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 ...

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 ...

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." ...

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 ...

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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. 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 ...