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LWNLanguagesKernel prepatch 7.3-rc5 The 7.3-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: " I don't think there's any real pattern to it other than 'big'.

September 27
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LWNLanguagesGDB 18.1 released Version 18.1 of the GDB interactive debugger has been released. Changes include new commands to manipulate the environment of the subprocess, the ability to save the command history to a file…

September 26
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LWNLanguages[$] How KDE got funding to add enterprise features The Sovereign Tech Agency (STA) is investing nearly €1.3 million in KDE through 2027. At Akademy 2026 in Graz, Austria, Nate Graham and Kevin Ottens, two of the contributors who helped bring in the…

September 25
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LWNLanguagesA summary from the 2026 Git Contributors' Summit Johannes Schindelin has posted a detailed summary of the discussions held at the 2026 Git Contributors' Summit.

September 25
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LWNLanguagesF-Droid 2.0: A new chapter for Android freedom The F-Droid project has announced the release of F-Droid 2.0, which is a complete redesign of the official app.

September 24
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LWNLanguagesResearch into file-notification attacks on Linux Sudheendra Raghav Neela, a member of a group of researchers from Graz University of Technology , has announced the release of research into file-notification attacks that would allow spying on user…

September 24
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LWNLanguages[$] Listening to the radio with Rust Many of the transmissions sent over the radio spectrum can be decoded with a relatively cheap hardware dongle.

September 24
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LWNLanguagesThe Kernel Report 2026 edition After a two-year hiatus, LWN's Jonathan Corbet presented an updated edition of his Kernel Report at the Kernel Recipes conference.

September 24
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LWNLanguages[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 24, 2026 Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front : Git 2.56; gccrs; NetBSD and compat_linux; io_uring; Desktop UX.

September 24
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LWNLanguages[$] Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop Scott Jenson has been working on user interfaces (UIs) and user experience (UX) for many years at Apple, Google, and other companies.

September 23
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LWNLanguagesSystemd v262 released Systemd v262 has been released. Some of the notable new features include the ability to build systemd as a single statically linked binary for small containers, support for the kernel coredump socket…

September 23
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LWNLanguagesCritical security vulnerabilities in the Radicle network protocol The Radicle peer-to-peer code-collaboration project has disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in the network protocol used by Radicle nodes.

September 23