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The project to enable the writing of kernel code in Rust has been underway for several years, and each kernel release includes more Rust code. Even so, some developers have expressed frustration at the time it takes to get new functionality merged, and an air of uncertainty...

Security updates have been issued by Gentoo (GCC, Hunspell, Tor, and ZNC), SUSE (apr-devel, cargo-c, chromedriver, firefox, kernel, libecpg6, libmfx, onefetch, postgresql12, postgresql13, postgresql14, postgresql15, postgresql16, python310-azure-identity, python39, qemu,...

Version 1.0.0 of Hy, a Lisp dialect that is embedded in Python, has been released after nearly 12 years in development. This is the first stable release of the project: Henceforth, breaking changes to documented parts of the language (other than dropping support for...

Dirk Behme led a second session, back-to-back with his session on error handling at Kangrejos 2024, discussing providing better guidance for users of the kernel's Rust abstractions. Just after that, Carlos Bilbao and Miguel Ojeda had their own time slot dedicated to...

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (expat, fence-agents, firefox, libnbd, openssl, pcp, ruby:3.3, and thunderbird), Debian (ruby-saml), Fedora (aardvark-dns, chromium, expat, jupyterlab, less, openssl, python-jupyterlab-server, python-notebook, python3-docs, and...

Konstantin Ryabitsev started a session on development tooling at the 2024 Maintainers Summit by saying that he does not want to be a 'wrecking ball'. If a given workflow is working for people, he does not want to try to force any sort of change. That said, he has ideas for...