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Wednesday May 28, 2025. 03:55 PM
The increasing sophistication of attackers has organizations realizing that perimeter-based security models are inadequate. Many are planning to transition their internal networks to a zero-trust architecture. This requires every communication on the network to be encrypted, ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free and kernel), Arch Linux (bind and varnish), Debian (glibc and syslog-ng), Fedora (microcode_ctl, mozilla-ublock-origin, nodejs20, and nodejs22), Mageia (firefox, nss, rootcerts, open-vm-tools,...
Version 10 of the AlmaLinux OS distribution has been released. The goal of AlmaLinux OS is to support our community, and AlmaLinux OS 10 is the best example of that yet. With an unwavering eye on maintaining compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), we have made...
Tuesday May 27, 2025. 09:15 PM
Srinivas Narayana led a remote session about extending Agni to prove the correctness of the BPF verifier's handling of different execution paths as part of the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. The problem of ensuring the correctness of path...
Cory Doctorow wears many hats: digital activist, science-fiction author, journalist, and more. He has also written many books, both fiction and non-fiction, runs the Pluralistic blog, is a visiting professor, and is an advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF); his ...
Version 25.05 of the NixOS distribution has been released. Changes include support for the COSMIC desktop environment (reviewed here in August), GNOME 48, a 6.12 kernel, and many new modules; see the release notes for details. (Thanks to Pavel Roskin).
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, libsoup, and python-tornado), Debian (libavif and pgbouncer), Red Hat (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, mingw-freetype and spice-client-win, and webkit2gtk3), SUSE (firefox, govulncheck-vulndb, and...
Monday May 26, 2025. 06:04 PM
The 6.14 kernel development cycle only brought in 11,003 non-merge changesets, making it the slowest cycle since 4.0, which was released in 2015. The 6.15 kernel, instead, brought in 14,612 changesets, making it the busiest release since 6.7, released at the beginning of...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds-base, ghostscript, grafana, kernel, and osbuild-composer), Debian (intel-microcode, kernel, libphp-adodb, and openssl), Fedora (dotnet8.0, ghostscript, iputils, nbdkit, open-vm-tools, thunderbird, and vyper), Mageia...
Linus has released the 6.15 kernel, as expected. So this was delayed by a couple of hours because of a last-minute bug report resulting in one new feature being disabled at the eleventh hour, but 6.15 is out there now. Significant changes in 6.15 include smarter timer-ID ...
Friday May 23, 2025. 07:57 PM
The seventh edition of the Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel Summit (known as 'OSPM') took place on March 18-20, 2025. Topics discussed on the second day include improvements to device suspend and resume, the status and future of sched_ext, the scx_lavd...
The BPF verifier is an increasingly complex and security-critical piece of code. When the kinds of people who are apt to work on BPF see a situation like that, they naturally question whether it's possible to use formal verification to ensure that the implementation of the...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (dotnet9.0, dropbear, ghostscript, nbdkit, openssh, python-watchfiles, rpm-ostree, yelp, yelp-xsl, and zsync), Oracle (firefox and kernel), Red Hat (osbuild-composer), Slackware (aaa_glibc and mozilla), SUSE (chromedriver,...
Thursday May 22, 2025. 09:30 PM
Mozilla has announced that it is shutting down Pocket, a bookmarking service acquired by Mozilla in 2017, this coming July. 'Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading. But the way people use the web has evolved, so we're channeling our...
Our recent article on Home Assistant observed that the project emphasizes installations using its own Linux distribution or within containers. The project has now made that emphasis rather stronger with this announcement of the deprecation of the 'core' and 'supervised'...
The Fedora Council has ruled on the Fedora Engineering Steering Council's (FESCo) decision last year to revoke Peter Robinson's provenpackager status. In a statement published to the fedora-devel-announce mailing list, the council has announced that it has overturned FESCo's ...
Testing filesystems is a frequent topic at the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF); the 2025 edition was no exception. Boris Burkov led a filesystem-track session to discuss stress-testing filesystems—and running those tests for lengthy ...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.14.8, 6.12.30, 6.6.92, 6.1.140, and 5.15.184 stable kernels. As usual, each contains a long list of important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, and webkit2gtk3), Fedora (mozilla-ublock-origin and sudo-rs), Oracle (.NET 8.0, compat-openssl10, grafana, osbuild-composer, redis:6, ruby:2.5, and webkit2gtk3), SUSE (dante, firefox-esr, gnuplot,...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Home Assistant; Setuptools; Debian AI GR; DMA-mapping API; BPF CI; OSPM 2025 Briefs: Go audit; Oniux; Asahi progress; Rust in FreeBSD; RHEL 10; Rust 1.87.0; RIP John L. Young; Quote;... Announcements: Newsletters,...
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