This looks to be a wrap on 2025, Happy New Year to all the Phoronix readers over the past 21+ years. This year on Phoronix there were 226 original Linux hardware reviews and featured benchmark articles written by your's truly. Plus another 3,286 original open-source/Linux software and hardware news articles this calendar year. Here were the big topics of 2025 for the featured Linux hardware reviews and benchmark articles...
Ncurses 6.6 was released today prior to closing out 2025. This programming library update for creating terminal-based text user interfaces (TUIs) features a variety of great improvements for ending out the year...
Prominent Asahi Linux developer Sven Peter spoke at this week's 39th Chaos Communication Congress "39C3" in Hamburg, Germany. He provided an update around the still-in-the-works Apple M3 / M4 / M5 SoC and device support as well as other outstanding features like getting DisplayPort working on Apple Macs under Linux...
Version 4.19.0 of the shadow-utils project has been released. Notable changes in this release include disallowing some usernames that were previously accepted with the --badname option, and removing support for escaped newlines in configuration files. Possibly more interesting is the announcement that the project is deprecating a number of programs, hashing algorithms, and the ability to periodically expire passwords: Scientific research shows that periodic password expiration leads to predictable password patterns, and that even in a theoretical scenario where that wouldn't happen the gains in security are mathematically negligible (paper link). Modern security standards, such as NIST SP 800-63B-4 in the USA, prohibit periodic password expiration. [...] To align with these, we're deprecating the ability to periodically expire passwords. The specifics and long-term roadmap are currently being discussed, and we invite feedback from users, particularly from those in regulated environment
Security updates have been issued by Debian (mediawiki), Fedora (duc, golang-github-projectdiscovery-mapcidr, and kustomize), Slackware (wget2), and SUSE (cheat, duc, flannel, go-sendxmpp, python311, python312, python313, and trivy).
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