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Monday December 9, 2024. 04:33 PM
In 2019, the Python community had a lengthy discussion about changing the rules (that some find counterintuitive) on using break, continue, or return statements in finally blocks. These are all ways of jumping out of a finally block, which can interrupt the handling of a...
The OpenWrt project has issued an advisory regarding a vulnerability found in its Attended Sysupgrade Server that could allow compromised packages to be installed on a router by an attacker. No official OpenWrt images were affected, and the vulnerability is not known to be...
The 6.12.4 and 6.6.64 stable kernels have been released, each with a set of important fixes throughout the kernel tree, as usual.
The 6.13-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'The diffstat looks a bit unusual with 80%+ drivers, and a lot of it one-liners, but that's actually just because of a couple of automated scripts that got run after -rc1 for some cleanups. Nothing particularly interesting,...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (redis:7, ruby, ruby:2.5, and ruby:3.1), Debian (avahi, ceph, chromium, gsl, jinja2, php7.4, renderdoc, ruby-doorkeeper, and zabbix), Fedora (chromium, python3.11, and uv), Gentoo (Asterisk, Cacti, Chromium, Google Chrome,...
Friday December 6, 2024. 07:44 PM
A compromised release was uploaded to PyPI after a project automatically processed a pull request with a flawed script. The GitHub account 'OpenIM Robot' (which appears to be controlled by Xinwei Xiong) opened a pull request for the ultralytics Python package. The pull...
Greg Kroah-Hartman released version 6.12.3 of the kernel to fix a regression that can cause some machines to fail to boot on version 6.12.2. The other stable branches are continuing on their normal cadence, with 6.12.4-rc1 and 6.6.64-rc1 starting review today.
The page structure sits at the core of the kernel's memory-management subsystem (for now), and a key part of that structure is its reference count, stored in refcount. The page reference count tells the kernel how many users a given page has and when it can be freed. That...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, postgresql, postgresql:12, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, python3:3.6.8, and thunderbird), Debian (clamav), Fedora (pam), Red Hat (firefox, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, python-tornado, redis:7, ruby,...
Apertis is a Collabora-developed Debian derivative distribution designed to be incorporated into electronic devices; the v2024 release is now available. It is now based on the Bookworm release, and includes support for Podman, ONNX Runtime, OP-TEE, and more. Apertis relies ...
Thursday December 5, 2024. 08:22 PM
In July, Let's Encrypt announced it was ending support 'as soon as possible' for the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) in favor of Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) due to privacy concerns. The organization has now announced that it has set a timeline, and will be...
System76 has announced the fourth alpha release of its Rust-based COSMIC desktop. New features in this version include the ability to set default applications, region and language settings, a new Accessibility applet, as well as support for variable refresh rate (VRR) in the ...
It has long been said that naming things is one of the hard things to do in computer science. That may be so, but it pales in comparison to the challenge of handling usernames properly in applications. This is especially true when multiple applications are involved, and they ...
Mozilla would appear to have concluded that the solution to its problems is an extensive rebranding effort: We teamed up with global branding powerhouse Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR) to revamp our brand and revitalize our intentions across our entire ecosystem. At the heart...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.12.2, 6.11.11, and 4.19.325 stable kernels. Note that both 6.11.11 and 4.19.325 are the last kernels in those series, 'please move off to a newer kernel version'. In the 4.19.325 release notice, he has a rather longer-than-usual message, ...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (thunderbird, tuned, and webkitgtk), Mageia (python-aiohttp and qemu), Oracle (container-tools:ol8, firefox, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, kernel, kernel:4.18.0, krb5, pam, postgresql:16, python-tornado, python3:3.6.8,...
Wednesday December 4, 2024. 06:31 PM
Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller reports that the project's search to replace Pagure as its git forge is almost complete, with the Fedora Council strongly in favor of Forgejo: The Council, currently, has a clear preference for Forgejo. This is a big decision and we...
Linus Walleij writes about a pair of security features for 32-bit Arm systems; these landed in 6.10, but, he says, have now stabilized to the point that distributors may want to enable them. PAN is an abbreviation for the somewhat grammatically incorrect Privileged Access...
Linux offers two broad ways of performing I/O to files. Buffered I/O, which is the usual way of accessing a file, stores a copy of the transferred data in the kernel's page cache to speed future accesses. Direct I/O, instead, moves data directly between the storage device...
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