The Python packaging world now has a formal governance council, of the form described in PEP 772 ("Packaging Council governance process"), which was approved by the steering council on April 16. It has been over a year since the PEP was first proposed in February 2025 and it has undergone lengthy discussions in multiple postings to the Python discussion forum. The packaging council will have "broad authority over packaging standards, tools, and implementations"; it will consist of five members who will be elected in a vote that is likely to come in June—after PyCon US 2026 is held mid-May.
SUSE's Security Team has published a detailed blog post on their recent review of the Plasma Login Manager version 6.6.2, which was forked from the SDDM display manager. While most of the code remains the same, the new upstream added a privileged D-Bus helper called plasmaloginauthhelper, which suffers from defense-in-depth security issues. [...] Based on the high severity of the defense-in-depth issues shown in this report, our assessment is that there is effectively no separation between root and the plasmalogin service user account. At this time there is no bugfix available by upstream, but a security fix is planned for the next Plasma release on May 12. We have not been involved in upstream's bugfix process so far and have no knowledge about the approach that will be taken to address the issues from this report.
Recently I ran benchmarks looking at the Xe2 graphics performance gains on Intel Lunar Lake over the past year with what's shipped by Ubuntu and comparing against our original tests of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition. With those Lunar Lake iGPU benchmarks out of the way, here is a look at how the Lunar Lake CPU performance has evolved on Linux since April 2025.
Just days after the Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel release, the Linux kernel's extensible scheduler class "sched_ext" is seeing a lot of bug fixes. Many of these bug fixes aren't just from the Linux 7.1 merge window but a number date back many kernel cycles. This uptick in bug fixes for sched_ext is coming due to increased AI code review...
Back in 2023 the Vulkan API introduced its initial Cooperative Matrix extension and necessary SPIR-V integration for helping with machine learning / AI inferencing use. Since then the cooperative matrix support has continued to be built upon for helping Vulkan in AI/ML areas. Now the OpenCL API is also introducing similar cooperative matrix extensions...
Jon Seager’s roadmap brings agentic AI to Ubuntu through inference snaps and background enhancements, while vowing not to hard‑wire AI into the OS or shove it at unwilling users. The post From Copilot to Canonical: How Ubuntu Plans to Add AI Without Taking Over Your PC appeared first on FOSS Force.
Merged today to the GCC Git compiler codebase, which will be for GCC 17 rather than the imminent GCC 16.1 stable release, is adding support for the Chinese-manufactured Hygon C86-4G-M4 / C86-4G-M6 / C86-4G-M7 series x86_64 processors...
Libcamera 0.7.1 released on Tuesday as the newest feature release for this open-source library for camera image signal processors (ISPs) that has grown of importance for the likes of Raspberry Pi and Chrome OS and modern desktop Linux distributions with modern laptop hardware like recent Intel Core (Ultra) laptops...
Weston 16.0 could ship by the end of June with good color management and HDR support along with other new features for this reference Wayland compositor...
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