Alejandro Colomar has announced the release of version 6.16 of the GNU/Linux man pages. This release includes new or rewritten man pages for fsconfig(), fsmount(), and fsopen(), as well as a number of newly documented interfaces in existing man pages. The release is also available as a PDF book.

ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) has announced a report on "the critical role of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) within the Domain Name System (DNS)". The report is aimed at policymakers and examines recent cybersecurity regulations in the US, UK, and EU as they apply to FOSS in the DNS system; it includes findings and guidelines "to strengthen the FOSS ecosystem that is critical to the secure and stable operation of the Internet". From the report's summary:

This ecosystem depends on a global network of maintainers and contributors who are often unpaid volunteers. While many are unpaid volunteers, the DNS space is unique in also relying on a handful of long-lived maintenance organizations. This creates a model based on community collaboration rather than the commercial contracts that define a traditional software supply chain, which introduces unique risks related to financial sustainability for the maintenance organizations and maintainer burnout for volunteers.

These unique characteristics mean that regulatory frameworks designed for proprietary software may not be well-suited for FOSS and therefore could have severe unintended consequences to the stability of critical Internet infrastructure.

Thanks to SSAC member Maarten Aertsen for the tip.

Version 15.0 of the Tor Browser has been released:

This is our first stable release based on Firefox ESR 140, incorporating a year's worth of changes that have been shipped upstream in Firefox. As part of this process, we've also completed our annual ESR transition audit, where we reviewed and addressed around 200 Bugzilla issues for changes in Firefox that may negatively affect the privacy and security of Tor Browser users. Our final reports from this audit are now available in the tor-browser-spec repository on our GitLab instance.

This release inherits the vertical tabs feature, unified search button, as well as other new features and usability improvements in Firefox that have passed the Tor Project's audit.

Des photographes étaient sur place, le 28 octobre 2025, pour assister au premier vol du X-59, l'avion supersonique qui doit démontrer qu'il est possible de franchir le mur du son sans faire trop de bruit. Les clichés sont remarquables.

La France a lancé officiellement le chantier du nouveau radar Aurore, qui viendra prendre la suite du radar GRAVES. Objectif : donner au pays de nouveaux « yeux » pour observer tout ce qui se passe en orbite terrestre basse.

Debian's ftpmaster team has been responsible for allowing new packages to enter Debian, removing old packages, and otherwise maintaining Debian's package archive for more than two decades. As of October 26, the team is no more and its duties are being split between two new teams. The Archive Operations Team will focus on the infrastructure required to support the Debian archives, and the DFSG, Licensing & New Packages Team, which is responsible for reviewing packages entering the new queue. In time, this move could speed up processing of new packages, as well as making the teams more sustainable, but only after new members are recruited and trained. For now, the same folks are doing the work but spread across two teams.

Suite à la panne majeure d'AWS, qui a causé des perturbations sur Signal, Elon Musk s'en est pris à l'application, jugeant inadmissible la dépendance de la messagerie instantanée à Amazon. Mais pour sa patronne, Meredith Whittaker, il n'a pas compris le véritable enjeu.

Sans crier gare, le prototype d'avion supersonique X-59 s'est placé sur la piste de décollage ce 28 octobre et a mis les gaz pour décoller. Il vient ainsi d'effectuer ton tout premier vrai vol.

Octobre 2025 a été un mois animé sur le terrain nucléaire. La France vient à ce propos d'annoncer la mise en service opérationnel d'un nouveau missile nucléaire pour ses sous-marins. Et la nouvelle génération de ce missile est dès à présent en chantier.

The Fedora Project has announced the release of Fedora Linux 43, with "what's new" articles for Fedora Workstation, Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop, and Fedora Atomic Desktops.

For those of you installing fresh Fedora Linux 43 Spins, you may be greeted with the new Anaconda WebUI. This was the default installer interface for Fedora Workstation 42, and now it's the default installer UI for the Spins as well.

If you are a GNOME desktop user, you'll also notice that the GNOME is now Wayland-only in Fedora Linux 43. GNOME upstream has deprecated X11 support, and has disabled it as a compile time default in GNOME 49. Upstream GNOME plans to fully remove X11 support in GNOME 50.

See the release notes for a full list of changes in Fedora 43.

Des explications permettent de rattacher narrativement certains évènements de la troisième trilogie de Star Wars avec la série The Acolyte. Ces nouveaux liens sont intéressants d'un point de vue du lore, et permettent de rattraper une piste gâchée de la postlogie. Hélas, cela n'ira sans doute pas beaucoup plus loin.

C'est un projet futuriste qui n'existe que sur le papier pour l'instant. Mais il a de quoi inquiéter les astronomes : la startup Reflect Orbital a l'idée de lancer des « satellites miroirs » dans l'espace pour refléter la lumière du Soleil sur Terre, pendant la nuit.

Alors que la saison 1 de Battlefield 6 se prépare, un patch arrive pour améliorer un peu plus la physique des balles tirées depuis son arme. Objectif : ajuster le phénomène de la dispersion, un paramètre clé pour un jeu de tir comme BF6.

Version 0.3.0 of Rust Coreutils, part of the uutils project, has been released. This release adds safe directory traversal for several utilities, better error handling, and performance improvements. The project has upgraded its test suite reference from GNU coreutils 9.7 to 9.8, and added 16 new tests. It includes a fix for the date bug that affected automatic updates in Ubuntu 25.10.

Version 3.26.0 of the Valgrind memory-profiling and debugging framework has been released. Notable changes include updated support for the Linux Test Project (LTP) to version v20250930, many new Linux syscall wrappers, and the license for Valgrind has been changed from GPLv2 to GPLv3.