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Wednesday June 4, 2025. 04:54 PM
Outgoing Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller has posted an update on Fedora's high-level plan through 2028: [Fedora] Council members identified potential Initiatives that we believe are important to work on next. We came up with a list of thirteen — which is way more...
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Cong Wang and Daniel Borkmann each led session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit about their respective plans to speed up networking in the Linux kernel. Both sessions described ways to remove unnecessary operations in the networking...
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Free software plays a critical role in science, both in research and in disseminating it. Aspects of software freedom are directly relevant to simulation, analysis, document preparation and preservation, security, reproducibility, and usability. Free software brings...
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Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.15.1, 6.14.10, 6.12.32, 6.6.93, 6.1.141, 5.15.185, 5.10.238, and 5.4.294 stable kernels. As usual, each contains a set of important fixes.
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (git, krb5, perl-CPAN, and rsync), Debian (tcpdf), Fedora (libmodsecurity, lua-http, microcode_ctl, and nextcloud), Red Hat (osbuild-composer), SUSE (389-ds, avahi, ca-certificates-mozilla, docker, expat, freetype2, glib2,...
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Tuesday June 3, 2025. 04:41 PM
This year's Linaro Connect in Lisbon, Portugal featured a number of talks about the use of open-source components in safety-critical systems. Kate Stewart gave a keynote on the topic on the first day of the conference. In it, she highlighted several projects that have been...
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (varnish), Debian (asterisk and roundcube), Fedora (systemd), Mageia (golang), Red Hat (ghostscript, perl-CPAN, python36:3.6, and rsync), SUSE (govulncheck-vulndb, libsoup-2_4-1, and postgresql, postgresql16, postgresql17), and...
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Monday June 2, 2025. 07:05 PM
Version 3.22.0 of the Alpine Linux distribution has been released. Notable changes in this release include the removal of the X11 session for KDE Plasma, a switch to systemd-efistub, and experimental support for user services with the OpenRC init system. See the release...
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Kees Cook's 'hardening fixes' pull request for the 6.16 merge window looked like a straightforward exercise; it only contained four commits. So just about everybody was surprised when it resulted in Cook being temporarily blocked from his kernel.org account among fears of...
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Software patents and workarounds for them are, once again, causing headaches for open-source projects and users. This time around, Fedora users have been vulnerable to a serious flaw in the OpenH264 library for months—not for want of a fix, but because of the Rube Goldberg...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (espeak-ng, kitty, kmail-account-wizard, krb5, libreoffice, libvpx, net-tools, python-flask-cors, symfony, tcpdf, thunderbird, and twitter-bootstrap3), Fedora (chromium, dropbear, firefox, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free,...
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Friday May 30, 2025. 08:18 PM
The seventh edition of the Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel Summit (known as 'OSPM') took place on March 18-20, 2025. Topics discussed on the third (and final) day include proxy execution, energy-aware scheduling, the deadline scheduler, and an evaluation...
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Mozilla has decided to throw in the towel on Pocket, a social-bookmarking service that it acquired in 2017. This has left many users scrambling for a replacement for Pocket before its shutdown in July. One possible option is wallabag, a self-hostable, MIT-licensed project...
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0,.NET 9.0, firefox, ghostscript, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, libsoup3, mingw-freetype, perl, ruby, sqlite, thunderbird, unbound, valkey, and xz), Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, libavif, linux-6.1, modsecurity-apache,...
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Thursday May 29, 2025. 10:27 PM
As of this writing, 5,546 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline kernel repository for the 6.16 release. This is a bit less than half of the total commits for 6.15, so the merge window is well on its way. Read on for our summary of the first half of the 6.16 ...
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As the end of the 1990s approached, a lot of kernel-development effort was going into improving support for 32-bit systems with shockingly large amounts of memory installed. This being the 1990s, having more than 1GB of memory in such a system was deemed to be shocking. Many ...
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The SUSE Security Team has published a detailed report about security vulnerabilities it discovered in the Kea DHCP server suite from the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC). Since SUSE is also going to ship Kea DHCP in its products, we performed a routine review of its code...
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The 6.14.9 and 6.12.31 stable kernels have been released. Each contains an unusually large number of important fixes all over the kernel tree.
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel and kernel-rt), Debian (firefox-esr, libvpx, net-tools, php-twig, python-tornado, setuptools, varnish, webpy, yelp, and yelp-xsl), Fedora (xen), Mageia (cimg and ghostscript), Oracle (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, kernel, ...
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Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Glibc security; How we lost the Internet; Encrypted DNS; 6.15 Development statistics; Filesystem stress-testing; BPF verifier; Network access from BPF; OSPM 2025. Briefs: AlmaLinux 10.0; FESCo decision overturned; NixOS...
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