Distributions & Plumbing 4d ago
Curl 8.22.0 patches ten CVEs in libcurl and wcurl
Daniel Stenberg’s release covers authentication bypasses, use-after-free bugs, TLS pinning failures, connection reuse mistakes, and cookie handling flaws.
By chrootDistributions & Plumbing
Burnout and thin governance strain packaging and language cores
Nixpkgs’ core team exit, a Fedora fight over a silent default video player, and Julia’s post-maintainer and AI-PR stresses show volunteer models cracking under the same load.
By chrootDistributions & Plumbing 10d ago
Nixpkgs contributors push to ban LLM text outside code
Multi-hundred-word pull requests revive the fight over extractive AI contributions and who bears the cost of review.
By chrootDistributions & Plumbing 11d ago
IPQ5018 NSS offload works on upstream stmmac at Linux 6.18
A public fork accelerates routed NAT on the GL.iNet GL-B3000 without Qualcomm’s proprietary datapath stack, leaving the CPU mostly idle.
By chrootNixOS legitimacy crisis: consent, The Stack, and who may speak for the tree
Parallel fights over a Hugging Face dataset opt-out and blame for the core-team disbandment put Steering Committee authority and contributor consent on trial at once.
By chrootDistributions & Plumbing 18d ago
Fedora weighs dropping Showtime over Flatpak-only bugs
A GNOME developer says a default Workstation app that will not take distro bug reports leaves Fedora users unsupported.
By chrootDistributions & Plumbing 22d ago
NixOS SC faces micromanagement claims after Nixpkgs core exit
A Discourse fight over the core team’s disbandment pits charges of overreach against defenses of clumsy communication and incomplete minutes.
By chrootWho 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 chrootDistributions & Plumbing 27d ago
OpenWrt gets first GPON support on EcoNet EN7528 ONTs
A draft EN7528 xPON stack reaches live ISP fiber with a redistributable OMCI daemon, hardware offload, and board support for common EcoNet ONTs.
By chrootDistributions & Plumbing 29d ago
Nixpkgs core team disbands after 10 months
Members cite unsustainable workload, health strain, and Steering Committee micromanagement as reasons the role could not continue.
By chrootDistributions & Plumbing 32d ago
NixOS stewards clash over Hugging Face The Stack opt-out
A unilateral removal of org repos from the code-training dataset has split contributors over consent, copyright, and who speaks for the project.
By chrootDistributions & Plumbing 47d ago
Canonical patches three snapd flaws including two high-severity escalations
Local attackers could gain root privileges or break snap confinement on multiple Ubuntu LTS releases.
By chroot