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Monday May 19, 2025. 08:03 AM
The 6.15-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'So while I wish we hadn't had some of the excitement of last week, on the whole it all still looks pretty solid, and unless something strange happens I'll do the final 6.15 release next weekend.'
Sunday May 18, 2025. 10:26 AM
The 6.14.7, 6.12.29, 6.6.91, 6.1.139, and 5.15.183 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
Friday May 16, 2025. 03:29 PM
The first article in this series provided an overview of Home Assistant, its community, and its capabilities. It was deliberately short on descriptions of interesting things that can be done with Home Assistant, though — the reasons why one might actually want to use this...
The Asahi Linux project, which supports Linux on Apple Silicon Macs, has published a progress report ahead of the 6.15 kernel's release. We are pleased to announce that our graphics driver userspace API (uAPI) has been merged into the Linux kernel. This major milestone...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0,.NET 9.0, kernel, kernel-rt, redis:6, and yelp and yelp-xsl), Debian (chromium), Red Hat (compat-openssl11, kernel, and thunderbird), and SUSE (nbdkit, open-vm-tools, and rustup).
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted a somewhat belated memorial for John Young, the founder of Cryptome. John was one of the early, under-recognized heroes of the digital age. He not only saw the promise of digital technology to help democratize access to...
Thursday May 15, 2025. 09:26 PM
To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 1.0 release of the Rust language, version 1.87.0 was announced live today at the 10 Years of Rust celebration in Utrecht, Netherlands. Notable changes include the addition of anonymous pipes to the standard library and the ability...
Leon Romanovsky began his session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) by explaining that the improved DMA-mapping API that he has been working on is a group effort. He, Chaitanya Kulkarni, Christoph Hellwig, Jason Gunthorpe,...
The Tor project has announced the oniux utility which provides Tor network isolation, using Linux namespaces, for third-party applications. Namespaces are a powerful feature that gives us the ability to isolate Tor network access of an arbitrary application. We put each...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (open-vm-tools), Fedora (dnsdist), Gentoo (Node.js and Tracker miners), Red Hat (kernel and xdg-utils), SUSE (audiofile, go1.22-openssl, go1.24, grub2, kernel-devel, openssl-1_1, openssl-3, and python311-Django), and Ubuntu...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Home Assistant; YaST; bpfilter; Flatpak; More LSFMM+BPF 2025 coverage. Briefs: Screen security; Guix on Codeberg; Postgres I/O; GNOME executive director; Nextcloud blog; Podman 5.5.0; OSL sustainability; Quotes;... ...
Wednesday May 14, 2025. 09:18 PM
At the Linux Application Summit (LAS) in April, Sebastian Wick said that, by many metrics, Flatpak is doing great. The Flatpak application-packaging format is popular with upstream developers, and with many users. More and more applications are being published in the Flathub ...
Version 5.5.0 of the Podman container-management tool has been released. Notable features include the addition of a podman machine cp command to copy files into a running Podman VM, a podman artifact extract command to copy contents of an OCI artifact to disk, and a...
From servers in a data center to desktop computers, many devices communicating on a network will eventually have to filter network traffic, whether it's for security or performance reasons. As a result, this is a domain where a lot of work is put into improving performance:...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (emacs, firefox, gnutls, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, osbuild-composer, python39:3.9, and thunderbird), Arch Linux (screen), Debian (varnish), Fedora (chromium), Gentoo (Atop, FreeType, and Spidermonkey), Mageia...
Tuesday May 13, 2025. 10:44 PM
BPF arenas are areas of memory where the verifier can safely relax its checking of pointers, allowing programmers to write arbitrary data structures in BPF. Emil Tsalapatis reported on how his team has used arenas in writing sched_ext schedulers at the 2025 Linux Storage,...
Nextcloud provides an open-source collaboration platform called Nextcloud Hub, which includes file-sharing and syncing features. The company has written a blog post explaining that Google has revoked a critical permission from the Nextcloud Files app for Android that allows...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libeconf and rubygems), Fedora (libxmp), Gentoo (glibc), Oracle (java-1.8.0-openjdk, kernel, libxslt, and virtuoso-opensource), SUSE (augeas, git-lfs, kanidm, and tomcat10), and Ubuntu (linux-lts-xenial).
Monday May 12, 2025. 10:58 PM
The SUSE Security Team has published an article detailing several security issues it has uncovered with GNU Screen. This includes a local root exploit when Screen is shipped setuid-root, as it is in some Linux and BSD distributions. The security team also reports problems in ...
The Guix project has announced that it is migrating all of its Git repositories, as well as bug tracking and patch tracking, from Savannah to the Codeberg Git forge. As a user, the main change is that your channels.scm configuration files, if they refer to the...
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