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Friday January 17, 2025. 03:01 PM
Security updates have been issued by Debian (rsync and tomcat9), Fedora (chromium, mingw-python-jinja2, redict, and valkey), Gentoo (GIMP and pip), Oracle (.NET, fence-agents, ipa, kernel, python-virtualenv, raptor2, and rsync), Red Hat (.NET 8.0 and.NET 9.0), SUSE...
Thursday January 16, 2025. 08:14 PM
The kernel is, on its face, a single large development project, but internally it is better viewed as 100 or so semi-independent projects all crammed into one big tent. Within those projects, there is a fair amount of latitude about how changes are managed, and some...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (fence-agents, raptor2, and rsync), Debian (chromium), Fedora (rsync and seamonkey), Mageia (openjpeg2), Red Hat (tuned), Slackware (git), SUSE (dcmtk, dnsmasq, govulncheck-vulndb, libQtWebKit4, libraptor-devel, opera,...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Chimera Linux; Vim; Page-table hardening; Modifying system calls; Ghostty 1.0; TuxFamily. Briefs: rsync vulnerabilities; Linux Mint 22.1; Git v2.48.0; Libvirt v11.0.0; Rust 1.84.0; RIP Helen Borrie, Paolo Mantegazza, and...
Wednesday January 15, 2025. 06:40 PM
The Ghostty terminal emulator project has generated a surprising amount of interest, even before code was released to the public. This is in part due to the high profile of its creator, HashiCorp founder Mitchell Hashimoto. Its development was conducted behind closed doors...
Version 11.0.0 of the libvirt virtualization API has been released. Notable changes in this release include the ability to export virtiofs filesystems in read-only mode, the addition of support for vlan tagging and trunking of network interfaces with the network, qemu, and...
We have just now received word of the passing of Helen Borrie, a longtime contributor to the Firebird relational database project. Helen's quiet leadership and dedication left a lasting impact on Firebird and its users. Her efforts helped build not just a powerful database...
Linux Mint version 22.1, a long-term-support (LTS) release with support until 2029, is now available. Notable changes in this release include a transition to Aptkit for background package management tasks, Captain to install Debian packages, and a new default theme with...
Nick Tait announced on the oss-security mailing list that rsync, the widely used file transfer program, had a number of serious vulnerabilities. Users can mitigate all six vulnerabilities by upgrading to version 3.4.0, which was released on January 14. While all users...
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (rsync), Debian (rsync), Fedora (perl-Net-OAuth and redis), Red Hat (ipa, raptor2, rsync, and tuned), Slackware (rsync), SUSE (apache2-mod_jk, git, kernel, rclone, rsync, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (git, linux-azure-5.4,...
Tuesday January 14, 2025. 08:48 PM
The Mastodon project has announced that founder Eugen Rochko will be transferring 'key Mastodon ecosystem and platform components (including name and copyrights, among other assets)' to a new non-profit organization: Practically Mastodon will remain headquartered in and...
TuxFamily is a French free-software-hosting service that has been in operation since 1999. It is a non-profit that accepts 'any project released under a free license', whether that is a software license or a free-content license, such as CC-BY-SA. It is also, unfortunately,...
The ptrace() system call allows a suitably privileged process to modify another in a large number of ways. Among other things, ptrace() can intercept system calls and make changes to them, but such operations can be fiddly and architecture-dependent. This patch series from...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, NetworkManager, and thunderbird), Fedora (golang-github-aws-sdk-2, golang-github-aws-smithy, golang-github-ncw-swift-2, rclone, and thunderbird), Mageia (ceph, firefox, and thunderbird), Oracle (kernel, NetworkManager,...
Hans de Goede has posted an update about his work to support IPU6 cameras on Fedora and submitting fixes upstream. The initial IPU6 camera support landed in Fedora 41 only works on a limited set of laptops. The reason for this is that with MIPI cameras every different...
Monday January 13, 2025. 08:41 PM
Chimera Linux is a new distribution designed to be 'simple, transparent, and easy to pick up'. The distribution is built from scratch, and recently announced its first beta release. While the documentation and installation process are both a bit rough, the project already...
The blog of the SeaMonkey project, which develops an all-in-one internet application suite based on Mozilla code, has reported the sad news of the sudden passing of Bill Gianopoulos ('WG9s') on January 6 (obituary). He was a core developer and release engineer for the...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (dpdk, firefox, iperf3, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk3), Debian (firefox-esr, gnuchess, node-mocha, openafs, python-django, and thunderbird), Fedora (libxmp, python-jinja2, suricata, thunderbird, and xen), Mageia (avahi, libjxl,...
Linus has released 6.13-rc7 for testing. 'So unless something odd happens the upcoming week, I expect to release a final 6.13 next week as per the normal schedule'. Read the full announcement for your details on how to get a free guitar pedal assembled by Linus himself.
Friday January 10, 2025. 11:10 PM
Version 2.48.0 of the Git source-code management system has been released. There is a long list of incremental improvements and bug fixes; see the announcement and the highlights blog from GitHub for details.
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