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Tuesday January 30, 2024. 05:01 PM
The eBPF Foundation has published a glossy document called The State of eBPF; it seems mostly concerned with how a small number of large companies are using and developing this technology. No doubt, eBPF will become the new layer in the new cloud native infrastructure...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (pillow, postfix, and redis), Fedora (python-templated-dictionary and selinux-policy), Red Hat (gnutls, kpatch-patch, libssh, and tomcat), and Ubuntu (amanda, ceph, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-kvm, and tinyxml).
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Monday January 29, 2024. 06:22 PM
In December, the Rust project released a call for proposals for inclusion in the 2024 edition. Rust handles backward incompatible changes by using Editions, which permit projects to specify a single stable edition for their code and allow libraries written in different...
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Security updates have been issued by CentOS (gstreamer-plugins-bad-free, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, kernel, LibRaw, python-pillow, and xorg-x11-server), Debian (gst-plugins-bad1.0, libspreadsheet-parsexlsx-perl, mariadb-10.3, and slurm-wlm), Fedora (atril,...
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Linus has released 6.8-rc2 for testing. 'So go out and test. It's safe now. You trust me, right?'
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Friday January 26, 2024. 04:41 PM
While the mathematical realm of numbers is infinite, computers are only able to represent a finite subset of them. That can lead to problems when arithmetic operations would create numbers that the computer is unable to store as the intended type. This condition, called...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (xorg-server), Fedora (chromium, dotnet8.0, firefox, freeipa, and thunderbird), Red Hat (avahi, c-ares, curl, edk2, expat, freetype, frr, git, gnutls, grub2, kernel, kernel-rt, libcap, libfastjson, libssh, libtasn1, libxml2,...
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Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.7.2, 6.6.14, 6.1.75, 5.15.148, 5.10.209, 5.4.268, and 4.19.306 stable kernels. As usual, they contain a long list of fixes throughout the kernel tree.
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Thursday January 25, 2024. 04:53 PM
The free-software community has managed to build a body of software that is worth, by most estimates, many billions of dollars; all of this code is freely available to anybody who wants to use or modify it. It is an unparalleled example of independent actors working...
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The AdaCore blog describes some hardening features contributed to GCC for the GCC 14 release. With -fharden-control-flow-redundancy, the compiler now verifies, at the end of functions, whether the traversed basic blocks align with a legitimate execution path. The purpose...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, php-phpseclib, phpseclib, thunderbird, and zabbix), Fedora (dotnet7.0, firefox, fonttools, and python-jinja2), Mageia (avahi and chromium-browser-stable), Oracle (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, LibRaw, ...
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The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 25, 2024 is available.
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Wednesday January 24, 2024. 11:19 PM
Python packaging discussions seem like they often just go around and around, ending up where they started and recapitulating many of the points that have come up before. A recent discussion revolves around the pip package installer, as they often do. The central role that is ...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (jinja2, openjdk-11, ruby-httparty, and xorg-server), Fedora (ansible-core and mingw-jasper), Gentoo (GOCR, Ruby, and sudo), Oracle (gstreamer-plugins-bad-free, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, python-cryptography, and...
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Tuesday January 23, 2024. 11:51 PM
There are many different Python web frameworks, from nano-frameworks all the way up to the full-stack variety. One that recently caught my eye is Microdot, the 'impossibly small web framework for Python and MicroPython'; since it targets MicroPython, it is plausible for...
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Version 122.0 of the Firefox browser is out. Changes include improved search suggestions, improvements to the in-browser translation feature, better line-breaking compatibility, and a shiny new.deb package.
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (kodi and squid), Fedora (ansible-core, java-latest-openjdk, mingw-python-jinja2, openssh, and pgadmin4), Gentoo (Apache XML-RPC), Red Hat (gnutls and xorg-x11-server), Slackware (postfix), SUSE (bluez and openssl-3), and Ubuntu...
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The 6.7.1, 6.6.13, and 6.1.74 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
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Monday January 22, 2024. 06:20 PM
Linus Torvalds was able to release 6.8-rc1 and close the 6.8 merge window on time despite losing power to his home for most of a week. He noted that this merge window is 'maybe a bit smaller than usual', but 12,239 non-merge changesets found their way into the mainline, so...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (keystone and subunit), Fedora (dotnet6.0, golang, kernel, sos, and tigervnc), Mageia (erlang), Red Hat (openssl), SUSE (bluez, python-aiohttp, and seamonkey), and Ubuntu (postfix and xorg-server).
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