|
Navigation
Search
Top: LWN.net
|
PC / Tech. > LWN.net
Wednesday March 12, 2025. 03:47 PM
The SUSE Security Team blog has a post with a detailed analysis of a vulnerability (CVE-2025-27591) in the below tool for recording and displaying system data. In January 2025, Below was packaged and submitted to openSUSE Tumbleweed. Below runs as a systemd service with...
The LLVM project's Fortran compiler, which has for many years gone by the name 'flang-new', will now simply be 'flang', starting from LLVM's 20.1.0 release on March 4. The announcement, which includes details about the history of flang, comes after a long period of...
Version 1.26.0 of the GStreamer cross-platform multimedia framework has been released. Notable changes in this release include support for the H.266 Versatile Video Coding (VVC) codec, Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding (LCEVC) support, closed caption improvements, and...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libmodbus), Fedora (thunderbird and vyper), Mageia (firefox, nss, python-django, python-jinja2, and thunderbird, thunderbird-l10n), Oracle (bind, kernel, rsync, and tigervnc), Red Hat (.NET 8.0,.NET 9.0, and libxml2), SUSE...
Tuesday March 11, 2025. 04:27 PM
Matrix provides an open network for secure, decentralized communication. It has enjoyed some success over the last few years as an IRC replacement and real-time chat for a number of open-source projects. But adoption by a subset of open-source developers is a far cry from...
Version 6.14.0 of Framework Mono has been announced. This is the first release of Framework Mono from its new home at WineHQ. It includes work from the past 5 years that was never included in a stable release because no stable branch had been created in that time....
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libaws, ruby2.7, and squid), Fedora (bigloo, emacs, neovim, python-jinja2, rizin, and tree-sitter), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (grub2, kernel, kernel-rt, and libxml2), SUSE (iniparser, kernel, krb5, libxkbfile, and u-boot), and...
Monday March 10, 2025. 03:56 PM
The Python project's recent switch to a tail-calling interpreter may not provide as large a speed advantage as initially thought. A blog post from Nelson Elhage gives the details. In short, switching to a tail-call-based interpreter accidentally works around an unfixed...
One of the advantages of the Rust type system is its ability to encapsulate requirements about the state of the program in the type system; often, this state includes which locks must be held to be able to carry out specific operations. C lacks the ability to express these...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (openvpn and thunderbird), Fedora (buildah, chromium, podman-tui, python-spotipy, qt6-qtwebengine, and vim), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable and gpac), Oracle (krb5), Red Hat (firefox, kernel, kernel-rt, libxml2, and pcs), SUSE...
Linus has released 6.14-rc6 for testing. 'This release remains on track, nothing special to report'.
Sunday March 9, 2025. 03:37 PM
The 6.6.82 stable kernel has been released. 'All i386 users of the 6.6 kernel series must upgrade (as they skipped the last release.) All other arches can skip this one as it should not affect them.'
Friday March 7, 2025. 07:32 PM
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of four more stable kernels: 6.13.6, 6.12.18, 6.6.81, and 6.1.130. Unlike a normal release, Kroah-Hartman did not call for all users to update their kernels. Specifically, the 6.6.81 kernel is currently broken on i386 systems, and ...
Matthieu Clemenceau has published a status update from the Foundations Team on Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) development to the Ubuntu Discourse forum. This includes updates on Ubuntu's adoption of Dracut as an alternative to initramfs-tools, a move to a single ISO for arm64...
On January 20, Thomas Weißschuh shared a new patch set implementing an alternate method for checking the integrity of loadable kernel modules. This mechanism, which checks module integrity based on hashes computed at build time instead of using cryptographic signatures,...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (firefox and man2html), Mageia (erlang, ffmpeg, and vim), Oracle (doxygen, firefox, python-jinja2, squid, and webkit2gtk3), Red Hat (nodejs:18), SUSE (emacs, go1.23, go1.24, and pcp), and Ubuntu (ansible,...
Thursday March 6, 2025. 03:24 PM
The kernel project has usually been willing to make fundamental internal changes if they lead to a better kernel in the end. The project also, though, goes out of its way to avoid breaking interfaces that have been exposed to user space, even if programs come to rely on...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (firefox and vim), Red Hat (firefox), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (firefox, firefox-esr, kernel, and podman), and Ubuntu (gpac, kernel, linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-hwe-5.15, and ...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Firefox forks; Bend and Vine; FineIBT; Guard pages; Fedora's Flatpak packaging; Zotero. Briefs: LFS 12.3; FerretDB 2.0; Firefox; Fish 4.0; Incus 6.10; Thunderbird 136.0; Xen 4.20; Quotes;... Announcements: Newsletters,...
Wednesday March 5, 2025. 11:10 PM
The Google Bug Hunters blog has a detailed description of how a vulnerability in AMD's microcode-patching functionality was discovered and exploited; the authors have also released a set of tools to assist with this kind of research in the future. Secure hash functions are ...
|
25 sources
Current Date
Jun, Thu 5 - 19:38 CEST
|
