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Wednesday June 5, 2024. 05:09 PM
Drew DeVault has published an update about the state of the SourceHut software development platform and its plans for the coming months. This is the first update since the January post-mortem following a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that resulted in a...
Alan Jowett returned for a second remote presentation at the 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit to compare the performance of different BPF runtimes. He showed the results of the MIT-licensed BPF microbenchmark suite he has been working on....
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (deepin-qt5integration, deepin-qt5platform-plugins, dotnet8.0, dwayland, fcitx-qt5, fcitx5-qt, gammaray, kddockwidgets, keepassxc, kf5-akonadi-server, kf5-frameworkintegration, kf5-kwayland, plasma-integration, python-qt5,...
Tuesday June 4, 2024. 10:00 PM
We have just received the sad news that longtime core BSD developer Mike Karels has died; he will certainly be missed.
Version 6.2 of the Incus container-management system is out. 'This release contains the second wave of changes contributed by students of the University of Texas at Austin and a few other features and improvements.' The features include a new incus top command, a new API for...
In the recent discussion on commenting at LWN, several readers asked for the ability to hide subthreads of a long comment stream. That feature has just been added; it is also integrated with the three comment-display modes and with comment filtering, removing the need for...
The saga of the i_version field for inodes, which tracks the occurrence of changes to the data or metadata of a file, continued in a discussion at the 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. In a session led by Jeff Layton, who has been doing a lot ...
There are few topics as arcane as memory models, so it was a pleasant surprise when the double-length session on the BPF memory model at the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit turned out to be understandable. Paul McKenney led the session, although...
Security updates have been issued by Mageia (chromium-browser-stable, git, libreoffice, microcode, python-requests, webkit2, and wireshark), Oracle (container-tools:ol8, glibc, go-toolset:ol8, idm:DL1 and idm:client, less, python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9, ruby:3.0, and...
Tuesday May 7, 2024. 05:50 PM
The systemd project is preparing for a new release. Version 256-rc1 was released on April 25 with a large number of changes and new features. Most of the changes relate to security, easier configuration, unprivileged access to system resources, or all three of these. Users...
Version 14.1 of the GCC compiler suite has been released. The list of changes is long; it includes support for more C++26 features, preparation for Fortran 2023 support, a new -fhardened flag to enable security-hardening features, vectorizer improvements, and a number of...
The Go Blog has a detailed article on the new, more secure random-number generator implemented for the 1.22 release. For example, when Go 1.20 deprecated math/rand's Read, we heard from developers who discovered (thanks to tooling pointing out use of deprecated...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (kernel), Gentoo (libjpeg-turbo, xar, and Xpdf), Red Hat (bind, dhcp and glibc), and SUSE (bouncycastle, curl, flatpak, less, and xen).
Monday May 6, 2024. 11:21 PM
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has announced its annual impact report for 2023. The report includes updates from PSF staff as well as summaries of the foundation's activities, financials, and infrastructure. The PSF celebrated the 20th anniversary of PyCon US,...
Daniel Stenberg has posted a report about the recent curl up conference about curl development. It was held over two days in Stockholm. The report has short summaries of the talks with links to the recordings. curl up is never a big meeting/conference but we have in the...
In some aspects, such as in gaming, the Linux desktop has made enormous strides in the past few years. In others, such as accessibility, things have stagnated. At Open Source Summit North America (OSSNA), Matt Campbell spoke about the need for, and an approach to,...
The Free Software Foundation has announced the recipients of its 2023 Free Software Awards: Bruno Haible for work on gnulib, Nick Logozzo as the 'outstanding new free software contributior', and code.gouv.fr for projects of social benefit. When presenting the award to...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (glibc, intel-microcode, less, libkf5ksieve, and ruby3.1), Fedora (chromium, gdcm, httpd, and stalld), Gentoo (Apache Commons BCEL, borgmatic, Dalli, firefox, HTMLDOC, ImageMagick, MediaInfo, MediaInfoLib, MIT krb5, MPlayer, mujs,...
The 6.9-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'The stats for 6.9 continue to look very normal, and nothing looks particularly alarming.'
Friday May 3, 2024. 05:56 PM
Kernel developers are encouraged to send their changes in small batches as a way of making life easier for reviewers. So when a longtime developer and maintainer hits the list with a 437-patch series touching 859 files, eyebrows are certain to head skyward. Specifically,...
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