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Thursday January 30, 2025. 05:02 PM
Version 2.41 of the GNU C Library has been released. Changes include a number of test-suite improvements, strict-error support in the DNS stub resolver, wrappers for the the sched_setattr() and sched_getattr() system calls, Unicode 16.0.0 support, improved C23 support,...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (redis:7), Debian (bind9, chromium, flightgear, pam-u2f, and simgear), Red Hat (fence-agents, git-lfs, libsoup, python3.9, rsync, and traceroute), Slackware (bind), SUSE (apache2-mod_security2, corepack22, go1.24, hplip,...
The Thunderbird project has announced that it is making its Release channel the default download beginning with the 135.0 release in March. This will move users to major monthly releases instead of the annual major Extended Support Release (ESR) that is the current default. ...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Go vendoring in Fedora; Rust 2024 edition; 6.14 Merge window; uretprobe(); FOSDEM keynote; Earthstar. Briefs: Git security; Ubuntu discussion; LWN EPUBs; Facebook moderation; Quotes;... Announcements: Newsletters,...
Wednesday January 29, 2025. 07:14 PM
Version 6.9 of the Incus container and virtual-machine management system has been released. Changes include a command to provide virtual machine memory dumps, ability to set network ACLs for instances on bridged networks, and more.
For years we have had occasional requests to be able to receive LWN in a format for ebook readers. It took a while, but we are now happy to announce that all of LWN's feature content is available, to subscribers at the 'professional hacker' level and above, in the EPUB...
Security researcher RyotaK has shared a series of vulnerabilities that all have to do with how Git interfaces with external credential managers. In short, while Git guards against newline characters (n) being injected into a repository's URL, some programming languages also ...
Earthstar is a privacy-oriented, offline-first, LGPL-licensed database intended to support distributed applications. Unlike other distributed storage libraries, it focuses on providing mutable data with human-meaningful names and modification times, which gives it an...
Ubuntu will be moving its 'official realtime communications channels' from IRC to Matrix, beginning March 1, 2025, following a discussion on the ubuntu-devel mailing list. 'Official' communication, such as making realtime requests of privileged Ubuntu developer teams, could...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bzip2, gimp:2.8, keepalived, mariadb:10.11, mariadb:10.5, python-jinja2, and redis), Debian (iperf3, libtar, and pdns-recursor), Fedora (abseil-cpp, dotnet8.0, dotnet9.0, golang, libsoup3, and vaultwarden), Oracle (gimp:2.8,...
Tuesday January 28, 2025. 06:28 PM
This year's edition of the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) begins on February 1 in Brussels. The event is widely regarded as one of the most important open-source conferences. One of the reasons that FOSDEM is held in high esteem by the...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (git and openjpeg2), Mageia (virtualbox), SUSE (podman), and Ubuntu (clamav, frr, libreoffice, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, and quagga).
Monday January 27, 2025. 04:57 PM
The DistroWatch January 27 edition includes this interesting tidbit: Starting on January 19, 2025 Facebook's internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labeled groups associated with Linux as being 'cybersecurity threats'. Any posts mentioning DistroWatch and ...
The Go language is designed to make it easy for developers to import other Go packages and compile everything into a static binary for simple distribution. Unfortunately, this complicates things for those who package Go programs for Linux distributions, such as Fedora, that...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (git-lfs, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, kernel, and python-jinja2), Debian (git and git-lfs), Fedora (buildah, chromium, containers-common, freeipa, glibc, golang, mediawiki, pam-u2f, podman, and rsync), Mageia (glibc,...
Friday January 24, 2025. 07:54 PM
The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that it has undertaken a project to deliver zero-trust builds commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency (STA). The Zero-Trust Build project is scheduled from Jan-Aug 2025 and centers on the FreeBSD build process, and in particular,...
Last year, LWN examined the changes lined up for Rust's 2024 edition. Now, with the edition ready to be stabilized in February, it's time to look back at the edition process and see what was successfully adopted, which new changes were added, and what still remains to work...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and python-django), Fedora (git-lfs and pam-u2f), Mageia (golang), Red Hat (java-11-openjdk with Extended Lifecycle Support, java-17-openjdk, and java-21-openjdk), SUSE (cheat, dante, docker-stable, grafana, and kernel),...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.12.11, 6.6.74, 6.1.127, and 5.15.177 stable kernels. They all contain important fixes, as is the usual case.
Thursday January 23, 2025. 11:55 PM
A 'uretprobe' is a dynamic, user-space tracepoint injected by the kernel into a running process; this document tersely describes their use. Among other things, uretprobes are used by the perf utility to time function calls. The 6.11 kernel saw a significant change to...
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