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Security updates for Thursday

Thu, 10/23/2025 - 10:12

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (ipa, kernel, and thunderbird), Debian (gdk-pixbuf, gegl, gimp, intel-microcode, raptor2, request-tracker4, and request-tracker5), Fedora (samba and wireshark), Mageia (haproxy, nginx, openssl, and python-django), Oracle (kernel and thunderbird), Red Hat (redis and redis:7), Slackware (bind), SUSE (aws-cli, local-npm-registry, python-boto3, python- botocore, python-coverage, python-flaky, python-pluggy, python-pytest, python- pytest-cov, python-pytest-html, python-pytest-metada, cargo-audit-advisory-db-20251021, fetchmail, git-bug, ImageMagick, istioctl, kernel, krb5, libsoup, libxslt, python-Authlib, and sccache), and Ubuntu (bind9, linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8, linux-gcp, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-6.8, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-oracle, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gcp-6.8, linux-gke, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, and linux-realtime, linux-realtime-6.8).

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 23, 2025

Wed, 10/22/2025 - 21:12

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

Front: Git 3.0 topics; Lazy imports for Python; RubyGems; LLMs for patch review; DebugFS.
Briefs: Fedora AI policy; OpenBSD 7.8; DigiKam 8.8.0; Forgejo 13.0; KDE Plasma 6.5; RubyGems; Valkey 9.0.0; Quotes; ...
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Fedora Council approves AI-assisted contributions policy

Wed, 10/22/2025 - 14:00

The Fedora Council has approved an AI-assisted contributions policy. This follows several weeks of discussion, some of which was covered by LWN on October 1. The final policy contains substantial differences from the initial proposal, and now requires disclosure of AI tools "when the significant part of the contribution is taken from a tool without changes".

KDE Plasma 6.5 released

Wed, 10/22/2025 - 11:12

KDE Plasma 6.5 has been released. Notable new features include automatic light-to-dark theme switching based on time of day, support for the experimental Wayland picture-in-picture protocol, as well as a number of usability and accessibility improvements. See the complete changelog for a list of the new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.

[$] DebugFS on Rust

Wed, 10/22/2025 - 10:37

DebugFS is the kernel's anything-goes, no-rules interface: whenever a kernel developer needs quick access to internal details of the kernel to debug a problem, or to implement an experimental control interface, they can expose them via DebugFS. This is possible because DebugFS is not subject to the normal rules for user-space-interface stability, nor to the rules about exposing sensitive kernel information. Supporting DebugFS in Rust drivers is an important step toward being able to debug real drivers on real hardware. Matthew Maurer spoke at Kangrejos 2025 about his recently merged DebugFS bindings for Rust.

OpenBSD 7.8 released

Wed, 10/22/2025 - 10:36

OpenBSD 7.8 has been released. As usual, this release includes a long list of changes; see the changelog for all of the details.

Security updates for Wednesday