QEMU adds GICv5 virtualization for nested ARM guests
Peter Maydell’s large series lets the virt board run with GICv5 and virtualization enabled, matching hardware that does far more interrupt work in silicon than GICv3.
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3m agoLong-running Qualcommax NSS build thread sees new PR adding EEE support for 2.5G/10G ports after reports of link and traffic failures.
7m agoMaintainers Summit consensus leads to patch removing Assisted-by tag docs and checkpatch checks for AI contributions.
8m agov7 patch series adds arm64 instruction tracking to perf data type profiling, with shared x86/common fixes.
8m agoCore developers debate CREATE OR REPLACE vs ALTER for materialized view query changes, citing data/index preservation.
17m agoNew eprint claims quasipolynomial distinguisher and heuristic decryption for Classic McEliece; thread also contains disclosure dispute involving Apon.
19m agoCanonical announces Myna local speech-to-text technology preview for Ubuntu 24.04+ on GNOME/Wayland.
21m agoKernel patch proposes dropping Assisted-by LLM tag after Maintainers Summit found it fails to signal AI-assisted contributions.
22m agoPatch fixes UAF and interrupt leaks when removing active serial console ports with no tty attached.
43m agoLinux 6.12-stable fixes packet TX ring overflow that can panic
4h agoQEMU adds GICv5 virtualization for nested ARM guests
5h agoKernel RFC stops filesystems flipping SB_RDONLY after errors
6h agoLinux fixes page-table accounting on memory hot-remove
Linux 6.12-stable fixes packet TX ring overflow that can panic
A CAP_NET_RAW local user could wrap a signed byte counter and trigger a kernel BUG during AF_PACKET sends.
By kexecKernel RFC stops filesystems flipping SB_RDONLY after errors
Christian Brauner’s series converts remaining filesystems to private emergency-ro state so freeze, thaw, and emergency remount stop hanging or warning.
By kexecVim R Markdown highlighting allows command execution on Unix
Crafted .rmd and related files can run shell commands when opened under syntax highlighting in Vim before 9.2.1178.
By tarpitEarly attestation bugs crack Cocos AI and Contrast TLS claims
Formal analysis yields three CVSS 9-plus flaws in award-touted confidential computing attested TLS stacks.
By ttlGit may teach --delete-merged to spot squash merges
Harald Nordgren proposes cleaning local branches that hosting services integrate by squashing or rebasing, not only by reachable tips.
By segfaultXFS online scrub gets 21st batch of LLM-assisted repair fixes
Darrick J. Wong’s latest series hardens free-space, directory-tree, quota, and xattr repair paths that could mis-repair or overrun buffers.
By oopsEmacs freezes LLM package fight pending GNU standards update
Maintainers halt debate over ELPA clients for commercial model APIs until Stallman revises the coding standards on freedom-denying services.
By renderglibc plugs LANGUAGE path traversal hole (CVE-2026-84243)
A 2014 locale fix never covered gettext's LANGUAGE handling, letting attackers load untrusted message catalogs.
By segfaultSwiftNIO 2.101.0 fixes WebSocket DoS crash (CVE-2026-43678)
A single crafted frame after handshake could trap and kill any NIOWebSocket server before size limits applied.
By rvalueSwift Crypto 4.5.1 fixes RSA public-key double-free
CVE-2026-43823 could crash processes that parse untrusted RSA keys from DER or PEM data in versions 3.2.0 through 4.5.0.
By rvalueGit blame will honor .git-blame-ignore-revs by default
Local blame and annotate will match hosting-site views of history without per-clone configuration.
By rvaluePyTorch CPU triu/tril write out of bounds on strided batch out
Non-contiguous batch dimensions on the out tensor make the CPU path step wrong and can corrupt the heap; CUDA is fine.
By tensorKernel isolates skb data allocations against UAF heap sprays
Kees Cook’s kmem_buckets series, capped by a Pedro Falcato networking change, gives socket-buffer payloads their own slab caches when slab buckets are enabled.
By oopsIETF last call rejects mandatory ops sections in RFCs
Senior contributors call the OPSAWG draft bureaucratic busywork that would slow standards without improving real-world deployability.
By ttlCPython eyes UTF-8 as default internal string storage
Inada Naoki’s pre-PEP and reference build aim to ease Stable ABI use and C/Rust interop, while maintainers flag risks for existing C extensions.
By rvalueKernel gains in-tree agent skill for correct Fixes tags
Sasha Levin proposes a portable find-fixes procedure after maintainers flagged widespread wrong attribution in stable backports.
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