Linux NewsWoodpecker CI 3.19 Adds Server-Enforced Agent Labels
Woodpecker CI 3.19 fixes a security issue involving matrix variables, adds server-enforced agent labels, and improves pipeline reliability.
Python 3.15 released
Version 3.15 of the Python programming language has been released. Notable changes in this release include the addition of the sentinel and frozendict built-in types, the use of UTF-8 encoding by default, package start-up configuration files, as well as improvements in the experimental JIT compiler. See the "What's new in Python 3.15" article for an in-depth look at new features in this release, and the changelog for a full list of changes.
[$] Adding kernel control-flow-integrity checking to GCC
While many developers are struggling to keep up with the flood of vulnerability reports, others are still focused on preventing those reports from happening in the first place. Control-flow integrity (CFI) is the term for preventing (or at least detecting) exploits that divert the flow of control from its intended paths. At the 2026 GNU Tools Cauldron, Kees Cook presented his changes to the GCC compiler suite to support forward-edge CFI for the kernel.
KDE Frameworks 6.31 Released with File Management and Text Encoding Improvements
KDE Frameworks 6.31 improves file copying and moving, text encoding detection, text editing, metadata extraction, and more.
KDE Releases KDE Frameworks 6.31 with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes
KDE Frameworks 6.31 open-source software suite is out now with various improvements to System Settings and other KDE apps and core components.
You don't need Arch for cutting-edge Linux: These 5 distros do it without the frustration
The cutting edge without the pounding headache.
Canonical Announces Official Ubuntu Desktop Images for RISC-V
Canonical announces official Ubuntu Desktop images for RISC-V hardware, along with unofficial Xubuntu Minimal images for the Ubuntu 26.10 release.
[$] The state of systemd: 2026 edition
At the 2026 All Systems Go! conference, systemd maintainers Luca Boccassi and Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek delivered the traditional "state of the project" session with an overview of the systemd project's accomplishments in the past year. That was followed by a maintainer round table where Boccassi, Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Daan De Meyer, and project leader Lennart Poettering fielded questions about systemd's size, health, and if it might replace Kubernetes. (It will not.)
aerynOS Makes Budgie 10.10.3 Widely Available, Updates COSMIC to 1.10
aerynOS moves Budgie 10.10.3 from testing to its Unstable Stream, making it broadly available alongside COSMIC Desktop 1.10 and Linux 7.2.9.
Let's Encrypt moving to 64-day certificate lifetimes in 2027
Let's Encrypt, the nonprofit that provides free TLS certificates for millions of sites, has announced that it will be moving to certificates with 64-day lifetimes on February 10, 2027: This means that any certificate we issue or renew on and after that date will have a 64 day validity period, and we expect the last 90-day certificate to expire on May 11, 2027. We will not revoke valid certificates as a part of this process. This is the second stage of Let's Encrypt's plan, announced in 2025, to move to 45-day certificate lifetimes as required by the the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements. In 2028, Let's Encrypt will switch to 45-day certificates.
Valve's Proton 11.0-2e Released To Fix EA App Issues
CodeWeavers working with Valve today released Proton 11.0-2e as their downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux...
Ubuntu 26.10 To Include Desktop Images For RISC-V
Ubuntu Linux ISOs for RISC-V 64-bit to date have just been the server/CLI version without any desktop environment pre-seeded. But with next week's Ubuntu 26.10 release, there will now be Ubuntu 26.10 RISC-V desktop ISOs for both Ubuntu proper and a Xubuntu minimal ISO...
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, bind9.16, freerdp, glibc, kbd, mod_auth_openidc, openssl, perl-DBI, python3.12, python3.14, and tftp), Debian (rails and twitter-bootstrap3), Fedora (barman, cockpit, hcloud, libmodsecurity, nginx-mod-modsecurity, perl-DBI, sudo, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia (libxfont2), Oracle (bind9.18, firefox, kernel, nodejs24, perl-DBI, and vim), Red Hat (kernel, libreswan, opentelemetry-collector, osbuild-composer, rhc, and runc), SUSE (alloy, amazon-ecs-init, bind, busybox, distribution, emacs, ghostscript, glibc, GraphicsMagick, hauler, helm, helm3, jackson-annotations, jackson-core, jackson-databind, kernel, libpoppler-cpp3, libxtst, logback, nvidia-open-driver-G07-signed, perl-DBI, php-composer2, pi-coding-agent, portprotonqt, pvetui, python-hpack, python313-GitPython, and wpa_supplicant), and Ubuntu (apache2, bluez, libarchive, libde265, libgit2, libpng1.6, libxml2, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-6.8, linux-aws-fips, linux-fips, lin
Python 3.15 Released With Experimental JIT Compiler Running Faster
Python 3.15 is out today as the newest annual feature release for the Python programming language...
AMD PerfOpt Boosting Prior-Gen Ryzen APU Performance For AI
Last week I ran benchmarks of the new AMD PerfOpt feature being introduced in Linux 7.4. In those PerfOpt benchmarks on current-gen AMD Ryzen AI APUs/SoCs the AI performance improved as much as 18~23%. Several Phoronix readers expressed interest in seeing how prior-gen AMD Ryzen hardware benefited or not from PerfOpt, so here are some additional benchmarks.
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