News from the Planet

This is a bug fix and minor feature release over INN 2.7.3, and the upgrade should be painless. You can download the new release from ISC or my personal INN pages. The latter also has links to the full changelog and the other INN documentation. For the full list of changes, see the INN 2.7.4 NEWS…

The 7.2-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: "It's Sunday afternoon, and rc2 is out. Things look very normal - it's not a small rc2, but it's in line with recent releases, and slightly smaller than rc2 was in 7.1. Let's see how that all continues, but so far so good."

I couldn't remember something for weeks. It popped into my head during a run — a relief, even though the memory itself was not pleasant. This episode of my flaky mind reminded me of this movie.<I won't give you even a hint of what the movie is about. The strength of it is not the premise, but the…

Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 26.08 releases to themNext Dates: July 16, 2026, 23:59 UTC: 26.08 Freeze and Beta (26.07.80) tarball creation July 17 2026: 26.08 Beta (26.07.80) release July 30, 2026, 23:59 UTC: 26.08 RC (26.07.90) tarball creation July 31,…

After I published my map of defence spending a friend suggested that it would be interesting to see how things had changed since the end of the Cold War in 1990/91. I knew that the data I had covered a longer time period so I asked Claude if we could update the map and it checked the data and…

After a long development cycle, we are thrilled to announce the official release of Rolisteam v1.10. This version brings a wave of brand-new tools for Game Masters, a major technical overhaul of the whole project, and a much healthier codebase for the years to come. Download it now:…

Debian Related Work Uploaded wofi 1.5.3-1 to unstable Uploaded wob 0.16-1 to unstable Uploaded labwc 0.20.0-1 and 0.20.1-1 to unstable; these releases come with support for wlroots-0.20, which made labwc reenter testing Uploaded swaylock 1.8.5-2 to unstable to make it use the common-auth directive…

Week 24 This week's icon is for Jiří Eischmann's project: Meshy: "Meshcore mesh network client" Check out all weekly app icons created so far over here and follow my icon creation adventures as they happen (including…

Updated KDE content snaps with Qt 6.11.1, KF6 6.27.0, and Applications 26.04.3, critical bug fixes, Debian packaging of Rust crates for Plasma 6.7.0, and what's on the horizon.

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.7.0alpha1! Best Served with PostgreSQL 19 Beta1 and GEOS 3.15 which will be released soon. This version requires PostgreSQL 14 - 19beta1, GEOS 3.10 or higher, and Proj 6.1+. To take advantage of all features, GEOS 3.15+ is needed. To take advantage of…

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.1.3, 6.18.38, 6.12.95, 6.6.144, 6.1.177, 5.15.211, and 5.10.260 stable kernels. Several kernels in this batch include a fix for a vulnerability introduced in the 6.0 kernel in IPv6 (CVE-2026-53362), which could allow an attacker to escape a…

As previously mentioned, I am leaving Chrome; my last work day was yesterday. (Sorry to those with July 3rd off that I didn't get to say goodbye to!) But I'm staying in Google, on more internal projects :-) After 1100+ commits it's hard to pick out one thing that I love the most; as a team, we…

I am somewhat jet-lagged, having returned from Washington DC just before the 250th anniversary celebrations which will be happening today. I was part of a delegation sent by my employer to the AWS Summit there this week, partly to kindle interactions between PA Consulting and Jacobs who have…

This was a little idea gnawing at the back of my brain. The humble barcode has been in use since the 1970s. In the next few years it will likely be replaced with a 2D QR Code. I couldn't find anyone who'd made a QR code with an embedded UPC - so I decided to make one. If you move your phone…

--> --> Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week Plasma 6.7 received a few more stabilization bug-fixes while attention turned towards the upcoming 6.8 release. Some exciting changes are in progress, and a few have already merged, including highly visible improvements to some…

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from June 26 to July 3. Third Party Projects Haydn Trowell says The latest version of Typesetter updates the built-in Typst compiler to version 0.15, which brings a long-awaited feature: variable font support – no more warnings and faulty…

Tellico 4.2.1 is available, with some improvements and bug fixes. Improvements: Added user-defined data fetch argument (Bug 516055). Updated Google Scholar and Colnect data sources. Updated Google Books data source (Bug 522095). Updated external data source to allow termination by user (Bug…

Recently a person reported a bug in APT saying that TLS is failing on FIPS systems with MD5 errors, and suggested we call ERR_clear_error() around TLS operations. Like any serious software engineer would do, I said No. Just because one component failed to handle its errors does not mean I can go…

The GNU Guix project has announced three vulnerabilities in the guix substitute utility as well as a fourth that affects the guix pull and guix time-machine commands. The impact of the vulnerabilities ranges from remote privilege escalation to local disclosure of sensitive files. The remote…

Over the past few weeks, I have been writing the backend for the vocabulary-puzzle generator for Crosswords. But what entirely dictates a valid word placement whilst being mindful of all edge cases and managing the state of the puzzle upon the exploration of possible solutions? Finding valid…

With Keir Starmer recently losing a Defence Secretary and then leaving a budgetary timebomb for his successor as PM, Andy Burnham, I thought it might be interesting to see how we rank on defence spending and who are the world’s largest exporters and importers of arms. I started out by trying to…

A number of problems related to negative directory entries (dentries) were the topic of a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. Negative dentries are used to indicate that a file of a given name does not exist in a directory; it is an…

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds-base, bind9.18, evince, fence-agents, freerdp, frr, frr10, gimp, gnutls, hplip, jmc, mariadb:11.8, mysql:8.4, php:7.4, postgresql-jdbc, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, valkey, xorg-x11-server, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Debian (fastnetmon),…

My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian. You can also support my work directly via Liberapay or GitHub Sponsors. Thanks to new sponsor @fernandocc17! bugs.debian.org documentation Sometimes I ask users to file bugs upstream themselves because I think they’d be better…

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-27. What happened to the fight for the Internet? Tags: tech, politics, surveillance Excellent piece, where are the netizens who should be fighting back those bills? Looks like we became very complacent and passivity reigns this time around. Didn’t think…