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Thursday September 26, 2024. 07:28 PM
Danilo Krummrich gave a talk at Kangrejos 2024 focusing on the question of how the Rust-for-Linux project could improve at getting device and driver abstractions upstream. As a case study, he used some of his recent work that attempts to make it possible to write a PCI...
Version 17 of the PostgreSQL database has been released. This release of PostgreSQL adds significant overall performance gains, including an overhauled memory management implementation for vacuum, optimizations to storage access and improvements for high concurrency...
The online-privacy-focused Tor project has announced that it has 'joined forces and merged operations' with the Tails OS Linux distribution. Countering the threat of global mass surveillance and censorship to a free Internet, Tor and Tails provide essential tools to help...
The extensible scheduler class (sched_ext) enables the implementation of CPU schedulers as a set of BPF programs loaded from user space; it first hit the mailing lists in late 2022. Sched_ext has engendered its share of controversy since, but is currently slated to be part...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, dovecot, emacs, expat, git-lfs, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, grafana, grafana-pcp, gtk3, kernel, kernel-rt, nano, python3, python3.11, python3.12, and virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel), Debian (mediawiki and...
Here's a post on the Google Security Blog on how switching to a memory-safe language can quickly reduce vulnerabilities in a project, even if a large body of older code persists. This leads to two important takeaways: The problem is overwhelmingly with new code,...
Wednesday September 25, 2024. 07:13 PM
The Vanilla OS project has published a blog post to answer questions that users have raised since the release of Vanilla OS 2. The post has information about the update strategy for the distribution, an enterprise version with support, and plans for an experimental version...
In March, Danilo Krummrich announced the new Nova GPU driver — a successor to Nouveau for controlling NVIDIA GPUs. At Kangrejos 2024, Krummrich gave a presentation about what it is, why it's needed, and where it's going next. Hearing about the needs of the driver provoked...
The 'Linus and Dirk show' has been a fixture at Open Source Summit for as long as the conference has existed; it started back when the conference was called LinuxCon. Since Linus Torvalds famously does not like to give talks, as he said during this year's edition at Open...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (booth), Gentoo (Xpdf), Oracle (go-toolset:ol8, golang, grafana, grafana-pcp, kernel, libnbd, openssl, pcp, and ruby:3.3), Red Hat (container-tools:rhel8, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, kernel, and kernel-rt), SUSE (apr, cargo-audit,...
Tuesday September 24, 2024. 05:00 PM
Almost a decade ago KDE e.V., the non-profit organization that supports KDE, started a process for selecting goals to help the community unite behind a common vision for where the project should go in the near future. KDE recently wrapped up its 2022-2024 cycle and announced...
Version 10.0.0 of the HarfBuzz text-shaping engine has been released. Notable changes in this release include Unicode 16.0.0 support, adding Cairo script as an output format for hb-view, and a number of bug fixes.
The project to enable the writing of kernel code in Rust has been underway for several years, and each kernel release includes more Rust code. Even so, some developers have expressed frustration at the time it takes to get new functionality merged, and an air of uncertainty...
Security updates have been issued by Gentoo (GCC, Hunspell, Tor, and ZNC), SUSE (apr-devel, cargo-c, chromedriver, firefox, kernel, libecpg6, libmfx, onefetch, postgresql12, postgresql13, postgresql14, postgresql15, postgresql16, python310-azure-identity, python39, qemu,...
Monday September 23, 2024. 09:22 PM
Version 1.0.0 of Hy, a Lisp dialect that is embedded in Python, has been released after nearly 12 years in development. This is the first stable release of the project: Henceforth, breaking changes to documented parts of the language (other than dropping support for...
Dirk Behme led a second session, back-to-back with his session on error handling at Kangrejos 2024, discussing providing better guidance for users of the kernel's Rust abstractions. Just after that, Carlos Bilbao and Miguel Ojeda had their own time slot dedicated to...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (expat, fence-agents, firefox, libnbd, openssl, pcp, ruby:3.3, and thunderbird), Debian (ruby-saml), Fedora (aardvark-dns, chromium, expat, jupyterlab, less, openssl, python-jupyterlab-server, python-notebook, python3-docs, and...
Konstantin Ryabitsev started a session on development tooling at the 2024 Maintainers Summit by saying that he does not want to be a 'wrecking ball'. If a given workflow is working for people, he does not want to try to force any sort of change. That said, he has ideas for...
Friday September 20, 2024. 08:05 PM
The SUSE Security Team Blog has a detailed review of the Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) 6.2.1 release: The rather complex PCP software suite was difficult to judge just from a cursory look, so we decided to take a closer look especially at PCP's networking logic at a later...
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