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Monday October 23, 2023. 03:06 PM
Security updates have been issued by Debian (krb5, redis, roundcube, ruby-rack, ruby-rmagick, zabbix, and zookeeper), Fedora (ansible-core, chromium, libvpx, mingw-xerces-c, python-asgiref, python-django, and vim), Mageia (cadence, kernel, kernel-linus, libxml2, nodejs, and...
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Linus has released 6.6-rc7 for testing. Anyway, while this is all bigger than I'd have liked it to be, if the upcoming week is quiet and normal, this is the last rc and next Sunday will see the final release and then we'll open the merge window for 6.7. I simply am not...
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Friday October 20, 2023. 06:27 PM
Jeff Xu recently proposed the addition of a new system call, named mseal(), that would allow applications to prevent modifications to selected memory mappings. It would enable the hardening of user-space applications against certain types of attacks; some other operating...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (linux-5.10 and webkit2gtk), Fedora (matrix-synapse and trafficserver), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable, ghostscript, libxpm, and ruby-RedCloth), Oracle (.NET 7.0, curl, dotnet7.0, galera, mariadb, go-toolset, golang,...
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Thursday October 19, 2023. 11:41 PM
The 6.5.8, 6.1.59, and 5.15.136 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
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When considering the interface provided by the GNU C Library (glibc), thoughts naturally turn to the programming interface as specified by POSIX, along with numerous extensions added over the years. But glibc also provides a 'tunables' interface to control how the library...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (node-babel), Fedora (moodle), Gentoo (mailutils), Oracle (go-toolset:ol8 and java-11-openjdk), Red Hat (ghostscript, grafana, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, nghttp2, nodejs:16, nodejs:18, and...
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The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 19, 2023 is available.
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Wednesday October 18, 2023. 04:18 PM
Open-source hardware (or open hardware) refers to hardware that is developed in a manner similar to open-source software. There's a widely accepted definition of open-source hardware, but it is probably not as well known as its open-source-software counterpart. In addition,...
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The GNOME Foundation has announced the hiring of Holly Million as its new executive director. Holly is a multi-talented individual with a diverse background in nonprofit leadership, filmmaking, teaching, public speaking, and writing. Her commitment to empowering...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (slurm-wlm), Fedora (icecat and python-configobj), Oracle (dotnet6.0, kernel-container, nginx, nginx:1.20, nginx:1.22, and python3.9), Red Hat (bind9.16, curl, dotnet6.0, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, nghttp2, nodejs, python-reportlab,...
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Tuesday October 17, 2023. 04:48 PM
The Linux kernel has supported restartable sequences (sometimes referred to as 'RSEQ') since 2018, but it remains a bit of a niche feature, mostly useful to performance-oriented developers who do not mind writing assembly code. According to Mathieu Desnoyers, the developer...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (axis, nghttp2, node-babel7, and tomcat9), Fedora (curl and ghostscript), Oracle (bind, kernel-container, mariadb:10.5, and python3.11), Red Hat (.NET 7.0, go-toolset, golang, and go-toolset:rhel8), SUSE (kernel, libcue, libxml2,...
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Monday October 16, 2023. 06:13 PM
OpenBSD 7.4 is out. Changes include a new kqueue1() system call that allows close-on-exec behavior, support for better arm64 control-flow integrity, support for TCP segmentation offloading, and much more.
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Following up from last year's first Image-Based Linux Summit), a second meeting was held in Berlin on September 12th, 2023, the day before All Systems Go! 2023, at the Microsoft office. The goal of these summits is to find common ground among stakeholders from various...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (batik, poppler, and tomcat9), Fedora (chromium, composer, curl, emacs, ghostscript, libwebp, libXpm, netatalk, nghttp2, python-asgiref, python-django, and webkitgtk), Mageia (curl and libX11), Oracle (bind, busybox, firefox, and...
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The 6.6-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'So the previous week has been pretty calm, and a lot of the discussion has been about future changes as so often happens late in the release cycle.'
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Sunday October 15, 2023. 09:15 PM
The 6.1.58 stable kernel update has been released; it consists mostly of a handful of reverts in the NFS subsystem.
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Friday October 13, 2023. 05:11 PM
The primary job of a compiler is to translate source code into a binary form that can be run by a computer. Increasingly, though, developers want more from their tools, compilers included. Since the compiler must understand the code it is being asked to translate, it is in a ...
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Version 23.10 of the Ubuntu distribution is out. Changes include support for hardware-backed full-disk encryption, tighter control over user namespaces, a new App Center application, and more.
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