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Tuesday August 20, 2024. 11:31 PM
Version 0.3.0 of the uv Python package and project manager has been released. Introduced in February, uv is written in Rust and aims to be 'Cargo for Python'. Notable changes in this release include the addition of interfaces for managing projects, installing Python, and...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (squid), Fedora (putty), Mageia (quictls), Oracle (bind, curl, python-setuptools, python3.11-setuptools, and python3.12-setuptools), Red Hat (kernel, kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_120_1, kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_87_1 and...
Monday August 19, 2024. 05:12 PM
The FreeBSD Project is, for the second time this year, engaging in a long-running discussion about the possibility of including Rust in its base system. The sequel to the first discussion included some work by Alan Somers to show what it might look like to use Rust code in...
Today's crop of new stable kernels consists of seven new versions: 6.10.6, 6.6.47, 6.1.106, 5.15.165, 5.10.224, 5.4.282, and 4.19.320. As usual, each contains important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-asyncssh), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, httpd, and tor), SUSE (cosign, cpio, curl, expat, java-11-openjdk, ncurses, netty, netty-tcnative, opera, python-Django, python-Pillow, shadow, sudo, and wpa_supplicant), and Ubuntu ...
The Rust code being added to the kernel is documented using the usual rustdoc conventions; that documentation is now available on kernel.org in formatted form. There is also the linux-next version of the documentation for Rust code that will land in the kernel soon.
Friday August 16, 2024. 03:07 PM
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (389-ds-base, dotnet8.0, python3.13, roundcubemail, thunderbird, and tor), Mageia (roundcubemail), Oracle (.NET 8.0, bind and bind-dyndb-ldap, bind9.16, container-tools:ol8, edk2, firefox, gnome-shell, grafana, httpd:2.4, jose,...
Thursday August 15, 2024. 04:14 PM
The kernel's memory-management developers have been busy in recent times; it can be hard to keep up with all that has been happening in this core area. In an attempt to catch up, here is a look at recent work affecting tiered-memory systems, underutilized huge pages, and...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8), Debian (flatpak), Fedora (389-ds-base, dotnet8.0, and roundcubemail), Red Hat (bind9.16, firefox, python-setuptools, and thunderbird), Slackware (dovecot), SUSE (389-ds, curl, kernel, kernel-firmware,...
Linux hardware vendor System76 started promoting its work on a Rust-based, Wayland desktop environment for its Pop!_OS Ubuntu-derivative distribution almost two years ago. On August 8, the company released an alpha version of the COSMIC desktop environment for users to test...
Wednesday August 14, 2024. 04:24 PM
Three new stable kernels have been released: 6.10.5, 6.6.46, and 6.1.105. As usual, they contain important fixes all over the kernel tree.
Rust is intended to let programmers write safer code. But compilers are not omniscient, and writing Rust code that interfaces with hardware (or that works with memory outside of Rust's lifetime paradigm) requires, at some point, the programmer's assurance that some...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds-base), Debian (ffmpeg), Fedora (chromium), Red Hat (.NET 8.0, container-tools:rhel8, edk2, firefox, gnome-shell, grafana, jose, kernel, kernel-rt, krb5, open-vm-tools, orc, pcs, poppler, python-urllib3, and wget), SUSE...
Tuesday August 13, 2024. 07:22 PM
Markdown editors are a dime a dozen. Cheaper than that, actually, since many of them are open‑source software. Despite the sheer number of options, finding an editor that has all of the features that one might want can be tricky. For some users, Zettlr might be the right...
The PostgreSQL project has released beta versions of PostgreSQL 17 containing several interesting security and usability improvements, alongside the usual performance improvements and bug fixes. If the release proceeds according to the usual timeline, the full release of...
Lix, the fork of Nix that LWN covered in July, has made its second release since forking. This one includes substantial changes to the backend code, including removing a dependency on Bison, and getting a change to the Nix language back upstream. The general theme of Lix...
Version 6.4 of the Incus container manager is out. This release builds upon the recently added OCI support from Incus 6.3, making it even easier to run application containers. It also adds a number of useful new features for clustered and larger environments with more...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (kernel and roundcube), Fedora (microcode_ctl, pypy, python2.7, and python3.6), Oracle (389-ds-base, httpd, kernel, kernel-container, and linux-firmware), Red Hat (kernel-rt), SUSE (firefox, kubernetes1.23, libqt5-qtbase,...
Monday August 12, 2024. 06:57 PM
Version 4.0 of the Magit text-based Git user interface for Emacs has been released. Changes since the 3.3.0 release include the addition of context menus, a makeover for the menu-bar menu, new menu commands, and many other new features and bug fixes. See the release notes...
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