# Tech News Digest – March 27, 2025

# Tech News Digest - 2025-03-27

> 📢 For the sophisticated shut-in

## [$] A process for handling Rust code in the core kernel
**Category:** Linux  
**Tags:** Linux  
**Published:** Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:43:40 +0000  
**TL;DR:** Here is a summary of the text in 2 sentences:

The 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit featured a tense discussion on using Rust code in the kernel's filesystem layer. The topic was revisited in 2025 with a broader scope covering storage and memory-management layers, but despite progress, process issues still need to be resolved.  
The 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit
included <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/978738/">a tense session</a> on the use of Rust
code in the kernel's filesystem layer.  The Rust topic returned in 2025 in
a session run by Andreas Hindborg, with a scope that also covered the
storage and memory-management layers.  A lot of progress has been made, and
the discussion was less adversarial this year, but there are still process
issues that need to be worked out.  
[Read more](https://lwn.net/Articles/1015409/)  

## Security updates for Thursday
**Category:** Linux  
**Tags:** Linux  
**Published:** Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:03:36 +0000  
**TL;DR:** Here is a 2-sentence summary:

Multiple Linux distributions have issued security updates to fix various vulnerabilities. The affected distributions include Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu, with fixes ranging from email servers (exim) to container tools (containerd) and other software applications.  
Security updates have been issued by <b>Arch Linux</b> (exim), <b>Debian</b> (exim4, ghostscript, and libcap2), <b>Red Hat</b> (container-tools:rhel8), <b>SUSE</b> (apache-commons-vfs2, argocd-cli, azure-cli-core, buildah, chromedriver, docker-stable, ed25519-java, kernel, kubernetes1.29-apiserver, kubernetes1.30-apiserver, kubernetes1.32-apiserver, libmbedcrypto7, microcode_ctl, php7, podman, proftpd, tomcat10, and webkit2gtk3), and <b>Ubuntu</b> (containerd, exim4, mariadb, opensaml, and org-mode).  
[Read more](https://lwn.net/Articles/1015589/)  

## A new home for kernel.org
**Category:** Linux  
**Tags:** Linux  
**Published:** Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:01:44 +0000  
**TL;DR:** Here is a 2-sentence summary:

Akamai has announced that it will be hosting the kernel.org repositories, providing infrastructure support for Linux kernel development at no cost. This move aims to ensure uninterrupted development and distribution of the massive Linux codebase, which involves over 28 million lines of code and contributions from more than 13,500 developers from 1,300 companies.  
Akamai has sent out <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/akamai-delivers-infrastructure-support-to-ensure-uninterrupted-linux-kernel-development-302412685.html">a
press release</a> saying that it is now hosting the kernel.org
repositories.
<p>
<blockquote class="bq">
	The Linux kernel is massive — approximately 28 million lines of
	code. Since 2005, more than 13,500 developers from more than 1,300
	different companies have contributed to the Linux
	kernel. Additionally, there are many kernel versions, and
	developers update the code constantly, distributing that code to
	developers who are working on various distributions of
	Linux. Akamai now delivers the infrastructure that these developers
	and their users rely on, at no cost, supporting the Git
	environments developers use to access kernel sources quickly,
	regardless of where they're based.
</blockquote>  
[Read more](https://lwn.net/Articles/1015555/)  

## [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 27, 2025
**Category:** Linux  
**Tags:** General  
**Published:** Thu, 27 Mar 2025 01:05:13 +0000  
**TL;DR:** Here is a summary of the article in 2 sentences:

The latest edition of LWN.net Weekly Edition features articles on open source in government, OSI election, memory management, and more. The edition also includes briefs on various projects such as Asahi Linux, Reproducible Debian, and Neovim, as well as announcements about newsletters, conferences, security updates, and patches.  
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:
        <p>
        <ul>
<li> <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1014881/">Front</a>: Open source in government; OSI election; Memory-management medley; Address-space isolation; CMA; 6.14 Development stats; State of the page.
            <li> <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1014883/">Briefs</a>: Asahi Linux progress; Reproducible Debian; rpi-image-gen; Neovim 0.11; OpenH264; Quotes; ...
            <li> <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1014884/">Announcements</a>: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
            </ul>  
[Read more](https://lwn.net/Articles/1014881/)  

## Neovim 0.11 released
**Category:** Linux  
**Tags:** General  
**Published:** Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:11:46 +0000  
**TL;DR:** Here is a summary of the text in 2 sentences:

Neovim version 0.11 has been released, featuring improvements such as simpler LSP client setup, better tree-sitter performance, and enhanced emoji support. The release also includes enhancements to Neovim's embedded terminal emulator, with more details available in the official release notes.  
<p><a href="https://gpanders.com/blog/whats-new-in-neovim-0-11/">Version
0.11</a> of the Neovim text editor has been released. Notable changes
in this release include simpler Language Server Protocol (LSP) client
setup, improved tree-sitter performance, better emoji support, and
enhancements for Neovim's embedded terminal emulator. See the <a href="https://neovim.io/doc/user/news-0.11.html">release notes</a> for
a full list of changes.</p>
<p></p>  
[Read more](https://lwn.net/Articles/1015496/)