2026-10-24 02:54:33
Since the merge window for 7.4 opened, there have been 6,753 non-merge changesets pulled into the mainline repository. Many more are expected, especially given the possibility that this merge window will be extended to three weeks. Still, even this initial set brought in a number of new features, in addition to the continued general cleanups and security fixes that the kernel has seen recently.
2026-10-23 22:59:24
Memory has always been a scarce resource in computing systems, but the problem seems to have worsened recently. In particular, the worldwide shortage of memory chips has led to a renewed focus by systems developers on reducing memory usage. During the memory-management microconference at the 2026 Linux Plumbers Conference, Will Deacon discussed one specific consumer of memory that is being re-examined: kernel stacks.
2026-10-23 21:02:03
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, expat, grafana, grafana-pcp, httpd, iperf3, openssh, php, php8.4, php:7.4, php:8.2, and php:8.3), Debian (aide, chromium, clamav, erlang, linux-6.12, roundcube, unbound, and webkit2gtk), Fedora (bind9-next, ca-certificates, clevis-pin-trustee, golang-x-mobile, knot-resolver, maradns, ntpsec, php, socat, and vlc), Mageia (golang, jq, msgpack, open-isns, perl-Mozilla-CA, roundcubemail, and sudo), Oracle (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, cockpit-files, cockpit-machines, fetchmail, glycin-loaders, golang, jackson-core, librsvg2, mariadb11.8, openexr, openssh, php, php8.4, php:7.4, php:8.2, php:8.3, postgresql:16, qt5-qtbase, rust-sequoia-sq, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Red Hat (ca-certificates and opentelemetry-collector), SUSE (aliyun-cli, amazon-ecs-init, bcel, coreutils, cups-filters, cyrus-sasl, distribution, expat, firefox, go1.26, go1.26-openssl, go1.27, guava, mutt, nvidia-open-driver-G07-signed, p11-kit, php74, php8, podman, python-soupsieve, python313-datamodel-code-generator, python313-Django5, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (openvpn, python-tornado, and zlib).
2026-10-23 00:25:50
Linus Torvalds rarely writes significant amounts of kernel code these days, so the merging of a 48-part patch series from him is an unusual event. This series, destined for the 7.4 kernel release, performs some long-delayed kernel cleanup by removing a couple of the primitives used to access user-space memory from the kernel. What was once a best practice has long been superseded, but it can take time for such changes to work their way through a body of code this large.
2026-10-22 21:34:37
Version 2.8.0 of the KeePassXC password-management application has been released.
The new release brings a lot of long-awaited new features, many bugfixes, and several security updates. Among the major features are the migration from Qt5 to Qt6, Auto-Type on Wayland (Linux), configurable keyboard shortcuts, remote database synchronization with external tools, quick unlock with password on macOS, and quick unlock via Polkit on Linux. Version 2.8.0 is also the first version for which we ship native ARM64 builds for Windows and an experimental AArch64 (i.e., ARM64) AppImage for Linux.
See the changelog for a full list of new features, major changes, and bug fixes.
2026-10-22 21:19:56
There are several Rust features that kernel developers have been hoping to stabilize, but Josh Triplett wanted to describe all of the other features that the Rust project is currently working on. He spoke about the topic at Kangrejos 2026, leaving the assembled kernel developers with several ideas about how to use these upcoming Rust features in the kernel. The features included refinements to the type system, small syntax improvements, and a smarter borrow checker.