Jason Donenfeld Linux & Open-Source News |
| WireGuard For Windows Reaches v1.0 | Microsoft | 2026-04-18 |
| CGIT 1.3 Web Frontend For Git Released After Six Years | Programming | 2026-02-24 |
| Qt Moves Away From Direct RDRAND/RDSEED Usage For Better Performance & Less Bugs | Qt | 2025-11-16 |
| GNU C Library Merges Support for getrandom vDSO | GNU | 2024-11-13 |
| Golang Now Enables Speedier getrandom() On Linux | Programming | 2024-10-02 |
| vDSO getrandom() Ported To Five More CPU Architectures With Linux 6.12 | Linux Kernel | 2024-09-23 |
| getrandom() vDSO Coming To More Architectures With Linux 6.12 | Linux Kernel | 2024-09-05 |
| Glibc Patch Being Reviewed For getrandom vDSO Support | Programming | 2024-07-31 |
| Linux 6.11 Lands Support For getrandom() In The vDSO | Linux Kernel | 2024-07-24 |
| Linus Torvalds Unconvinced By getrandom() In The vDSO | Linux Security | 2024-07-05 |
| getrandom() In The vDSO Aims For Linux 6.11 To Provide Faster Yet Secure User-Space RNG | Linux Security | 2024-07-03 |
| The Quest For Faster getrandom() Performance Continues Two Years Later | Linux Kernel | 2024-06-10 |
| CoCo VMs On Linux Will Now Panic If RdRand Is Broken To Avoid Catastrophic Conditions | Virtualization | 2024-04-07 |
| BusyBox 1.36 Released With SeedRNG, Many Other Additions | Free Software | 2023-01-03 |
| Linux 6.2 Looks To Enable "-funsigned-char" To Better Deal With Buggy Code | Linux Kernel | 2022-12-06 |
| Linux getrandom vDSO Implementation Updated, Glibc Patch In Testing | Linux Kernel | 2022-11-27 |
| The Linux Kernel Has Been Forcing Different Behavior For Processes Starting With "X" | Linux Kernel | 2022-11-07 |
| FreeBSD Re-Introduces WireGuard Support Into Its Kernel | BSD | 2022-10-29 |
| Linux 6.1 Continues Improving The RNG & Crypto Code | Linux Kernel | 2022-10-04 |
| Linux getrandom() vDSO Patch Updated For ~15x Speedup | Linux Security | 2022-09-18 |
| Linux 6.0 To Continue Advancing Its Random Number Generator (RNG) | Linux Security | 2022-08-01 |
| Linux Proposal Adding getrandom() To The vDSO For Better Performance | GNU | 2022-07-29 |
| Linux To Drop "nordrand" Option - Users Should Instead Switch To "random.trust_cpu" | Linux Security | 2022-07-10 |
| NVIDIA's Open-Source Kernel Driver, Graviton3 & Fedora 36 Made For An Exciting May | Phoronix | 2022-05-31 |
| Linux's RNG Code Continues Modernization Effort With v5.19 | Linux Kernel | 2022-05-25 |
| VirtualBox On Linux Affected By Security Vulnerability Leaking Host Data To Guests | Virtualization | 2022-05-18 |
| /dev/random + /dev/urandom Unification May Be Revisited In The Future, Blocker Addressed | Linux Kernel | 2022-04-26 |
| Linux To Try To Opportunistically Initialize /dev/urandom | Linux Security | 2022-04-07 |
| Last Minute Random/RNG Updates Land In Linux 5.18 | Linux Kernel | 2022-04-01 |
| Steam Deck, Ryzen Servers, Apple M1 On Linux & Milan-X Excited Linux Users In Q1 | Phoronix | 2022-03-31 |
| Linux 5.18 To Bring Many Random Number Generator Improvements | Linux Kernel | 2022-03-18 |
| Steam Deck, GNOME 42 Advancements & AMD Linux Updates Excited Readers In February | Phoronix | 2022-03-01 |
| Linux RNG Improvements Aim For Better VM Security | Linux Kernel | 2022-02-25 |
| Linux's getrandom() Sees A 8450% Improvement With Latest Code | Linux Kernel | 2022-02-22 |
