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Friday January 10, 2025. 09:38 PM
We have just now received word of the passing of Paolo Mantegazza, the driving force behind the Real Time Application Interface project and a key figure in the development of realtime Linux. Paolo used to describe himself as a simple practitioner of software development,...
The death of Bram Moolenaar, Vim founder and benevolent dictator for life (BDFL), in 2023 sent a shock through the community, and raised concern about the future of the project. At VimConf 2024 in November, current Vim maintainer Christian Brabandt delivered a keynote on...
Automattic has announced that it is reallocating its resources away from contributing to the WordPress project as a response to the WP Engine lawsuit: As part of this reset, Automattic will match its volunteering pledge with those made by WP Engine and other players in the e...
After yesterday's stable kernel releases, Chris Clayton reported a build problem with 6.6.70, which prompted Greg Kroah-Hartman to release 6.6.71 to fix it.
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (chromium and mingw-poppler), Red Hat (dpdk, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk3), SUSE (firefox, govulncheck-vulndb, gstreamer, gstreamer-plugins-base, gstreamer-plugins-good, libmfx, openjpeg2, python310, python312, python39, tomcat,...
Thursday January 9, 2025. 07:29 PM
Version 1.84.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include improved version selection for dependencies in Cargo, the beginning of the migration to a new trait solver, and some updated pointer-provenance APIs. Most of the time, programmers do not need to worry...
The Software Freedom Conservancy is reporting that AVM has released the full source and installation scripts for its routers in response to a lawsuit, filed by Sebastian Steck, based on Lesser GNU Public License rights. Historically, lawsuits have focused on the copyrights ...
Attacks on the kernel can take many forms; one popular exploitation path is to find a way to overwrite some memory with attacker-supplied data. If the right memory can be targeted, one well-targeted stray write is all that is needed to take control of the system. Since the...
The 6.12.9, 6.6.70, 6.1.124, 5.15.176, 5.10.233, and 5.4.289 stable kernels have been released. As usual, they contain important fixes all over the kernel tree.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cups, kernel, and kernel-rt), Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, and webkit2gtk), Fedora (curl, firefox, gimp, mupdf, openjpeg2, and valkey), Red Hat (389-ds-base, cups, firefox, iperf3, kernel, kernel-rt, libreswan,...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: What to expect in 2025; Sequoia; Emacs in Scheme; Pony; Homa; 2024 Timeline. Briefs: Colliding SHAs; netdev in 2024; Gentoo retrospective; LineageOS 22.1; pkgsrc-2024Q4; RIP Steve Langasek; Firefox 134.0; Algol 68; Ruby...
Wednesday January 8, 2025. 08:06 PM
The Sequoia OpenPGP library has been in development for some time. LWN covered the library in 2020. Now the project's command-line interface has been released. The sq tool offers a promising alternative to the venerable GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) tool — albeit one with a...
The Tor Project has published a review of major milestones from 2024, including merging with the Tails project, work to enable human-friendly.onion addresses, and the launch of WebTunnel: By mimicking common internet protocols, WebTunnel improves the resilience of the Tor...
The pkgsrc developers have announced the 2024Q4 branch of the pkgsrc cross-platform packaging system. It is the default package manager for NetBSD, SmartOS, and is available for Linux as well. This marks the 85th quarterly release of pkgsrc: Since the pkgsrc-2024Q3 release, ...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (firefox, mupdf, and php-tcpdf), SUSE (etcd, file-roller, gtk3, kernel, python-django-ckeditor, rubygem-json-jwt, and tomcat10), and Ubuntu (ffmpeg, HTMLDOC, linux-aws, linux-raspi, linux-gke, linux-hwe-6.8, linux-lowlatency,...
Tuesday January 7, 2025. 10:08 PM
Kernel networking maintainer Jakub Kicinski reviews progress in the networking subsystem in 2024. Work on relieving the rtnl_lock pressure has continued throughout the year. The rtnl_lock is often mentioned as one of the biggest global locks in the kernel, as it protects...
Gentoo Linux has published a project retrospective that looks at the major improvements and news from 2024, the Gentoo Foundation's finances, and contributions to Gentoo by the numbers. The number of commits to the main::gentoo repository has remained at an overall high...
In the past, LWN had a tradition of publishing a timeline of notable events from the previous year in early January. We thought we might try reviving that tradition in 2025 to see if our readers find it useful. While we have covered these events as they happened, it's...
Version 134.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes include support for touchpad hold gestures on Linux, a refreshed layout for the New Tab page for users in the US and Canada, and improved support for debugging web extensions.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (python-requests), Oracle (python-requests), SUSE (python-Jinja2 and rizin), and Ubuntu (ceph, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux, linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws,...
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