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Security updates for Thursday
LWN Headlines · Linux/System · src 9 · Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:09:44 +0000 · MEDIUM 39
Security updates have been issued by <b>AlmaLinux</b> (environment-modules, flatpak-builder, kernel, kernel-rt, librabbitmq, libreoffice, libsoup, mod_auth_openidc:2.3, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, OpenEXR, opentelemetry-collector, pki-core:10.6, postgresql:12, python-tornado, python36:3.6, ruby:3.3, tftp, and xorg-x11-server), <b>Debian</b> (buildstream, firefox-esr, mariadb, and sogo), <b>Fedora</b> (exim, freerdp, python
Seven stable kernels for Thursday with fix for critical vulnerability
LWN Headlines · Linux/System · src 9 · Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:01:31 +0000 · MEDIUM 29
<p>Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1100616/">7.2.11</a>, <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1100617/">6.18.57</a>,
<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1100618/">6.12.113</a>, <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1100619/">6.6.159</a>, <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1100620/">6.1.190</a>,
<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1100621/">5.15.223</a>, and <a href="https://l
[$] GCC development with large-language models
LWN Headlines · Linux/System · src 9 · Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:13:53 +0000 · MEDIUM 27
After much deliberation, the GCC project recently came up with <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/ai-policy.html">a policy on the use of large
language models</a> for development of the compiler suite. It is somewhat
restrictive, but still leaves room for LLMs in the development process. At
the 2026 <a href="https://gnu-tools-cauldron.org/">GNU Tools Cauldron</a>,
Jeff Law and Kyrill Tkachov discussed how these tools hav
Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series
LWN Headlines · Linux/System · src 9 · Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:50:29 +0000 · MEDIUM 27
At the recently concluded <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1099594/">Maintainers
Summit</a>, Linus Torvalds said that he had been using a large language
model to work on a patch series addressing a longstanding problem; he has
now <a href="https://lwn.net/ml/all/CAHk-=wjLjgfwgSZ1RDk4YdNFcV0ntosMO5AmBoHD76Zb3HFY7Q@mail.gmail.com">posted
that series for review</a>.
<p>
<blockquote class="bq">
The fairly short series
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 15, 2026
LWN Headlines · Linux/System · src 9 · Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:04:00 +0000 · MEDIUM 27
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:
<p>
<ul>
<li> <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1099247/">Front</a>: 2026 Maintainers Summit; Rust goals; GCC and LLMs; GCC CFI; systemd; C types in Rust; LTTng; Swap showdown; KDE Linux.
<li> <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1099249/">Briefs</a>: 64-day certificates; Nix and Lix security; Asterinas 0.19.0; LineageOS 24; KDE 6.8; Python 3.15; Quo
Claude Code / AI Shows Potential For Reverse-Engineering Hardware For Linux Support
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:29:06 -0400 · MEDIUM 25
AI/LLMs like Claude Code are beginning to prove capable of helping to reverse engineer hardware for Linux support, especially when it comes to the tedious reverse engineering tasks...
Intel LLM-Scaler-vLLM PV 1.5 Brings Big Improvements
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:04:22 -0400 · MEDIUM 25
Intel software engineers today released the latest version of LLM-Scaler-vLLM PV 1.5, their containerized Docker stack providing a convenient AI/LLM experience atop Intel Arc Graphics hardware and born out of their Project Battlematrix initiative...
KDE Plasma 6.8 released
LWN Headlines · Linux/System · src 9 · Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:41:09 +0000 · LOW 9
<p><a href="https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.8.0/">Version 6.8</a> of
the <a href="https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/">KDE Plasma desktop</a> has been
released. The The KDE project has timed the release to coincide with the 30th
anniversary of Matthias Ettrich's <a href="https://kde.org/announcements/announcement/">email announcing</a> the
project:</p>
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Unix popularity grows thanks to the
[$] Collaborating with out-of-tree tracers
LWN Headlines · Linux/System · src 9 · Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:56:50 +0000 · LOW 9
<a href="https://lttng.org/">LTTng</a> creator Mathieu Desnoyers seems a
bit trapped in something of a <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/catch-22">catch-22</a>.
