According to Kroah-Hartman, this batch may set a record for the number of patches with more than 9,000 in total between them. There are more than 1,800 patches in 7.2.6 alone. Users of these kernels ...

PostgreSQL contributor Tomas Vondra has published a blog post looking at development activity in the project, with data from the late 1990s to today.

Pádraig Brady has announced GNU Core Utilities (coreutils) version 9.12. " There have been 288 commits by 16 people in the 21 weeks since 9.11 ". New features include an -A option for uname which ...

Sean Whitton has announced that the original fix for an arbitrary code execution flaw in Emacs ( CVE-2024-53920) was incomplete. Bas Alberts discovered that viewing or editing untrusted files in modes ...

In general, the more specific you make the rules regarding some choice, the less room you leave for sound judgement for things that weren't considered before. It's better to go for general principles ...