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Thursday August 29, 2024. 05:11 PM
Plasma Mobile is an open-source user interface for mobile devices, developed by the KDE community. It's built on the same foundations as Plasma Desktop, including KDE Frameworks and the KWin window manager. Much like its desktop counterpart, Plasma Mobile caters to advanced...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind and bind-dyndb-ldap and postgresql:16), Fedora (less and python3.6), Mageia (nodejs & yarnpkg), Oracle (libvpx and postgresql:16), Red Hat (edk2, git, kernel, openldap, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, python3, and...
Wedson Almeida Filho, one of the key developers driving the Rust-for-Linux project, has retired from the project. After almost 4 years, I find myself lacking the energy and enthusiasm I once had to respond to some of the nontechnical nonsense, so it's best to leave it up...
Wednesday August 28, 2024. 09:45 PM
Immutable data makes concurrent access easier, since it eliminates the data-race conditions that can plague multithreaded programs. At PyCon 2024, Yury Selivanov introduced an early-stage project called MemHive, which uses Python subinterpreters and immutable data to...
Achieving consensus among Debian Developers on technical topics and procedures can be, to put it mildly, challenging. Nevertheless, that is exactly what Otto Kekäläinen has tried to do with a proposal that would set up 'principles all Debian packages should follow to be...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (calibre, dotnet8.0, dovecot, webkit2gtk4.0, and webkitgtk), Oracle (nodejs:20), Red Hat (bind, bind and bind-dyndb-ldap, postgresql:16, and squid), Slackware (kcron and plasma), SUSE (keepalived and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu...
Tuesday August 27, 2024. 07:16 PM
KDE developer Carl Schwan has announced the release of Calligra Office version 4.0. The most significant changes in this release include a 'major overhaul' of the office suite's user interface, and a transition to Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks 6.
Nominations are now open for people interested in joining the Ubuntu Community Council, 'the highest governance body of the Ubuntu project'. Any Ubuntu Member can apply from now until Sunday, September 22 at 23:59 UTC. The Ubuntu project turned 20 this year, but is still in ...
On August 13, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published the final form of its new post-quantum cryptographic standards. One key-exchange mechanism and two digital-signature schemes are now officially sanctioned by the institute. Adopting the new ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (nodejs:20), Debian (python3.11), Fedora (dotnet8.0), Red Hat (bind, krb5, libreoffice, linux-firmware, orc, orc:0.4.28, and orc:0.4.31), SUSE (mariadb and openssl-3), and Ubuntu (linux-aws-5.4).
Monday August 26, 2024. 10:45 PM
The developers of the Pidgin chat program have announced that a malicious plugin had been listed on its third-party plugins list for over one month. This plugin included a key logger and could capture screenshots. It went unnoticed at the time that the plugin was not...
The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has agreed to invest €686,400 toward improvements in the FreeBSD project's infrastructure, security, regulatory compliance, and developer experience: The work commissioned by STF also aligns...
The genksyms tool has long been buried deeply within the kernel's build system; it is one of the two C-code parsers shipped with the kernel (the other being the horrifying kernel-doc script). It is a key part of how the kernel's module-loading infrastructure works. While...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, python-html-sanitizer, and trafficserver), Fedora (nginx, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-mod-vts, python-webob, python3-docs, python3.11, python3.12, python3.9, and zabbix), Red Hat...
Sunday August 25, 2024. 05:35 PM
The 6.11-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'Other than the timing, there's not a whole lot unusual here. The diffstat looks fairly flat, which means 'mostly pretty small changes'.' Linus Torvalds added a note that today marks the 33rd anniversary of the first Linux...
Friday August 23, 2024. 03:47 PM
On the second day of DebConf24 in Busan, South Korea, Holger Levsen provided a history lesson on the 'first 11 years' of the Reproducible Builds project. He has been involved in the project for most of that time and has been a Debian user since the mid-1990s, contributor...
The Forgejo project has announced that, starting from version 9.0, Forgejo will be released under the GPLv3 license (or a later version). Older versions of the software forge remain MIT-licensed. A copyleft license makes reusing other copyleft software easier. Recently,...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (community-mysql, iaito, and radare2), Oracle (python3.12-setuptools and tomcat), Red Hat (krb5 and podman), Slackware (ffmpeg), SUSE (apache2, expat, firefox, webkit2gtk3, and xen), and Ubuntu (imagemagick and libxstream-java).
Thursday August 22, 2024. 08:51 PM
Version 24.8 of the LibreOffice office suite has been released. Changes include the ability to filter identifying information from exported files, easier creation of cross reference, better control over hyphenation, a number of new spreadsheet functions, accessibility...
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