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Thursday March 21, 2024. 02:48 PM
Version 1.77.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include support for NUL-terminated C-string literals, the ability for async functions to call themselves recursively, the stabilization of the offset_of!() macro, and more.
Verson 5.39.9 of the Perl language has been released. Changes this time include a new 'medium-precedence' logical exclusive-or operator, a number of updated modules, and more; see this page for details.
The Redis in-memory database system has had its license changed to either the Redis Source Available License or the Server Side Public License (covered here in 2018); neither license qualifies as free software. Under the new license, cloud service providers hosting Redis...
Danilo Krummrich has announced the existence of the 'Nova' project within Red Hat. We just started to work on Nova, a Rust-based GSP-only driver for Nvidia GPUs. Nova, in the long term, is intended to serve as the successor of Nouveau for GSP-firmware-based GPUs. With...
Wednesday March 20, 2024. 10:07 PM
Version 46 of the GNOME desktop has been released. 'GNOME 46 is code-named 'Kathmandu', in recognition of the amazing work done by the organizers of GNOME.Asia 2023.' Significant changes include a new global search feature, enhancements to the Files app, improved remote...
Cockpit is an interesting project for web-based Linux administration that has received relatively little attention over the years. Part of that may be due to the project's strategy of minor releases roughly every two weeks, rather than larger releases with many new features. ...
The Python project has announced three security releases, 3.10.14, 3.9.19, and 3.8.19. In addition to the security fixes, these releases are notable for two reasons; they are the first to make use of GitHub Actions to perform public builds instead of building artifacts 'on a ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (fontforge and imagemagick), Fedora (firefox), Mageia (cherrytree, python-django, qpdf, and sqlite3), Red Hat (bind, cups, emacs, fwupd, gmp, kernel, libreoffice, libX11, nodejs, opencryptoki, postgresql-jdbc, postgresql:10,...
Tuesday March 19, 2024. 10:18 PM
There are a number of different language-enhancement ideas that crop up with some regularity in the Python community; many of them have been debated and shot down multiple times over the years. When one inevitably arises anew, it can sometimes be difficult to tamp it down,...
Version 124.0 of the Firefox browser is out. Changes include support for 'caret browsing mode' in the PDF viewer and the ability to control the sorting of tabs in the Firefox View screen.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cacti, postgresql-11, and zfs-linux), Fedora (freeimage, mingw-expat, and mingw-freeimage), Mageia (apache-mod_security-crs, expat, and multipath-tools), Oracle (.NET 7.0 and kernel), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, and kpatch-patch), ...
Man Yue Mo explains how to compromise a Pixel 8 phone even when the Arm memory-tagging extension is in use, by taking advantage of the Mali GPU. So, by using the GPU to access physical addresses directly, I'm able to completely bypass the protection that MTE offers....
Monday March 18, 2024. 04:17 PM
Kernel developers have long been told that any attempt to allocate memory might fail, so their code must be prepared for memory to be unavailable. Informally, though, the kernel's memory-management subsystem implements a policy whereby requests below a certain size will not...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (curl, spip, and unadf), Fedora (chromium, iwd, opensc, openvswitch, python3.6, shim, shim-unsigned-aarch64, and shim-unsigned-x64), Mageia (batik, imagemagick, irssi, jackson-databind, jupyter-notebook, ncurses, and yajl), Oracle...
Friday March 15, 2024. 09:05 PM
Cranelift is an Apache-2.0-licensed code-generation backend being developed as part of the Wasmtime runtime for WebAssembly. In October 2023, the Rust project made Cranelift available as an optional component in its nightly toolchain. Users can now use Cranelift as the...
Zach Mitchell has announced the 1.0 release of Flox, a tool that lets its users install packages from nixpkgs inside portable virtual environments, and share those virtual environments with others as an alternative to Docker-style containers. Flox is based on Nix but allows...
Sasha Levin has announced the release of the 6.8.1, 6.7.10, 6.6.22, 6.1.82, 5.15.152, 5.10.213, 5.4.272, and 4.19.310 stable kernels. As always, they contain important fixes throughout the tree. Users of those kernels should upgrade.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (composer and node-xml2js), Fedora (baresip), Mageia (fonttools, libgit2, mplayer, open-vm-tools, and packages), Red Hat (dnsmasq, gimp:2.8, and kernel-rt), and SUSE (389-ds, gdb, kernel, python-Django, python3, python36-pip,...
Thursday March 14, 2024. 04:00 PM
As of this writing, just over 4,900 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline for the 6.9 release. This work includes the usual array of changes all over the kernel tree; read on for a summary of the most significant work merged during the first part of the 6.9 ...
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