2026-09-11 23:08:45
All of the videos from the EuroPython 2026 conference, held in Kraków, Poland from July 13 through July 19, are now online along with a recap of the event from conference organizers.
2026-09-11 22:15:32
Kernel developers do a lot of kernel builds. Since the kernel is not a small program, those builds can take a fair amount of time, even on a fast machine. The kernel also has a complex build system; it is probably fair to say that few developers truly understand it, and fewer still are willing to try to improve it. Lorenzo Stoakes, armed with LLM-based assistance, decided to give it a try, though, and has managed to reduce the time it takes to build a kernel — and not by a small amount.
2026-09-11 21:27:35
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.5 and 6.18.51 stable kernels. There are more than 550 patches in each with fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to upgrade.
2026-09-11 21:14:32
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (apr-util and qt6-qt5compat), Debian (libevent and ruby-rack), Fedora (bluez, corosync, curl, dokuwiki, grpcurl, libevent, and rest), Oracle (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, perl-DBI, python-urllib3, qt5-qtbase, qt6-qt5compat, and thunderbird), Red Hat (osbuild-composer), SUSE (azure-storage-azcopy, chromedriver, corosync, ggml-devel, helm, kernel, libmariadb-devel, libzypp, zypper, opensc, php7, tomcat10, and waylyrics), and Ubuntu (apache2, beets, glibc, kissfft, libebml, linux-nvidia-6.17, php8.1, php8.3, php8.5, and python2.7, python3.4, python3.5, python3.6, python3.7, python3.8, python3.9, python3.10, python3.11, python3.12, python3.14).
2026-09-11 04:05:50
The Forgejo software-forge project has announced the release of versions 16.0.4 and 15.0.8, which fixes two security vulnerabilities. One is a critical flaw that would allow remote-code execution (RCE):
When generating a new repository from a template repository, Forgejo clones the template repository, removes the .git folder, performs variable template expansion on files listed in .forgejo/template, and initializes a new git repository. During this process, variable template expansion could be misused in order to create a new .git folder, which git would adopt and incorporate during its initialization of a new git repository. A malicious template repository could be used to read arbitrary data from the Forgejo host, and to execute arbitrary processes on the Forgejo host, as a remote code execution attack. To address this issue, after variable expansion is completed, any existing .git folder is removed from the directory before the git repository is initialized.
The project recommends upgrading to the latest version as soon as possible.
2026-09-11 01:29:06
PostgreSQL 19 was
expected to be released in September, in keeping with the database
project's longstanding tradition of a major release every year. However,
some late-breaking concerns about several of the features slated for inclusion
has some developers worried about the quality of the release. On August 25, PostgreSQL
contributor Robert Haas sent
an email with the subject "scary patch contest
" about several patches
that have required an unusually large number of bug fixes leading up to the
release, which has raised questions about their readiness for a stable
release. One of the patches has been reverted, but several are still under heavy
revision, and an extra beta release has been slotted in to allow for additional
testing.