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Thursday March 28, 2024. 01:22 AM
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 28, 2024 is available.
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Wednesday March 27, 2024. 04:51 PM
The PostgreSQL community is dealing with the loss of Simon Riggs, who passed away on March 26: Simon was responsible for many of the enterprise features we find in PostgreSQL today, including point in time recovery, hot standby, and synchronous replication. He was the found...
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Jason Nucciarone and Felipe Reyes gave back-to-back talks about high-performance computing (HPC) using Ubuntu at SCALE this year. Nucciarone talked about ongoing work packaging Open OnDemand — a web-based HPC cluster interface — to make high-performance-computing...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (composer and nodejs), Fedora (w3m), Mageia (tomcat), Oracle (expat, firefox, go-toolset:ol8, grafana, grafana-pcp, nodejs:18, and thunderbird), Red Hat (dnsmasq, expat, kernel, kernel-rt, libreoffice, and squid), and SUSE...
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Tuesday March 26, 2024. 11:59 PM
Sasha Levin has announced the release of the 6.8.2, 6.7.11, 6.6.23, 6.1.83, 5.15.153, 5.10.214, 5.4.273, and 4.19.311 stable kernels. Each contains a long list of important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
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The GNOME project announced GNOME 46 (code-named 'Kathmandu') on March 20. The release has quite a few updates and improvements across user applications, developer tools, and under the hood. One thing stood out while looking over this release—a major emphasis on Flatpaks as t...
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Security updates have been issued by CentOS (kernel), Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (webkitgtk), Mageia (curaengine & blender and gnutls), Red Hat (firefox, grafana, grafana-pcp, libreoffice, nodejs:18, and thunderbird), SUSE (glade), and Ubuntu (crmsh, debian-goodies,...
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Monday March 25, 2024. 06:35 PM
The first-ever NixCon in North America was co-located with SCALE this year. The event drew a mix of experienced Nix users and people new to the project. I attended talks that covered using Nix to build Docker images, upcoming changes to how NixOS performs early booting, and...
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The 6.9-rc1 kernel prepatch was released on March 24, closing the merge window for this development cycle. By that time, 12,435 non-merge changesets had been merged into the mainline, making for a less-busy merge window than the last couple of kernel releases (but similar to...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (cacti, firefox-esr, freeipa, gross, libnet-cidr-lite-perl, python2.7, python3.7, samba, and thunderbird), Fedora (amavis, chromium, clojure, firefox, gnutls, kubernetes, and tcpreplay), Mageia (freeimage, libreswan, nodejs-hawk,...
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Version 29.3 of the Emacs editor has been released: Emacs 29.3 is an emergency bugfix release; it includes no new features except a small number of changes intended to resolve security vulnerabilities uncovered in Emacs 29.2. Those vulnerabilities mostly have to do with...
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The 6.9-rc1 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus Torvalds described some rather large updates to the core kernel code that are coming for 6.9: The timer subsystem had a fairly big rewrite, to have per-cpu timer wheels to improve performance of timers, which can be a...
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Friday March 22, 2024. 01:50 PM
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, pillow, and thunderbird), Fedora (apptainer, chromium, ovn, and webkitgtk), Mageia (apache-mod_auth_openidc, ffmpeg, fontforge, libuv, and nodejs-tough-cookie), Oracle (kernel, libreoffice, postgresql-jdbc, ruby:3.1,...
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Thursday March 21, 2024. 04:07 PM
While a programming error in the kernel may be subject to direct exploitation, usually a more roundabout approach is required to take advantage of a security bug. One popular approach for those wishing to take advantage of vulnerabilities is heap spraying, and it has often...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (pdns-recursor and php-dompdf-svg-lib), Fedora (grub2, libreswan, rubygem-yard, and thunderbird), Mageia (libtiff and python-scipy), Red Hat (golang, nodejs, and nodejs:16), Slackware (python3), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-azure,...
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Version 1.77.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include support for NUL-terminated C-string literals, the ability for async functions to call themselves recursively, the stabilization of the offset_of!() macro, and more.
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Verson 5.39.9 of the Perl language has been released. Changes this time include a new 'medium-precedence' logical exclusive-or operator, a number of updated modules, and more; see this page for details.
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The Redis in-memory database system has had its license changed to either the Redis Source Available License or the Server Side Public License (covered here in 2018); neither license qualifies as free software. Under the new license, cloud service providers hosting Redis...
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Danilo Krummrich has announced the existence of the 'Nova' project within Red Hat. We just started to work on Nova, a Rust-based GSP-only driver for Nvidia GPUs. Nova, in the long term, is intended to serve as the successor of Nouveau for GSP-firmware-based GPUs. With...
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The LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 21, 2024 is available.
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