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• Security updates for Wednesday

  Security updates for Wednesday Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (corosync, freerdp, git-lfs, glib2, jq, kernel-rt, krb5, libpng, libtiff, openexr, and thunderbird), Debian (exim4), Mageia (apache, perl-Gazelle, php, and sed), Slackware (expat), SUSE (assimp-devel,

• Sovereign Tech Fund invests in KDE

  Sovereign Tech Fund invests in KDE The KDE project has announced that it has been awarded over €1 million from the Sovereign Tech Fund to improve its desktop-environment software. " The investment will be used to strengthen the structural reliability and security of KDE's c

• [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 7, 2026

  [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 7, 2026 Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front : LLMs and security; restartable sequences and TCMalloc; Fedora and GNOME bug reports; Prolly trees; Arm on s390. Briefs : NHS open source; Alpine outage; GCC 16.1; Incus 7.0 LTS; NetHack

• Two stable kernels with Dirty Frag fixes

  Two stable kernels with Dirty Frag fixes Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 7.0.6 and 6.18.29 stable kernels with Hyunwoo Kim's patch for the second vulnerability ( CVE-2026-43500 ) reported with Dirty Frag and Copy Fail 2 . All users are advised to upgrade. Two

• More stable kernels with partial Dirty Frag fixes

  More stable kernels with partial Dirty Frag fixes Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.1.171 , 5.15.205 , and 5.10.255 stable kernels, quickly followed by 6.1.172 and 5.15.206 kernels. This is another round of stable kernels to provide fixes for one of the CVEs ( CVE-2026-43284

• Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc3

  Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc3 Linus has released 7.1-rc3 for testing. " I think this answers the 'is 7.1 continuing the larger size pattern that we saw with 7.0?' question, and the answer is yes: that wasn't a fluke brought on by a .0 release - it simply seems to be the new normal. "

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