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
15m agoNixpkgs core team dissolution sparks accusations of SC micromanagement versus ineffectiveness, with conflicting accounts and limited public records.
25m agov5 patchset adds fixed-matrix YUV-to-RGB colorop to amdgpu and VKMS DRM pipelines, closing gap for YCbCr framebuffers under the new color pipeline API.
29m agoEIP for partial validator reward burn draws 208 heated posts with personal attacks and sock-puppet deletions.
60m agoActive revision of PEP 842 on export keyword for module public names draws core devs including Guido; syntax and __all__ semantics debated.
70m agoGoogle posts v4 IOMMU patches to preserve VT-d domains and page tables across kexec live update.
81m agoProposal for threading.run() convenience function to simplify Thread creation and start.
82m agov12 patchset adds global percpu variables to BPF via .percpu section and percpu_array maps, plus libbpf/bpftool skeleton changes.
83m agoPATCH series adding GIN/GSP interrupt support to nova-core Rust driver; ongoing review of IRQ abstractions and MSI handling.
11h agoext4 moves buffered I/O onto iomap in 32-patch series
24h agoGo patches sumdb bypasses in golang.org/x/mod 0.40.0
24h agoGo x/mod 0.40.0 fixes sumdb bypasses for malicious modules
25h 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