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Tuesday August 22, 2023. 04:20 PM
Security updates have been issued by Debian (intel-microcode, lxc, and zabbix), Fedora (clamav), SUSE (python-configobj), and Ubuntu (clamav).
Monday August 21, 2023. 07:02 PM
Making a filesystem implementation robust in the face of maliciously created filesystem images is a challenging task even when the implementation is actively maintained, which many in the kernel are not. There is a way to make that task even harder, though: modify that...
The Document Foundation has announced the release of LibreOffice 7.6 Community. It is the last release using the existing numbering scheme as the office suite will move to date-based release numbers starting with LibreOffice 24.2 in February, 2024. Highlights of this release...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (fastdds, flask, and kernel), Fedora (chromium, dotnet6.0, dotnet7.0, gerbv, java-1.8.0-openjdk, libreswan, procps-ng, and spectre-meltdown-checker), SUSE (chromium, kernel-firmware, krb5, opensuse-welcome, and python-mitmproxy),...
Sunday August 20, 2023. 11:10 PM
Linus Torvalds has released the 6.5-rc7 kernel prepatch, which looks to be the final release candidate before the likely release of Linux 6.5 next Sunday. Torvalds released it a little earlier than usual due to some travel; overall things look to be in good shape: But apart ...
Friday August 18, 2023. 03:48 PM
It is fair to say that the DNF package manager is not the favorite tool of many Fedora users. It was brought in as a replacement for Yum but got off to a rather rocky start; DNF has stabilized over the years, though and the complaints have subsided. That can only mean one...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, rar, and unrar-nonfree), Fedora (microcode_ctl, trafficserver, and webkitgtk), SUSE (ImageMagick, kernel, nodejs16, nodejs18, postgresql12, postgresql15, re2c, and samba), and Ubuntu (ghostscript, haproxy, linux,...
Thursday August 17, 2023. 09:51 PM
SUSE's long story of corporate ownership is gaining a new chapter; the company has announced that its majority shareholder (Marcel LUX III SARL) will be acquiring the remaining shares, and will take the company private and off of the stock exchange. 'SUSE’s Management...
In its default configuration, the Linux kernel will allow processes to allocate more memory than the system can actually provide; this policy enables better utilization of physical memory and works just fine — most of the time. On occasions, though, the kernel may find...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (open-vm-tools, openjdk-11, and openssh), Fedora (librsvg2, llhttp, opensc, and rust), Oracle (.NET 6.0,.NET 7.0, iperf3, microcode_ctl, postgresql:10, and python-requests), SUSE (openssl-1_0_0, perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS, postgresql12,...
Readers have been pointing us to HashiCorp's announcement that it is moving to its own 'Business Source License' for some of its (formerly) open-source products. Like other companies (example) that have taken this path, HashiCorp is removing the freedom to use its products...
Wednesday August 16, 2023. 10:07 PM
The call for topics for the Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit went out on August 15; one proposed topic has generated some interesting discussion about security-bug reporting for the kernel. A recent patch to the kernel's documentation about how to report security bugs...
The 6.4.11, 6.1.46, 5.15.127, 5.10.191, 5.4.254, 4.19.292, and 4.14.323 stable kernels have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
On August 16, 1993, Ian Murdock announced a new distribution to the comp.os.linux.development Usenet newsgroup: This is just to announce the imminent completion of a brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release. This is a release that I have put...
The Debian project has added the LoongArch architecture to its ports collection. After an initial manual bootstrap of roughly 200 packages, two buildds are now building packages for the newly added 'loong64' port with the help of qemu-user. After enough packages have been...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (datatables.js and openssl), Fedora (ghostscript, java-11-openjdk, java-latest-openjdk, microcode_ctl, and xen), Red Hat (redhat-ds:11), SUSE (java-1_8_0-openj9, kernel, krb5, pcre2, and perl-HTTP-Tiny), and Ubuntu (gstreamer1.0,...
Tuesday August 15, 2023. 11:19 PM
'Subinterpreters', which are separate Python interpreters running in the same process that can be created using the C API, have been a part of Python since the previous century (version 1.5 in 1997), but they are largely unknown and unused. Eric Snow has been on something of...
Version 5.0 ('Daedalus') of the Debian-based Devuan distribution has been released. 'This is the result of many months of painstaking work by the Team and detailed testing by the wider Devuan community.' The announcement lists a couple of new features but mostly defers to...
The 2023 Maintainers Summit will be held on November 16 in Richmond, VA, immediately after the Linux Plumbers Conference. As in previous years, the Maintainers Summit is invite-only, where the primary focus will be process issues around Linux Kernel Development. It will be ...
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