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Friday April 12, 2024. 03:25 PM
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (rust, trafficserver, and upx), Mageia (postgresql-jdbc and x11-server, x11-server-xwayland, tigervnc), Red Hat (bind, bind9.16, gnutls, httpd:2.4, squid, unbound, and xorg-x11-server), SUSE (perl-Net-CIDR-Lite), ...
Thursday April 11, 2024. 04:26 PM
The Earliest Virtual Deadline First (EEVDF) scheduler was merged as an option for the 6.6 kernel. It represents a major change to how CPU scheduling is done on Linux systems, but the EEVDF front has been relatively quiet since then. Now, though, scheduler developer Peter...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, less, libreoffice, nodejs:18, nodejs:20, rear, thunderbird, and varnish), Debian (pillow), Fedora (dotnet7.0), SUSE (sngrep, texlive-specs-k, tomcat, tomcat10, and xorg-x11-server), and Ubuntu (nss, squid, and...
Wednesday April 10, 2024. 09:10 PM
The Gentoo Linux project has announced that it is now an Associated Project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI), which will allow it to accept tax deductible donations in the US and reduce its 'non-technical workload': The current Gentoo Foundation has bylaws...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced another round of stable kernel updates: 6.8.5, 6.6.26, 6.1.85, and 5.15.154 have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes, including the mitigations for the recently disclosed branch history injection hardware...
A recent book by LWN guest author Lee Phillips provides a nice introduction to the Julia programming language. Practical Julia does more than that, however. As its subtitle ('A Hands-On Introduction for Scientific Minds') implies, the book focuses on bringing Julia to...
On April 3 security researcher Bartek Nowotarski published the details of a new denial-of-service (DoS) attack, called a 'continuation flood', against many HTTP/2-capable web servers. While the attack is not terribly complex, it affects many independent implementations of...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gtkwave), Fedora (dotnet7.0, dotnet8.0, and python-pillow), Mageia (apache, gstreamer1.0, libreoffice, perl-Data-UUID, and xen), Oracle (kernel, kernel-container, and varnish), Red Hat (edk2, kernel, rear, and unbound), SUSE...
Tuesday April 9, 2024. 09:22 PM
The mainline kernel has just received a set of commits mitigating the latest x86 hardware vulnerability, known as 'branch history injection'. From this commit: Branch History Injection (BHI) attacks may allow a malicious application to influence indirect branch prediction...
On February 20, Linaro held the initial get-together for what is intended to be a regular Linux Kernel Forum for the Arm-focused kernel community. This gathering aims to convene approximately a few weeks prior to the merge window opening and prior to the release of the...
Version 3.3.0 of the OpenSSL SSL/TLS implementation has been released. Changes include a number of additions to its QUIC protocol support, some year-2038 improvements for 32-bit systems, and a lot of cryptographic features with descriptions like 'Added a new...
There are many mechanisms for deferred work in the Linux kernel. One of them, workqueues, has seen increasing use as part of the move away from software interrupts. Alison Chaiken gave a talk at SCALE about how they compare to software interrupts, the new challenges they...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (expat), Oracle (less and nodejs:20), Slackware (libarchive), SUSE (kubernetes1.23, nghttp2, qt6-base, and util-linux), and Ubuntu (python-django).
Monday April 8, 2024. 10:02 PM
Version 4.2.0 of the Rivendell radio automation system has been released. Changes include a new data feed for 'next' data objects, improvements to its podcast system, numerous bug fixes, and more.
The Google Open Source Blog is carrying an announcement for a new JPEG library called 'Jpegli'. There are a number of advantages claimed, including: Jpegli can be encoded with 10+ bits per component. Traditional JPEG coding solutions offer only 8 bit per component dynamics ...
Sometimes the smallest patches create the biggest discussions. A case in point would be the process by which the PostgreSQL community — not a group normally prone to extended, strongly worded megathreads — resolved the question of whether to merge a brief patch adding a...
Version 2.4.0 of the GNU Stow symbolic-link manager has been released. This marks the first release for GNU Stow since 2019. Maintainer Adam Spires wrote: I would like to sincerely apologise to all Stow users for this incredibly overdue release, the cadence of which is...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (jetty9, libcaca, libgd2, tomcat9, and util-linux), Fedora (chromium, micropython, and upx), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable, dav1d, libreswan, libvirt, nodejs, texlive-20220321, and util-linux), Red Hat (less, nodejs:20, and...
The 6.9-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Ok, so this rc3 looks a bit different than the usual ones, because there's a large series to bcachefs to do filesystem repair after corruption. Not normally something we'd see in an rc kernel, but hey, if you had a corrupted...
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