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Sunday August 11, 2024. 04:19 PM
The 6.10.4, 6.6.45, and 6.1.104 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains another set of important updates as usual.
Thursday August 1, 2024. 03:01 PM
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (kernel, obs-cef, and xen), Mageia (emacs), Oracle (freeradius, freeradius:3.0, and kernel), Red Hat (emacs, httpd, and kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_120_1), Slackware (curl), SUSE (apache2, cockpit-wicked, glibc,...
Wednesday July 31, 2024. 10:15 PM
Arnd Bergmann has posted a detailed timeline for the deprecation of support for old Arm CPUs in both the kernel and the compiler toolchain. Anybody who is working with that hardware will likely want to review this list and let the relevant developers know if any of that...
Version 2.0 of the Vanilla OS image-based Linux distribution has been released. Dubbed 'Orchid', Vanilla OS is now based on Debian Sid (prior versions were Ubuntu-based), allows creation of customized Linux environments, support for running Android applications using...
A few years ago, PyGObject—the Python package that provides bindings for GTK and GNOME applications—was not faring particularly well. Several maintainers had left the project and its development was not keeping pace with changes in GTK. At this year's GUADEC, Dan Yeaw present...
Version 8.0 of the Forgejo software-development platform has been released. Notable changes include the removal of non-free software found in the codebase, improved stability, and a reduction in 'seemingly random User Interface changes': A gentle way of describing Forgejo...
A bootstrappable build is one that builds existing software from scratch — for example, building GCC without relying on an existing copy of GCC. In 2023, the Guix project announced that the project had reduced the size of the binary bootstrap seed needed to build its...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland), Red Hat (freeradius, freeradius:3.0, git-lfs, httpd, kernel, openssh, and varnish:6), SUSE (cdi-apiserver-container, cdi-cloner-container, cdi- controller-container, cdi-importer-container,...
Linus Torvalds has released 6.11-rc1 and closed the merge window for this development cycle. 'The merge window felt pretty normal, and the stats all look pretty normal too. I was expecting things to be quieter because of summer vacations, but that (still) doesn't actually...
Tuesday July 30, 2024. 11:28 PM
At the 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, John Groves led a session on famfs, which is a filesystem he has developed that uses the kernel's direct-access (DAX) mechanism to access memory that is shareable between hosts. The discussion was...
Daniel Robbins, founder of the Gentoo Linux distribution and its spinoff Funtoo Linux, has announced that he has decided to end the Funtoo project: Funtoo started as a philosophy to create a fun community of contributors building something great together. For me, it's no...
At GUADEC in Denver, Colorado on July 21, the GNOME Foundation held its annual general meeting (AGM) to provide updates from the foundation's board and committees. Topics included work accomplished in the past year, challenges facing the GNOME Foundation–including...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (curl), Mageia (virtualbox), Oracle (squid), Red Hat (kernel), SUSE (apache2, bind, cdi-apiserver-container, cdi-cloner-container, cdi- controller-container, cdi-importer-container, cdi-operator-container, cdi-...
Monday July 29, 2024. 07:20 PM
Version 2.46.0 of the Git source-code management system has been released. This release seems to consist of a long list of interface and performance improvements rather than big new features; see the announcement for the details.
The release of 6.11-rc1 marked the end of the 6.11 merge window on July 28. By that time, 12,102 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline repository; about 8,000 of those came in after the first-half summary was written. Quite a few significant changes were to...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (java-11-openjdk), Debian (bind9), Fedora (darkhttpd, mod_http2, and python-scrapy), Red Hat (python3.11, rhc-worker-script, and thunderbird), SUSE (assimp, gh, opera, python-Django, and python-nltk), and Ubuntu (edk2, linux,...
Saturday July 27, 2024. 04:35 PM
The 6.10.2, 6.9.12, 6.6.43, 6.1.102, 5.15.164, 5.10.223, 5.4.281, and 4.19.319 stable kernel updates have all been released; each contains a relatively small set of important fixes, at least one of which appears to close a minor security hole.
Friday July 26, 2024. 04:19 PM
One of the simplest hardening concepts to understand is that memory should never be both writable and executable, otherwise an attacker can use it to load and run arbitrary code. That rule is generally followed in Linux systems, but there is a glaring loophole that is...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (linux-firmware and squid), Debian (bind9), Fedora (kubernetes, thunderbird, and tinyproxy), Oracle (containernetworking-plugins, cups, edk2, httpd, httpd:2.4, kernel, kernel-container, libreoffice, libuv, libvirt, python3, and...
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