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Version 2.1.0 of the LXQt lightweight Qt desktop environment has been released. The highlight of this release is support for multiple Wayland compositors: Through its new component lxqt-wayland-session , LXQt 2.1.0 supports 7 Wayland sessions (with Labwc, KWin, Wayfire, Hyprland, Sway, River and Niri), has two Wayland back-ends in lxqt-panel (one for kwin_wayland and the other general), and will add more later. All LXQt components that are not limited to X11 — i.e., most components — work fine …

Joshua Liebow-Feeser took to the stage at RustConf to describe the methodology that his team uses to encode arbitrary constraints in the Rust type system when working on the Fuchsia operating system ( slides ). The technique is not unknown to the Rust community, but Liebow-Feeser did a good job of both explaining the method and making a case for why it should be used more widely.

After a couple of years of effort, the BPF instruction set architecture has been accepted as RFC 9669 , giving it a standard outside of the in-kernel implementation. This message from David Vernet (who also contributed an article on the standardization process last year) describes the process and why it is important: Though some vendors have already implemented BPF offloading capabilities without having a standardized ISA, others are not quite as risk tolerant. As Christoph [Hellwig] discussed …

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, openexr, and thunderbird), Fedora (llama-cpp and python-quart), Oracle (firefox, openexr, thunderbird, and xorg-x11-server and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), SUSE (chromium, govulncheck-vulndb, openssl-1_1, python311, and python312), and Ubuntu (linux-azure, linux-bluefield, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-ibm, openjpeg2, and ruby3.0, ruby3.2, ruby3.3).

OpenWrt is, despite its relatively low profile, one of our community's most important distributions; it runs untold numbers of network routers and has served as the base on which a lot of network-oriented development (including the bufferbloat-reduction work ) has been done. At the beginning of 2024, a few members of the project announced a plan to design and produce a router device specifically designed to run OpenWrt. This device, dubbed the "OpenWrt One", is now becoming available; the kind …

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, grafana, kernel, and mod_http2), Debian (chromium, openssl, and thunderbird), Fedora (chromium, krb5, mysql8.0, polkit, python-single-version, and webkitgtk), Mageia (bind, buildah, podman, skopeo, kernel, kmod-xtables-addons. kmod-virtualbox, kernel-firmware & kernel-firmware-nonfree radeon-firmware, and kernel-linus), SUSE (apache2, chromedriver, cups-filters, docker-stable, firefox, gama, govulncheck-vulndb, java-11-openjdk, java-17-op…

The 6.12-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus says: " Another week, another rc. Nothing odd or special seems to be going on - this may be a bit on the bigger side for an rc6, but not hugely so, and nothing stands out. "

Members of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board sat down for a 45-minute "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) session at All Things Open in Raleigh, NC on October 29. Though the floor was open to any topic the audience might want to ask of the OSI board . Many of the questions were focused on the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID), which was announced the day before. The new definition has been somewhat controversial , and the board spent a lot of time addressing concerns about it during the session, as we…

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released another four stable Linux kernel updates: 6.11.6 , 6.6.59 , 6.1.115 , and 5.15.170 .

Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Oracle (buildah, e2fsprogs, grafana, kernel, and mod_http2), Red Hat (buildah, container-tools:rhel8, firefox, grafana, grafana:7.3.6, podman, and thunderbird), SUSE (alloy, cargo-audit-advisory-db-20241030, chromedriver, corepack22, netty, openvpn, python310-Werkzeug, thunderbird, uwsgi, and xsd), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-azure-6.8, linux-gcp-6.8, linux-hwe-6.8 and linux, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, lin…

The Rust blog has an update on its progress on some of its project goals . One of the project's flagship goals is to resolve the biggest blockers to Linux building on stable Rust : Finally, we have been finding an increasing number of stabilization requests at the compiler level, and so @wesleywiser and @davidtwco from the compiler team have started attending meetings to create a faster response. One of the results of that collaboration is RFC #3716 , authored by Alice Ryhl, which proposes a me…

OpenStreetMap tends to dominate the space for open mapping data, but it is not the only project working in this area. At the 2024 Open Source Summit Japan , Marc Prioleau presented the Overture Maps Foundation , which is building and distributing a set of worldwide maps under open licenses. Overture may have a similar goal to OpenStreetMap, but its approach and intended uses are significantly different.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr and openssl), Fedora (firefox, libarchive, micropython, NetworkManager-libreswan, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Red Hat (nano), Slackware (mozilla-firefox, mozilla-thunderbird, tigervnc, and xorg), SUSE (389-ds, Botan, go1.21-openssl, govulncheck-vulndb, java-11-openjdk, lxc, python-Werkzeug, and uwsgi), and Ubuntu (firefox, libarchive, linux-azure-fde, linux-azure-fde-5.15, python-pip, and xorg-server, xorg-server-hwe-16.04, xorg-server…

Timothée Ravier has written a blog post about changes in the Fedora Atomic Desktops for Fedora Linux 41. Some of the notable new features for Atomic Desktops include bootloader updates enabled by default for UEFI systems, first steps towards using bootable containers , and more.