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Monday November 13, 2023. 03:01 PM
By the time that the 6.7 merge window closed on November 12, 15,418 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline kernel. That makes this one of the busiest merge windows ever; if one discounts the lengthy bcachefs development history (some 2,800 commits), though,...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (audiofile and ffmpeg), Fedora (keylime, python-pillow, and tigervnc), Mageia (quictls and vorbis-tools), Oracle (grub2), Red Hat (galera, mariadb, plexus-archiver, python, squid, and squid34), and SUSE (clamav, kernel, mupdf,...
Linus Torvalds has released 6.7-rc1, thus closing the merge window for this release. It is the largest merge window ever, but some of that was due to the bcachefs history that came with merge of that filesystem. But 6.7 is pretty big in other ways too, with 12678 files...
Friday November 10, 2023. 05:45 PM
For folks with an interest in how extended BPF came to be and a half-hour to spare, the announcement has gone out of a new film called 'eBPF: Unlocking the kernel', released at the KubeCon+CloudNativeCon event. The documentary is available on YouTube.
Years ago, the list of mounted filesystems on a Unix or Linux machine was relatively short and static. Adding a filesystem, which typically involved buying a new drive, happened rarely. In contrast, contemporary systems with a large number of containers can have a long and...
The GNOME Foundation has announced the receipt of a €1 million award from the German Sovereign Tech Fund. The funding will support work on accessibility, privacy, hardware support, and more.
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (community-mysql, matrix-synapse, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia (squid and vim), Oracle (dnsmasq, python3, squid, squid:4, and xorg-x11-server), Red Hat (fence-agents, insights-client, kernel, kpatch-patch, mariadb:10.5,...
Thursday November 9, 2023. 04:25 PM
It is (relatively) easy to add code to the kernel; it tends to be much harder to remove that code later. The most recent example of this dynamic can be seen in the story of the ia64 ("Itanium") architecture, support for which was removed during the 6.7 merge window. That...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cacti and chromium), Fedora (CuraEngine, podman, and rubygem-rmagick), Mageia (gnome-shell, openssl, and zlib), SUSE (salt), and Ubuntu (xrdp).
Wednesday November 8, 2023. 10:15 PM
The reminder has gone out: the deadline for nominations for the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board is November 13. If you are interested in representing the kernel community on the TAB, now is the time to put together a self-nomination and get onto the ballot.
The linux-kernel mailing list famously gets an enormous amount of email on a daily basis; the volume is so high that various email providers try to rate-limit it, which can lead to huge backlogs on the sending side and, of course, delayed mail. Part of the reason there is so ...
The 6.6.1, 6.5.11, 6.1.62, 5.4.260, 4.19.298, and 4.14.329 stable kernel updates have all been released, each contains another set of important fixes. Note that 5.15.138 and 5.10.200 ended up going into a second round of review; they can be expected in the near future. ...
The developers of Home Assistant, which has recently been covered here, have announced that they will be removing support for Chamberlain and Liftmaster garage-door openers after being locked out by the company. Because we cannot continue to work around Chamberlain Group...
The Register attended a talk about Ubuntu's upcoming Core Desktop immutable distribution. We suspect that Core Desktop might yet be the tool that validates Canonical's Snap format and helps to overcome some of the resistance it faces. Snap's single-file distribution format ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-urllib3 and tang), Fedora (chromium, mlpack, open-vm-tools, and salt), Red Hat (avahi, binutils, buildah, c-ares, cloud-init, containernetworking-plugins, cups, curl, dnsmasq, edk2, flatpak, frr, gdb, ghostscript, glib2,...
Tuesday November 7, 2023. 09:12 PM
There has been a lot of action for the Python C API in the last month or so—much of it organizational in nature. As predicted in our late September article on using the 'limited' C API in the standard library, the core developer sprint in October was the scene of some...
Alexander 'Solar Designer' Peslyak, the longtime maintainer of the oss-security and linux-distros mailing lists, has announced that this work has gained a sponsor: After 15+ years of being a 100% volunteer effort, Openwall's maintenance of oss-security and (linux-)distros...
Fedora 39 has been released, one day after the Fedora project's 20th anniversary. See the list of approved changes and this Fedora Magazine article for more information. As always, we’ve updated many, many other packages as we work to bring you the best of everything the ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (trapperkeeper-webserver-jetty9-clojure), Mageia (libsndfile, packages, thunderbird, and x11-server), Oracle (.NET 6.0), SUSE (kernel, kubevirt, virt-api-container, virt-controller-container, virt-handler-container,...
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