At the 2026 <a href="https://lpc.events/">Linux Plumbers Conference</a>
(LPC), he led a discussion on the problem he is having in trying to
collaborate with other tracing projects (e.g. <a href="https://docs.kernel.org/trace/ftrace.
Ubuntu 26.10 released
LWN Headlines · Linux/System · src 9 · Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:19:23 +0000 · LOW 9
<p>Canonical has <a href="https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-26-10-stonking-stingray">announced
the release</a> of Ubuntu 26.10 ("Stonking Stingray"):</p>
<blockquote class="bq">
<p>Ubuntu 26.10 advances enterprise security features, completes the rollout of
the Rust-based <tt>uutils coreutils</tt>, and strengthens integrations for user
authentication using Microsoft Entra ID.</p>
<p>[...] Ubunt
KDE releases documentary
LWN Headlines · Linux/System · src 9 · Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:24:31 +0000 · LOW 9
<p>As part of <a href="https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2026/">KDE's 30th
anniversary celebration</a>, the project has released <em>The KDE Documentary
— A Story of Free Software Underdogs</em> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vyzla9mx4g">YouTube video</a>):</p>
<blockquote class="bq">
<p>The story starts in 1996, when Matthias Ettrich, a student at the University
of Tübingen, posted to a Usenet gr
[$] Vendor hooks in the Android kernel
LWN Headlines · Linux/System · src 9 · Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:09:15 +0000 · LOW 9
Since Android's inception, the kernels it has used have diverged
significantly from the mainline. While many of those differences have been
resolved over time, and the move to the <a href="https://source.android.com/docs/core/architecture/kernel/generic-kernel-image">generic
kernel image</a> has helped to bring Android closer, current devices still
carry a lot of out-of-tree changes. The preferred form for such cha
Security updates for Friday
LWN Headlines · Linux/System · src 9 · Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:17:44 +0000 · LOW 9
Security updates have been issued by <b>AlmaLinux</b> (ghostscript, grafana, hplip, libsoup3, lrzsz, rpcbind, and wireshark), <b>Debian</b> (chromium, cifs-utils, expat, gst-plugins-bad1.0, gst-plugins-good1.0, jpeg-xl, mutt, and spip), <b>Mageia</b> (gpsd, libx11, and roundcubemail), <b>Oracle</b> (389-ds-base, compat-libtiff3, environment-modules, ghostscript, grafana, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugin
Results from the 2026 TAB election
LWN Headlines · Linux/System · src 9 · Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:09:20 +0000 · LOW 9
The <a href="https://lwn.net/ml/all/9fae8567-0943-47e2-a04d-4e75e1c0cb6d@kernel.org">results</a>
from the 2026 election for members of the Linux Foundation Technical
Advisory Board (TAB) have been announced. Kees Cook, Dave Hansen, Miguel
Ojeda, and Shuah Khan have all been re-elected, and Laurent Pinchart will
be joining the board.
[$] Recent and future changes to the Linux NFS server
LWN Headlines · Linux/System · src 9 · Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:26:57 +0000 · LOW 9
The NFS network filesystem protocol has a long history on Unix-like
operating systems (and beyond). NFS is still evolving, though, and
implementations need to keep up. At the 2026 <a href="https://lpc.events/">Linux Plumbers Conference</a>, NFS developer
Jeff Layton gave an overview of recent enhancements to the Linux
implementation, along with some hints for what will be coming in the near
future.
[$] Safe self-referential data structures in kernel Rust
LWN Headlines · Linux/System · src 9 · Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:30:00 +0000 · LOW 9
<p>
Self-referential structures that can be used without unsafe code
have posed a problem for Rust for years.
