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Monday January 22, 2024. 01:47 AM
The 6.8-rc1 kernel prepatch is out for testing. So this wasn't the most pleasant merge window, but most of the unpleasantness was entirely unrelated to the code base and almost entirely related to nasty weather. Just a few technical hiccups. And after a very big 6.7...
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Friday January 19, 2024. 09:20 PM
SourceHut has published a post-mortem of its outage earlier this month. The post-mortem covers the causes of the outage and what steps SourceHut took to mitigate it, ending by saying: As unfortunate as these events were, we welcome opportunities to stress-test our...
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Jujutsu is a Git-compatible distributed version control system originally started as a hobby project by Martin von Zweigbergk in 2019. It is intended to be a simpler, more performant Git replacement. Jujutsu boasts a radically simplified user interface and integrates ideas...
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Internet pioneer and Network Time Protocol (NTP) inventor Dave Mills has died, as reported by Vint Cerf: His daughter, Leigh, just sent me the news that Dave passed away peacefully on January 17, 2024. He was such an iconic element of the early Internet. Network Time...
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The proposed mseal() system call stirred up some controversy when it was first posted in October 2023. Since then, it has been evolving in a quieter fashion, and seems to have reached a point where the relevant commenters are willing to accept it. Should mseal() be merged in ...
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The openSUSE News site has put up a brief article on how Slowroll fits into the spectrum of openSUSE distributions. The idea behind Slowroll is to offer a distribution that improves stability without losing access to new features in the base packages such as the kernel,...
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Security updates have been issued by Fedora (chromium, golang-github-facebook-time, podman, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Oracle (.NET 6.0, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, and python3.11-cryptography), Red Hat (java-11-openjdk, python-requests, and python-urllib3),...
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Thursday January 18, 2024. 08:29 PM
Luis Villa writes about the recent ruling in the Software Freedom Conservancy's GPL-violation lawsuit against Vizio, wherein the judge refused to agree that the SFC lacks standing to sue. In some sense, not much has changed: if you were obligated to comply with the GPL two ...
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Ken Jin from the Faster CPython project has been working on taking Python's recently-added just-in-time (JIT) compiler further by adding support for a peephole optimizer that rewrites the JIT's intermediate representation to introduce constant folding, type specialization,...
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Security updates have been issued by CentOS (ImageMagick), Debian (chromium), Fedora (golang-x-crypto, golang-x-mod, golang-x-net, golang-x-text, gtkwave, redis, and zbar), Mageia (tinyxml), Oracle (.NET 7.0,.NET 8.0, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, python3, and...
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The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 18, 2024 is available.
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Wednesday January 17, 2024. 09:32 PM
Python's static-typing feature has come a long way since it was introduced in 2014. Adding type information to functions has always been—and will remain—optional, but typing still remains somewhat contentious. There are multiple kinds of consumers of the information,...
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When, at the beginning of November, we posted an open position at LWN, we were only so hopeful; experience has shown that finding writers who are both capable of and interested in writing our sort of material is a challenging task. This time, though, hope was justified: we...
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Networking maintainer Jakub Kicinski (along with several collaborators) has put up a summary of what happened in the kernel's network stack during 2023. Throughout those releases netdev patch handlers (DaveM, Jakub, Paolo) applied 7243 patches, and the resulting pull...
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Security updates have been issued by Fedora (zabbix), Gentoo (OpenJDK), Red Hat (kernel), Slackware (gnutls and xorg), SUSE (cloud-init, kernel, xorg-x11-server, and xwayland), and Ubuntu (freeimage, postgresql-10, and xorg-server, xwayland).
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The new year arrived bearing a new version of Julia, a general-purpose, open-source programming language with a focus on high-performance scientific computing. Some of Julia's unusual features are Lisp-inspired metaprogramming, the ability to examine compiled representations ...
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Tuesday January 16, 2024. 11:32 PM
Version 9.0 of the Wine Windows-compatibility system has been released. 'This release represents a year of development effort and over 7,000 individual changes. It contains a large number of improvements that are listed below. The main highlights are the new WoW64...
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On January 13, Linus Torvalds let it be known that he had lost power due to the bad weather in the US Pacific Northwest. As of this writing, he has not yet resurfaced, so the 6.8 merge window has ground to a halt. There's apparently about 100k people without power, and I...
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Security updates have been issued by Gentoo (KTextEditor, libspf2, libuv, and Nettle), Mageia (hplip), Oracle (container-tools:4.0, gnutls, idm:DL1, squid, squid34, and virt:ol, virt-devel:rhel), Red Hat (.NET 6.0, krb5, python3, rsync, and sqlite), SUSE (chromium,...
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Monday January 15, 2024. 08:02 PM
The 6.6.12, 6.1.73, 5.15.147, 5.10.208, 5.4.267, and 4.19.305 stable kernels have been released. They contain a relatively small number of important fixes.
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