… For anyone not familiar with the kernel, it contains the drivers for all sorts of hardware components. With each new version, more new hardware gets supported, so new kernel releases are important for people with cutting-edge hardware. …
… This week's release also sees some significant work being poured into the Chinese CPU architecture LoongArch, targeting KVM virtualization and interrupt handling. What is interesting with this release is the high number of memory safety patches, alongside the greater use of Rust in the kernel. …
… Arch-based Linux distributions will get it first most likely and then it’ll come to non-rolling release distributions like Fedora. Slower moving Linux distros such as Debian won’t see it for a long time, but the older kernels people use will get security patches from this version. …
… Then for seven or eight weeks we get successive release candidates for fixes to be applied, then finally the new kernel is released. It then takes days to months for distributions to adopt the new kernel depending on whether they value being cutting edge or target stability. …
… Once the seven release candidates have arrived, we will then need to wait for distribution maintainers to prep the new kernel and push it out to users, if that is in their plans at all. …
… However, here is a full list of Microsoft software that received patches: Windows 10 / 11 Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, 2022, 2025 BitLocker Active Directory Federation Services AD FS Active Directory Domain Services AD DS SharePoint Server / SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016, 2019, Sub… …
Linus Torvalds has just released the fourth release candidate of Linux 7.1. …
… He has asked contributors to just stick to fixing actual regressions, given that we are three weeks out from the stable release. While the onslaught of AI-coded patches is causing a headache for Linux kernel maintainers, there is actually a deeper crisis being created. …
… Arch-based distributions like Manjaro will get the update within days, bleeding-edge distros like Fedora will likely get it several weeks after, while slower distributions like Debian wait until a major release before putting you on a newer kernel, right now it’s still on Linux 6.12 LTS, which rece… …
Oracle just released VirtualBox 7.2.12, a general maintenance update that also fixes a well-known problem which certain Linux users had to endure for some time. The biggest news is the fix for a nasty bug on Arch Linux, where starting a VM in 7.2.10 could trigger a full kernel freeze on the host. …