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Wednesday January 17, 2024. 09:13 PM
When, at the beginning of November, we posted an open position at LWN, we were only so hopeful; experience has shown that finding writers who are both capable of and interested in writing our sort of material is a challenging task. This time, though, hope was justified: we...
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Networking maintainer Jakub Kicinski (along with several collaborators) has put up a summary of what happened in the kernel's network stack during 2023. Throughout those releases netdev patch handlers (DaveM, Jakub, Paolo) applied 7243 patches, and the resulting pull...
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Security updates have been issued by Fedora (zabbix), Gentoo (OpenJDK), Red Hat (kernel), Slackware (gnutls and xorg), SUSE (cloud-init, kernel, xorg-x11-server, and xwayland), and Ubuntu (freeimage, postgresql-10, and xorg-server, xwayland).
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The new year arrived bearing a new version of Julia, a general-purpose, open-source programming language with a focus on high-performance scientific computing. Some of Julia's unusual features are Lisp-inspired metaprogramming, the ability to examine compiled representations ...
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Tuesday January 16, 2024. 11:32 PM
Version 9.0 of the Wine Windows-compatibility system has been released. 'This release represents a year of development effort and over 7,000 individual changes. It contains a large number of improvements that are listed below. The main highlights are the new WoW64...
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On January 13, Linus Torvalds let it be known that he had lost power due to the bad weather in the US Pacific Northwest. As of this writing, he has not yet resurfaced, so the 6.8 merge window has ground to a halt. There's apparently about 100k people without power, and I...
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Security updates have been issued by Gentoo (KTextEditor, libspf2, libuv, and Nettle), Mageia (hplip), Oracle (container-tools:4.0, gnutls, idm:DL1, squid, squid34, and virt:ol, virt-devel:rhel), Red Hat (.NET 6.0, krb5, python3, rsync, and sqlite), SUSE (chromium,...
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Monday January 15, 2024. 08:02 PM
The 6.6.12, 6.1.73, 5.15.147, 5.10.208, 5.4.267, and 4.19.305 stable kernels have been released. They contain a relatively small number of important fixes.
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The openSUSE project has confirmed that there will be a successor to openSUSE Leap 15, but is not sharing a lot of details at this point. The transition to Leap 16 is not just a numerical step-up but symbolizes a significant path forward in technology and user experiences....
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John Stawinski IV describes, in detail, how he and a partner were able to compromise the security of the heavily used PyTorch project. Our exploit path resulted in the ability to upload malicious PyTorch releases to GitHub, upload releases to AWS, potentially add code to...
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As the Rust-for-Linux project advances, the kernel is gradually accumulating abstraction layers that enable Rust code to interface with the existing C code. As the discussion around the set of filesystem abstractions posted by Wedson Almeida Filho in December shows, though,...
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Security updates have been issued by CentOS (bind, cups, curl, firefox, ipa, iperf3, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, kernel, libssh2, linux-firmware, open-vm-tools, openssh, postgresql, python, python3, squid, thunderbird, tigervnc, and xorg-x11-server), Fedora...
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Friday January 12, 2024. 11:00 PM
The 5.10.207 stable kernel update has been released; it consists entirely of a handful of reverts of SCSI patches.
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The Linux Mint distribution has announced the release of Linux Mint 21.3, which is codenamed 'Virginia'. It has the Cinnamon 6.0 desktop, 'comes with full support for SecureBoot and compatibility with a wider variety of BIOS and EFI implementation', has added new features to ...
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The 6.8 merge window has gotten off to a relatively slow start; reasons for that include a significant scheduler performance regression that Linus Torvalds stumbled into and has spent time tracking down. Even so, 4,282 non-merge changesets have found their way into the...
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Users of SourceHut will have noticed that the site has been unreachable; Drew DeVault has now posted a report on what is happening (it's a distributed denial-of-service attack) and what is being done to recover. We deal with ordinary DDoS attacks in the normal course of...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (kernel, linux-5.10, php-phpseclib, php-phpseclib3, and phpseclib), Fedora (openssh and tinyxml), Gentoo (FreeRDP and Prometheus SNMP Exporter), Mageia (packages), Red Hat (openssl), SUSE (gstreamer-plugins-rs and...
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Thursday January 11, 2024. 04:20 PM
For those of you still using DSA keys with SSH: the project has announced its plans to remove support for that algorithm around the beginning of 2025. The only remaining use of DSA at this point should be deeply legacy devices. As such, we no longer consider the costs of...
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The data structure known as a 'closure' first found its way into the mainline kernel with the addition of bcache in the 3.10 development cycle. With the advent of bcachefs in 6.7, though, it acquired a second user and was moved to the kernel's lib directory, making it...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (chromium, python-paramiko, tigervnc, and xorg-x11-server), Oracle (ipa, libxml2, python-urllib3, python3, and squid), Red Hat (.NET 6.0,.NET 7.0,.NET 8.0, container-tools:4.0, fence-agents, frr, gnutls, idm:DL1, ...
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