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Tuesday January 9, 2024. 04:21 PM
Anthony Shaw describes the new copy-and-patch JIT that has been proposed for Python 3.13. Copy-and-patch was selected because the compilation from bytecodes to machine code is done as a set of “templates” that are then stitched together and patched at runtime with the...
Version 4.5 ('Resilience') of the Solus distribution has been released. 'This release brings updated applications and kernels, refreshed software stacks, a new installer, and a new ISO edition featuring the XFCE desktop environment.'
Security updates have been issued by Debian (squid), Fedora (podman), Mageia (dropbear), SUSE (eclipse-jgit, jsch, gcc13, helm3, opusfile, qt6-base, thunderbird, and wireshark), and Ubuntu (clamav, libclamunrar, and qemu).
Monday January 8, 2024. 07:08 PM
The 6.7 kernel was released on January 7 after a ten-week development cycle. This was, as it turns out, the busiest cycle ever with regard to the number of changesets merged. The time has come for our usual look at where all those changesets came from, with a side trip into...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 5.4.266, 4.19.304, and 4.14.335 stable kernels. They contain important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (exim4), Fedora (chromium, perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel, python-aiohttp, python-pysqueezebox, and tinyxml), Gentoo (Apache Batik, Eclipse Mosquitto, firefox, R, Synapse, and util-linux), Mageia (libssh2 and putty), Red Hat (squid),...
Sunday January 7, 2024. 09:48 PM
Linus has released the 6.7 kernel. End result: 6.7 is (in number of commits: over 17k non-merge commits, with 1k+ merges) one of the largest kernel releases we've ever had, but the extra rc8 week was purely due to timing with the holidays, not about any difficulties with...
Friday January 5, 2024. 04:41 PM
Kernel developers often go out of their way to reduce the memory used by the kernel itself; that memory is not available for the workloads that people are actually interested in running on their systems. Lower memory usage also tends to lead to better performance overall....
The 6.6.10, 6.1.71, 5.15.146, and 5.10.206 stable kernels have been released. They contain numerous important fixes, as usual.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (asterisk, chromium, exim4, netatalk, and tomcat9), Fedora (chromium), Gentoo (BlueZ, c-ares, CUPS filters, RDoc, and WebKitGTK+), Oracle (firefox, squid:4, thunderbird, and tigervnc), SUSE (python-aiohttp and python-paramiko), and ...
The saga of the None-aware (or null-coalescing) operators for Python continues. We last looked in on the topic a little over a year ago and noted that either adoption or a clear rejection of the idea might help tamp down its regular recurrence. That has not happened, so,...
Thursday January 4, 2024. 04:30 PM
ITWire covers the passing of Niklaus Wirth. Wirth is well-remembered for his pioneering work in programming languages and algorithms. For these achievements, he received the ACM Turing Award in 1984, inducted as a Fellow of the ACM in 1994, and a Fellow of the Computer...
Security updates have been issued by Oracle (firefox, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, thunderbird, tigervnc, and xorg-x11-server), Red Hat (squid:4), SUSE (exim, libcryptopp, and proftpd), and Ubuntu (openssh and sqlite3).
Wednesday January 3, 2024. 11:42 PM
Normally, when a new vulnerability is discovered and releases are coordinated with those affected, the announcement is done at a convenient time—not generally right before the end-of-year holidays, for example. The SMTP Smuggling vulnerability has taken a different path,...
On his blog, Luc Lenôtre introduces Maestro, 'a Unix-like kernel and operating system written from scratch in Rust'. Maestro is intended to be 'lightweight and compatible-enough with Linux to be usable in everyday life'. The project began, in C, back in 2018, but switched...
Version 9.1 of the Vim editor has been released. 'This release is dedicated to Bram Moolenaar, Vim's lead developer for more than 30 years, who passed away half a year ago. The Vim project wouldn't exist without his work'. Changes include new support for classes and objects...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (kernel), Fedora (slurm), Oracle (kernel and postgresql:15), Red Hat (firefox, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, thunderbird, tigervnc, and xorg-x11-server), SUSE (polkit, postfix, putty, w3m, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (nodejs).
Tuesday January 2, 2024. 11:40 PM
The calendar has flipped over into 2024 — another year has begun. Here at LWN, we do not have a better idea of what this year will bring than anybody else does, but that doesn't keep us from going out on a shaky limb and making predictions anyway. Here, for the curious,...
Security updates have been issued by Gentoo (Joblib), Red Hat (firefox and thunderbird), SUSE (gstreamer-plugins-bad, libssh2_org, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (firefox and thunderbird).
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