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Monday January 7, 2019. 10:28 PM
Linus Torvalds released 5.0-rc1 on January 6, closing the merge window for this development cycle and confirming that the next release will indeed be called '5.0'. At that point, 10,843 non-merge change sets had been pulled into the mainline, about 2,100 since last week's...
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (keepalived), Debian (python-django), Fedora (tcpreplay), Mageia (apache-commons-compress, aubio, dcraw, freerdp, imagemagick, ldb, talloc, samba, libao, libextractor, libgxps, libpgf, openjpeg2, pdns, pdns-recursor, php-phpmailer, ...
Linus has released the 5.0-rc1 kernel prepatch and closed the merge window for this development cycle. 'The numbering change is not indicative of anything special. If you want to have an official reason, it's that I ran out of fingers and toes to count on, so 4.21 became...
Friday January 4, 2019. 06:29 PM
One of the useful features added during the 4.20 development cycle was the availability of pressure-stall information, which provides visibility into how resource-constrained the system is. Interest in using this information has spread beyond the data-center environment...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (wget), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (keepalived), Scientific Linux (keepalived), and SUSE (GraphicsMagick and mailman).
Thursday January 3, 2019. 06:43 PM
The fs-verity mechanism, created to protect files on Android devices from hostile modification by attackers, seemed to be on track for inclusion into the mainline kernel during the current merge window when the patch set was posted at the beginning of November. Indeed, it...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (jasper, libdatetime-timezone-perl, qtbase-opensource-src, thunderbird, and tzdata), Red Hat (rh-perl524-perl), and SUSE (libraw, polkit, and xen).
There are currently a number of sites bouncing emails from LWN.net due to an alleged listing in the dnsbl.njabl.org blacklist. The only problem is that this blacklist has been offline since 2013. That domain has been taken over by somebody else; checking web content at that...
Antonio Cuni writes about recent work to support running Python code with low latency requirements under PyPy. 'As we said, the total cost of memory management is less on PyPy than on CPython, and it's one of the reasons why PyPy is so fast. However, one big disadvantage is...
Wednesday January 2, 2019. 11:59 PM
The January 3 LWN.net Weekly Edition will be our first for 2019, marking our return after an all-too-short holiday period. Years ago, we made the ill-considered decision to post some predictions at the beginning of the year and, like many mistakes, that decision has...
The Internet Archive (IA) has been around for over 20 years now; many will know it for its Wayback Machine, which is an archive of old versions of web pages, but IA is much more than just that. Tracey Jaquith said that she and her IA colleague David Van Duzer would relate a...
The linux-kernel mailing list carries the sad news that Shaohua Li, a talented contributor to much of the core kernel and the maintainer of the MD RAID subsystem, passed away over the holidays. Thank you for your work, Shaohua, you will certainly be missed.
Dylan O'Mahony, the cloud architecture manager for Bose, opened a presentation at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 by noting that many attendees may be wondering why a '50-year-old audio company' would be part of a presentation on Kubernetes. It turns out that...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (thunderbird), Fedora (terminology), openSUSE (GraphicsMagick), and Red Hat (rh-perl526-perl).
Tuesday January 1, 2019. 05:24 PM
Cloud computing services that run customer code in short-lived processes are often called 'serverless'. But under the hood, virtual machines (VMs) are usually launched to run that isolated code on demand. The boot times for these VMs can be slow. This is the cause of...
Security updates have been issued by Mageia (graphicsmagick, poppler, python, and python-lxml) and openSUSE (GraphicsMagick).
Monday December 31, 2018. 06:43 PM
When the 4.20 kernel was released on December 23, Linus Torvalds indicated that he would try to keep to the normal merge window schedule despite the presence of the holidays in the middle of it. Thus far, he seems to be trying to live up to that; just over 8,700 changesets...
The New York Times reports the death of Dr. Lawrence G. Roberts, who was heavily involved in Arpanet. 'Dr. Roberts was considered the decisive force behind packet switching, the technology that breaks data into discrete bundles that are then sent along various paths around a ...
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (go, go-pie, and webkit2gtk), Debian (c3p0, debian-security-support, libextractor, and tar), Fedora (electron-cash, leptonica, LibRaw, mingw-leptonica, mingw-openjpeg2, mingw-poppler, nettle, openjpeg2, php-pear, sqlite, and...
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