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Thursday May 22, 2025. 09:30 PM
Mozilla has announced that it is shutting down Pocket, a bookmarking service acquired by Mozilla in 2017, this coming July. 'Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading. But the way people use the web has evolved, so we're channeling our...
Our recent article on Home Assistant observed that the project emphasizes installations using its own Linux distribution or within containers. The project has now made that emphasis rather stronger with this announcement of the deprecation of the 'core' and 'supervised'...
The Fedora Council has ruled on the Fedora Engineering Steering Council's (FESCo) decision last year to revoke Peter Robinson's provenpackager status. In a statement published to the fedora-devel-announce mailing list, the council has announced that it has overturned FESCo's ...
Testing filesystems is a frequent topic at the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF); the 2025 edition was no exception. Boris Burkov led a filesystem-track session to discuss stress-testing filesystems—and running those tests for lengthy ...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.14.8, 6.12.30, 6.6.92, 6.1.140, and 5.15.184 stable kernels. As usual, each contains a long list of important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, and webkit2gtk3), Fedora (mozilla-ublock-origin and sudo-rs), Oracle (.NET 8.0, compat-openssl10, grafana, osbuild-composer, redis:6, ruby:2.5, and webkit2gtk3), SUSE (dante, firefox-esr, gnuplot,...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Home Assistant; Setuptools; Debian AI GR; DMA-mapping API; BPF CI; OSPM 2025 Briefs: Go audit; Oniux; Asahi progress; Rust in FreeBSD; RHEL 10; Rust 1.87.0; RIP John L. Young; Quote;... Announcements: Newsletters,...
Wednesday May 21, 2025. 05:57 PM
Shawn Webb has published a status report on work to provide basic support in FreeBSD for userland components written in Rust. We introduced a new BSD makefile, located at share/mk/bsd.rust.mk, that enables building a Rust application during buildworld. As of this writing,...
In late March, version 78.0.1 of Setuptools — an important Python packaging tool — was released. It was scarcely half an hour before the first bug report came in, and it quickly became clear that the change was far more disruptive than anticipated. Within only about five ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0, avahi, buildah, compat-openssl10, compat-openssl11, expat, firefox, gimp, git, grafana, libsoup, libxslt, mod_auth_openidc, nginx, nodejs:22, osbuild-composer, php, redis, redis:7, skopeo, thunderbird, vim,...
Tuesday May 20, 2025. 07:51 PM
Ihor Solodrai has been working on the BPF subsystem's continuous-integration (CI) testing for the last six months. At the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, he remotely shared an update on his work, and solicited feedback on how the tests...
Despite careful planning and months of warning, Debian developer Mo Zhou has acknowledged that the project needs more time to grapple with the questions around AI models and the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG). For now, he has withdrawn his proposed General Resolution ...
Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10. A blog post accompanying the release provides details on some of the more notable features, such as encrypted DNS, a developer preview of RHEL 10 for RISC-V, and image mode for RHEL using bootc. Image...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, openjdk-11, openjdk-17, and wireless-regdb), Fedora (iputils, open-vm-tools, sfnt2woff-zopfli, and woff), Red Hat (postgresql:12), SUSE (apache2-mod_auth_openidc, brltty, helm, python-maturin, and rubygem-rack), and...
Monday May 19, 2025. 07:48 PM
Roland Shoemaker has published a blog post about a recent security audit of the cryptography packages shipped as part of the Go standard library. The audit, performed by the Trail of Bits security firm, uncovered one low-severity vulnerability in the legacy Go+BoringCrypto...
The seventh edition of the Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel (known as 'OSPM') Summit took place on March 18-20, 2025. It was organized by Juri Lelli, Frauke Jäger, Tommaso Cucinotta, and Lorenzo Pieralisi, and was hosted by Linutronix at Alte Fabrik,...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (dropbear, firefox-esr, intel-microcode, net-tools, openafs, thunderbird, and xrdp), Fedora (chromium, micropython, syslog-ng, webkitgtk, and xen), Mageia (dropbear and openssh), Oracle (.NET 9.0, kernel, libjpeg-turbo, and yelp...
The 6.15-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'So while I wish we hadn't had some of the excitement of last week, on the whole it all still looks pretty solid, and unless something strange happens I'll do the final 6.15 release next weekend.'
Sunday May 18, 2025. 10:26 AM
The 6.14.7, 6.12.29, 6.6.91, 6.1.139, and 5.15.183 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
Friday May 16, 2025. 03:29 PM
The first article in this series provided an overview of Home Assistant, its community, and its capabilities. It was deliberately short on descriptions of interesting things that can be done with Home Assistant, though — the reasons why one might actually want to use this...
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