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Thursday December 19, 2024. 02:58 AM
Wednesday December 18, 2024. 03:55 PM
Emacs has had a few bugs related to accidentally permitting the execution of untrusted code. Unfortunately, it seems as though another bug of that sort has appeared — and may be harder to patch, because the problem comes from the way Emacs handles expansion of Lisp macros...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (libsndfile, php:7.4, python3.11, python3.12, and python36:3.6), Debian (dpdk), Mageia (curl and socat), Oracle (firefox and tuned), Red Hat (bluez, containernetworking-plugins, edk2, edk2:20220126gitbb1bba3d77, edk2:20240524,...
Tuesday December 17, 2024. 07:46 PM
Fedora Magazine reports that the Fedora Asahi Remix 41 for Apple Silicon is now available: In addition to all the exciting improvements brought by Fedora Linux 41, Fedora Asahi Remix 41 provides x86/x86-64 emulation integration including support for AAA games to Apple...
Since we last looked at the WordPress dispute, WP Engine has sought a preliminary injunction against Automattic and its founder Matt Mullenweg to restore its access to WordPress.org, and more. The judge in the case granted a preliminary injunction on December 10. The case...
Version 2024.4 of the Kali Linux penetration-testing distribution has been released. Changes include a switch to Python 3.12, the removal of i386 kernel support, GNOME 47, and more.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gstreamer1.0), Fedora (jupyterlab and python-notebook), Oracle (gimp:2.8.22, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, kernel, php:8.2, postgresql, and python3.11), SUSE (aws-iam-authenticator, firefox,...
Monday December 16, 2024. 10:58 PM
The Sequoia PGP project has announced version 1.0 of the sq command-line tool for managing OpenPGP encryption and signatures. It also provides a decentralized public key infrastructure (PKI), and key management facilities. This is the first stable release since development...
Emacs is, famously, an editor—perhaps far more—that is extensible using its own variant of the Lisp programming language, Emacs Lisp (or Elisp). This year's edition of EmacsConf, which is an annual 'gathering' that has been held online for the past five years, had two...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gst-plugins-base1.0, gstreamer1.0, and libpgjava), Fedora (bpftool, chromium, golang-x-crypto, kernel, kernel-headers, linux-firmware, pytest, python3.10, subversion, and thunderbird), Gentoo (NVIDIA Drivers), Oracle (kernel,...
Linus has released 6.13-rc3 for testing. 'Earlier this week it felt to me like things might have already started to quiet down in prep for the holidays, but doing the statistics on rc3 that doesn't actually seem to be the case - this looks very regular both in number of...
Sunday December 15, 2024. 11:23 PM
Version 4.20 of the Xfce desktop environment has been released. 'The major focus during this development cycle was the preparation of the codebase to be ready for Wayland'. See the Xfce 4.20 tour for an overview of the changes in this release.
The 6.12.5, 6.6.66, 6.1.120, 5.15.174, 5.10.231, and 5.4.287 stable kernels have all been released; each contains a relatively large set of important fixes.
Friday December 13, 2024. 07:22 PM
Commits in the Git source-code management system are identified by the SHA-1 hash of their contents — though the specific hash may change someday. The full hash is a 160-bit quantity, normally written as a 40-character hexadecimal string. While those strings are convenient ...
Handling time in a networked environment is never easy. The Network Time Protocol (NTP) has been used to synchronize clocks across the internet for almost 40 years — but, as computers and networks get faster, the degree of synchronization it offers is not sufficient for...
The CentOS Project has announced the general availability of CentOS Stream 10. See the release notes for information on new features, changes, and removed software. The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) 10 repository is also available, and will be adding minor...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, pgpool2, and smarty4), Fedora (chromium, linux-firmware, matrix-synapse, open62541, and thunderbird), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, python3.11, python3.12, python3.9:3.9.18, python3.9:3.9.21, and ruby:2.5), SUSE (buildah,...
Thursday December 12, 2024. 09:29 PM
Version 1.32 (dubbed 'Penelope') of Kubernetes has been released with 13 major features graduating to Stable status, 12 entering Beta, and 19 entering Alpha. If Kubernetes is Ancient Greek for 'pilot', in this release we start from that origin and reflect on the last 10...
The Python Package Index (PyPI) Blog has an analysis of the compromise of the ultralytics project, and what PyPI has learned from this event: PyPI staff and volunteers do their best to remove malware, but because the service is open to anyone looking to publish software...
The release of the 4.19.325 stable kernel update on December 5 marked the end of an era of sorts. This kernel had been supported for just over six years since its initial release in October 2018; over that time, 325 updates were released, adding 30,109 fixes. Few Linux...
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