The biggest surprise is that Linux's legacy in-kernel console – the text-mode interface normally hidden beneath the GUI – has been replaced with a software-controlled alternative. The replacement ...

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 ...

The 7.3-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: "Another fairly large rc release, and again one with a bigger filesystem footprint that we usually see." ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ubuntu USN-8744-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 22.04 24.04 26.04 python2.7, python3.4, python3.5, python3.6, python3.7, python3.8, python3.9, python3.10, python3.11 ...

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

PostgreSQL contributor Tomas Vondra has published a blog post looking at development activity in the project, with data from the late 1990s to today. We're doing ~50 commits per week, give or take. In ...

PostgreSQL contributor Tomas Vondra has published a blog post looking at development activity in the project, with data from the late 1990s to today. We're doing ~50 commits per week, give or take. In ...

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 ...