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Sunday December 15, 2024. 12:35 AM
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...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libsoup2.4, python-aiohttp, and upx-ucl), Fedora (iaito, python3.11, python3.9, and radare2), Red Hat (ruby, ruby:2.5, and ruby:3.1), Slackware (mozilla-thunderbird), SUSE (govulncheck-vulndb, nodejs18, nodejs20, and socat), and...
Wednesday December 11, 2024. 08:10 PM
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 beta was released in mid-November and, if all goes according to plan, CentOS Stream 10 should be released before the end of the year. While nothing is etched in stone just yet, it is a good time for anyone using or targeting RHEL (and...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released version 6.6.65 of the kernel: This release only fixes a build regression for openrisc, and a runtime regression for domU guests. If you don't have problems with them, no need to upgrade.
The Linux kernel has many tunable parameters. While there is much advice available on the internet about how to set them, few people have the time to weed through the (often contradictory) explanations and choose appropriate values. One possible way to address this is a...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (proftpd-dfsg and smarty3), Fedora (python3.14), Gentoo (Distrobox, eza, idna, libvirt, and OpenSC), Red Hat (container-tools:rhel8 and edk2), SUSE (avahi, curl, libsoup2, lxd, nodejs20, python-Django, python310-Django4, python312, ...
Tuesday December 10, 2024. 11:20 PM
Systemd 257 has been released. As usual, the list of changes is long; it includes support for multipath TCP in socket units, the ability to run processes as init in their own PID namespace, a new tool for signing EFI binaries for secure boot, and a superhero emoji in the...
Fedora Project Leader (FPL) Matthew Miller writes that he will soon be hanging up the FPL hat: Stay tuned for a job posting from Red Hat, and details about all that. I'm hoping we can hire someone awesome early in 2025, and make the official handover on the release of...
In a session at Open Source Summit Europe (OSSEU) back in September, Alex Bucknall gave an overview of a camera 'trap'—a device to capture images in a non-intrusive way—that he helped develop which is being used to monitor seagrass. He works for the Arribada Initiative,...
Version 1.0.0 of the GNU Shepherd service manager has been released after a mere 21 years of development. This 1.0.0 release is published today because we think Shepherd has become a solid tool, meeting user experience standards one has come to expect since systemd changed...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (postgresql:15, postgresql:16, and ruby:3.1), Debian (jinja2), Fedora (python-multipart, python-python-multipart, python3.12, retsnoop, rust-rbspy, rust-rustls, and zabbix), Oracle (kernel, libsoup, postgresql:12, postgresql:13, ...
Monday December 9, 2024. 10:41 PM
When the Fedora Engineering Steering Council (FESCo) is up for election, the project posts interviews of the candidates in order to help Fedora contributors make an informed choice. This year, the candidates are Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Tomáš Hrčka, Josh Stone, ...
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