[$] Forking Vim to avoid LLM-generated code
Many people dislike the proliferation of Large Language
Models (LLMs) in recent years, and so make an understandable attempt to avoid
them.
That may not be possible in general, but there are two new forks of Vim
that seek to provide an editing environment with no LLM-generated code. EVi
focuses on being a modern Vim without LLM-assisted contributions, while Vim
Classic focuses on providing a long-term maintenance version of Vim 8. While
both are still in their early phases, the projects look to be on track to
provide stable alternatives — as long as enough people are interested.
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (capstone,
cockpit, firefox, git-lfs, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, kea, kernel,
nghttp2, nodejs24, openexr, perl-XML-Parser, rsync, squid, and vim), Debian
(imagemagick, systemd, and thunderbird), Slackware (libexif and xorg), SUSE
(bind, clamav, firefox, freerdp2, giflib, go1.25, go1.26, helm, ignition,
libpng16, libssh, oci-cli, rust1.92, strongswan, sudo, xorg-x11-server, and
xwayland), and Ubuntu (rust-tar and rustc, rustc-1.76, rustc-1.77, rustc-1.78,
rustc-1.79, rustc-1.80).
Zig 0.16.0 released
The Zig project has announced version 0.16.0 of the Zig
programming language.
This release features 8 months of work: changes from
244 different contributors, spread among 1183 commits.
Perhaps most notably,
this release debuts I/O as an Interface, but don't sleep on the Language Changes
or enhancements to the Compiler, Build System, Linker, Fuzzer, and Toolchain
which are also included in this release.
LWN last covered Zig in December
2025.
[$] Tagging music with MusicBrainz Picard
Part of the "fun" that comes with curating a self-hosted
music library is tagging music so that it has accurate and uniform metadata,
such as the band names, album titles, cover images, and so on. This can be a
tedious endeavor, but there are quite a few open-source tools to make this
process easier. One of the best, or at least my favorite, is MusicBrainz Picard.
It is a cross-platform music-tagging application that pulls information from the
well-curated, crowdsourced MusicBrainz database project and writes it to almost
any audio file format.
OpenSSL 4.0.0 released
Version 4.0.0 of the OpenSSL cryptographic library has been
released. This release includes support for a number of new cryptographic
algorithms and has a number of incompatible changes as well; see the
announcement for the details.