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Thursday September 21, 2023. 08:54 AM
Wednesday September 20, 2023. 06:35 PM
The 'limited' C API for CPython extensions has been around for well over a decade at this point, but it has not seen much uptake. It is meant to give extensions an API that will allow binaries built with it to be used for multiple versions of CPython, because those binaries...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (frr and libyang), Fedora (golang-github-prometheus-exporter-toolkit, golang-github-xhit-str2duration, golang-gopkg-alecthomas-kingpin-2, libpano13, and open-vm-tools), Oracle (firefox, frr, and thunderbird), Red Hat (dmidecode,...
Tuesday September 19, 2023. 05:39 PM
JDK 21, the reference implementation of the Java 21 language specification, has been released. 'This release includes fifteen JEPs [1], including the final versions of Record Patterns (440), Pattern Matching for switch (441), and Virtual Threads (444)'.
The 6.5.4, 6.1.54, 5.15.132, and 5.10.195 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains a relatively large set of important fixes.
The security of digital products has become a topic of regulation in recent years. Currently, the European Union is moving forward with another new law, which, if it comes into effect in a form close to the current draft, will affect software developers worldwide. This new...
The Free Software Foundation looks forward to the 40th anniversary of the GNU project, coming soon: On September 27, 1983, a computer scientist named Richard Stallman announced the plan to develop a free software Unix-like operating system called GNU, for 'GNU's not Unix.' ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, flac, gnome-shell, libwebp, openjdk-11, and xrdp), Fedora (giflib), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (busybox, dbus, firefox, frr, kpatch-patch, libwebp, open-vm-tools, and thunderbird), Slackware (netatalk), SUSE (flac, gcc12,...
Monday September 18, 2023. 05:10 PM
Processes in a Linux system run within their own virtual address spaces. Their virtual addresses map to physical pages provided by the hardware, but the kernel takes pains to hide the physical addresses of those pages; processes normally have no way of knowing (and no need...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, libwebp, and thunderbird), Fedora (chromium, curl, flac, libtommath, libwebp, matrix-synapse, python-matrix-common, redis, and rust-pythonize), Gentoo (binwalk, ghostscript, python-requests, rar, samba, and...
The 6.6-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. I think the most notable thing about 6.6-rc2 is simply that it's exactly 32 years to the day since the 0.01 release. And that's a round number if you are a computer person. Because other than the random date, I don't see...
Saturday September 16, 2023. 12:50 AM
The Debian project is mourning Abraham Raji, who died in an accident on September 13. Abraham was a popular and respected Debian Developer as well a prominent free software champion in his home state of Kerala, India. He was a talented graphic designer and led design and...
Friday September 15, 2023. 04:51 PM
Much of the kernel's performance is dependent on caching — keeping useful information around for future use to avoid the cost of looking it up again. The kernel aggressively caches pages of file data, directory entries, inodes, slab objects, and much more. Without active...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (c-ares and samba), Fedora (borgbackup, firefox, and libwebp), Oracle (.NET 6.0 and kernel), Slackware (libwebp), SUSE (chromium and firefox), and Ubuntu (atftp, dbus, gawk, libssh2, libwebp, modsecurity-apache, and mutt).
Thursday September 14, 2023. 10:58 PM
Version 16 of the PostgreSQL database manager has been released. PostgreSQL 16 contains many new features and enhancements, including: Allow parallelization of FULL and internal right OUTER hash joins Allow logical replication from standby servers Allow logical...
The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) has announced the availability of videos from the first-ever Free and Open Source Yearly (FOSSY) conference, which was held in July in Portland, Oregon in the US. During the four days of the conference, there were a wide variety of...
The fstat() system call retrieves some of the metadata — owner, size, protections, timestamps, and so on — associated with an open file descriptor. One might not think of it as a performance-critical system call, but there are workloads that make a lot of fstat() calls;...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, libwebp, ruby-loofah, and ruby-rails-html-sanitizer), Fedora (open-vm-tools and salt), Oracle (.NET 7.0, dmidecode, flac, gcc, httpd:2.4, keylime, libcap, librsvg2, and qemu-kvm), Red Hat (.NET 6.0 and.NET 7.0),...
Wednesday September 13, 2023. 10:46 PM
The 'Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures' (CVE) system was launched late in the previous century (September 1999) to track vulnerabilities in software. Over the years since, it has had a somewhat checkered reputation, along with some some attempts to replace it, but CVE...
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