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Rust 1.95.0 released

2026-04-17 01:24:06

Version 1.95.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include the addition of a cfg_select! macro, the capability to use if let guards to allow conditionals based on pattern matching, and many newly stabilized APIs. See the release notes for a full list of changes.

Forgejo 15.0 released

2026-04-16 23:04:34

Version 15.0 of the Forgejo code-collaboration platform has been released. Changes include repository-specific access tokens, a number of improvements to Forgejo Actions, user-interface enhancements, and more. Forgejo 15.0 is considered a long-term-support (LTS) release, and will be supported through July 15, 2027. The previous LTS, version 11.0, will reach end of life on July 16, 2026. See the announcement and release notes for a full list of changes.

[$] The first half of the 7.1 merge window

2026-04-16 21:19:47

The 7.1 merge window opened on April 12 with the release of the 7.0 kernel. Since then, 3,855 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline repository for the next release. This merge window is thus just getting started, but there has still been a fair amount of interesting work moving into the mainline.

KDE Gear 26.04 released

2026-04-16 21:17:00

Version 26.04 of the KDE Gear collection of applications has been released. Notable changes include improvements in the Merkuro Calendar schedule view and event editor, support for threads in the NeoChat Matrix chat client, as well as the ability to add keyboard shortcuts in the Dolphin file manager "to nearly any option in any menu, plugin or extension". See the changelog for a full list of updates, enhancements, and bug fixes.

Security updates for Thursday

2026-04-16 21:00:51

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, bind9.16, bind9.18, cockpit, fence-agents, firefox, fontforge, git-lfs, grafana, grafana-pcp, kernel, nghttp2, nginx, nginx:1.24, nginx:1.26, nodejs:20, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, pcs, perl-XML-Parser, perl:5.32, resource-agents, squid:4, thunderbird, and vim), Debian (incus, lxd, and python3.9), Fedora (cef, composer, erlang, libpng, micropython, mingw-openexr, moby-engine, NetworkManager-ssh, perl, perl-Devel-Cover, perl-PAR-Packer, polymake, pypy, python-cairosvg, python-flask-httpauth, and python3.15), Mageia (kernel, kmod-virtualbox, kmod-xtables-addons and kernel-linus), Oracle (\cockpit, bind, bind9.16, bind9.18, firefox, git-lfs, go-toolset:ol8, grafana, grafana-pcp, grub2, kea, kernel, libtiff, nghttp2, nginx, nginx:1.24, nginx:1.26, nodejs22, nodejs24, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, perl-XML-Parser, python3.9, thunderbird, uek-kernel, and vim), Red Hat (delve, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, osbuild-composer, and rhc), SUSE (bind, Botan, cockpit, cockpit-subscriptions, expat, flatpak, glibc, goshs, himmelblau, kea, kernel, kubo, libpng16, libssh, log4j, mariadb, Mesa, netty, netty-tcnative, nfs-utils, nghttp2, nodejs20, openssl-3, pam, pcre2, python, python310, python311, python311-aiohttp, python311-rfc3161-client, python313, python36, rubygem-bundler, sqlite3, sudo, tigervnc, tomcat, tomcat10, tomcat11, util-linux, vim, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (dotnet8, dotnet9, dotnet10, frr, and linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15).

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 16, 2026

2026-04-16 08:52:23

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

  • Front: LLM security reports; OpenWrt One build system; Vim forks; removing read-only THPs; 7.0 statistics; MusicBrainz Picard.
  • Briefs: OpenSSL 4.0.0; Relicensing; Servo; Zig 0.16.0; Quotes; ...
  • Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.