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Wednesday July 16, 2025. 03:38 PM
Fedora's NeuroFedora special-interest group (SIG) is considering a change of strategy when it comes to packaging Python modules. The SIG, which consists of three active members, is struggling to keep up with maintaining the hundreds of packages that it has taken on. What's...
Security updates have been issued by Oracle (cloud-init, emacs, firefox, glib2, go-toolset:rhel8, kernel, lz4, python-setuptools, python3.11-setuptools, python3.12-setuptools, and socat), Red Hat (fence-agents, glib2, glibc, java-17-openjdk, kernel, kernel-rt,...
Tuesday July 15, 2025. 04:12 PM
Software in the Public Interest has released its annual report for 2024. It includes reports from the long list of projects housed under the SPI umbrella, but the financial statements are not included at this time.
Loadable kernel modules require access to kernel data structures and functions to get their job done; the kernel provides this access by way of exported symbols. Almost since this mechanism was created, there have been debates over which symbols should be exported, and how....
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg), Fedora (gnutls, linux-firmware, mingw-djvulibre, mingw-python-requests, and salt), Mageia (qtimageformats6), Oracle (gnome-remote-desktop, golang, kernel, libxml2, and perl-File-Find-Rule), SUSE (gstreamer-plugins-base,...
Monday July 14, 2025. 10:29 PM
Parrot is a Debian-based distribution with an emphasis on security improvement and tools; the 6.4 release is now available. 'Many tools, like Metasploit, Sliver, Caido and Empire received important updates, the Linux kernel was updated to a more recent version, and the...
The 6.12.38, 6.6.98, 6.1.145, and 5.15.188 stable kernel updates have been released, each contains a single AMD-related fix. 'Only users of AMD x86-based processors need to upgrade, all others may skip this release'.
Performance of Python programs has been a major focus of development for the language over the last five years or so; the Faster CPython project has been a big part of that effort. One of its subprojects is to add an experimental just-in-time (JIT) compiler to the language;...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (redis and thunderbird), Fedora (cef, git, gnutls, httpd, linux-firmware, luajit, mingw-djvulibre, mingw-python-requests, perl, php, python-requests, python3.6, salt, and selenium-manager), Mageia (dpkg, firefox, gnupg2, and...
Linus has released 6.16-rc6 for testing; it includes a fix for a somewhat scary regression that came up over the week. So I was flailing around blaming everybody and their pet hamster, because for a while it looked like a drm issue and then a netlink problem (it...
Friday July 11, 2025. 03:42 PM
The kernel's perf events subsystem can produce high-quality profiles, with full function-call chains, of resource usage within the kernel itself. Developers, however, often would like to see profiles of the whole system in one integrated report with, for example, call-stack...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gnome-remote-desktop, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, jq, kernel, kernel-rt, libxml2, and podman), Fedora (chromium, git, helix, pam, rust-blazesym-c, rust-clearscreen, rust-gitui, rust-nu-cli, rust-nu-command, rust-nu-test-support,...
Thursday July 10, 2025. 05:39 PM
Few, if any, web sites or web-based services have gone unscathed by the locust-like hordes of AI crawlers looking to consume (and then re-consume) all of the world's content. The Anubis project is designed to provide a first line of defense that blocks mindless bots—while...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.15.6, 6.12.37, 6.6.97, 6.1.144, and 5.15.187 stable kernels. As is the usual case, each contains important fixes all over the kernel tree.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (sslh), Oracle (container-tools:rhel8, gnome-remote-desktop, golang, javapackages-tools:201801, jq, libvpx, libxml2, mpfr, and perl-File-Find-Rule-Perl), Red Hat (glib2, libblockdev, and sudo), Slackware (git), SUSE (avif-tools,...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Python packaging; Kernel API specification; Kselftests and KUnit; niri; pedalboard. Briefs: Git security fixes; Amarok 3.3; Bash 5.3; Thunderbird 140; tmux-rs; U-Boot 2025.07; Quotes;... Announcements: Newsletters,...
Wednesday July 9, 2025. 07:14 PM
Version 3.3 of the Amarok music player has been released. This is the first release of Amarok based on KDE Frameworks 6 and Qt 6. Amarok 3.3 also includes a major rework of its audio engine to use GStreamer for audio playback. The reworked audio engine provides unified...
The AlmaLinux project has announced new upgrade paths for its ELevate utility, which allows users to upgrade between major versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives. The new paths include upgrades from AlmaLinux 9 to AlmaLinux 10 and CentOS Stream 9 to...
It is no secret that the Python packaging world is at something of a crossroads; there have been debates and discussions about the packaging landscape that started long before our 2023 series describing some of the difficulties. There has been progress since then—and...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, jq, kernel, podman, python-setuptools, socat, and thunderbird), Gentoo (Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge. Opera, ClamAV, Git, NTP, REXML, and strongSwan), Oracle (buildah, gnome-remote-desktop,...
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