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TILens turns technical updates into a focused daily brief: official releases, trusted reporting, and practitioner analysis, deduplicated and organized by topic.

29 Sep 2026 edition

8 articles · 5 sources ·

Top topics: Open Source · DevOps · PostgreSQL

Open Source

Firefox 157.0 released

Version 157.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. It features "Firefox's biggest visual refresh in years", the ability to use hardware AV1 decoding with WebRTC calls, and a number of fixes.

Source: LWN.net corbet
Open Source

[$] Native support for Rust on the GPU

Christian Legnitto is the maintainer of rust-gpu and Rust CUDA, two libraries that make it possible to program a computer's graphics processing unit (GPU) from Rust. He isn't satisfied with the current state of GPU…

Source: LWN.net daroc
Open Source PostgreSQL

[$] The kernel from a PostgreSQL point of view

Andres Freund has a few claims to fame, but chief among them is his many years of work to improve the performance of the PostgreSQL relational database management system. That work requires working with — or around —…

Source: LWN.net corbet
Open Source

Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cockpit-image-builder, expat, ipa, kernel, kernel-rt, resteasy, ruby, ruby4.0, ruby:3.3, and ruby:4.0), Debian (dovecot, flatpak, glance, kernel, libdbi-perl, lxml, rsync,…

Source: LWN.net jake
Open Source

GitLab 19.4: Goal-Driven Flows in GitLab Duo CLI

Move from micromanaging AI prompts to delegating end-to-end tasks with goal-driven flows in GitLab Duo CLI, introduced in GitLab 19.4. In this walkthrough, Staff Developer Advocate Itzik Gan-Baruch demonstrates how the…

Source: GitLab GitLab