LWN.net Weekly Edition Archives
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LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 1, 2026 (One big page) (EPUB format)
- Front: PostgreSQL and the kernel; Rust on the GPU; KDE Plasma; C and memory safety; Rust radio; KDE funding; Chromium development.
- Briefs: File-notification attacks; Kernel report; TAB election; F-Droid 2.0; Firefox 157.0; GDB 18.1; Git v2.56.0; Quotes; ...
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
- Front: Git 2.56; gccrs; NetBSD and compat_linux; io_uring; Desktop UX.
- Briefs: WordPress vulnerability; Radicle vulnerability; Systemtap 5.6; GNOME 51; Systemd v262; Quotes; ...
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
- Front: Server-data encryption; PostgreSQL scary patches; Faster kernel builds; BPF for blk-iocost; Lessons learned as DPL.
- Briefs: Brief news items from throughout the community.
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
- Front: Rust's never type; Debian and CERN; memory tiering; testing multithreaded Python; fixing TCMalloc; Typst.
- Briefs: Rustls; Asahi Linux; Buildroot 2026.08; Grml 2026.09; Audacity 4.0; Jellyfin 12.0; LibreOffice Base; Quotes; ...
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
- Front: Python JIT; rnull block driver; steal time; GNOME governance; 7.3 merge window; LUKS.
- Briefs: Kernel infrastructure; Debian AI; Dolphin 26.08; Firefox 155; Incus 7.4; OpenShot 4.0; Quotes; ...
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
- Front: AGPL violations; OpenMDW license; quantum computing and encryption; 7.3 merge window; Remind; Quickshell.
- Briefs: arrayref; RIP Steve French; Armbian 26.8; Vanilla OS 3; Emacs 31.1; KDE Gear 26.08; LibreOffice 26.8; RPM 6.1.0; Quotes; ...
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
- Front: Debian AI GR; Python pathlib; bootstrappable builds; Fedora and AF_ALG; Arm 128-bit PTEs; BPF CI; 7.2 statistics.
- Briefs: Brief news items from throughout the community.
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
- Front: BPF and binfmt_misc; CrossPoint ebook firmware; KVM planes; BPF formal verification; shadow-utils; new storage-code testing features.
- Briefs: Django releases; GNOME shell; LightDM 1.33.0; QEMU 11.1; uutils 0.10; Software Stewardship Lab; Quotes; ...
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
- Front: Process-builder API; Fedora COI; FUSE io_uring buffer sizes; BPF network namespaces; FUSE plans; BPF libraries; directory creation system call.
- Briefs: AISI hack; JFrog on CVEs; npm worm; AUR adoption; NetBSD 11.0; b4 0.16.0; C-Kermit 11; Rust LLM policy; Servo 0.4.0; Quotes; ...
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
- Front: Hazard pointers; DFSG team; Swap devices; Netkit and BPF; BPF inlined functions; Fedora GRUB; gccrs.
- Briefs: RIP Dan Williams; Debian LLM resolution; Fedora 45 process; Codeberg LLM policy; GCC LLM policy; GNU Binutils 2.47; GNU C Library 2.44; Wayfire 0.11; Quotes; ...
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.