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Thursday January 18, 2024. 08:29 PM
Luis Villa writes about the recent ruling in the Software Freedom Conservancy's GPL-violation lawsuit against Vizio, wherein the judge refused to agree that the SFC lacks standing to sue. In some sense, not much has changed: if you were obligated to comply with the GPL two ...
Ken Jin from the Faster CPython project has been working on taking Python's recently-added just-in-time (JIT) compiler further by adding support for a peephole optimizer that rewrites the JIT's intermediate representation to introduce constant folding, type specialization,...
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (ImageMagick), Debian (chromium), Fedora (golang-x-crypto, golang-x-mod, golang-x-net, golang-x-text, gtkwave, redis, and zbar), Mageia (tinyxml), Oracle (.NET 7.0,.NET 8.0, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, python3, and...
Wednesday January 17, 2024. 09:32 PM
Python's static-typing feature has come a long way since it was introduced in 2014. Adding type information to functions has always been—and will remain—optional, but typing still remains somewhat contentious. There are multiple kinds of consumers of the information,...
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...
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...
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).
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 ...
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...
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...
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,...
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.
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....
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...
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,...
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...
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.
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 ...
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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