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Wednesday August 30, 2023. 03:22 PM
Security updates have been issued by Debian (qpdf, ring, and tryton-server), Fedora (mingw-qt5-qtbase and moby-engine), Red Hat (cups, kernel, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, librsvg2, and virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel), and Ubuntu (amd64-microcode, firefox, linux, linux-aws,...
Tuesday August 29, 2023. 05:46 PM
'Sugar' is, to a certain extent, in the eye of the beholder—at least when it comes to syntax. Programming languages are often made up of a (mostly) irreducible core, with lots of sugary constructs sprinkled on top—the syntactic sugar. No one wants to be forced to do...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (flask-security and opendmarc), Fedora (qemu), Oracle (rust and rust-toolset:ol8), Red Hat (cups and libxml2), Scientific Linux (cups), SUSE (ca-certificates-mozilla, chromium, clamav, freetype2, haproxy, nodejs12, procps, and...
The OpenChain site carries the sad news of the passing of Satoru Ueda. Your editor first met Ueda San at the 2007 Linux Foundation Japan Symposium, where a small group of dedicated developers and managers was working hard to bring open-source development practices to the...
Monday August 28, 2023. 05:16 PM
The 6.5 kernel was released on August 27 after a nine-week development cycle. By that time, some 13,561 non-merge changesets had found their way into the mainline repository, the lowest number seen since the 5.15 release (12,377 changesets) in late 2021. Nonetheless, quite a...
August 26 was the 25th anniversary of the release of the Bugzilla bug tracker as open-source software under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). A blog post for the occasion has some announcements, including several upcoming releases, help wanted, and a new legal entity to...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, clamav, librsvg, rar, and unrar-nonfree), Fedora (caddy, chromium, and xen), and SUSE (ca-certificates-mozilla, gawk, ghostscript, java-1_8_0-ibm, java-1_8_0-openjdk, php7, qemu, and xen).
Linus has, as expected, released the 6.5 kernel. I still have this nagging feeling that a lot of people are on vacation and that things have been quiet partly due to that. But this release has been going smoothly, so that's probably just me being paranoid. The biggest...
Sunday August 27, 2023. 08:05 PM
The 6.1.48, 5.15.128, and 5.10.192 stable kernels have been released; each contains another set of important fixes. Update: 6.1.49 has also been released. 'This upgrade is only for all users of the 6.1 series that use the x86 platform OR the F2FS file system. If that's not...
Friday August 25, 2023. 07:56 PM
The OpenTF Foundation has announced that it is moving forward with its eponymous fork of HashiCorp Terraform, which was recently changed to a non-FOSS license by the company. The organization has applied to become part of the Linux Foundation, 'with the end goal of having...
The more one pays attention to the Internet of Things (IoT), the more one learns to appreciate simple, unconnected devices. Your editor long ago acquired an aversion to products that advertise themselves as 'smart' or 'WiFi-enabled'. There can be advantages, though, to...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (tryton-server), Fedora (youtube-dl), SUSE (clamav and krb5), and Ubuntu (cjose and fastdds).
Thursday August 24, 2023. 05:32 PM
The kernel's software I/O translation lookaside buffer ('swiotlb') is an obscure corner of the DMA-support layer. The swiotlb was initially introduced to enable DMA for devices with special challenges, and one might have expected it to fade away as newer peripherals came...
Version 1.72.0 of the Rust compiler has been released. Changes include improved diagnostics and the removal of a limit on const evaluation: To prevent user-provided const evaluation from getting into a compile-time infinite loop or otherwise taking unbounded time at...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (w3m), Fedora (libqb), Mageia (docker-containerd, kernel, kernel-linus, microcode, php, redis, and samba), Oracle (kernel, kernel-container, and openssh), Scientific Linux (subscription-manager), SUSE (ca-certificates-mozilla,...
Wednesday August 23, 2023. 07:44 PM
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of two new stable kernels: 6.4.12 and 6.1.47. Both contain lots of important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
Over the years, there have been multiple examples of open-source software that, suddenly, was no longer open source; on August 10, some further examples were added to the pile. That happened when HashiCorp announced that it would be switching the license on its products from ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (mediawiki and qt4-x11), Fedora (java-17-openjdk, linux-firmware, and python-yfinance), Red Hat (kernel, kpatch-patch, and subscription-manager), SUSE (evolution, janino, kernel, nodejs16, nodejs18, postgresql15, qt6-base, and...
Tuesday August 22, 2023. 04:47 PM
The PineTime is an inexpensive smartwatch developed by PINE64 that is designed to run open-source operating systems. Despite its low cost, however, it has most of the features expected from more expensive, proprietary smartwatches. Because it runs open-source software,...
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