|
Navigation
Search
Top: LWN.net
|
PC / Tech. > LWN.net
Tuesday November 28, 2023. 08:24 PM
The large 6.6.3, 6.5.13, 6.1.64, 5.15.140, 5.10.202, 5.4.262, 4.19.300, 4.14.331 stable kernel updates have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes. Note that 6.5.13 is the final update for 6.5.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cryptojs, fastdds, mediawiki, and minizip), Fedora (chromium, kubernetes, and thunderbird), Mageia (lilypond, mariadb, and packages), Red Hat (firefox, linux-firmware, and thunderbird), SUSE (compat-openssl098,...
Monday November 27, 2023. 04:09 PM
A regular feature of the Kernel Maintainers Summit is a session where Linus Torvalds discusses the problems that he has been encountering. In recent years, though, there have been relatively few of those problems, so this year he turned things around a bit by asking the...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (freeimage, gimp, gst-plugins-bad1.0, node-json5, opensc, python-requestbuilder, reportbug, strongswan, symfony, thunderbird, and tiff), Fedora (chromium, galera, golang, kubernetes, mariadb, python-asyncssh, thunderbird, vim, and...
PipeWire, the audio/video bus meant to replace PulseAudio, JACK, and other systems, has reached 1.0. In celebration, Fedora Magazine is running an interview with PipeWire creator Wim Taymans. PipeWire is an IPC mechanism for multimedia. The most interesting stuff will...
Linus has released 6.7-rc3 for testing. 'The diffstat here is dominated by a couple of reverts of some Realtek phy code (accounting for almost a third of the diff). But ignoring that, it's mostly fairly small, and all over the place.'
Sunday November 26, 2023. 10:14 PM
OpenSSL 3.2.0 has been released. New features include client-side QUIC support, a number of new cryptographic algorithms, support for TCP fast open, TLS certificate compression, and more.
Friday November 24, 2023. 05:45 PM
Overstressed maintainers are a constant topic of conversation throughout the open-source community. Kernel maintainers have been complaining more loudly than usual recently about overwork and stress. The problems that maintainers are facing are clear; what to do about them...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, gnutls28, intel-microcode, and tor), Fedora (chromium, microcode_ctl, openvpn, and vim), Gentoo (LinuxCIFS utils, SQLite, and Zeppelin), Oracle (c-ares, container-tools:4.0, dotnet7.0, kernel, kernel-container,...
Wednesday November 22, 2023. 05:37 PM
November 23 is the US Thanksgiving holiday; as is our tradition, we will not be publishing an LWN Weekly Edition this week as we will be far too busy eating. We wish a good holiday to all of our readers (whether they celebrate it or not); the weekly edition will return on...
Rust has been a prominent topic at the Kernel Maintainers Summit for the last couple of years, and the 2023 meeting continued that tradition. As Rust-for-Linux developer Miguel Ojeda noted at the beginning of the session dedicated to the topic, the level of interest in using ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gimp), Fedora (audiofile and firefox), Mageia (postgresql), Red Hat (binutils, c-ares, fence-agents, glibc, kernel, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, libcap, libqb, linux-firmware, ncurses, pixman, python-setuptools, samba, and tigervnc),...
Tuesday November 21, 2023. 05:47 PM
The GNU Name System has now been formalized as RFC 9498. GNS addresses long-standing security and privacy issues in the ubiquitous Domain Name System (DNS). Previous attempts to secure DNS (DNSSEC) fail to address critical security issues such as end-to-end security, query ...
Version 2.43.0 of the Git source-code management system has been release. It includes a long list of improvements and minor new features.
The Linux kernel supports a wide variety of filesystems, many of which are no longer in heavy use — or, perhaps, any use at all. The kernel code implementing the less-popular filesystems tends to be relatively unpopular as well, receiving little in the way of maintenance....
Version 120.0 of the Firefox browser is out. Changes include a new 'copy link without site tracking' option, the ability to enable the Global Privacy Control feature, and some additional privacy features seemingly restricted to users in Germany. The browser will now also...
Faith Ekstrand has announced that the NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA 'Turing' GPUs has been certified as being fully compliant with the Vulkan 1.0 API. Practically, it means that we can pass the entire Vulkan conformance test suite. From the Khronos perspective, it means...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (activemq, strongswan, and wordpress), Mageia (u-boot), SUSE (avahi, frr, libreoffice, nghttp2, openssl, openssl1, postgresql, postgresql15, postgresql16, python-Twisted, ucode-intel, and xen), and Ubuntu (avahi, hibagent, nodejs,...
Monday November 20, 2023. 03:41 PM
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.6.2, 6.5.12, 6.1.63, 5.15.139, 5.10.201, 5.4.261, 4.19.299, and 4.14.330 stable kernels. They contain a rather large number of important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (freerdp2, lwip, netty, and wireshark), Fedora (dotnet6.0, dotnet7.0, golang, gst-devtools, gstreamer1, gstreamer1-doc, gstreamer1-plugin-libav, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good,...
|
25 sources
Current Date
Apr, Fri 19 - 22:28 CEST
|
