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F-Droid 2.0: A new chapter for Android freedom

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:40:09 -0500

From: LWN.net @3180.min_comp *61
To: All @Echomail *61
Subject: F-Droid 2.0: A new chapter for Android freedom

The F-Droid project has announced
the release of F-Droid∩┐╜2.0, which is a complete redesign of the official
app. Notable changes in the release include making it easier to discover and
install applications, more useful app categories, improved search, and
much more.

For more than a decade, F-Droid has helped people discover and install free
and open source Android apps. F-Droid 2.0 builds on that foundation with a
modern interface, better app discovery, improved search, and a simpler
experience that works well, whether you're new to F-Droid or have been using it
for years.

This isn't just a visual refresh. The user experience was redesigned to
integrate smoothly with current Android patterns, like Material Design, while
keeping familiar F-Droid interactions in place. Key components were reworked and
rewritten using Kotlin Compose, the standard toolkit these days, creating a
foundation that will help us deliver improvements more quickly in the years
ahead.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1096444/
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Research into file-notification attacks on Linux

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:40:09 -0500

From: LWN.net @3179.min_comp *61
To: All @Echomail *61
Subject: Research into file-notification attacks on Linux

Sudheendra Raghav Neela, a member of a group of researchers from Graz University
of Technology, has announced the
release of research into file-notification attacks that would allow spying on
user activity on Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows. The group has published a
paper with
details on the research as well as a web site
with demonstrations of the vulnerabilities.

On Linux, an attacker can use inotifywatch to
monitor a directory to conduct an inter-keystroke timing attack-even if
they do not have read access to the files within a directory. The group also
discovered a method to conduct a UI-redress
attack (or "clickjacking" attack) on
KDE∩┐╜5 and KDE∩┐╜6 by monitoring /usr/bin/pkexec to detect when Polkit spawns an
authentication
prompt. An attacker could draw a fake password window on top of the real window
to collect a user's credentials.

Both of these flaws are still present today,
though the Linux kernel did partially mitigate the issue with a
fix that was included in the 5.10.248, 5.15.198, 6.1.160, 6.6.120, 6.12.65,
and 6.18.3 kernels shipped in January. See the web site for more information and
a mitigation to prevent password-prompt windows from losing focus.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1096431/
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[$] Listening to the radio with Rust

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:40:09 -0500

From: LWN.net @3178.min_comp *61
To: All @Echomail *61
Subject: [$] Listening to the radio with Rust

Many of the transmissions sent over the radio spectrum can
be decoded with a relatively cheap hardware dongle. Thomas Eckert presented at

RustConf 2026 in Montreal about his hobby:
decoding radio transmissions with Rust.
In his presentation, he
covered all of the math necessary to get started with

software-defined radio,
and gave demonstrations of listening to AM and FM radio, as well as decoding
transmissions from
aircraft transponders. His slides and example code are

available on GitHub.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1095721/
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The Kernel Report 2026 edition

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:40:09 -0500

From: LWN.net @3177.min_comp *61
To: All @Echomail *61
Subject: The Kernel Report 2026 edition

After a two-year hiatus, LWN's Jonathan Corbet presented an updated edition
of his Kernel
Report at the Kernel
Recipes conference. Corbet looked at what is happening in the kernel
community, how it's dealing with a period of accelerated change, and where
things might go in the future. Video of the talk is
available on YouTube for those who'd like to tune in.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1096411/
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Security updates for Thursday

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:40:09 -0500

From: LWN.net @3176.min_comp *61
To: All @Echomail *61
Subject: Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah,
containernetworking-plugins, firefox, kernel, kernel-rt, openexr, perl-DBI,
podman, postgresql, postgresql16, postgresql:15, runc, skopeo, and tar), Debian
(libdatetime-timezone-perl, tzdata, xdg-dbus-proxy, and znc), Fedora (chromium,
evolution, evolution-data-server, evolution-ews, kernel, libheif, mingw-pcre2,
nginx-mod-modsecurity, unbound, and webkitgtk), Mageia (borgbackup, coreutils,
firefox, nss, kbd, libnfs, libwebsockets, perl-URI, pipewire, and
xdg-dbus-proxy), Oracle (apr-util, containernetworking-plugins, coreutils, curl,
firefox, freerdp, gstreamer1-plugins-base, host-metering, libarchive, libtiff,
libxml2, openexr, openssh, perl-DBI, podman, postgresql16, postgresql18-postgis,
postgresql:15, rsyslog, runc, tar, and unbound), SUSE (apptainer, gimp,
librepods, libX11-6, perl-Authen-SASL, podofo, python-WebOb, and
python313-graphifyy), and Ubuntu (imagemagick, libgit2, moodle, network-manager,
Open-iSNS, python-urllib3, sqlparse, and xdg-desktop-portal).

https://lwn.net/Articles/1096407/
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Latest Distro Releases

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:40:07 -0500

From: Distro Watcher @3175.min_comp *61
To: All @Echomail *61
Subject: Latest Distro Releases

DistroWatch.com: Distributions
Exton 260925 "LFS"
StratOS 2026.09.25
Senpai 20260922
ML4W 2.16
SweetPotatOs 2026.10
Argent 1.5.3-rc8
BRGV-OS 23092026
Genuen 6.0.1-2026.09.23
NebiOS 10.3-dev2026.09.22
BlueOnyx 5212R-20260921
Neko-Void 20260921
MakuluLinux 2026-09-22
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 24, 2026