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21 Oct 2026 edition

17 articles · 9 sources ·

Top topics: Open Source · Web · DevOps

Open Source

Linux Foundation Newsletter: October 2026

Welcome to the October 2026 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter Cybersecurity Awareness Month is ending, and LF Education is discounting training for a limited time. You cansave 40% on eligible cybersecurity…

Source: Linux Foundation Blog marketing@linuxfoundation.org (The Linux Foundation)
Open Source

The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure

We moved a copy of 99.99999% of GitHub's repositories to Azure. Here's how per-reference quorums will bring over the rest, and how object storage lets reads scale independently. The post The bridge to agent-scale Git…

Source: GitHub Blog Eleanor White
Web

W3C and the State of the Web in the AI Era

This W3C paper from the Strategy Team is intended to foster discussion in the technical community at TPAC — the most important W3C community event of the year — about how the W3C technical agenda for the web needs to…

Source: W3C News
Open Source

More vulnerabilities in widely deployed software

The Node.js project has released a number of security updates to fix, among other vulnerabilities, a remote-code-execution bug affecting programs that use Brotli compression. And, in case any programmers who use…

Source: LWN.net daroc
Open Source

[$] Hash-based module integrity for reproducible distributions

We last looked in on hash-based integrity checking for kernel modules just over a year and half ago. Since that time, the patch set has undergone multiple revisions. At the 2026 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), Thomas…

Source: LWN.net jake
Open Source

Upstreaming Tyr: Rust, DRM, and the Linux Kernel (Collabora)

The Collabora blog provides an update on Tyr, a driver for Arm Mali GPUs. One of our biggest challenges has been developing Tyr while the Rust kernel abstractions and driver interfaces are also being developed. As the…

Source: LWN.net corbet
Open Source

[$] Understanding Nix flakes

Nix flakes are an experimental feature of the Nix package-management tool designed to build projects in a more self-contained and reproducible way. Despite the feature's experimental status, it has become increasingly…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source

PHP patches released for two critical RCEs

The PHP project has published PHP versions 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 to address two critical vulnerabilities that could allow unauthenticated remote code execution. Who is at risk: all PHP installations serving…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source

Four stable kernels for Wednesday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.12, 6.18.58, 6.12.114, and 6.6.160 stable kernels. Each contains a number of important fixes; users are advised to upgrade.

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source PostgreSQL

Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bubblewrap, emacs, gimp:2.8, glibc, jackson-databind, kernel, kernel-rt, librabbitmq, openexr, openssh, postgresql:16, postgresql:18, python3, resteasy, wireshark,…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Web

Ten CSS features worth voting for

🚀 Frontend Focus #​763 — October 21, 2026 | Read on the web Everyone's Interop 2027 Wishlists Last week we shared that you can now rank the Interop web platform proposals for 2027. Since then, plenty of folks have…

Source: Frontend Focus