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Tuesday October 22, 2024. 09:20 PM
The Image-Based Linux Summit has by now established itself as a yearly event. Following on from last year's edition, the third edition was held in Berlin on September 24, the day before All Systems Go! 2024 (ASG). The purpose of this event is to gather stakeholders from...
The kernel's CPU scheduler currently offers several preemption modes that implement a range of tradeoffs between system throughput and response time. Back in September 2023, a discussion on scheduling led to the concept of 'lazy preemption', which could simplify scheduling...
The AlmaLinux project has introduced a new edition called 'Kitten', which will serve as 'the direct upstream for AlmaLinux OS and is the primary point for the AlmaLinux community to engage and influence the future of AlmaLinux OS'. Not intended for production use, the first...
The 6.11.5, 6.6.58, 6.1.114, 5.15.169, and 5.10.228 stable kernels have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
Version 3.4.0 of the OpenSSL SSL/TLS library has been released. It adds a number of new encryption algorithms, support for 'directly fetched composite signature algorithms such as RSA-SHA2-256', and more. See the release notes for details.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg, ghostscript, libsepol, openjdk-11, openjdk-17, perl, and python-sql), Oracle (389-ds-base, buildah, containernetworking-plugins, edk2, httpd, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, kernel,...
Monday October 21, 2024. 08:20 PM
Sasha Levin has announced a new tree that is intended to perform continuous-integration tests of pull requests aimed at the mainline. The plan is for this tree to hold more finished work than sometimes ends up in linux-next; in a name that seems destined to create...
Version 1.1.0 of the bootc utility for performing transactional, in-place operating system updates using Open Container Initative (OCI) images, has been released. This release 'officially stabilizes all APIs' for bootc and includes a number of bug fixes. LWN covered bootc in ...
Sigstore is a project that is meant to simplify and improve the process of signing, verifying, and protecting software. It is a relatively new project, declared 'generally available' in 2022. Python is an early adopter of sigstore; it started providing signatures for CPython ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (asterisk, chromium, php-horde-mime-viewer, and php-horde-turba), Fedora (apache-commons-io, buildah, chromium, containers-common, libarchive, libdigidocpp, oath-toolkit, podman, rust-hyper-rustls, rust-reqwest,...
The Guix project has disclosed a security vulnerability in the build daemon that the distribution uses to build and install software locally. The vulnerability allows an existing unprivileged user to get access to a setuid binary, and from there potentially interfere with ...
Linus has released 6.12-rc4 for testing. 'I'm not happy with how big this is - it's probably far from the biggest rc4 ever, but it _is_ the biggest rc4 we've had in the 6.x series at least in number of commits.'
Friday October 18, 2024. 03:25 PM
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, and webkit2gtk3), Debian (apache2), Red Hat (expat), SUSE (cups-filters, jetty-minimal, OpenIPMI, and python-starlette), and Ubuntu (linux-azure,...
Thursday October 17, 2024. 08:42 PM
Version 1.82.0 of the Rust language has been released. There are a lot of new features this time, including a cargo info command, tier-1 support for 64-bit Apple Arm systems, a new native syntax (&raw) to create raw pointers, changes to unsafe extern, unsafe attributes,...
Email has become somewhat unfashionable as a collaboration tool for open-source projects, but there are still a number of projects—such as PostgreSQL and the Linux kernel—that expect contributors to send and review patches via email. The aerc mail client is aimed at...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.11.4, 6.6.57, 6.1.113, 5.15.168, and 5.10.227 stable kernels. As usual, this set of updates contains a long list of important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-cryptography), Fedora (dnsdist and python-virtualenv), Red Hat (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, and java-21-openjdk), Slackware (libssh2 and mozilla), SUSE (haproxy, keepalived, libarchive,...
Wednesday October 16, 2024. 08:24 PM
Version 9.0 of the Forgejo software forge system has been released. Changes include a switch to the GPLv3 license, the beginning of a quota system, the removal of go-git support, and a lot of fixes. (LWN looked at Forgejo in February).
Rust, like C, has its own memory model describing how concurrent access to the same data by multiple threads can behave. The Linux kernel, however, has its own ideas. The Linux kernel memory model (LKMM) is subtly different from both the standard C memory model and Rust's...
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