Kerem Söke has announced the 1.0 release of Polo, a Wayland compositor for the MATE Desktop Environment: The idea is to keep MATE behaving as closely as possible to how it does on X11, rather than ...

Patrick Garrity of VulnCheck has written a blog post that looks at vulnerabilities found by Anthropic's Project Glasswing since it launched on April 7, and finds it wanting: ...

Daniel Stenberg reflects on the 30th anniversary of the curl project. libcurl runs in an estimated thirty billion installations today. It is a rough estimate since the majority of all libcurl users ...

Guido van Rossum conveys the sad (and somewhat delayed) news of the passing of Tim Peters. It's hard to overestimate Tim's influence on Python. He's probably best known for writing the Zen of Python ...

Patrick Garrity of VulnCheck has written a blog post that looks at vulnerabilities found by Anthropic's Project Glasswing since it launched on April 7, and finds it wanting: Of the 37,966 findings ...

Version 2026.10 of the OpenIndiana operating system has been released. OpenIndiana is based on Illumos, which in turn was based on OpenSolaris after Oracle discontinued it. Notable changes in this ...

Ubuntu USN-8955-2 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 nginx 2026-11-05 ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 7.3.2 and 6.18.61 stable kernels. Each contains quite a few changes throughout the tree; users are advised to upgrade.

Seen from outside, the internals of the Linux kernel appear to be stable, especially in subsystems like the memory-management subsystem. However, from time to time, developers need to replace an ...

Version 10.6p2 of OpenSSH has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability that affects Linux systems that use musl libc with PAM disabled, such as Alpine Linux. OpenSSH developer ...

Videos from the 2026 X.Org Developers Conference (XDC) are now available on YouTube. XDC was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 28-30.