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Wednesday December 6, 2023. 05:03 PM
Many processor vendors provide a mechanism to allow some bits of a pointer value to be used to store unrelated data; these include Intel's linear address masking (LAM), AMD's upper address ignore, and Arm's top-byte ignore. A set of researchers has now come up with a way...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (chromium, clevis-pin-tpm2, firefox, keyring-ima-signer, libkrun, perl, perl-PAR-Packer, polymake, poppler, rust-bodhi-cli, rust-coreos-installer, rust-fedora-update-feedback, rust-gst-plugin-reqwest, rust-pore, rust-rpm-sequoia,...
Tuesday December 5, 2023. 09:34 PM
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exploits (CVE) system is the main mechanism for tracking various security flaws, using the omnipresent CVE number—even vulnerabilities with fancy names and web sites have CVE numbers. But the CVE system is not without its critics and, in...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (roundcube), Fedora (java-latest-openjdk), Mageia (libqb), SUSE (python-Django1), and Ubuntu (request-tracker4).
Monday December 4, 2023. 05:03 PM
Version 5.0 of the Django web framework is out. Significant changes include database-computed default values, field groups in the templating system, and more; see the release notes for details.
The kernel's deadline scheduling class offers a solution to a number of realtime (or generally latency-sensitive) problems, but it is also resistant to the usual solutions for the priority-inversion problem. The development community has been pursuing proxy execution as a...
Version 14.1 of the GDB debugger is out. Changes include initial support for the debugger adapter protocol, NO_COLOR support, the ability to work with integer types larger than 64 bits, a number of enhancements to the Python API, and more.
Davidlohr Bueso has posted a summary of the CXL microconference at the recently concluded Linux Plumbers Conference. 'The goals for the track were to openly discuss current on-going development efforts around the core driver, as well as experimental memory management topics...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (amanda, ncurses, nghttp2, opendkim, rabbitmq-server, and roundcube), Fedora (golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, kernel, kernel-headers, kernel-tools, and samba), Mageia (audiofile, galera, libvpx, and virtualbox), Oracle (kernel...
Linus has released 6.7-rc4 for testing. 'And things look fine for now, with a fairly small rc4'. Meanwhile, the 6.6.4, 6.1.65, and 5.15.141 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
Friday December 1, 2023. 05:13 PM
Support for NVIDIA graphics processors has traditionally been a sore point for Linux users; NVIDIA has not felt the need to cooperate with the kernel community or make free drivers available, and the reverse-engineered Nouveau driver has often struggled to keep up with...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, gimp-dds, horizon, libde265, thunderbird, vlc, and zbar), Fedora (java-17-openjdk and xen), Mageia (optipng, roundcubemail, and xrdp), Red Hat (postgresql), Slackware (samba), SUSE (chromium, containerd, docker, runc,...
Thursday November 30, 2023. 03:54 PM
The Android system was once famous for extensive, out-of-tree kernel enhancements. Many of those have been eliminated or upstreamed over the years, bringing Android much closer to the mainline kernel. One significant component in the 'upstreamed' category is Binder, an...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (chromium, gnutls, gst-devtools, gstreamer1, gstreamer1-doc, libcap, mingw-poppler, python-gstreamer1, qbittorrent, webkitgtk, and xen), Mageia (docker, kernel-linus, and python-django), Oracle (dotnet6.0, dotnet7.0, dotnet8.0,...
Wednesday November 29, 2023. 11:05 PM
The LibreQoS project describes itself as: LibreQoS is a Quality of Experience (QoE) Smart Queue Management (SQM) system designed for Internet Service Providers to optimize the flow of their network traffic and thus reduce bufferbloat, keep the network responsive, and...
In the Kernel Summit track at the 2023 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), Stefan Roesch led a session on kernel samepage merging (KSM). He gave an overview of the feature and described some recent changes to KSM. He showed how an application can enable KSM to deduplicate its...
Nextcloud has announced the 'acquisition' of the Roundcube webmail system. As a product, Roundcube has an established path to success on its own. With opportunities remaining to be explored, a direct merger between Roundcube and Nextcloud is not planned. Neither will...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gst-plugins-bad1.0 and postgresql-multicorn), Fedora (golang-github-nats-io, golang-github-nats-io-jwt-2, golang-github-nats-io-nkeys, golang-github-nats-io-streaming-server, libcap, nats-server, openvpn, and python-geopandas),...
Tuesday November 28, 2023. 10:07 PM
The drgn Python-based kernel debugger was developed by Omar Sandoval for use in his job on the kernel team at Meta. He now spends most of his time working on drgn, both in developing new features for the tool and in using it to debug production problems at Meta, which gives...
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