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Miguel Ojeda gave a keynote at FOSDEM 2025 about the history of the Rust-for-Linux project, and the current attitude of people in the kernel community toward the experiment. Unlike his usual talks, this talk didn't focus so much on the current state of the project, but rather on discussing history and predictions for the future. He ended up presenting quotes from more than 30 people involved in kernel development about what they thought of the project and expected going forward.

Version 1.4.0 of Arti, the Tor Project's next-generation Tor client written in Rust, has been released. Notable improvements in this release include a new RPC interface, and preparatory work toward service-side onion service denial-of-service resistance. The release is dedicated to the memory of Jérémy Bobbio, better known by many as "Lunar". For full details on the release, see the changelog.

Miguel Ojeda has announced the posting of a new document describing policies around the use of Rust in the Linux kernel.

There has been a fair amount of confusion about what the kernel policies around Rust are, who maintains what and so on. This document tries to clarify some of these points with what, to the best of our knowledge, is the current status.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, bzip2, galera and mariadb, keepalived, kernel, kernel-rt, mariadb:10.11, mingw-glib2, and podman), Debian (ark, firefox-esr, kernel, sssd, and thunderbird), Fedora (abseil-cpp, clevis-pin-tpm2, dbus-parsec, envision, fido-device-onboard, firefox, golang-github-nvidia-container-toolkit, gotify-desktop, jpegxl, keylime-agent-rust, keyring-ima-signer, libkrun, php-phpseclib, python-cryptography, python3-docs, python3.12, python3.13, rust-afterburn, rust-cargo-vendor-filterer, rust-coreos-installer, rust-crypto-auditing-agent, rust-eif_build, rust-gst-plugin-reqwest, rust-nu, rust-oo7-cli, rust-openssl, rust-openssl-sys, rust-pore, rust-routinator, rust-rpm-sequoia, rust-sequoia-keyring-linter, rust-sequoia-octopus-librnp, rust-sequoia-policy-config, rust-sequoia-sop, rust-sequoia-sq, rust-sequoia-sqv, rust-sevctl, rust-snphost, rust-tealdeer, rustup, s390utils, stalld, and vaultwarden), Mageia (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk & java-latest-openjdk, libtasn1, mariadb, nodejs, qtbase5 & qtbase6, rootcerts, nss & firefox, thunderbird, and xrdp), Red Hat (buildah, doxygen, podman, and thunderbird), Slackware (gnutls and openssl), SUSE (bind, chromedriver, crypto-policies, krb5, firefox, flannel, go1.22, go1.23, go1.23-1.23.6-1.1, go1.24-1.24rc3-1.1, openssl-1_1, openssl-3, python311-cryptography-vectors, python311-numba, python39, rsync, tomcat, and trivy), and Ubuntu (openrefine and rsync).

After over a year in development, the Debian-based Netrunner Linux 25 is here, featuring KDE Plasma 5.27.5, Linux Kernel 6.1, and more.

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This week brought us new major releases of the Mozilla Firefox web browser and LibreOffice office suite, new updates for the PorteuX and Tails distributions, as well as many software releases including Calibre, Ardour, and Mozilla Thunderbird.

On top of that, I tell you all about the new features and enhancements coming to the Mozilla Firefox 136 web browser next month. Below, you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux weekly roundup for February 9th, 2025.

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Fastfetch 2.36 system information tool enhances CPU/GPU detection, improves OS support, and adds new logo updates for Linux, macOS, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Haiku.

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Catch up on the latest Linux news: LibreOffice 25.2, OpenWrt 24.10, Debian 13 to feature GNOME 48, Freedesktop, Alpine & Serpent OS are facing challenges, and more.

The post Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 6 (Feb 3 – 9, 2025) appeared first on Linux Today.

Wine 10.1 Windows compatibility layer released with fixes for Battle.net, print provider upgrades, and Bluetooth driver improvements.

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Highlights of Calibre 7.25 include support for importing KFX files from 2024 Kindle devices that use the MTP protocol and a new option to adjust the size of the link and note icons in Book details, which you can access from Preferences > Look & feel > Book details.

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OpenWrt 24.10 open-source router firmware debuts with initial WiFi7 support, Linux kernel 6.6, multipath TCP, and new device targets.

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Coming almost a month after the KDE Gear 24.12.1 point release, KDE Gear 24.12.2 is here to fix a regression in the Dolphin file manager on X11 that caused the keyboard focus to move to the Places or Terminal panels when Dolphin was minimized and then unminimized.

The post KDE Gear 24.12.2 Improves Dolphin, Itinerary, Tokodon, and Many Other KDE Apps appeared first on Linux Today.

Tails 6.12, a privacy-focused Linux distro, fixes critical security issues, enhances privacy, and improves usability with new features and updates.

The post Tails 6.12 Rolls Out, Sealing Critical Security Gaps appeared first on Linux Today.

Financial troubles force Ikey Doherty to delay Serpent OS development, putting the project’s future at risk.

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Version:next-20250210 (linux-next) Released:2025-02-10

The second 6.14 kernel prepatch is out for testing.

It's Sunday afternoon, and I'm releasing the usual regularly scheduled release candidate while the rest of the US is getting ready for the biggest day in TV commercials interrupted by some kind of lawn bowling tournament.

Version:6.14-rc2 (mainline) Released:2025-02-09 Source:linux-6.14-rc2.tar.gz Patch:full (incremental)

The 6.13.2, 6.12.13, and 6.6.76 stable kernels have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.

Version:6.13.2 (stable) Released:2025-02-08 Source:linux-6.13.2.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.13.2.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.13.2

Version:6.12.13 (stable) Released:2025-02-08 Source:linux-6.12.13.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.13.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.13