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Thursday November 14, 2024. 10:22 PM
The Python Package Index (PyPI) has announced that it has finalized support for PEP 740 ('Index support for digital attestations'). Trail of Bits, which performed much of the development work for the implementation, has an in-depth blog post about the work and its adoption,...
Direct memory access (DMA) I/O is simple in concept: a peripheral device moves data directly to or from memory while the CPU is busy doing other things. As is so often the case, DMA is rather more complicated in practice, and the kernel has developed a complicated internal...
A new batch of stable kernels has just been released: 6.11.8, 6.6.61, 6.1.117, and 5.15.172. As usual, they contain important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (llama-cpp, mingw-expat, python3.6, webkit2gtk4.0, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk & java-latest-openjdk and libarchive), Oracle (expat,...
Wednesday November 13, 2024. 03:51 PM
Programming language polyglots are files that are valid programs in multiple languages, and do different things in each. While polyglots are normally nothing more than a curiosity, the Cosmopolitan Libc project has been trying to put them to a novel use: producing native,...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (expat), Fedora (chromium and golang-github-nvidia-container-toolkit), Mageia (curl, expat, mpg123, networkmanager-libreswan, openssl, php-tcpdf, qbittorrent, and x11-server, x11-server-xwayland, and tigervnc), Red Hat (kernel...
Tuesday November 12, 2024. 09:21 PM
Over the years, there has been steady progress in adding security features to compilers and other tools to assist with hardening the Linux kernel (and, of course, other programs). In something of a tradition in the toolchains track at the Linux Plumbers Conference, Kees Cook ...
Garrett LeSage has written an in-depth article for Fedora Magazine about a new web-based user interface (UI) for Fedora's Anaconda installer, planned to ship with Fedora 42. The article looks at the rationale for moving from GTK 3 to a web-based UI, provides a number of...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gstreamer1-plugins-base), Debian (chromium, ghostscript, libarchive, mpg123, ruby-saml, and symfony), Fedora (buildah and podman), Red Hat (buildah, containernetworking-plugins, podman, skopeo, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland),...
Monday November 11, 2024. 04:24 PM
What have been the most significant security-related incidents for the open-source community in 2024 (so far)? Marta Rybczyńska recently ran a poll and got some interesting results. At the 2024 Open Source Summit Japan, she presented those results along with some commentary ...
Longtime Debian and Tor developer, Jérémy Bobbio—perhaps better known as 'Lunar'—died on November 8. Lunar was one of the founders of the reproducible builds movement and more recently had been working with Software Heritage. More information and tributes in French can ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (podman), Debian (guix, libarchive, and nss), Fedora (expat, iaito, opendmarc, python-werkzeug, radare2, squid, and xorg-x11-server), Mageia (htmldoc, libheif, nspr, nss, firefox & rust, python-urllib3, python-werkzeug, quictls, ...
Linus has released 6.12-rc7 for testing. 'No big surprises, and I think everything is on track for a final 6.12 release next weekend.'
Friday November 8, 2024. 07:49 PM
Back In Time is a GPL-2.0-licensed backup tool based on rsync and written in Python. It has both graphical and command-line interfaces, and supports backups to local disks or over SSH. Back In Time was originally written by Oprea Dan and released in 2009. The tool has been...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has shared another seven stable kernel updates: 6.6.60, 6.11.7, 6.1.116, 5.15.171, 5.10.229, 5.4.285, and 4.19.323.
Fedora Linux, as a rule, handles version upgrades reasonably well. However, there are times when users may want to do a fresh installation rather than an upgrade but preserve existing users and data under /home. This is a scenario that the Fedora installer, currently, does...
Arthur Cohen has posted a detailed introduction to the gccrs project on the Rust Blog, seemingly with the goal of convincing the Rust community about the value of the project. Likewise, many GCC plugins are used for increasing the safety of critical projects such as the...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (edk2), Debian (webkit2gtk), Fedora (thunderbird), Oracle (bzip2, container-tools:ol8, edk2, go-toolset:ol8, libtiff, python-idna, python3.11, and python3.12), Slackware (expat), and SUSE (apache2, govulncheck-vulndb, grub2,...
Thursday November 7, 2024. 05:34 PM
Flexible arrays — arrays that are declared as the final member of a structure and which have a size determined at run time — have long drawn the attention of developers seeking to harden the kernel against buffer-overflow vulnerabilities. These arrays have reliably been...
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