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Wednesday October 2, 2024. 07:04 PM
The open-source vector-graphics editor, Inkscape, is expected to release version 1.4 in October. The release represents an evolutionary step for the program, which brings new features, user-interface improvements, new and improved file-format support, and important changes...
BPF Type Format (BTF), BPF's debugging information format, has undergone rapid evolution to match the evolving needs of BPF programs. José Marchesi spoke at Kangrejos about some of that work — and how it could impact Rust, specifically. He discussed debug information,...
Version 24.1 of the Arch-based Manjaro distribution is now available with the 6.10 Linux kernel, GNOME 46.5, KDE Plasma 6.1 and KDE Gear 24.08: Plasma 6.1 on Wayland now has a feature that 'remembers' what you were doing in your last session like it did under X11. Although t...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (grafana), Fedora (cjson and php), Oracle (389-ds-base, freeradius, grafana, kernel, and krb5), Slackware (cryfs, cups, and mozilla), SUSE (OpenIPMI, openssl-3, openvpn, thunderbird, and tomcat), and Ubuntu (cups, cups-filters,...
Tuesday October 1, 2024. 07:31 PM
Version 7.1 of the FFmpeg audio/video toolkit has been released. Important changes in this release include the VVC decoder reaching stable status, and inclusion of support for MV-HEVC decoding (which is generated by recent phones and VR headsets), as well as support for...
Version 131.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes include the ability to temporarily grant permissions to sites and a preview that pops up when hovering over tabs.
One concern that has often been expressed about the Rust language is that there is only one compiler for it. That makes it hard to say what the standard version of the language is and restricts the architectures that can be targeted by Rust code to those that the available...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (debian-security-support, nghttp2, and sqlite3), Oracle (cups-filters, kernel, and osbuild-composer), SUSE (openssl-3), and Ubuntu (bubblewrap, flatpak and python2.7, python3.5).
Monday September 30, 2024. 09:01 PM
Tathagata Roy has been working to make the Coccinelle tool that is used (among other things) to automate the refactoring of C code work on Rust code as well. Roy gave a presentation at Kangrejos about that work, including the creative approaches necessary to work with...
Linus Torvalds released 6.12-rc1 and closed the 6.12 merge window on September 29; at that point, 11,260 non-merge change sets had been pulled into the mainline for the 6.12 release. That is the lowest number of merge-window changes since 5.17-rc1 in January 2022, which broug...
WordPress is the world's most popular open‑source blogging and content‑management platform. In its 20‑plus years of existence, WordPress has been something of a poster child for open source, similar to Linux and Firefox. It introduced the concept of open source to millions...
The 6.11.1, 6.10.12, 6.6.53, and 6.1.112 stable kernels have been released. Each contains important fixes and users of those series should upgrade.
The most recent major release of the Tcl/Tk language and graphical-user-interface toolkit, Tcl/Tk 9.0, has been released, a mere 27 years after the 8.0 major release in 1997. There have been plenty of releases in the interim, though, as can be seen in the Tcl chronology. The ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cups-filters, net-snmp, and osbuild-composer), Debian (booth, cups, cups-filters, python-asyncssh, ruby-httparty, ruby-loofah, ruby-rails-html-sanitizer, tryton-server, unbound, and wireshark), Fedora (chromium, cjson, cups,...
The Arch Linux project has announced that Valve will be helping the distribution with a couple of important initiatives: Valve is generously providing backing for two critical projects that will have a huge impact on our distribution: a build service infrastructure and a...
Linus has released 6.12-rc1 and closed the merge window for this release. Despite conference travel (both for me and several maintainers), things seemed to go mostly fairly normally. There's a couple of notable new features in here: For one thing, PREEMPT_RT is now...
Sunday September 29, 2024. 09:23 AM
Michał Górny describes the challenges involved in transitioning Gentoo to year-2038-safe time representations: There is a general agreement that the way forward is to change time_t to a 64-bit type. Musl has already switched to that, glibc supports it as an option. A...
Friday September 27, 2024. 04:01 PM
In the wake of the XZ backdoor, the Debian project has revisited some of the patches included in its OpenSSH packages to improve security. The outcome of this is that the project will be splitting out support for Kerberos key exchange into a separate set of packages, though...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and trafficserver), Fedora (chromium), Mageia (apache-mod_jk, gnome-shell, kernel, kmod-xtables-addons, and kmod-virtualbox, kernel-linus, and python3), Oracle (container-tools:ol8, dovecot, emacs, expat, firefox,...
Thursday September 26, 2024. 11:22 PM
Security researcher Simone Margaritelli has reported a new vulnerability in CUPS, the software that many Linux systems use to manage printers and print jobs. Margaritelli describes the impact of the attack by saying: A remote unauthenticated attacker can silently replace ...
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