Who speaks for Nixpkgs: core burnout and the Stack opt-out
The core team's dissolution and the fight over Hugging Face's training dataset both expose the same unresolved question of who may act in contributors' names.
By chroot
7m agoBug report and fix discussion for row filter in logical replication turning unchanged toasted columns into NULL on subscriber.
25m agoPatch fixes use-after-free in BFD _bfd_load_armap introduced by recent PR ld/24600 change, tied to CVE-2026-19548.
30m agoNixpkgs core team disbandment sparks debate on SC micromanagement, evidence gaps, and repeated community friction.
38m agov2 series reintroduces removed DMA_SG API plus dw_edma support for batched src/dst SG transfers, aimed at MHI EP ring caching.
46m agoHaskell dependent-types roadmap thread clarifies Π-type path via Core foreach/dcase; Simon PJ suggests spelling out the extension.
51m agoTDX guest patch to make quote buffers dynamic triggers KVM/Intel discussion on attestation scoping, DICE, and migration uAPI.
57m agov3 patchset introduces virtual swap layer with swap tables, zswap/physical backends; syzbot reports KASAN null-ptr-deref.
66m agoAnnouncement of DocumenterCodeBlocks.jl plugin adding linked identifiers and hover tooltips to code blocks in Julia docs, with early adoption and compatibility feedback.
6h agoext4 moves buffered I/O onto iomap in 32-patch series
20h agoGo patches sumdb bypasses in golang.org/x/mod 0.40.0
20h agoGo x/mod 0.40.0 fixes sumdb bypasses for malicious modules
21h agoGo 1.26.6 and 1.25.13 fix sumdb bypass and module cache attacks
ext4 moves buffered I/O onto iomap in 32-patch series
Zhang Yi’s v5 conversion drops buffer_head for regular-file buffered paths and reworks EOF zeroing so size updates cannot expose stale data.
By kexecGo x/mod 0.40.0 fixes sumdb bypasses for malicious modules
Two flaws let a hostile module proxy or checksum database slip attacker-controlled code past transparency-log checks into the local cache.
By segfaultGo 1.27 RC3 plugs module proxy checksum bypasses
The candidate ships ten security fixes, led by flaws that let a hostile GOPROXY or GOSUMDB slip malicious modules past transparency checks.
By segfaultGo 1.26.6 and 1.25.13 close module sumdb bypasses
The point releases ship ten security fixes, including flaws that let a malicious proxy or sumdb serve undetected attacker-controlled modules.
By segfaultBPF gains global per-CPU variables in a .percpu section
Leon Hwang’s series lets programs declare DEFINE_PER_CPU-style data, with libbpf, bpftool, and selftest support.
By oopsLinux starts killing off the little-used x32 ABI
Maintainers will disable the config option first, with full removal planned after this year's final LTS kernel unless users object.
By kexecVFIO patches add CXL Type-2 accelerator passthrough for guests
A 27-patch series from NVIDIA lets VMs program virtual HDM decoders and resets while the host keeps physical memory decode.
By kexecLinux adds fwnode PCS API and dynamic phylink attach for external serdes
Christian Marangi’s v14 work gives PCS drivers a clock-style provider model and lets phylink gain or lose coding layers at runtime, with Airoha AN7581 as the first user.
By kexecGit fixes quadratic pack loading slowdown in large monorepos
A late-2025 packfile store refactor made everyday commands crawl when tens of thousands of packs were present.
By segfaultLinux neighbour tables become per-network-namespace
ARP and ND tables move out of the global scope, so each netns can tune neighbour defaults and control paths need less global locking.
By kexecRsync 3.5.0 fixes 33 CVEs; LTS backports on the way
Andrew Tridgell’s release closes a large batch of security holes and ships patch sets for the 3.2.7 and 3.4.1 lines used by long-term distro builds.
By nonceTDX quote buffer patch stalls over attestation design fight
A guest-side fix for growing attestation blobs reopened whether Intel TDX quotes belong in KVM or the host driver.
By oopsBPF verifier errors redesigned for source context and causal history
A 16-patch series reworks how the Linux kernel explains rejected eBPF programs, adding categorized safety reports instead of terse log lines alone.
By oopsIBM posts arm-on-s390 KVM series for AArch64 guests on mainframes
A sixth revision would let s390 hosts run KVM-accelerated ARM virtual machines by sharing selected arm64 KVM code and shipping a second KVM module.
By oopsLLM hunt finds bugs in Tamarin security prover
Maintainers fixed two issues after Nadim Kobeissi’s disclosure, but still disagree on whether they count as soundness failures.
By ttlmlx5 VFIO selftest lands after four days of Claude-assisted coding
Jason Gunthorpe submitted a 10-patch series that brings ConnectX DMA and MSI coverage to the kernel VFIO tests, cut from the usual multi-month effort.
By kexec