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Tuesday September 24, 2024. 01:49 PM
The project to enable the writing of kernel code in Rust has been underway for several years, and each kernel release includes more Rust code. Even so, some developers have expressed frustration at the time it takes to get new functionality merged, and an air of uncertainty...
Security updates have been issued by Gentoo (GCC, Hunspell, Tor, and ZNC), SUSE (apr-devel, cargo-c, chromedriver, firefox, kernel, libecpg6, libmfx, onefetch, postgresql12, postgresql13, postgresql14, postgresql15, postgresql16, python310-azure-identity, python39, qemu,...
Monday September 23, 2024. 09:22 PM
Version 1.0.0 of Hy, a Lisp dialect that is embedded in Python, has been released after nearly 12 years in development. This is the first stable release of the project: Henceforth, breaking changes to documented parts of the language (other than dropping support for...
Dirk Behme led a second session, back-to-back with his session on error handling at Kangrejos 2024, discussing providing better guidance for users of the kernel's Rust abstractions. Just after that, Carlos Bilbao and Miguel Ojeda had their own time slot dedicated to...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (expat, fence-agents, firefox, libnbd, openssl, pcp, ruby:3.3, and thunderbird), Debian (ruby-saml), Fedora (aardvark-dns, chromium, expat, jupyterlab, less, openssl, python-jupyterlab-server, python-notebook, python3-docs, and...
Konstantin Ryabitsev started a session on development tooling at the 2024 Maintainers Summit by saying that he does not want to be a 'wrecking ball'. If a given workflow is working for people, he does not want to try to force any sort of change. That said, he has ideas for...
Friday September 20, 2024. 08:05 PM
The SUSE Security Team Blog has a detailed review of the Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) 6.2.1 release: The rather complex PCP software suite was difficult to judge just from a cursory look, so we decided to take a closer look especially at PCP's networking logic at a later...
As of this writing, 6,778 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline kernel for the 6.12 release — over half of the work that had been staged in linux-next prior to the opening of the merge window. There has been a lot of refactoring and cleanup work this time ...
The OpenSSH project has released version 9.9. This version includes support for the new post-quantum cryptography standard from NIST. The release also includes the next step in the deprecation of DSA keys — they are now disabled by default at compile time, and are expected ...
The kernel normally sits firmly between user space and the system's peripheral devices, and provides a standard interface to those devices. At times, though, a more direct interface to a device is desired — but such interfaces can be controversial. At the 2024 Maintainers...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (bluez, chromium, frr, iwd, libell, python3.11, python3.8, python3.9, and ruby), Mageia (kernel, kmod-xtables-addons, and kmod-virtualbox and kernel-linus), Red Hat (kernel), SUSE (kernel, kubernetes1.23,...
On September 19, Thomas Gleixner delivered the pull request for the realtime preemption enablement patches to Linus Torvalds — in printed form, wrapped in gold, with a ribbon, as Torvalds had requested. It was a significant milestone, marking the completion of a project...
Kangrejos 2024 started off with a talk from Benno Lossin about his recent work to establish a standard for safety documentation in Rust kernel code. Lossin began his talk by giving a brief review of what safety documentation is, and why it's needed, before moving on to the...
Thursday September 19, 2024. 05:54 PM
Dirk Behme led a session discussing the use of Rust's question-mark operator in the kernel at Kangrejos 2024. He was particularly concerned with the concept of 'silent' errors that don't print any messages to the console. Other attendees were less convinced that this was a...
The RPM Package Manager (RPM) project is nearing the release of RPM 4.20, the last major planned update for the RPM 4.x series. It has few user-facing changes, but several additions and enhancements for developers—as well as some small incompatibilities that will likely...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (expat and tinyproxy), Fedora (frr, microcode_ctl, python3.10, python3.12, python3.6, and ruby), Oracle (expat, fence-agents, firefox, ghostscript, java-1.8.0-openjdk, kernel, and thunderbird), Red Hat (firefox, openssl, ruby:3.3,...
Tracking of regressions seems like an important task for any project; there is no other way to ensure that known problems are fixed. At the 2024 Maintainers Summit, though, Thorsten Leemhuis, who has been doing that work for the kernel, expressed some doubts about whether it ...
Version 47 of the GNOME desktop has been released. Changes include configurable accent colors, better small-screen support, some performance improvements, new file open and save dialogs, and more.
Wednesday September 18, 2024. 07:39 PM
The 6.10.11, 6.6.52, and 6.1.111 stable kernel updates have all been released. As usual, they contain important fixes throughout the tree. Users of those kernels should upgrade.
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