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Thursday January 23, 2025. 04:09 PM
As of this writing, just over 4,300 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline repository for the 6.14 release. Many of the pull requests this time around include remarks saying that activity has been relatively low this time around, presumably due to the...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (redis:6), Debian (frr and git-lfs), Fedora (SDL2_sound and webkit2gtk4.0), Gentoo (firefox, GPL Ghostscript, libgsf, libuv, PHP, Qt, QtWebEngine, and Yubico pam-u2f), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable), SUSE (helmfile,...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Rsync vulnerability; Going mouseless; Commit IDs; 6.13 Development statistics; Python string formating; Python None-aware operators. Briefs: Kernel 6.13; Dillo 3.2.0; GDB 16.1; OpenVox; Wine 10.0; Quotes;... ...
Wednesday January 22, 2025. 07:08 PM
The proposal to add a more general facility for string formatting to Python, which we looked at in August 2024, has changed a great deal since, so it merits another look. The changes take multiple forms: a new title for PEP 750 ('Template Strings'), a different mechanism for ...
The computer mouse is a wonderful invention, but for the past few months I've been working to use mine as little as possible for productivity and ergonomic reasons. It should not be surprising that there are quite a few open-source applications, utilities, and configuration...
The Vox Pupuli project has announced the first release of OpenVox, a 'soft-fork' of the Puppet automation framework. The intention to fork was announced in December 2024. OpenVox 8.11 is functionally equivalent to Puppet and should be a drop-in replacement. Be aware, of...
Version 10.0 of the Wine Windows compatibility layer is out. 'This release represents a year of development effort and over 6,000 individual changes'. Those changes include full support for the Arm64EC architecture, better high-DPI display support, Wayland enabled by...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (snapcast), Fedora (python-jinja2), Mageia (rsync), SUSE (cdi-apiserver-container, cdi-cloner-container, cdi- controller-container, cdi-importer-container, cdi-operator-container, cdi- uploadproxy-container,...
Tuesday January 21, 2025. 05:01 PM
On January 14, Nick Tait announced the discovery of six vulnerabilities in rsync, the popular file-synchronization tool. While software vulnerabilities are not uncommon, the most serious one he announced allows for remote code execution on servers that run rsyncd — and p...
The series of singleton stable kernel updates continues with 6.6.73, which reverts three changes that were causing problems for users of the overlayfs filesystem.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (grafana), Debian (libebml, poco, redis, sympa, tiff, and ucf), Fedora (rsync), Mageia (dcmtk, git, proftpd, and raptor2), Red Hat (grafana, iperf3, kernel, microcode_ctl, and redis), SUSE (chromium, dhcp, git, libqt5-qtwebkit,...
Monday January 20, 2025. 06:30 PM
The 6.13 development cycle ended on January 19 with the release of the 6.13 kernel. This cycle was, on its surface, one of the slowest we have seen in some time; the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the KernelNewbies 6.13 page can be consulted for a refresher...
Version 3.2.0 of the Dillo web browser has been released about a month after its 25th anniversary. Notable new features in 3.2.0 include SVG support for math formulas, optional support for WebP images, and more.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0,.NET 9.0, ipa, and NetworkManager), Debian (389-ds-base, busybox, libreoffice, rsync, ruby2.7, tomcat10, and tryton-server), Fedora (chromium and stb), Mageia (openafs and vim), Oracle (.NET 8.0 and.NET 9.0), SUSE...
Linus has released the 6.13 kernel. 'So nothing horrible or unexpected happened last week, so I've tagged and pushed out the final 6.13 release.' Significant features in this release include the lazy preemption model for CPU scheduling, Arm64 Guarded Control Stack support,...
Version 16.1 of the GDB debugger is out. There are a lot of changes, including watchpoints for tagged data pointers, a new script to print the stack trace of a running process, better Intel Processor Trace support, and more.
Sunday January 19, 2025. 05:18 PM
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.1.126 stable kernel to fix build failures with the 6.1.125 stable release. Only upgrade if 6.1.125 did not build properly for you. If it did build properly, no need to upgrade. Thanks to Ron Economos for the fix for this issue.
Friday January 17, 2025. 04:19 PM
A reminder has gone out that the deadline for proposals for the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management and BPF Summit is February 1; anybody wanting to attend will need to make themselves known before then. The reminder also says that there will be no remote...
The idea of adding None-aware operators to Python has sprung up once again. These would make traversing structures with None values in them easier, by short-circuiting lookups when a None is encountered. Almost exactly a year ago, LWN covered the previous attempt to bring...
The 6.12.10, 6.6.72, and 6.1.125 stable kernels have been released on the expected schedule.
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