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Thursday February 6, 2025. 01:05 AM
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Finding concurrency bugs with sched_ext; Rust abstractions; 6.14 Merge window; Sealed system mappings; OpenSUSE board; Julia; Site tour. Briefs: Binutils 2.44; Firefox 135.0; Freedesktop GitLab; GNU C Library 2.41; GTK;...
Wednesday February 5, 2025. 09:04 PM
The Servo Rust-based rendering engine project has published an article summarizing its progress in 2024, and plans for the future: Servo main dependencies (SpiderMonkey, Stylo and WebRender) have been upgraded, the new layout engine has kept evolving adding support for float...
Over the past year or so, LWN has added a number of useful new features for our subscribers to enhance the experience of reading and commenting on our content. Those features are of little use, however, to readers who do not know about them. It has been more than a decade...
Jake Hillion gave a presentation at FOSDEM about using sched_ext, the BPF scheduling framework that was introduced in kernel version 6.12, to help find elusive concurrency problems. In collaboration with Johannes Bechberger, he has built a scheduler that can reveal...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (fastd, ovn, and yq), Mageia (libreoffice), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (google-osconfig-agent, grafana, helm, and rime-schema-all), and Ubuntu (linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-lowlatency, openjdk-17,...
Tuesday February 4, 2025. 06:31 PM
Jeff Xu has been working on a patch set that makes certain mappings in a process's address space impossible to change, sealing them against tampering. This has some potential security benefits — mainly, making sure that someone cannot relocate the vsyscall and vDSO...
Version 135.0 of the Firefox web browser has been released. Changes include more languages for the translations feature, increasing roll-out of the credit-card autofill and AI chatbot features, and (perhaps most welcome): Firefox now includes safeguards to prevent sites...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (openjdk-17), Fedora (chromium, fastd, ovn, and yq), Mageia (libxml2 and redis), Oracle (gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good), Red Hat (buildah, bzip2, galera, mariadb, grafana, keepalived, libsoup, mariadb:10.11,...
Monday February 3, 2025. 05:45 PM
By the time that Linus Torvalds released 6.14-rc1 and closed the merge window for this development cycle, some 9,307 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline repository — the lowest level of merge-window activity seen in years. There were, nonetheless, a...
Matthias Clasen has written a short update on a GTK hackfest that took place at FOSDEM and what's coming in GTK 4.18. This includes fixes for pointer sizes in Wayland when fractional scaling is enabled, removal of the old GL renderer in favor of the GL renderer introduced in ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (git-lfs, libsoup, and unbound), Debian (dcmtk, ffmpeg, openjdk-11, pam-u2f, and python-aiohttp), Fedora (buku, chromium, jpegxl, nodejs18, nodejs20, and rust-routinator), Mageia (clamav, kernel, kmod-virtualbox,...
Linus has released 6.14-rc1 and closed the merge window for this release. This is actually a _tiny_ merge window, and that's ok. The holidays clearly meant that people did less development than during a normal cycle, and that then shows up as a much smaller-than-average...
Version 2.44 of the GNU Binutils package has been released. Perhaps the most significant change is the absence of the 'gold' linker, which is deprecated and about to disappear entirely. Gold appeared in 2008 with some fanfare as a faster linker, but it has suffered from a...
Saturday February 1, 2025. 09:41 PM
The 6.13.1, 6.12.12, 6.6.75, 6.1.128, 5.15.178, 5.10.234, and 5.4.290 stable kernel updates have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
Friday January 31, 2025. 05:01 PM
Julia, a free, general-purpose programming language aimed at science, engineering, and related arenas of technical computing, has steadily improved and widened its scope of application since its initial public release in 2012. As part of its 1.11 release from late 2024,...
The election to replace outgoing openSUSE board members is underway, with four candidates vying for three seats. The election was initially scheduled to be completed in December, but the timeline was extended due to too few candidates standing for the seats. Voting closes on ...
The Linux Foundation has published its long-awaited article on international sanctions and open-source development. This is the reasoning that went into the removal of a group of Russian kernel maintainers in October. It is disappointing that the open source community...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (libsoup), Debian (debian-security-support and redis), Fedora (expat, java-21-openjdk, lemonldap-ng, and phpMyAdmin), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable and git-lfs), Oracle (bzip2, git-lfs, libsoup, mariadb:10.11, mariadb:10.5,...
Thursday January 30, 2025. 08:42 PM
While the path toward the ability to write device drivers in Rust has been anything but smooth, steady progress has been made and that goal is close to being achieved — for some types of drivers at least. Device drivers need to be able to set up memory areas for direct...
Visitors to the freedesktop.org GitLab instance are currently being greeted with a message noting that the company who has been hosting it for free for nearly five years, Equinix, has asked that it be moved (or start being paid for) by the end of April. The issue ticket...
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