Systemd v259 has been released. Notable changes include a new "--empower" option for run0 that provides elevated privileges to a user without switching to root, ability to propagate a user's home directory into a VM with systemd-vmspawn, and more. Support for System V service scripts has been deprecated, and will be removed in v260. See the release notes for other changes, feature removals, and deprecated features.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.18.2, 6.17.13, and 6.12.63 stable kernels. As always, each contains important fixes throughout the tree. He notes that 6.17.13 is the last release of the 6.17.y kernel; users are advised to move to the 6.18.y kernel branch.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, keylime, mysql:8.4, and tomcat), Debian (c-ares and webkit2gtk), Fedora (brotli, cups, golang-github-facebook-time, nebula, NetworkManager, perl-Alien-Brotli, python-django4.2, python-django5, and vips), Red Hat (binutils, buildah, curl, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, grafana, multiple packages, php:8.3, podman, python3.12, python39:3.9, ruby:3.3, and skopeo), SUSE (buildah, cups, firefox, glib2, grub2, helm, icinga-php-library, icingaweb2, ImageMagick, imagemagick, kernel, libpng12, libpng16, mariadb, openssl-3, poppler, python39, usbmuxd, webkit2gtk3, wireshark, and xkbcomp), and Ubuntu (linux-azure-fips).