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Wednesday October 9, 2024. 03:08 PM
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, mod_jk, and thunderbird), Debian (apache2 and firefox-esr), Fedora (crosswords, logiops, p7zip, and perl-App-cpanminus), Red Hat (.NET 6.0, firefox, git, kernel, kernel-rt, openssl, and thunderbird), SUSE (buildah,...
Tuesday October 8, 2024. 10:47 PM
In the early days of open source, it was a struggle to get companies to accept the concept and trust its development model. Now, companies have few qualms about using it, but do tend to take open source and those who maintain it for granted. The struggle now is to find ways...
Alice Ryhl has been working to enable tracepoints — which are widely used throughout the kernel — to be seamlessly placed in Rust code as well. She spoke about her approach at Kangrejos. Her patch set enables efficient use of static tracepoints, but supporting dynamic...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (kernel), Fedora (webkitgtk), Mageia (cups), Oracle (e2fsprogs, kernel, and kernel-container), Red Hat (buildah, container-tools:rhel8, containernetworking-plugins, git-lfs, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, grafana-pcp, podman, and...
Monday October 7, 2024. 11:14 PM
OpenBSD 7.6 has been released. Notable new features include work to improve suspend/resume on modern hardware, support for the arm64 Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops, as well as many improvements in hardware support and driver bug fixes. With this release all files that...
The recent WordPress controversy is not the first time there's been tension between the WordPress community, the interests of Automattic as a business, and Matt Mullenweg's leadership as WordPress's benevolent dictator for life (BDFL). In particular, Mullenweg's focus on...
Version 3.13 of the Python programming language has been released. The 'What's New In Python 3.13' page has a summary of all the new features and changes. Highlights of the release include a basic JIT compiler, experimental support for free-threading, and much more. See the...
The core of the Android operating system, as represented by the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), can only be considered one of the most successful open-source initiatives ever created; its user count is measured in the billions. But few would consider it to be a truly...
Version 2.47.0 of the Git source-code management system has been released. The changes include a long list of incremental improvements; see the announcement and this GitHub blog post for details.
Version 4.20 of the RPM Package Manager (RPM) has been released. Major changes in this release include a new plugin to prevent filesystem and network access by scriptlets, the BuildSystem directive for declaring the build system to be used by packaged software, and more. LWN ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (go-toolset:rhel8 and linux-firmware), Arch Linux (oath-toolkit), Debian (e2fsprogs, firefox-esr, libgsf, mediawiki, and oath-toolkit), Fedora (aws, chromium, firefox, p7zip, pgadmin4, python-gcsfs, unbound, webkitgtk, znc,...
Linus has released 6.12-rc2 for testing. Anyway, this isn't one of the small rc2's. But looking at historical trends, being a bigger rc2 isn't _that_ unusual, and nothing in here looks all that odd. Yes, the diffstat may look a bit unusual, in that we had a global header...
Saturday October 5, 2024. 11:41 PM
Akamai released a report pointing out that the recently-reported CUPS vulnerability (original disclosure) could be used to drive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks as well. Even if an attacker cannot gain remote control over a computer, they can still cause it to ...
Friday October 4, 2024. 06:38 PM
Rust has a plethora of smart-pointer types, including reference-counted pointers, which have special support in the compiler to make them easier to use. The Rust-for-Linux project would like to reap those same benefits for its smart pointers, which need to be written by hand ...
The 6.11.2, 6.10.13, and 6.6.54 stable kernels have been released. They contain important fixes, and upgrading is, as always, recommended.
The SUSE Security Team Blog has a detailed report on its discovery of a privilege escalation in the oath-toolkit, which provides libraries and utilities for managing one-time password (OTP) authentication. Fellow SUSE engineer Fabian Vogt approached our Security Team about...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, golang, linux-firmware, and thunderbird), Debian (kernel and zabbix), Fedora (firefox, pgadmin4, and php), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable, cjson, hostapd and wpa_supplicant, and openjpeg2), Oracle (firefox, flatpak,...
Thursday October 3, 2024. 02:50 PM
Cameras were never the simplest of devices for Linux to support; they have a wide range of operating parameters and can generate high rates of data. In recent years, though, they have become increasingly complex, stressing the ability of the kernel's media subsystem to...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cups-filters), Debian (chromium and php8.2), Fedora (firefox), Oracle (cups-filters, flatpak, kernel, krb5, oVirt 4.5 ovirt-engine, and python-urllib3), Red Hat (cups-filters, firefox, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, and...
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