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Tuesday April 9, 2024. 03:51 PM
There are many mechanisms for deferred work in the Linux kernel. One of them, workqueues, has seen increasing use as part of the move away from software interrupts. Alison Chaiken gave a talk at SCALE about how they compare to software interrupts, the new challenges they...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (expat), Oracle (less and nodejs:20), Slackware (libarchive), SUSE (kubernetes1.23, nghttp2, qt6-base, and util-linux), and Ubuntu (python-django).
Monday April 8, 2024. 10:02 PM
Version 4.2.0 of the Rivendell radio automation system has been released. Changes include a new data feed for 'next' data objects, improvements to its podcast system, numerous bug fixes, and more.
The Google Open Source Blog is carrying an announcement for a new JPEG library called 'Jpegli'. There are a number of advantages claimed, including: Jpegli can be encoded with 10+ bits per component. Traditional JPEG coding solutions offer only 8 bit per component dynamics ...
Sometimes the smallest patches create the biggest discussions. A case in point would be the process by which the PostgreSQL community — not a group normally prone to extended, strongly worded megathreads — resolved the question of whether to merge a brief patch adding a...
Version 2.4.0 of the GNU Stow symbolic-link manager has been released. This marks the first release for GNU Stow since 2019. Maintainer Adam Spires wrote: I would like to sincerely apologise to all Stow users for this incredibly overdue release, the cadence of which is...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (jetty9, libcaca, libgd2, tomcat9, and util-linux), Fedora (chromium, micropython, and upx), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable, dav1d, libreswan, libvirt, nodejs, texlive-20220321, and util-linux), Red Hat (less, nodejs:20, and...
The 6.9-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Ok, so this rc3 looks a bit different than the usual ones, because there's a large series to bcachefs to do filesystem repair after corruption. Not normally something we'd see in an rc kernel, but hey, if you had a corrupted...
Saturday April 6, 2024. 11:24 PM
Wayne Davison has announced the release of rsync version 3.3.0, which contains a number of bug fixes and minor enhancements. Davison has also announced a change in maintainers and a move to a new GitHub project: The github repos have moved to a new RsyncProject...
Friday April 5, 2024. 08:11 PM
The nominations have closed and campaigning is underway to see who will be the next Debian Project Leader (DPL). This year, two candidates are campaigning for the position Jonathan Carter has held for four eventful years: Sruthi Chandran and Andreas Tille. Topics that have...
OpenBSD 7.5 has been released. The list of changes and improvements is, as usual, long; it includes the pinsyscalls() functionality covered here in January.
The Eclipse Foundation, the organization behind the Eclipse IDE and many other software projects, announced a collaboration between several different open-source-software foundations to create a specification describing secure software development best practices. This work...
Version 7.0 of the FFmpeg audio/video toolkit is out. 'The most noteworthy changes for most users are a native VVC decoder (currently experimental, until more fuzzing is done), IAMF support, or a multi-threaded ffmpeg CLI tool'. There's also the usual list of new formats and ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cockpit), Mageia (python-pygments), Red Hat (nodejs), Slackware (httpd and nghttp2), SUSE (avahi, gradle, gradle-bootstrap, and squid), and Ubuntu (xorg-server, xwayland).
Thursday April 4, 2024. 09:13 PM
The 6.8.4 and 6.6.25 stable kernels have been released. They both contain 11 reversions of workqueue patches.
V8, the JavaScript engine used in Chrome, announced that its memory sandbox is no longer experimental. Chrome 123 could therefore be considered to be a sort of 'beta' release for the sandbox. This blog post uses this opportunity to discuss the motivation behind the...
Among the numerous approaches to funding the development and advancement of open-source software, corporate sponsorship in the form of donations to umbrella organizations is perhaps the most visible. At SCALE21x in Pasadena, California, Duane O'Brien presented a slice of his ...
Version 6.0 LTS of the Incus container management system has been released. 'This is a major milestone for Incus as it marks our first release with extended support, suitable for use in production environments where monthly feature releases aren't suitable.' Changes include...
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (firefox and thunderbird), Debian (chromium and gtkwave), Fedora (micropython), Slackware (xorg), SUSE (util-linux and xen), and Ubuntu (firefox).
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