backporting

The Linux kernel received a targeted fix for CVE-2025-40173 — a net/ip6_tunnel defect that could cause perpetual tunnel headroom growth in IPv6 tunnel code, and maintainers and distributions are already mapping and shipping backports to close the lifetime and stability gap. Background / Overview...

Mozilla’s decision to keep Firefox 115 ESR alive for older machines is the latest twist in a multi-stage, pragmatic approach to supporting users who remain on end-of-life operating systems — the Extended Support Release for Firefox 115 will now be maintained for Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 and...

Microsoft’s Start menu design debate has taken a new turn: a growing chorus of users are asking the company to bring the new, reimagined Start menu interface—the one shipping with recent Windows 11 updates—back to the “regular” Windows 10 experience, and that request exposes tensions between...

Microsoft has quietly expanded its Surface firmware this week to give Snapdragon-powered Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 owners the same on-device battery charge-limit controls that Intel-based models and the newer Surface Pro 12‑inch and Surface Laptop 13‑inch already received — meaning you...

For months, a quietly disruptive glitch was causing frustration for a subset of Windows 10 users: a bug that broke certain Start menu jump lists, a productivity feature many rely on for streamlined navigation. Now, Microsoft has issued a fix, closing the chapter on an issue that not only...

The Windows 11 community has been buzzing with exciting news regarding performance enhancements for AMD Ryzen-powered systems. AMD recently announced that key performance optimizations found in the forthcoming Windows 11 24H2 update are now backported to the existing Windows 11 version 23H2...

For the second in this series of blog entries we want to look into which vulnerability reports make it into the monthly release cadence. It may help to start with some history. In September 2003 we made a change from a release anytime approach to a mostly predictable, monthly release cadence...

Hi everyone. It seems that we CAN use W7 until a retail version is released. Unless it was an almighty bo bo by Microsoft the 7057 build (best so far even in its X-32 incantation) doesn't expire until Mar 2010. If the official RC1 expires before that I'm sure there will be some...

Hi guys I know w2008 is a server OS buit it shares (or is it the other way around) the same code base as W7) so anybody testing that out there. I used to use W2003 server as a worksttation OS -- you had to fiddle around with it a bit to avoid the typical shutdown hassles, messages and prompts...

Hi guys If you still have to use XP 32 bit for a while doesn't mean it has to look horrible. Here's a Sidebar backport from VISTA to XP and a system display on XP backported from W7. Doesn't work for Win XP 64 bit however (Shows some people have got time to waste :D) Cheers jimbo

Hi Guys -- question to anybody running a later build than build 7000. Is the version of IE8 (IE8 Beta) the same as with the 7000 build or has it been upgraded to IE8 RC1. IE8 RC1 is available for XP and all flavours of VISTA. ALL (and I mean 100%) of the issues I had with IE8 Beta have been...