Here is a simple (for now) archive listing for the LWN.net Weekly
Edition. Note that this archive begins on June 6, 2002; please
see
the old site archives
for editions prior to that date.
See also: separate index pages for:
LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 1, 2016
(One big page)
- Front: GNOME privacy; Token-based authorship information from Git; GPL enforcement.
- Security: State of the Kernel Self Protection Project; New vulnerabilities in freeipa, mediawiki, phpmyadmin, webkitgtk4, ...
- Kernel: Inside the mind of a Coccinelle programmer; Atomic patterns.
- Distributions: Trying out openSUSE Tumbleweed; Maru OS, Fedora, openSUSE, ...
- Development: Extending GNOME Software; Twisted 16.4; Pump.io 1.0.0; NetworkManager 1.4; ...
- Announcements: Events.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 25, 2016
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One big page)
- Front: 25 Years of Linux; Mass-transit in GNOME Maps.
- Security: A different sort of "Fake Linus Torvalds"; New vulnerabilities in firewalld, glibc, gnupg, kernel, ...
- Kernel: Restartable sequences; Btrfs; Network filtering for control groups; MMIO operations.
- Distributions: Bringing OSTree to real-world desktops.
- Development: GNOME updates from GUADEC; KDE Applications 16.08; Introducing OpenStreetView; Mozilla rebranding; ...
- Announcements: Gilles Chanteperdrix; Event calendars.
LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 18, 2016
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One big page)
- Front: VMware lawsuit; GNOME Newcomers; GTK+ Flowgraphs.
- Security: Resisting the centralization of network infrastructure; New vulnerabilities in imagemagick, kernel, postgresql, squid, ...
- Kernel: The stalled CPU controller; Filesystem mounts in user namespaces; Bus1.
- Distributions: A report from Fedora Flock; OpenMandriva Lx 3.0, Fuchsia, ...
- Development: Multi-threaded emulation for QEMU; Go 1.7; Ardour 5.0; WordPress 4.6; ...
- Announcements: SPI officers, TDF and FSFE strengthen their relationship, FSF annual report, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 11, 2016
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One big page)
- Front: Guix 0.11; Better types in C using sparse and smatch.
- Security: The TCP "challenge ACK" side channel; New vulnerabilities in chromium, firefox, libreoffice, openssh, ...
- Kernel: The 4.8 merge window closes; Android privilege escalations; The NET policy mechanism.
- Distributions: Debian to shift to a modern GnuPG; Bedrock, Copperhead, Fedora, Ubuntu, ...
- Development: A proposal for online key backup; Booktype 2.1, Kirigami initial release; Discourse 1.6; ...
- Announcements: Christoph Hellwig's case against VMware dismissed, EFF Pioneer Award Winners, Tor Social Contract, Federal Source Code Policy, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 4, 2016
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One big page)
- Front: The Internet of Onions; Why Uber dropped PostgreSQL; News from LWN.
- Security: Felony PGP; New vulnerabilities in dropbear, mozilla, tiff, wireshark, ...
- Kernel: 4.8 Merge window part 2; Hardened usercopy; 4.7 Development statistics.
- Distributions: Disallowing perf_event_open(); TP-Link agrees to allow third-party firmware, Debian and Tor Services available as Onion Services, ...
- Development: Free software and smartcards; Firefox 48; Django 1.10; LibreOffice 5.2; ...
- Announcements: SPI board election, The End of Gmane?, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 28, 2016
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One big page)
- Front: Tiles for GNOME Maps; Apache OpenOffice and CVE-2016-1513; Cyanogen Inc.
- Security: One-time passwords and GnuPG with Nitrokey; New vulnerabilities in chromium, java (unspecified), mysql (unspecified), php, ...
- Kernel: The 4.8 merge window opens; Atomic primitives; Memory protection keys pushback.
- Distributions: Mapping "nobody" in Fedora; Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, DebConf BoFs, ...
- Development: Help porting Python 2 to 3; OpenVZ 7.0; systemd 231; Using modern gettext; ...
- Announcements: Canonical joins TDF advisory board, A statement from the Tor project, FOSDEM cfp, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 21, 2016
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One big page)
- Front: GPL enforcement; Snap interfaces; Riffle.
- Security: Typosquatting in package repositories; New vulnerabilities in ecryptfs_utils, httpd, java, libarchive, ...
- Kernel: Cache access control; LTSI and Fuego; Coding-style exceptionalism.
- Distributions: A second release from Automotive Grade Linux; Fedora 22 eol, FreeDOS, ...
- Development: Testing CRIU; Qt WebBrowser 1.0; RISC-V workshop notes; Reducing Flash use in Firefox; ...
- Announcements: Community-Oriented Principles in GPL Enforcement Work, LLVM Cauldron, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 14, 2016
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One big page)
- Front: Software patents after Alice; Orchestration and more for Docker; Core changes in digiKam; ...
- Security: Python's os.urandom() in the absence of entropy; New vulnerabilities in gnutls, httpd, mysql, samba, ...
- Kernel: Sphinx kernel-doc, part 2: how it works; Tracking resources and capabilities used; USB charging, part 2: implementation.
- Distributions: Declassifying debian-private?; Debian, Fedora, ...
- Development: Flatpak portals for GNOME; Mesa 12.0; Rust 1.10; Multi-screen woes in Plasma 5.7; ...
- Announcements: SPI 2015 Annual Report, Tor Project elects new board of directors, Raspberry Pi books, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 8, 2016
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One big page)
- Front: Preserving software heritage; Demo builds on Mozilla Servo; Leadership changes at nano; ...
- Security: Two approaches to reference count hardening; New vulnerabilities in imagemagick, kernel, libarchive, wordpress, ...
- Kernel: USB charging, part 1: requirements; Kernel documentation with Sphinx, part 1: how we got here.
- Distributions: Fedora and SELinux relabeling; Linux Mint, Skolelinux, Slackware, ...
- Development: A switch statement for Python; Rails 5.0; Kubernetes 1.3; A GSK primer; ...
- Announcements: Netfilter project on GPL enforcement, FSF campaigns, TDF and FSFE support Software Heritage, ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 30, 2016
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One big page)
- Front: Grammar tools for Emacs; Companies and FOSS; Collabora Online.
- Security: HTML Subresource Integrity; New vulnerabilities in kernel, libdwarf, libpurple, qemu, ...
- Kernel: Virtually mapped kernel stacks again; Parallel pathname lookups; -stable regressions.
- Distributions: New cloud-friendly features coming to RHEL; KaOS, Peppermint, ...
- Development: Networking without an operating system; Xen 4.7; Hosting Snap packages; W3C on EME; ...
- Announcements: MOSS awards, Net neutrality in Europe, Let's Encrypt trademark, GitHub's 2015 Transparency Report, ...
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