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Wednesday July 17, 2024. 04:42 PM
Version 8.4.0 of the digiKam photo editing and management application has been released. This release includes an update of the LibRaw RAW decoder which brings support for many new cameras, a new version of the LensFun toolkit, a feature for automatic translation of image...
Gustavo A. R. Silva describes the path to safer flexible arrays in the kernel, thanks to the counted_by attribute supported by Clang 18 and GCC 15. There are a number of requirements to properly use the counted_by attribute. One crucial requirement is that the counter must...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (kernel), Fedora (golang and krb5), Red Hat (cups, firefox, git, java-21-openjdk, kernel, linux-firmware, nghttp2, nodejs, and podman), SUSE (libndp, nodejs18, nodejs20, tomcat, and xen), and Ubuntu (gtk+2.0, gtk+3.0 and...
Tuesday July 16, 2024. 06:30 PM
SUSE has, in a somewhat clumsy fashion, asked openSUSE to consider rebranding to clear up confusion over the relationship between SUSE the company and openSUSE as a community project. That, in turn, has opened conversations about revising openSUSE governance and more. So...
Amir Goldstein led a filesystem-track session at the 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit on his project to build a hierarchical storage management (HSM) system using fanotify. The idea is to monitor file access in order to determine when to...
Redox has received a grant to work on implementing POSIX-compatible signals. The draft design calls for them to be implemented nearly completely in user space. So far, the signals project has been going according to plan, and hopefully, POSIX support for signals will be...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (kernel), Fedora (erlang-jose, mingw-python-certifi, and yt-dlp), Mageia (firefox, nss, libreoffice, sendmail, and tomcat), Red Hat (firefox, ghostscript, git-lfs, kernel, kernel-rt, ruby, and skopeo), SUSE (Botan, cockpit, kernel, ...
Monday July 15, 2024. 07:27 PM
On June 25, Matthew Wilcox posted a second version of a patch set introducing a new data structure called rosebush, which 'is a resizing, scalable, cache-aware, RCU optimised hash table.' The kernel already has generic hash tables, though, including rhashtable. Wilcox...
The 6.10 kernel was released on July 14 after a nine-week development cycle. This time around, 13,312 non-merge changesets were pulled into the mainline repository — the lowest changeset count since 5.17 in early 2022. Longstanding tradition says that it is time for LWN to...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.6.40 and 6.1.99 stable kernels. Both contain a fix for the USB subsystem; anyone who uses those kernel series and 'the XHCI USB host controller driver (i.e. USB 3) must upgrade'.
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (cups, krb5, pgadmin4, python3.6, and yarnpkg), Mageia (freeradius, kernel, kmod-xtables-addons, kmod-virtualbox, and dwarves, kernel-linus, and squid), Red Hat (ghostscript, kernel, and less), SUSE (avahi, c-ares, cairo, cups,...
Linus has released the 6.10 kernel. So the final week was perhaps not quite as quiet as the preceding ones, which I don't love - but it also wasn't noisy enough to warrant an extra rc. Changes in 6.10 include the removal of support for some ancient Alpha CPUs,...
Friday July 12, 2024. 07:51 PM
The GNOME Foundation has announced that executive director Holly Million is stepping down at the end of July, and will be replaced by Richard Littauer as interim executive director: On behalf of the whole GNOME community, the Board of Directors would like to give our utmost ...
Linux Mint has released a beta of its next long-term-support (LTS) release, Linux Mint 22 (code-named 'Wilma'), based on Ubuntu 24.04. Aside from the standard software updates that come with any major upgrade, some of Wilma's largest selling points are what it doesn't have; n...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (apache2), Fedora (mingw-python3 and python-urllib3), Oracle (dotnet6.0, dotnet8.0, fence-agents, openssh, pki-core, and virt:ol and virt-devel:rhel), SUSE (apache2, firefox, libvpx, oniguruma, python-zipp, python310, thunderbird,...
Thursday July 11, 2024. 06:21 PM
Since the disagreements that led to Eelco Dolstra stepping down from the NixOS Foundation board, there have been a number of projects forked from or inspired by Nix that have stepped up to compete with it. Two months on, some of these projects are now well-established...
The sixth edition of the Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel (OSPM) Summit took place on May 30-31 2024, and was graciously hosted by the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) in Toulouse, France. This is the first of a series of articles...
The 6.9.9, 6.6.39, and 6.1.98 stable kernels have been released. As usual, they contain lots of important fixes throughout the tree.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (dotnet6.0, dotnet8.0, fence-agents, and virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel), Debian (exim4 and firefox-esr), Fedora (dotnet8.0, firefox, onnx, qt6-qtbase, squid, and wordpress), Mageia (golang, netatalk, php, and poppler), Red Hat...
The research value of this USENIX paper by Hongyu Li et al. is not entirely clear, but it does show that the Rust-for-Linux project is gaining wider attention. Despite more novice developers being attracted by Rust to the kernel community, we have found their commits are...
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