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Tuesday April 2, 2024. 06:22 PM
A common theme in early-days anti-Linux FUD was that, since anybody can contribute to the code, it cannot be trusted. Over two decades later, one rarely hears that line anymore; experience has shown that free-software communities are not prone to shipping overtly hostile...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (kernel and webkitgtk), Mageia (unixODBC and w3m), and SUSE (libvirt, netty, netty-tcnative, and perl-DBD-SQLite).
Monday April 1, 2024. 07:57 PM
At SCALE this year Dan Schatzberg and Tejun Heo, both from Meta, gave back-to-back talks about some of the performance-engineering work that they do there. Schatzberg presented on the extensible BPF scheduler, which has been discussed extensively on the kernel mailing list....
Version 10.0 of the NetBSD system has been released. The netbsd-10 release branch is more than a year old now, so it is high time the 10.0 release makes it to the front stage. This matches the long time it took for the development branch to get ready for branching, a lot...
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (xz), Debian (libvirt, mediawiki, util-linux, and xz-utils), Fedora (apache-commons-configuration, cockpit, ghc-base64, ghc-hakyll, ghc-isocline, ghc-toml-parser, gitit, gnutls, pandoc, pandoc-cli, patat, podman-tui,...
The 6.9-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays kernel rc releases. Nor does Easter.'
Saturday March 30, 2024. 03:18 PM
I'm on a holiday and only happened to look at my emails and it seems to be a major mess. — Lasse Collin The reality that we are struggling with is that the free software infrastructure on which much of computing runs is massively and painfully underfunded by society as...
Friday March 29, 2024. 06:33 PM
Andres Freund has posted a detailed investigation into a backdoor that was shipped with versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 of the xz compression utility. It appears that the malicious code may be aimed at allowing SSH authentication to be bypassed. I have not yet analyzed precisely...
Radicle is a new, peer-to-peer, MIT/Apache-licensed collaboration platform written in Rust and built on top of Git. It adds support for issues and pull requests (which Radicle calls 'patches') on top of core Git, which are stored in the Git repository itself. Unlike GitHub,...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (apache-commons-configuration, chromium, csmock, ofono, onnx, php-tcpdf, and podman-tui), Mageia (curl), Oracle (libreoffice), Slackware (coreutils, seamonkey, and util), SUSE (minidlna, PackageKit, and podman),...
Christian Schaller writes about the desktop-oriented work aimed at the upcoming Fedora 40 release. Another major feature landing in Fedora Workstation 40 that Jonas Ådahl and Ray Strode has spent a lot of effort on is finalizing the remote desktop support for GNOME on...
Thursday March 28, 2024. 09:31 PM
On March 21, Redis Ltd. announced that the Redis 'in-memory data store' project would now be released under non-free, source-available licenses, starting with Redis 7.4. The news is unwelcome, but not entirely unexpected. What is unusual with this situation is the number of...
Keith Fiske gave a talk (with slides) about the state of partitioning — splitting a large table into smaller tables for performance reasons — in PostgreSQL at SCALE this year. He spoke about the existing support for partitioning, what work still needs to be done, and...
Version 4.20.0 of the Samba Windows interoperability suite has been released. Changes include better support for group-managed service accounts, an experimental Windows search protocol client, support for conditional access control entries, and more.
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (perl-Data-UUID, python-pygments, and thunderbird), Mageia (clojure, grub2, kernel,kmod-xtables-addons,kmod-virtualbox, kernel-linus, nss firefox, nss, python3, python, tcpreplay, and thunderbird), Oracle (nodejs:18), Red Hat (.NET ...
Wednesday March 27, 2024. 04:51 PM
The PostgreSQL community is dealing with the loss of Simon Riggs, who passed away on March 26: Simon was responsible for many of the enterprise features we find in PostgreSQL today, including point in time recovery, hot standby, and synchronous replication. He was the found...
Jason Nucciarone and Felipe Reyes gave back-to-back talks about high-performance computing (HPC) using Ubuntu at SCALE this year. Nucciarone talked about ongoing work packaging Open OnDemand — a web-based HPC cluster interface — to make high-performance-computing...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (composer and nodejs), Fedora (w3m), Mageia (tomcat), Oracle (expat, firefox, go-toolset:ol8, grafana, grafana-pcp, nodejs:18, and thunderbird), Red Hat (dnsmasq, expat, kernel, kernel-rt, libreoffice, and squid), and SUSE...
Tuesday March 26, 2024. 11:59 PM
Sasha Levin has announced the release of the 6.8.2, 6.7.11, 6.6.23, 6.1.83, 5.15.153, 5.10.214, 5.4.273, and 4.19.311 stable kernels. Each contains a long list of important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
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