| Linux 5.17 Random Number Generator Seeing Speed-Ups, Switching From SHA1 To BLAKE2s | Linux Kernel | 2022-01-07 |
| Linux 5.17 To Replace SHA1 With BLAKE2s For Faster & More Secure "Random" | Linux Storage | 2021-12-30 |
| WireGuard Sees Native, High-Performance Port To The Windows Kernel | Linux Networking | 2021-08-02 |
| -O3 Compiler Optimization Level Still Deemed Too Unsafe For The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2021-06-05 |
| New & Much Improved WireGuard Implementation Comes To FreeBSD | BSD | 2021-03-15 |
| WireGuard For Windows Updated With Improved Installer, ARM/ARM64 Support | Microsoft | 2020-11-24 |
| Linux Developers Discussing Possible Kernel Driver For Intel CPU Undervolting | Intel | 2020-10-21 |
| Better Support For Newer Synaptics Laptop Touchpads Coming To Linux 5.10 | Hardware | 2020-10-07 |
| WireGuard Support Merged Into Upstream OpenBSD | BSD | 2020-06-21 |
| Another Attack Vector Uncovered For Bypassing Linux Lockdown Via ACPI Tables | Linux Security | 2020-06-15 |
| Ubuntu 18.04's Heavily Patched Kernel Opens Door To Lockdown Bypass, Breaks Secure Boot | Ubuntu | 2020-06-14 |
| Upstream Linux Developers Against "-O3" Optimizing The Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2020-05-13 |
| WireGuard Ported To The OpenBSD Kernel - Looking For Upstream Inclusion | BSD | 2020-05-12 |
| There Is Now A WireGuard Benchmark For Testing Linux Networking Performance | Linux Networking | 2020-04-20 |
| /dev/random Seeing Performance Work For Linux 5.7 | Linux Kernel | 2020-04-06 |
| WireGuard 1.0.0 Christened As A Modern Secure VPN Alternative To OpenVPN/IPsec | Linux Networking | 2020-03-30 |
| Linux 5.6 Crypto Getting AVX/AVX2/AVX-512 Optimized Poly1305 - Helps WireGuard | Linux Kernel | 2020-01-16 |
| WireGuard Issues New Module Release, 1.0 Coming With Linux 5.6 | Linux Networking | 2019-12-26 |
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Might Still End Up Shipping With WireGuard Support | Ubuntu | 2019-12-12 |
| WireGuard Sends Out Latest Patch Revision In Preparing For Linux 5.6 | Linux Networking | 2019-12-09 |
| WireGuard Could Be Mainlined Before Christmas | Linux Networking | 2019-11-27 |
| Linux 5.5 Crypto Code Has The Changes To Usher In WireGuard | Linux Networking | 2019-11-26 |
| Latest WireGuard Patch Out For Review With It Looking Like It Will Land For Linux 5.6 | Linux Networking | 2019-11-21 |
| Linux's Crypto API Is Adopting Some Aspects Of Zinc, Opening Door To Mainline WireGuard | Linux Kernel | 2019-11-19 |
| WireGuard Restored In Android's Google Play Store After Brief But Controversial Removal | Linux Networking | 2019-10-18 |
| Google Ejects Open-Source WireGuard From Android Play Store Over Donation Link In App | Linux Networking | 2019-10-16 |
| WireGuard 0.0.20191012 Released With Latest Fixes | Linux Networking | 2019-10-13 |
| WireGuard Will Port To Existing Linux Crypto API In Order To Make It In The Kernel | Linux Networking | 2019-09-25 |
| New WireGuard Snapshot Offers Better Compatibility With Distributions/Kernels | Linux Networking | 2019-09-16 |
| WireGuard Releases New Snapshot While Not Expected For Linux 5.4 Mainline | Linux Networking | 2019-09-06 |
| WireGuard Sees New Snapshot With Windows, Linux & BSD Updates | Linux Networking | 2019-05-31 |
