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Monday February 5, 2024. 09:37 PM
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.7.4, 6.6.16, and 6.1.77 stable kernels. As usual, they contain important fixes all over the kernel tree.
A common problem in kernel development is controlling when a specific task should be done. Kernel code often executes in contexts where some actions (sleeping, for example, or calling into filesystems) are not possible. Other actions, while possible, may prevent the kernel...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (rear, runc, sudo, and zbar), Fedora (chromium, grub2, libebml, mingw-python-pygments, and python-aiohttp), Gentoo (FreeType, GNAT Ada Suite, Microsoft Edge, NBD Tools, OpenSSL, QtGui, SDDM, Wireshark, and Xen), Mageia (dracut,...
Sunday February 4, 2024. 04:46 PM
The 6.8-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'A slightly larger rc3 that I'd have hoped for, although at this stage in the release process it's not something that really worries me yet.'
Friday February 2, 2024. 04:12 PM
The Zig language 2024 roadmap was presented in a talk last week on Zig Showtime (a show covering Zig news). Andrew Kelley, the benevolent dictator for life of the Zig project, presented his goals for the language, largely focusing on compiler performance and continuing...
Simon Phipps writes on the Open Source Initiative blog that the latest version of the European Cyber Resilience Act is much improved: 'As a result of all this effort from so many people, the final text of the CRA mitigated pretty much all the risks we had identified to...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, man-db, and openjdk-17), Fedora (chromium, indent, jupyterlab, kernel, and python-notebook), Gentoo (glibc), Oracle (firefox, thunderbird, and tigervnc), Red Hat (rpm), SUSE (cpio, gdb, gstreamer, openconnect, slurm,...
Thursday February 1, 2024. 05:56 PM
Filesystem development is not an easy task; the performance demands are typically high, and the consequences for mistakes usually involve lost data and irate users. The implementation of a virtual (or "pseudo") filesystem — a filesystem implemented within the kernel and...
A new version of the Damn Small Linux distribution has come out with an updated definition of 'damn small': The new goal of DSL is to pack as much usable desktop distribution into an image small enough to fit on a single CD, or a hard limit of 700MB. This project is meant...
The 6.7.3, 6.6.15, and 6.1.76 stable kernels have been released. These contain a large number of important fixes throughout the tree, as is the norm.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (debian-security-support, firefox-esr, openjdk-11, and python-asyncssh), Fedora (glibc, python-templated-dictionary, thunderbird, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Gentoo (Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and WebKitGTK+), Red...
Version 2.39 of the GNU C Library has been released. Changes include integration with the x86 shadow-stack mechanism, a couple of new posix_spawn() variants for working with control groups, pidfd_spawn() and pidfd_spawnp(), the C2X stdbit.h header, the removal of the...
Wednesday January 31, 2024. 09:41 PM
Version 24.2 of the LibreOffice office suite is available. Changes include AutoRecovery enabled by default, styling of comments, better floating-table support, improved accessibility, and more. See the release notes for details.
Return-oriented programming (ROP) attacks are hard to defend against. Partial mitigations such as address-space layout randomization, stack canaries, and other techniques are commonly deployed to try and frustrate ROP attacks. Now, OpenBSD is experimenting with a new...
Qualys has disclosed a vulnerability in the GNU C Library that can be exploited by a local attacker for root access. It was introduced in the 2.37 release, and also backported to 2.36. For example, we confirmed that Debian 12 and 13, Ubuntu 23.04 and 23.10, and Fedora 37...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (bind9 and glibc), Fedora (ncurses), Gentoo (containerd, libaom, and xorg-server, xwayland), Mageia (python-pillow and zlib), Oracle (grub2 and tomcat), Red Hat (avahi, c-ares, container-tools:3.0, curl, firefox, frr, kernel,...
Tuesday January 30, 2024. 10:29 PM
EmacsConf 2023 was, like its recent predecessors, an online conference with lots of talks about various aspects of the Emacs editor—though, of course, it is way more than just an editor. Last year's edition was held in early December. One of the talks that looked...
The eBPF Foundation has published a glossy document called The State of eBPF; it seems mostly concerned with how a small number of large companies are using and developing this technology. No doubt, eBPF will become the new layer in the new cloud native infrastructure...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (pillow, postfix, and redis), Fedora (python-templated-dictionary and selinux-policy), Red Hat (gnutls, kpatch-patch, libssh, and tomcat), and Ubuntu (amanda, ceph, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-kvm, and tinyxml).
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