2026-04-15 02:48:44
The Zig project has announced version 0.16.0 of the Zig programming language.
This release features 8 months of work: changes from 244 different contributors, spread among 1183 commits.
Perhaps most notably, this release debuts I/O as an Interface, but don't sleep on the Language Changes or enhancements to the Compiler, Build System, Linker, Fuzzer, and Toolchain which are also included in this release.
LWN last covered Zig in December 2025.
2026-04-14 23:50:54
Part of the "fun" that comes with curating a self-hosted music library is tagging music so that it has accurate and uniform metadata, such as the band names, album titles, cover images, and so on. This can be a tedious endeavor, but there are quite a few open-source tools to make this process easier. One of the best, or at least my favorite, is MusicBrainz Picard. It is a cross-platform music-tagging application that pulls information from the well-curated, crowdsourced MusicBrainz database project and writes it to almost any audio file format.
2026-04-14 23:36:00
Version 4.0.0 of the OpenSSL cryptographic library has been released. This release includes support for a number of new cryptographic algorithms and has a number of incompatible changes as well; see the announcement for the details.
2026-04-14 21:05:04
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gdk-pixbuf, gst-plugins-bad1.0, and xdg-dbus-proxy), Fedora (chromium, deepin-image-viewer, dtk6gui, dtkgui, efl, elementary-photos, entangle, flatpak, freeimage, geeqie, gegl04, gthumb, ImageMagick, kf5-kimageformats, kf5-libkdcraw, kf6-kimageformats, kstars, libkdcraw, libpasraw, LibRaw, luminance-hdr, nomacs, OpenImageIO, OpenImageIO2.5, photoqt, python-cryptography, rawtherapee, shotwell, siril, swayimg, vips, and webkitgtk), Red Hat (firefox and podman), Slackware (libarchive), SUSE (expat, glibc, GraphicsMagick, libcap-devel, libpng16, libtpms, nodejs24, openssl-1_0_0, openssl-1_1, openssl-3, openvswitch, polkit, python-requests, python311-biopython, python312, python39, and tigervnc), and Ubuntu (corosync, kvmtool, libxml-parser-perl, linux-azure, linux-azure, linux-azure-6.17, linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8, policykit-1, redis, lua5.1, lua-cjson, lua-bitop, rustc, vim, and xdg-dbus-proxy).
2026-04-14 00:04:23
Linus Torvalds released the 7.0 kernel as expected on April 12, ending a relatively busy development cycle. The 7.0 release brings a large number of interesting changes; see the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) for all the details. Here, instead, comes our traditional look at where those changes came from and who supported that work.
2026-04-13 23:17:37
The OpenWrt One is a router powered by the open-source firmware from the OpenWrt project; it was also the subject of a keynote at SCALE in 2025 given by Denver Gingerich of the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), which played a big role in developing the router. Gingerich returned to the conference in 2026 to talk about the build system used by the OpenWrt One, which is focused on creating the needed binaries, naturally, but doing so in a way that makes it easy to comply with the licenses of the underlying code. That makes good sense for a project of this sort—and for a talk given by the director of compliance at SFC.