There are many cases where a self-referential data structure is the elegant
algorithmic choice, but implementing it in accordance with Rust's lifetime rules
is all but impossible. At Kangrejos 2026, Gary Guo presented a clever solution
to the problem in the context of the kernel's
<a href="https://rust.docs.k
Introducing GNOME OS Preview
LWN Headlines · Linux/System · src 9 · Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:05:57 +0000 · LOW 9
<p>The <a href="https://gnome.org/">GNOME Project</a> has provided <a href="https://os.gnome.org/">GNOME OS</a> for some time; until now, the
project only provided a "Nightly" edition that was built from the latest commits
and was aimed solely at GNOME developers. Adrian Vovk has now <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2026/10/16/gnome-os-preview/">announced</a>
the release of GNOME OS Preview,
Linux Lands Fix for Rare, Varying SMP Boot Hangs Affecting Kernels Since 2024
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:54:33 -0400 · LOW 7
Among the flurry of last minute patch activity ahead of tomorrow's presumed Linux 7.3 stable kernel release is a fix for addressing some rare hangs at boot time. The reports varied but ultimately tracked down to a kernel change made two years ago...
GNOME's New Local/Cloud AI Chat App Gains More Features
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:39:25 -0400 · LOW 7
Coming about the past few months has been Moose as a GNOME-aligned AI chat application built around GTK4 and libadwaita. It began as a local AI chat app for the GNOME desktop and grew to support cloud AI services as well. This past week marked the latest feature release for Moose...
Linux 7.3 Lands Last-Minute Fixes For Samsung 990 PRO & 990 EVO Plus SSDs
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:15:12 -0400 · LOW 7
Ahead of the Linux 7.3 stable kernel expected to be released tomorrow, last minute workarounds were merged for the Samsung 990 PRO and Samsung 990 EVO Plus NVMe solid state drives...
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.1 Brings New Hardware Support & Important Security Fix
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Sat, 17 Oct 2026 05:49:26 -0400 · LOW 7
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.1 was released on Friday as the latest update to this community-maintained tablet/smartphone Ubuntu Linux platform. Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.5 was also released as a maintenance update for the prior series...
KDE Plasma 6.9 To Debut New Weather Widget & On-Screen Keyboard
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:01:15 -0400 · LOW 7
With KDE Plasma 6.8 released earlier this week, KDE developers have begun working on more feature activity toward Plasma 6.9...
Wine 11.20 Released With CD-ROM Support Change
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:44:06 -0400 · LOW 7
Wine 11.20 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software for enjoying Windows games and apps on Linux. We are quickly approaching the point where this development work will culminate into the Wine 12.0 stable release in early 2027...
Rustls 0.23.46 Released With Four Security Fixes
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:05:34 -0400 · LOW 7
Rustls as the modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language with an emphasis on memory safety is out today with its v0.23.46 release in order to ship four new security fixes...
Cloud Hypervisor 54 Released With Live Migration Improvements
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:17:59 -0400 · LOW 7
Cloud Hypervisor, the Rust-based Virtual Machine Monitor that began as an Intel open-source project and evolved into a multi-vendor Linux Foundation project, is out today with a sizable feature update...
BeOS-Inspired Haiku Landed More Hardware Improvements & Other Changes In September
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:34:14 -0400 · LOW 7
Released at the end of August was Haiku R1 Beta 6 and over the course of September, further improvements continued to land for this BeOS-inspired project now in its 25th year of development...
Linux Finally Making It Easier To Answer The Question: "Is This RISC-V System RVA23?"
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:47:39 -0400 · LOW 7
The RISC-V RVA23 profile is a big deal for reducing fragmentation in the RISC-V ecosystem and standardizing more of the ISA to make it easier to distribute modern RISC-V binaries and the like. Modern versions of Ubuntu mandate RVA23 even though compliant hardware is still quite limited. Somewhat surprisingly, only coming about now is an easy ability for Linux users to find the answer to "is my RISC-V system RVA23 com
HP EliteBook 6 G1q Powered By Snapdragon X1 Plus Sees Linux Patches
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:10:14 -0400 · LOW 7
Canonical engineer Juerg Haefliger posted a set of Device Tree patches in working to support the mainline Linux kernel on the HP EliteBook 6 G1q laptop that is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Plus SoC...
Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Packages Provide Some Additional Uplift On AMD EPYC
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:16:17 -0400 · LOW 7
In addition to Ubuntu 26.10 itself delivering some nice performance gains on Ubuntu 26.10 for AMD EPYC servers and other hardware, the optional and currently-unofficial amd64v3 package archive also provides additional performance uplift. Here is a look quantifying the performance impact of amd64v3 packages on AMD EPYC 9005 series servers.
