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Three stable kernel updates

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The <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1079853/">7.1.2</a>, <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1079854/">7.0.14</a>, and <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1079855/">6.18.37</a> stable kernel updates have been released; each contains a relatively small number of important fixes.

[$] Reports from OSPM 2026, day three

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The <a href="https://retis.santannapisa.it/ospm-summit/">Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel Summit</a>, which still goes by the historical acronym OSPM, was held in Cambridge, UK, in mid-April. As has become traditional, the presenters at that event have since written summaries of their sessions, and this work has kindly been made available…

[$] Initiating writeback earlier

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Writeback is the process of ensuring that dirty pages or folios in the page cache are flushed to the disk, so that changes to those files are made persistent. In a filesystem-track session at the 2026 <a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lsfmmbpf/">Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit</a>, Jeff Layton wanted to discuss…

Lots of stories about systemd v261

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Lennart Poettering has posted <a href="https://0pointer.net/blog/mastodon-stories-for-systemd-v261.html">a list of Mastodon posts</a> about the changes in the systemd v261 release. The Mastodon format makes the reading harder, but there is a lot of useful information there.

[$] What's coming in Git 2.55

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The <a href="https://lwn.net/ml/all/xmqqv7b9mcfx.fsf@gitster.g">Git v2.55.0-rc2</a> testing release appeared on June&#160;23, suggesting that the final Git 2.55 release can be expected in the near future. While this Git update lacks radical new features, it does include a number of improvements that regular Git users will appreciate, including commands to easily edit the…

Security updates for Friday

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Security updates have been issued by <b>AlmaLinux</b> (buildah, coreutils, evince, libpng, libreoffice, libtasn1, libxml2, libxslt, nginx, nginx:1.24, nginx:1.26, postgresql:12, python-urllib3, python3.12-urllib3, python3.14, python3.14-urllib3, skopeo, tigervnc, tomcat, and vim), <b>Debian</b> (chromium, dnsdist, giflib, libdbi-perl, libssh2, libtext-csv-xs-perl, pdns, pdns-recursor, python-urllib3, and sogo), <b>Fedora</b> (goose, httpd, librabbitmq, perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2, perl-DBI, perl-IO-Compress, perl-Socket, python-django-allauth, rsync,…

The "Akrites" vulnerability-mitigation project launches

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The Linux Foundation, in <a href="https://akrites.org/letter/">a letter</a> co-signed by a large range of organizations and companies, has announced the launch of "Akrites", a project to fast-track vulnerability fixes into projects. <p> <blockquote class="bq"> As Akrites works upstream to fix projects at the source, we commit to support downstream efforts to…

[$] A look at MinIO alternatives: Ceph and Garage

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<p><a href="https://github.com/minio/minio#minio-quickstart-guide">MinIO</a> is a popular object-storage server that offered compatibility with the Amazon <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_S3">Simple Storage Service</a> (S3) API. In December 2025, the company behind the project (also named MinIO) <a href="https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/27742d469462e1561c776f88ca7a1f26816d69e2">announced</a> that the project was in maintenance mode and would not accept new changes; it was <a href="https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/7aac2a2c5b7c882e68c1ce017d8256be2feea27f">archived completely</a>…

Podman 6.0 released

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<p>Version 6.0.0 of the <a href="https://podman.io/">Podman</a> container-management tool has been released. Notable new features include the ability to set multiple static IP addresses for containers, improvements in network isolation that make Podman more compatible with Docker, changes to the way <a href="https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-quadlet.1.html">Quadlet</a> commands function, many new options for many existing…

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