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The last year has been a rocky one for the WordPress community. Matt Mullenweg—WordPress co-founder and CEO of WordPress hosting company Automattic—started a messy public spat with WP Engine in September and has proceeded to use his control of the project's WordPress.org infrastructure as weapons against the company, with the community caught in the crossfire. It is not surprising, then, that on June 6 a group of WordPress community participants announced the Federated and Independent Repositories Package Manager (FAIR.pm) project. It is designed to be a decentralized alternative to WordPress.org with a goal of building "public digital infrastructure that is both resilient and fair".

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.

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.

In a long series of commits, Robert Nagy (robert@) updated clang(1)/llvm/lld(1) in -current to version 19.1.7 (from version 16.0.6):

Those building from source should follow the instructions in Following -current and using snapshots before making the leap.

• Front: Nyxt; Cyber Resilience Act; Unwanted file descriptors; Core-dump API; 6.16 Merge window; Uniprocessor configurations; Smatch; FUSE zero-copy; iov_iter; Fedora documentation.
• Briefs: Android tracking; /e/OS 3.0; FreeBSD laptops; Ubuntu X11 support; Netdev 0x19; OIN anniversary; Quotes; ...
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Smatch is a GPL-licensed static-analysis tool for C that has a lot of specialized checks for the kernel. Smatch has been used in the kernel for more than 20 years; Dan Carpenter, its primary author, decided last year that some details of its plugin system were due for a rewrite. He spoke at Linaro Connect 2025 about his work on Smatch, the changes to its implementation, and how those changes enabled him to easily add additional checks for locking bugs in the kernel.

While there are subtle differences in the way Meta and Yandex bridge web and mobile contexts and identifiers, both of them essentially misuse the unvetted access to localhost sockets. The Android OS allows any installed app with the INTERNET permission to open a listening socket on the loopback interface (127.0.0.1). Browsers running on the same device also access this interface without user consent or platform mediation. This allows JavaScript embedded on web pages to communicate with native Android apps and share identifiers and browsing habits, bridging ephemeral web identifiers to long-lived mobile app IDs using standard Web APIs.

This backdoor, the use of which has evidently stopped since its disclosure, allow tracking of users across sites regardless of cookie policies or use of incognito browser modes.