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Kernel release status

The current development kernel is 6.16-rc2, released on June 15. Linus said:

Pretty quiet week, with a pretty small rc2 as a result. That's not uncommon, and things tend to pick up at rc3, but this is admittedly even smaller than usual.

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Rocky Linux 10.0 released

Version 10.0 of the Rocky Linux distribution has been released. As with the AlmaLinux 10.0 release, Rocky Linux 10.0 is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10. See the release notes for details.

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Git 2.50.0 released

Version 2.50.0 of the Git source-code management system has been released with a long list of new user features, performance improvements, and bug fixes. See the announcement and this GitHub blog post for details.

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KDE Plasma 6.4 released

The KDE Project has announced the Plasma 6.4 release. New features include more flexible tiling features, improvements to the Spectacle screen capture utility, a number of accessibility enhancements, and much more. See the changelog for a complete list of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.

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Changes to Kubernetes Slack (Kubernetes Contributors blog)

The Kubernetes project has announced that it will be losing its "special status" with the Slack communication platform and will be downgraded to the free tier in a matter of days:

On Friday, June 20, we will be subject to the feature limitations of free Slack. The primary ones which will affect us will be only retaining 90 days of history, and having to disable several apps and workflows which we are currently using. The Slack Admin team will do their best to manage these limitations.

The project has a FAQ covering the change, its impacts, and more. The CNCF projects staff has proposed a move to the Discord service as the best option to handle the more than 200,000 users and thousands of posts per day from the Kubernetes community. The Kubernetes Steering Committee will be making its decision "in the next few weeks".

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Summaries from the 2025 Python Language Summit

The Python Software Foundation blog is carrying a set of detailed summaries from the 2025 Python Language Summit:

The Python Language Summit 2025 occurred on May 14th in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Core developers and special guests from around the world gathered in one room for an entire day of presentations and discussions about the future of the Python programming language.

Topics covered include making breaking changes less painful, free-threaded Python, interaction with Rust, and challenges faced by the Steering Council.

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Radicle Desktop released

The Radicle peer-to-peer code collaboration project has released Radicle Desktop: a graphical interface designed to simplify more complex parts of using Radicle such as issue management and patch reviews.

Radicle Desktop is not trying to replace your terminal, IDE, or code editor - you already have your preferred tools for code browsing. It won't replace our existing app.radicle.xyz and search.radicle.xyz for finding and exploring projects. It also doesn't run a node for you. Instead, it communicates with your existing Radicle node, supporting your current workflow and encourages gradual adoption.

LWN covered Radicle in March 2024.

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Development quote of the week

And what I just don't understand about this whole discussion: We're talking about people who want to be frozen in time for 5 years straight during this "maintenance support" window by the vendor (whom they are paying), with only access to security fixes. But somehow they do want to run the latest Postgres Major release, even though the one that they had running still receives bug fixes and security fixes. I just don't understand who these people are. Why do they care about having no changes to their system to avoid breakage as much as possible, except for their piece of primary database software, of which they're happily running the bleeding edge.

— Jelte Fennema-Nio

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