[$] Large language models for patch review
There have been many discussions in the free-software community about the role of large language models (LLMs) in software development. For the most part, though, those conversati [...]
Security updates for Thursday
Forgejo 13.0 released
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 16, 2025
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 16, 2025 is available.
[$] A new API for interrupt-aware spinlocks
Boqun Feng spoke at Kangrejos 2025 about adding a frequently needed API for Rust drivers that need to handle interrupts: interrupt-aware spinlocks. Most drivers will need to commu [...]
Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7 released
Security updates for Wednesday
Four new stable kernels released
The FSF's Librephone project
[$] The end of the 6.18 merge window
The 6.18 merge window has come to an end, bringing with it a total of 11,974 non-merge commits, 3,499 of which came in after LWN's first-half summary. The total is a little higher [...]
Julia 1.12 released
Firefox 144.0 released
[$] The FSF considers large language models
The Free Software Foundation's Licensing and Compliance Lab concerns itself with many aspects of software licensing, Krzysztof Siewicz said at the beginning of his 2025 GNU Tools C [...]
Security updates for Tuesday
[$] Debian Technical Committee overrides systemd change
Debian packagers have a great deal of latitude when it comes to the configuration of the software they package; they may opt, for example, to disable default features in software t [...]
Four new stable kernels
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc1
[$] Enhancing FineIBT
At the Linux Security Summit Europe (LSS EU), Scott Constable and Sebastian Österlund gave a talk on an enhancement to a control-flow integrity (CFI) protection that was added to t [...]
Security updates for Friday