux-foundation.org, torvalds-AT-linux-foundation.org, stable-AT-vger.kernel.org ...

To: mchehab-AT-kernel.org, davem-AT-davemloft.net, gregkh-AT-linuxfoundation.org, Jonathan.Cameron-AT-huawei.com, robh-AT-kernel.org, nicolas.ferre-AT-microchip.com ...

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 ...

The Asahi Linux project has announced that support for Apple's M3-series chips has been added to the Asahi installer.