| WireGuard Didn't Make It Into Linux 5.2 Due To Windows Port, But That Is Now Available | Linux Networking | 2019-05-09 |
| New WireGuard Snapshot Offers FreeBSD Fixes, Other Tweaks | Linux Networking | 2019-04-07 |
| WinTUN: Windows Finally Gets A Good TUN Driver & It's Open-Source | Microsoft | 2019-03-24 |
| WireGuard Sent Out Again For Review, Might Make It Into Linux 5.2 Kernel | Linux Networking | 2019-03-22 |
| WireGuard VPN Tunnel Software Publishes New Snapshot But It Won't Be In Linux 5.1 | Linux Networking | 2019-02-28 |
| WireGuard Released For macOS, WireGuard Windows Coming & Linux Kernel Bits Still Pending | Linux Networking | 2019-02-17 |
| New WireGuard Snapshot Released With Linux 5.0 Support, Other Fixes | Linux Networking | 2019-01-24 |
| WireGuard Is Now Available From Apple's App Store | Linux Networking | 2018-12-26 |
| WireGuard Issues New Snapshot, But Doesn't Look Like It Will Make It Into Linux 4.21 | Linux Networking | 2018-12-20 |
| WireGuard Is Now Available On Apple iOS | Linux Networking | 2018-11-06 |
| Intel 2.5G Ethernet On The Horizon With New "IGC" Driver; WireGuard Not In Net-Next | Linux Networking | 2018-10-24 |
| WireGuard v7 Published As What's Hopefully Going Into The Next Kernel | Linux Networking | 2018-10-06 |
| Learn More About The Zinc Crypto API, Which Hopes To Get Into Linux 5.0 With WireGuard | Linux Security | 2018-10-02 |
| WireGuard v6 Might Be Ready For The Mainline Kernel, ARM Changes Added | Linux Networking | 2018-09-25 |
| WireGuard Picks Up A Simpler Kconfig, Zinc Crypto Performance Fix | Linux Networking | 2018-09-20 |
| It's Looking Like WireGuard Could Be Ready In Time For Linux 4.20~5.0 | Linux Networking | 2018-09-15 |
| WireGuard Takes Another Step Towards The Mainline Linux Kernel | Linux Networking | 2018-08-25 |
| Speck Crypto Code Called For Removal From The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2018-08-07 |
| Zinc: The New Crypto Library Being Worked On As Part Of WireGuard | Linux Networking | 2018-08-02 |
| WireGuard Now Under Review, First Step Towards Getting Included In The Linux Kernel | Linux Networking | 2018-07-31 |
| US Senator Recommends Open-Source WireGuard To NIST For Government VPN | Linux Networking | 2018-06-30 |
| We Could See WireGuard Upstreamed In The Linux Kernel In 2018 | Linux Networking | 2017-11-11 |
| WireGuard Could Soon Be On Its Way To The Linux Kernel | Linux Networking | 2017-11-02 |
| WireGuard Is Still Looking Good As A Linux VPN Tunnel | Linux Networking | 2017-02-13 |
| SipHash Is Being Worked On For Further Security In The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2017-01-08 |
| WireGuard Secure Network Tunnel Is Eyeing Mainline, Running On Android | Linux Networking | 2017-01-01 |
| Next-Generation Secure Network Tunnel Announced For The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2016-06-28 |
| Four Remote Packet-of-Death Vulnerabilities In The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2015-05-13 |
| Pass 1.5 Open-Source Password Manager Released | Free Software | 2014-04-13 |
| CGIT 0.10 Brings Lua Scripting Support, New Features | Free Software | 2014-01-17 |
| CGit Update Adds Exciting Features, Security Fix | Linux Security | 2013-05-27 |
| CGit Maintainer Disappears, Security Hole Found | Linux Security | 2012-11-15 |