Epic Games To Improve Easy Anti-Cheat On Linux With Anti-Cheat Systemd Service & eBPF
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:39:04 -0400 · LOW 7
In addition to Epic Games announced a preview of their new Epic Games Launcher, including Linux support, they also announced plans to improve their Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) software on Linux. Along with this improved EAC they are also working on official Linux support for the popular Fortnite game...
Apple Contributes SSAF Driver To LLVM Clang For Source Code Transformations
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:45:29 -0400 · LOW 7
Apple compiler engineers have contributed to upstream LLVM/Clang today a Scalable Static Analysis Framework (SSAF) driver for whole-program based analysis and source-to-source code transformations...
Framework Computers Triples Their Financial Support To CachyOS
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:21:11 -0400 · LOW 7
In addition to providing Framework systems to the CachyOS Linux distribution for optimizing the support, Framework Computers has also been providing monthly donations to the project. CachyOS confirmed today that Framework Computers has now tripled their monthly donations to this independent Linux distribution built atop Arch Linux...
Microsoft Releases Microsoft Defender For The Linux Desktop
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:52:45 -0400 · LOW 7
Microsoft's newest software release for Linux is... Microsoft Defender for the Linux desktop. Microsoft Defender has been ported to Linux to "secure Linux desktops" with Microsoft acknowledging that "more developers begin to use Linux desktops" and thus bringing their security application and threat-protection product to Linux desktops to complement their prior ill-used Linux server support...
GNOME Mutter Improves Damage Tracking For Secondary GPU Copy Buffers
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:12:29 -0400 · LOW 7
As an early improvement to Mutter to look forward to with GNOME 52 (Update: It will first appear in GNOME 51.2), the compositor is now tracking damage for secondary GPU copy buffers. This should improve the experience for those with multi-GPU setups such as some hybrid laptops...
Huawei Proposes Enabling CPU Boost By Default For ACPI CPPC Linux Driver
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:24:24 -0400 · LOW 7
For those using the generic ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) CPUFreq driver such as on a number of ARM64 Linux server platforms, if the CPUs support a "boost" mode it's disabled by default. But a patch from Huawei is now looking to enable CPU boost mode by default on Linux...
Ubuntu 26.10 Released With Linux 7.3 + GNOME 51, Rust Coreutils Migration Complete
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:19:06 -0400 · LOW 7
Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" is now officially available as the newest six-month non-LTS update to Ubuntu Linux...
3mdeb Releases Updated Dasharo/Coreboot Firmware For ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:56:51 -0400 · LOW 7
3mdeb firmware engineers have been quite busy this year working on porting Coreboot and openSIL to an AMD Ryzen AM5 MSI motherboard and similarly getting openSIL and Coreboot up and running on a Gigabyte server motherboard for AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs. They haven't forgotten about their past projects though and today released an updated version of their Dasharo downstream firmware for the ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T motherbo
Memtest86+ v9.00 Released With Support For ARM64 Memory Testing
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:58:00 -0400 · LOW 7
The open-source Memtest86+ program that is popular for RAM testing has expanded beyond the x86/x86_64 (and LoongArch64) world to now support memory testing on ARM64/AArch64 hardware...
LPDDR5 5467 vs. 6400 vs. 7467 MT/s Memory Performance Benchmarks For Laptops
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:02:37 -0400 · LOW 7
With the recently reviewed Star Labs StarFighter Ultra Linux laptop its BIOS allows for configurable memory speeds unlike many other laptop vendor BIOS implementations these days. Star Labs also made the default design decision to run the LPDDR5-7467 rated memory at LPDDR5-6400 speeds in the name of a balanced user experience for power/performance. So I was curious to run some benchmarks quantifying that power and pe
Intel Nova Lake S & Nova Lake P To Support SR-IOV With Xe Graphics
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:04:27 -0400 · LOW 7
A patch has been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list by an Intel engineer confirming that Nova Lake S and Nova Lake P processors with integrated graphics will support SR-IOV in conjunction with the Xe kernel graphics driver...
Today's Steam Beta Makes The Linux Client A 64-bit App
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:08:08 -0400 · LOW 7
Valve just dropped a new Steam client beta and it's a big one for Linux gamers...
