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Monday November 25, 2024. 03:21 PM
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ansible, chromium, ghostscript, glib2.0, intel-microcode, and kernel), Fedora (dotnet9.0, needrestart, php, and python3.6), Oracle (cups, kernel, osbuild-composer, podman, python3.12-urllib3, squid, and xerces-c), Red Hat...
Saturday November 23, 2024. 02:26 AM
The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB) has decided to 'restrict Kent Overstreet's participation in the kernel development process during the Linux 6.13 kernel development cycle' based on a recommendation from the Code of Conduct committee. In particular, the...
Friday November 22, 2024. 04:13 PM
The Linux kernel community's discussions about including Rust have gotten a lot of attention, but the kernel is not the only project wrestling with the question of whether to allow Rust. The Git project discussed the prospect in January, and then again at the Git...
The 6.12.1, 6.11.10, 6.6.63, and 6.1.119 stable kernel updates have been released. As always, they contain important fixes.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (postgresql-13, postgresql-15, and webkit2gtk), Fedora (libsndfile, microcode_ctl, and trafficserver), Mageia (kanboard, kernel, kmod-xtables-addons, kmod-virtualbox, and bluez, kernel-linus, opendmarc, and radare2), Oracle (.NET...
Version 8.4.1 of the PHP language has been released. See this page for details on the new features in this release. 'PHP 8.4 is a major update of the PHP language. It contains many new features, such as property hooks, asymmetric visibility, an updated DOM API, performance...
Thursday November 21, 2024. 04:39 PM
As of this writing, just over 1,800 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline kernel for the 6.13 release. That number may seem small, given that a typical merge window brings in at least 12,000 commits, but the early pulls this time around have focused on...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, NetworkManager-libreswan, and openssl), Fedora (chromium and llvm-test-suite), Mageia (thunderbird), and Ubuntu (linux-aws-6.8, linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8, linux-oracle-6.8,, linux-azure, and ruby2.7).
Wednesday November 20, 2024. 08:05 PM
Linus Torvalds released the 6.12 kernel on November 17, as expected. This development cycle, the last for 2024, brought 13,344 non-merge changesets into the mainline kernel; that made it a relatively slow cycle from this perspective, but 6.12 includes a long list of...
At the 2024 X.Org Developers Conference (XDC), Lyude Paul gave a talk on the work she has been doing as part of the Nova project, which is an effort build an NVIDIA GPU driver in Rust. She wanted to provide an introduction to RVKMS, which is being used to develop Rust kernel ...
Version 4.3 of the Blender animation system has been released. 'Brush assets, faster sculpting, a revolutionized Grease Pencil, and more. Blender 4.3 got you covered.'
CHICKEN Scheme, a portable Scheme compiler, is gearing up for its next major release. Maintainer Felix Winkelmann has shared an article about what changes to expect in version 6 of the language, including better Unicode support and support for the R7RS (small) Scheme...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (guix, libmodule-scandeps-perl, needrestart, and thunderbird), SUSE (gh), and Ubuntu (kernel, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux,...
Version 9.5 of the Rocky Linux distribution is out. As with the AlmaLinux 9.5 release, Rocky Linux 9.5 tracks the changes in upstream RHEL 9.5. See the release notes for details.
It took more than 20 years, but the FreeCAD computer-aided design project has just made its 1.0 release. Since the very beginnings, the FreeCAD community had a clear view of what 1.0 represented for us. What we wanted in it. FreeCAD matured over the years, and that list...
Tuesday November 19, 2024. 08:19 PM
The most common piece of advice given to users who ask about running their own mail server is don't. Setting up and securing a mail server in 2024 is not for the faint of heart, nor for anyone without copious spare time. Spammers want to flood inboxes with ads for...
Version 6.7 of the Incus container-management system (forked from LXD) has been released. 'This is another one of those pretty well rounded releases with new features and improvements for everyone'. New features include automatic cluster rebalancing, DHCP improvements, and...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 9.0, bcc, bluez, bpftrace, bubblewrap, flatpak, buildah, cockpit, containernetworking-plugins, cups, cyrus-imapd, edk2, expat, firefox, fontforge, gnome-shell, gnome-shell-extensions, grafana, grafana-pcp, gtk3, httpd,...
Version 9.5 of the AlmaLinux enterprise-oriented distribution has been released. AlmaLinux 9.5 aims to improve performance, development tooling, and security. Updated module streams offer better support for web applications. New versions of compilers provide access to the...
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