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Tuesday October 29, 2024. 02:27 PM
Security updates have been issued by Debian (exim4) and SUSE (chromium, openssl-1_1, and openssl-3).
A project called Flock has announced its existence. Flock is a fork of the Flutter user-interface toolkit project, motivated by frustration with the resources that Google is putting into Flutter. We describe Flock as 'Flutter+'. In other words, we do not want, or intend,...
Monday October 28, 2024. 10:28 PM
Debian Developer Russell Coker has written up an analysis of the remote exploit of CUPS announced in September: He seems to have a different experience to me of reporting bugs, I have had plenty of success getting bugs fixed without hyping them. I just report the bug, wait...
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has announced the release of version 1.0 of the Open Source AI Definition: The OSAID offers a standard by which community-led, open and public evaluations will be conducted to validate whether or not an AI system can be deemed Open Source...
Sparrow Li presented virtually at RustConf 2024 about the current state of and future plans for the Rust compiler's performance. The compiler is relatively slow to compile large programs, although it has been getting better over time. The next big performance improvement to...
Rong Xu and Han Shen described the kernel-optimization techniques that Google uses in the toolchains track at the 2024 Linux Plumbers Conference. They talked about automatic feedback-directed optimization (AutoFDO), which can be used with the Propeller optimizer to produce...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, python3.12, and python3.9), Debian (activemq, chromium, libheif, nss, and twisted), Fedora (chromium, dnsdist, dotnet8.0, edk2, glibc, libdigidocpp, mbedtls3.6, NetworkManager-libreswan, oath-toolkit, podman-tui,...
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has been working on defining Open Source AI—that is what constitutes an AI system that can be used, studied, modified, and shared for any purpose—for almost two years. Its board will be voting on the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) on...
Linus has released 6.12-rc5 for testing. rc5 looks perfectly normal, and maybe even on the small side of normal. The diffstat looks nice and flat too, with the exception of the removal of the da8xx fbdev driver due to it having been replaced by the tilcdc driver. And I'm...
Friday October 25, 2024. 09:39 PM
A pair of talks in the toolchains track at the 2024 Linux Plumbers Conference covered different tools that can be used to optimize the kernel. First up was Maksim Panchenko to describe the binary optimization and layout tool (BOLT) that Meta uses on its production kernels....
Security updates have been issued by Debian (distro-info-data), Fedora (libtiff), Mageia (firefox and oath-toolkit), Red Hat (krb5), and SUSE (openssl-1_1).
Thursday October 24, 2024. 05:36 PM
Small objects can lead to large email threads. In this case, the GNU C Library (glibc) community has been having an extensive debate over the handling of zero-byte allocations. Specifically, what should happen when a program calls realloc() specifying a size of zero? This...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (grafana, NetworkManager-libreswan, python3.11, and python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9), Fedora (dotnet6.0, koji, python-fastapi, python-openapi-core, python-platformio, python-starlette, rust-pyo3, rust-pyo3-build-config,...
Wednesday October 23, 2024. 07:40 PM
Currently in Rust, there is no efficient and safe way to turn an array of bytes into a structure that corresponds to the array. Changing that was the topic of Jack Wrenn's talk this year at RustConf: 'Safety Goggles for Alchemists'. The goal is to be able to 'transmute'...
Version 14.0 of the privacy-focused Tor browser has been released. This is our first stable release based on Firefox ESR 128, incorporating a year's worth of changes shipped upstream in Firefox. As part of this process we've also completed our annual ESR transition audit,...
Jakub Kadlčík announced on his blog that Fedora's Copr build system will be dropping support for building modules (groups of RPM packages that are built, installed, and shipped together) soon: The Fedora Modularity project never really took off, and building modules in...
In July, at the GNOME annual general meeting (AGM), held at GUADEC 2024, the message from the GNOME Foundation board was that all was well, financially speaking. Not great, but the foundation was on a break-even budget and expected to go into its next fiscal year with a...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (dmitry, libheif, and python-sql), Fedora (suricata and wireshark), SUSE (cargo-c, libeverest, protobuf, and qemu), and Ubuntu (golang-1.22, libheif, unbound, and webkit2gtk).
Perhaps one of the more surprising changes in the 6.12-rc4 development kernel was the removal of several entries from the kernel's MAINTAINERS file. The patch performing the removal was sent (by Greg Kroah-Hartman) only to the patches@lists.linux.dev mailing list; the change ...
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