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Thursday May 8, 2025. 08:59 AM
The openSUSE project has posted a detailed explanation on why the Deepin Desktop has been removed from the distribution; it comes down to a history of security problems and a deliberate bypass (by the packager) of openSUSE's security review. Perhaps tired of waiting, the...
Lukas Fittl writes in detail on the pganalyze blog about the asynchronous I/O capability coming with the PostgreSQL 18 release. Asynchronous I/O delivers the most noticeable gains in cloud environments where storage is network-attached, such as Amazon EBS volumes. In these...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Debian and essential packages; Custom BPF OOM killers; Speculation barriers for BPF programs; More LSFMM+BPF 2025 coverage. Briefs: Deepin on openSUSE; AUTOSEL; Mission Center 1.0.0; OASIS ODF; Redis license; USENIX ATC;...
Wednesday May 7, 2025. 10:25 PM
Version 2025.5 of the Home Assistant home automation system has been released. With this release, the project is celebrating two million active installations. Changes include improvements to the backup system, Z-Wave Long Range support, a number of new integrations, and more.
Anton Protopopov led a short discussion at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit about amount of memory used by hash tables in BPF programs. He thinks that the current memory layout is inefficient, and wants to split the structure that holds...
The Debian project has the concept of essential packages, which provide the bare minimum functionality considered absolutely necessary (or 'essential') for a system to function. Packages tagged as essential, and the packages that are required by the set of essential...
The SUSE Security Team has announced the removal of the Deepin Desktop from openSUSE due to violations of the project's packaging policy. The discovery of the bypass of the security whitelistings via the deepin-feature-enable package marks a turning point in our assessment...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (incus and nodejs20), Red Hat (freetype, kernel, kernel-rt, libsoup, libtiff, redis, redis:6, and thunderbird), SUSE (apparmor, chromium, grafana, ImageMagick, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, libsoup, libsoup2, libxslt, opensaml, ...
Willy Tarreau and William Lallemand have posted an extensive white paper examining the landscape of the available SSL implementations. OpenSSL 3.0 performs significantly worse than alternative SSL libraries, forcing organizations to provision more hardware just to maintain ...
On the 50th anniversary of the USENIX organization, its flagship Annual Technical Conference (ATC) is coming to an end. For the past two decades, as more USENIX conferences have joined the USENIX calendar by focusing on specific topics that grew out of ATC itself,...
Tuesday May 6, 2025. 11:05 PM
Version 1.0.0 of Mission Center, a system-monitoring application, has been released. Notable changes in this release include the addition of SMART data for SATA and NVMe devices, display of per-process network usage, as well as a redesigned Apps Page that provides more...
Linux systems can have large filesystems; trying to keep up with the stream of fanotify filesystem-monitoring notifications for them can be a struggle. Fanotify is one of a few ways to monitor accesses to filesystems provided by the kernel. Song Liu led a discussion on how...
In a combined filesystem and memory-management session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), Joanne Koong led a discussion on improving the writeback performance for the Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) layer. Writeback is how...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (chromium and kappanhang), Red Hat (osbuild-composer and thunderbird), SUSE (chromedriver), and Ubuntu (c-ares, corosync, mysql-8.0, mysql-8.4, openjdk-17, openjdk-21, openjdk-24, openjdk-8, and openjdk-lts).
AUTOSEL is a tool that is used to find kernel patches that should be considered for backporting into the stable releases. Sasha Levin has announced a new and completely rewritten version of AUTOSEL for those who would like to play with it. Unlike the previous version that...
Monday May 5, 2025. 09:04 PM
The disclosure of the Spectre class of hardware vulnerabilities created a lot of pain for kernel developers (and many others). That pain was especially acutely felt in the BPF community. While an attacker might have to painfully search the kernel code base for exploitable...
The 6.12.27 and 6.1.137 stable kernels have been released to fix build problems in their predecessors. Only those who are having build troubles with 6.12.26 or 6.1.136 need to upgrade.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ansible, containerd, and vips), Fedora (chromium, java-17-openjdk, nodejs-bash-language-server, nodejs-pnpm, ntpd-rs, redis, rust-hickory-proto, thunderbird, and valkey), Mageia (apache-mod_auth_openidc, fcgi, graphicsmagick,...
Linus has released 6.15-rc5 for testing. 'So it all feels like things are just continuing to go well this release. Let's hope I didn't jinx it by saying so.'
Friday May 2, 2025. 07:51 PM
At the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) Kanchan Joshi and Keith Busch led a combined storage and filesystem session on data placement, which concerns how the data on a storage device is actually written. In a discussion that...
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