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Friday January 5, 2024. 04:41 PM
Kernel developers often go out of their way to reduce the memory used by the kernel itself; that memory is not available for the workloads that people are actually interested in running on their systems. Lower memory usage also tends to lead to better performance overall....
The 6.6.10, 6.1.71, 5.15.146, and 5.10.206 stable kernels have been released. They contain numerous important fixes, as usual.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (asterisk, chromium, exim4, netatalk, and tomcat9), Fedora (chromium), Gentoo (BlueZ, c-ares, CUPS filters, RDoc, and WebKitGTK+), Oracle (firefox, squid:4, thunderbird, and tigervnc), SUSE (python-aiohttp and python-paramiko), and ...
The saga of the None-aware (or null-coalescing) operators for Python continues. We last looked in on the topic a little over a year ago and noted that either adoption or a clear rejection of the idea might help tamp down its regular recurrence. That has not happened, so,...
Thursday January 4, 2024. 04:30 PM
ITWire covers the passing of Niklaus Wirth. Wirth is well-remembered for his pioneering work in programming languages and algorithms. For these achievements, he received the ACM Turing Award in 1984, inducted as a Fellow of the ACM in 1994, and a Fellow of the Computer...
Security updates have been issued by Oracle (firefox, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, thunderbird, tigervnc, and xorg-x11-server), Red Hat (squid:4), SUSE (exim, libcryptopp, and proftpd), and Ubuntu (openssh and sqlite3).
Wednesday January 3, 2024. 11:42 PM
Normally, when a new vulnerability is discovered and releases are coordinated with those affected, the announcement is done at a convenient time—not generally right before the end-of-year holidays, for example. The SMTP Smuggling vulnerability has taken a different path,...
On his blog, Luc Lenôtre introduces Maestro, 'a Unix-like kernel and operating system written from scratch in Rust'. Maestro is intended to be 'lightweight and compatible-enough with Linux to be usable in everyday life'. The project began, in C, back in 2018, but switched...
Version 9.1 of the Vim editor has been released. 'This release is dedicated to Bram Moolenaar, Vim's lead developer for more than 30 years, who passed away half a year ago. The Vim project wouldn't exist without his work'. Changes include new support for classes and objects...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (kernel), Fedora (slurm), Oracle (kernel and postgresql:15), Red Hat (firefox, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, thunderbird, tigervnc, and xorg-x11-server), SUSE (polkit, postfix, putty, w3m, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (nodejs).
Tuesday January 2, 2024. 11:40 PM
The calendar has flipped over into 2024 — another year has begun. Here at LWN, we do not have a better idea of what this year will bring than anybody else does, but that doesn't keep us from going out on a shaky limb and making predictions anyway. Here, for the curious,...
Security updates have been issued by Gentoo (Joblib), Red Hat (firefox and thunderbird), SUSE (gstreamer-plugins-bad, libssh2_org, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (firefox and thunderbird).
Monday January 1, 2024. 05:16 PM
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.6.9 and 6.1.70 stable kernels. As usual, they contain important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
One might not think that much could be said about a simple macro defining a constant integer value. But the kernel is special, it seems. A change to the definition of MAX_ORDER has had a number of follow-on effects, and the task of cleaning up after this change is not done...
Version 1.6.0 of the Scribus desktop-publishing application has been released. The list of new features is rather long and includes a user interface overhaul, improvements for HiDPI screens, new scripting commands, lots of typographical improvements and features, a new...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ansible, asterisk, cjson, firefox-esr, kernel, libde265, libreoffice, libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl, php-guzzlehttp-psr7, thunderbird, tinyxml, and xerces-c), Fedora (podman-tui, proftpd, python-asyncssh, squid, and xerces-c),...
Sunday December 31, 2023. 10:44 PM
Linus has released 6.7-rc8 for testing. So as expected, pretty much nothing happened over the holiday week. We've got literally just 45 files changed, and almost a third of those files aren't even kernel code (ie things like selftests, scripting, Kconfig and maintainer...
The Julia programming language project has released Julia v1.10. It is mainly a performance release, with only two new language features mentioned in the release notes: 'JuliaSyntax.jl is now used as the default parser, providing better diagnostics and faster parsing.' and...
Version 6.0 of the Gnuplot plotting system has been released. Gnuplot has been supported and under active development since 1986. This is the first new major version of gnuplot since the release of version 5 in January 2015. It introduces extensions to the gnuplot command...
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