Linux NewsWine 11.21 Improves WoW64 OpenGL Performance, Fixes 20 Bugs
Wine 11.21 improves WoW64 OpenGL performance, introduces a Voice Capture DSP library, and fixes 20 bugs affecting games and applications.
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Wine 11.21 Released With Better WoW64 OpenGL Performance
Wine 11.21 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of Wine and as we near Wine 12.0 stable release happenings getting underway in about one month with the official v12.0 release expected early in the new year...
Working Exploit for a Linux Kernel Flaw Made Public
Even before a bug received its CVE identifier or an upstream fix, the local privilege escalation vulnerability exploit found its way into the wild.
Anthropic's Claude AI found a critical Linux flaw that could give hackers root access
An unreleased Claude model didn’t just discover a flaw; it built a zero-click attack.
Labwc 0.20.3 Wayland Compositor Adds Custom Pointer Acceleration
Labwc 0.20.3 introduces custom pointer acceleration, new input settings, and fixes for screen locking, XWayland, and window management.
[$] Removing binder.c
The final talk at Kangrejos 2026 was about the removal of the C implementation of Android's Binder driver, the primary interprocess communication mechanism used on Android devices. Carlos Llamas announced that he had deleted the C code to general applause, and then shared some insights about what went into replacing the C implementation. Alice Ryhl, who has worked on the Rust implementation for some years, added her own thoughts about what the most difficult and interesting parts of the transition were.
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Haas: Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault
PostgreSQL developer Robert Haas writes about the struggles the project has encountered in putting together its next release. In the end, I don't think that the delay in shipping PostgreSQL 19 is particularly concerning. It is not a long delay in the grand scheme of things, and it emerges directly from the project's concern for quality. The long-term picture is less clear and in some ways more troubling: given that we have forty years of bugs that humans were unable to find but LLMs are quite capable of discovering, how are we ever going to catch up, and how will PostgreSQL continue to innovate? Right now, I'm not sure. What I do know is that I, and many others, are working really hard to figure it out. LWN looked at the PostgreSQL 19 release and its challenges in September.
Shelly 3.1.10 Brings More Reliable AUR Builds and a New “Shell” Progress Bar
Shelly 3.1.10graphical package manager for Arch Linux distributions is now available for download with a new “Shell” progress bar for the command-line interface, AUR build improvements, and more.
The Linux community is fed up with Ubuntu. Here are the distros they're switching to
The Linux community has spoken why they are ditching Canonical's distro.
Remote code execution on Linux systems with multipath TCP
On October 27, LLM provider Anthropic reported on a remotely exploitable use-after-free bug affecting systems with multipath TCP listeners open. The bug works by triggering a response to a retransmitted SYN packet at the same moment that the TCP connection is established in another thread, causing the first thread to access the connection's options structure after the second thread has freed it. The first thread can then disclose kernel memory or cause a buffer overflow, writing an attacker-controlled payload. The fix was to only free the structure after an RCU grace period. On October 29, the Go security team advised that all programs written in Go use multipath TCP by default, so many systems may be unknowingly vulnerable. And, of course, there is always the possibility of related bugs in other sections of the TCP stack. Users may be wise to update to a patched kernel as soon as one becomes available for their distribution.
[$] System-call wrappers for glibc
In a followup to his session at the 2025 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), Carlos O'Donell returned to the topic of system-call wrappers for the GNU C library (glibc) at this year's event. This time around, he was joined by Florian Weimer, who is another glibc maintainer. The idea was to give an update on what has happened over the last year with regard to Linux system calls that lack a glibc wrapper, thus are only accessible via syscall(). In addition, they wanted to hear from attendees about their needs in this area.
Shelly 3.1.10 Arch Linux Package Manager Improves AUR Builds
Shelly 3.1.10 improves AUR dependency handling, system upgrades, error reporting, and desktop usability for Arch Linux users.
Eight more stable kernel updates
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.3.1, 7.2.14, 6.18.60, 6.12.115, 6.6.161, 6.1.191, 5.15.224, and 5.10.273 stable kernels. As usual, he advises all users to update—advice that seems especially wise given the increased number of security-relevant bug fixes that the kernel is seeing these days. [Edit: the 7.2.15 stable release is already in review as well.]
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