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Wednesday October 16, 2024. 03:52 PM
The pidfd mechanism, which uses file descriptors to refer to processes in an unambiguous and race-free way, was first introduced in 2018. Since then, the interface has gained a number of new features, but development has slowed over time as the interface has matured. There...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, containernetworking-plugins, and skopeo), Fedora (pdns-recursor and valkey), Mageia (unbound), Red Hat (fence-agents, firefox, java-11-openjdk, python-setuptools, python3-setuptools, resource-agents, and thunderbird),...
Tuesday October 15, 2024. 06:47 PM
Version 4.0.0 of the LibreSSL TLS/cryptography stack has been released. Changes include a cleanup of the MD4 and MD5 implementations, removal of unused DSA methods, changes in libtls protocol parsing to ignore unsupported TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.0 protocols, and many more internal ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, firefox, OpenIPMI, podman, and thunderbird), Debian (libapache-mod-jk, php7.4, and webkit2gtk), Fedora (edk2, koji, libgsf, rust-hyper-rustls, rust-reqwest, rust-rustls-native-certs,...
Paul McKenney gave a presentation at Kangrejos this year that wasn't (directly) related to Rust. Instead, he spoke about the work he has been doing in concert with many other contributors on improving the handling of subtle concurrency problems in C++. Although he cautioned...
Monday October 14, 2024. 08:19 PM
Version 1.4 of the Inkscape open-source vector-graphics editor has been released. Highlights of this release include a filter gallery, import for Affinity Designer files, internal links in exported PDFs, and more. See the release notes for all of the new features. LWN...
It is too early to say what the outcome will be in the ongoing fight between Automattic and WP Engine, but the WordPress community at large is already the loser. Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg has been using his control of the project, and the WordPress.org...
While Debian's 'sauce' is not actually all that secret, it is not particularly well-known either, Samuel Henrique said at the start of his DebConf24 talk. There is a lot of software-engineering effort that has been put in place by the distribution in order to create and...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (docker.io, libreoffice, node-dompurify, python-reportlab, and thunderbird), Fedora (buildah, chromium, kernel, kernel-headers, libgsf, mosquitto, p7zip, podman, python-cramjam, python-virtualenv, redis, rust-async-compression,...
The 6.12-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. So the diffstat looks a bit odd, because one of the fixes here caused the UTF tables to be regenerated, and an effective one-liner change turned into 6703 lines of diff. But if you ignore that effect, everything looks...
Friday October 11, 2024. 03:56 PM
At Kangrejos, Gary Guo wanted to discuss three problems with the way Rust and C code in the kernel interact: mismatched types, too many type casts, and the overhead of helper functions. To fix the first two problems, Guo proposed changing the way the kernel maps C types into ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 6.0,.NET 8.0, and openssl), Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (firefox), Mageia (php, quictls, and vim), Red Hat (buildah, container-tools:rhel8, containernetworking-plugins, firefox, podman, skopeo, and tomcat), Slackware...
Thursday October 10, 2024. 06:46 PM
Version 24.10 of the Ubuntu distribution is out. This release includes GNOME 47, Linux 6.11, security enhancements for managing Personal Package Archives (PPAs), experimental security controls for Snap packages, and more.
At the recently concluded Maintainers Summit, it was generally agreed that the Rust experiment would continue, and that the path was clear for more Rust code to enter the kernel. But the high-level view taken at such gatherings cannot always account for the difficult details ...
Mozilla has released Firefox versions 131.0.2, ESR 128.3.1, and ESR 115.16.1. These updates address a severe, remotely exploitable code-execution vulnerability that is evidently already being exploited. Updating to a fixed release seems like a wise thing to do.
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.11.3, 6.10.14, 6.6.55, and 6.6.56 stable kernels. The 6.6.56 release fixes a problem with building perf in 6.6.55; 'If you do not use the perf tool in the 6.6.y tree, there is no need to upgrade.'. Meanwhile, 6.10.14 is...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (firefox, koji, unbound, webkit2gtk4.0, and xen), Red Hat (glibc, net-snmp, and tomcat), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (apache-commons-io, buildah, cups-filters, liboath-devel, libreoffice, libunbound8, podman, and...
Wednesday October 9, 2024. 07:20 PM
Bindgen is a widely used tool that automatically generates Rust bindings from C headers. The Rust-for-Linux project uses it to create some of the bindings between Rust code and the rest of the kernel. John Baublitz presented at Kangrejos about the improvements that he has...
The Julia project has released version 1.11.0. A separate blog post covers some of the highlights. The release includes a number of helpful features. In previous Julia versions, there was no 'programmatic way' of knowing if an unexported name was considered part of the...
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