Fedora 45 Will Not Be Released Next Week
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:50:44 -0400 · LOW 7
For those eager to run the pristine Fedora 45 media, you will need to wait at least one more week...
Mesa's Zink Now Offers VA-API Video Acceleration Atop Vulkan Video
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Fri, 16 Oct 2026 04:54:45 -0400 · LOW 7
Merged today to Mesa is initial video acceleration support for the generic Zink Gallium3D driver built atop the Vulkan APIs. What this implementation allows is exposing Video Acceleration API (VA-API) implemented atop the Vulkan Video interfaces...
Linux 7.3 Squeezes Even More Performance Out Of The AMD Threadripper PRO 9995WX
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:22:01 -0400 · LOW 7
With the Linux 7.3 kernel due out for release on Sunday, I've continued running more benchmarks recently of this forthcoming kernel version and it looks great. In my Linux 7.3 testing of the Git state it's been looking great in testing on a variety of hardware shown across multiple systems. Recently I decided to try out this new kernel code on the 96-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX workstation...
Linux 7.4 To Enable Intel Instruction Timeout For Fending Off TDX VM DoS Attacks
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:13:51 -0400 · LOW 7
Linux 7.4 is enabling support for a new Intel CPU feature for providing safety against possible denial of service attacks using Trust Domain Extensions "TDX" VMs. The new feature is Intel Instruction Timeout and previously in-development known as Notify VM Exit...
AI Resurrects AVX-512 Support For Mesa's LLVMpipe Software Driver
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:28:51 -0400 · LOW 7
With pending code for Mesa, the LLVMpipe software-based Gallium3D/OpenGL driver could soon become faster on modern systems that support AVX-512. That's assuming the AI/LLVM-generated code is all in order...
Fedora 46 Looking At Moving To RPM v6 Package Format
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:03:26 -0400 · LOW 7
The RPM v4 packaging format has been used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora and its derivatives for more than two decades. With next year's Fedora 46 release, Fedora Linux may finally transition to the modern RPM v6 packaging format...
AI-Generated Starling Desktop Environment Rolls Out Its Own Office Suite
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:20:22 -0400 · LOW 7
Starling, the open-source desktop environment written in Swift and with its own Wayland compositor too and written largely via Claude Code, has now rolled out its own AI-generated office suite...
Intel Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids Performance On Linux Over The Past Year
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:24:33 -0400 · LOW 7
It's been nearly one year since receiving the Gigabyte R284-A92-AAL1 2U Granite Rapids server platform for continuing my testing of the flagship Xeon 6980P processors. Curious how the Xeon 6980P 2P performance has evolved on Linux since then, I ran some benchmarks on the newly-released Ubuntu Server 26.10 against the tests carried out last year on Ubuntu 25.10 with the same hardware.
After 23 Years, Longtime Linux Developer To "Step Back For A While"
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:40:27 -0400 · LOW 7
Longtime Linux kernel engineer Darrick Wong who stepped down as the XFS file-system maintainer in 2023 is now taking a step back from his other Linux kernel development roles after working on the kernel the past 23 years...
The Best Features Of Linux 7.3: Performance Improvements, Lots From Valve
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:17:47 -0400 · LOW 7
The Linux 7.3 kernel is slated to be officially released on Sunday, 18 October, barring any last minute issues from coming about. With that said, here's a reminder about some of the most exciting features to look forward to in this next kernel version...
GNOME OS Preview Announced In Road Toward A Stable Release
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:37:11 -0400 · LOW 7
The GNOME OS Linux distribution to date has just been in GNOME OS Nightly form for tracking the latest nightly packages of GNOME in their current development form. GNOME OS Preview was announced today as their trek toward a stable GNOME OS in using the latest GNOME stable releases rather than nightly form...
17 More Security Vulnerabilities Made Public For X.Org Libraries
Phoronix · Linux/System · src 7 · Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:20:39 -0400 · LOW 7
Just shy of two weeks since a dozen vulnerabilities were published for the X.Org Server and XWayland, more than one dozen vulnerabilities were made public today affecting multiple X.Org client libraries...