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Friday January 26, 2024. 01:22 AM
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.7.2, 6.6.14, 6.1.75, 5.15.148, 5.10.209, 5.4.268, and 4.19.306 stable kernels. As usual, they contain a long list of fixes throughout the kernel tree.
Thursday January 25, 2024. 04:53 PM
The free-software community has managed to build a body of software that is worth, by most estimates, many billions of dollars; all of this code is freely available to anybody who wants to use or modify it. It is an unparalleled example of independent actors working...
The AdaCore blog describes some hardening features contributed to GCC for the GCC 14 release. With -fharden-control-flow-redundancy, the compiler now verifies, at the end of functions, whether the traversed basic blocks align with a legitimate execution path. The purpose...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, php-phpseclib, phpseclib, thunderbird, and zabbix), Fedora (dotnet7.0, firefox, fonttools, and python-jinja2), Mageia (avahi and chromium-browser-stable), Oracle (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, LibRaw, ...
Wednesday January 24, 2024. 11:19 PM
Python packaging discussions seem like they often just go around and around, ending up where they started and recapitulating many of the points that have come up before. A recent discussion revolves around the pip package installer, as they often do. The central role that is ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (jinja2, openjdk-11, ruby-httparty, and xorg-server), Fedora (ansible-core and mingw-jasper), Gentoo (GOCR, Ruby, and sudo), Oracle (gstreamer-plugins-bad-free, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, python-cryptography, and...
Tuesday January 23, 2024. 11:51 PM
There are many different Python web frameworks, from nano-frameworks all the way up to the full-stack variety. One that recently caught my eye is Microdot, the 'impossibly small web framework for Python and MicroPython'; since it targets MicroPython, it is plausible for...
Version 122.0 of the Firefox browser is out. Changes include improved search suggestions, improvements to the in-browser translation feature, better line-breaking compatibility, and a shiny new.deb package.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (kodi and squid), Fedora (ansible-core, java-latest-openjdk, mingw-python-jinja2, openssh, and pgadmin4), Gentoo (Apache XML-RPC), Red Hat (gnutls and xorg-x11-server), Slackware (postfix), SUSE (bluez and openssl-3), and Ubuntu...
The 6.7.1, 6.6.13, and 6.1.74 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
Monday January 22, 2024. 06:20 PM
Linus Torvalds was able to release 6.8-rc1 and close the 6.8 merge window on time despite losing power to his home for most of a week. He noted that this merge window is 'maybe a bit smaller than usual', but 12,239 non-merge changesets found their way into the mainline, so...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (keystone and subunit), Fedora (dotnet6.0, golang, kernel, sos, and tigervnc), Mageia (erlang), Red Hat (openssl), SUSE (bluez, python-aiohttp, and seamonkey), and Ubuntu (postfix and xorg-server).
The 6.8-rc1 kernel prepatch is out for testing. So this wasn't the most pleasant merge window, but most of the unpleasantness was entirely unrelated to the code base and almost entirely related to nasty weather. Just a few technical hiccups. And after a very big 6.7...
Friday January 19, 2024. 09:20 PM
SourceHut has published a post-mortem of its outage earlier this month. The post-mortem covers the causes of the outage and what steps SourceHut took to mitigate it, ending by saying: As unfortunate as these events were, we welcome opportunities to stress-test our...
Jujutsu is a Git-compatible distributed version control system originally started as a hobby project by Martin von Zweigbergk in 2019. It is intended to be a simpler, more performant Git replacement. Jujutsu boasts a radically simplified user interface and integrates ideas...
Internet pioneer and Network Time Protocol (NTP) inventor Dave Mills has died, as reported by Vint Cerf: His daughter, Leigh, just sent me the news that Dave passed away peacefully on January 17, 2024. He was such an iconic element of the early Internet. Network Time...
The proposed mseal() system call stirred up some controversy when it was first posted in October 2023. Since then, it has been evolving in a quieter fashion, and seems to have reached a point where the relevant commenters are willing to accept it. Should mseal() be merged in ...
The openSUSE News site has put up a brief article on how Slowroll fits into the spectrum of openSUSE distributions. The idea behind Slowroll is to offer a distribution that improves stability without losing access to new features in the base packages such as the kernel,...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (chromium, golang-github-facebook-time, podman, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Oracle (.NET 6.0, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, and python3.11-cryptography), Red Hat (java-11-openjdk, python-requests, and python-urllib3),...
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