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Monday February 3, 2025. 05:27 PM
Matthias Clasen has written a short update on a GTK hackfest that took place at FOSDEM and what's coming in GTK 4.18. This includes fixes for pointer sizes in Wayland when fractional scaling is enabled, removal of the old GL renderer in favor of the GL renderer introduced in ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (git-lfs, libsoup, and unbound), Debian (dcmtk, ffmpeg, openjdk-11, pam-u2f, and python-aiohttp), Fedora (buku, chromium, jpegxl, nodejs18, nodejs20, and rust-routinator), Mageia (clamav, kernel, kmod-virtualbox,...
Linus has released 6.14-rc1 and closed the merge window for this release. This is actually a _tiny_ merge window, and that's ok. The holidays clearly meant that people did less development than during a normal cycle, and that then shows up as a much smaller-than-average...
Version 2.44 of the GNU Binutils package has been released. Perhaps the most significant change is the absence of the 'gold' linker, which is deprecated and about to disappear entirely. Gold appeared in 2008 with some fanfare as a faster linker, but it has suffered from a...
Saturday February 1, 2025. 09:41 PM
The 6.13.1, 6.12.12, 6.6.75, 6.1.128, 5.15.178, 5.10.234, and 5.4.290 stable kernel updates have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
Friday January 31, 2025. 05:01 PM
Julia, a free, general-purpose programming language aimed at science, engineering, and related arenas of technical computing, has steadily improved and widened its scope of application since its initial public release in 2012. As part of its 1.11 release from late 2024,...
The election to replace outgoing openSUSE board members is underway, with four candidates vying for three seats. The election was initially scheduled to be completed in December, but the timeline was extended due to too few candidates standing for the seats. Voting closes on ...
The Linux Foundation has published its long-awaited article on international sanctions and open-source development. This is the reasoning that went into the removal of a group of Russian kernel maintainers in October. It is disappointing that the open source community...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (libsoup), Debian (debian-security-support and redis), Fedora (expat, java-21-openjdk, lemonldap-ng, and phpMyAdmin), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable and git-lfs), Oracle (bzip2, git-lfs, libsoup, mariadb:10.11, mariadb:10.5,...
Thursday January 30, 2025. 08:42 PM
While the path toward the ability to write device drivers in Rust has been anything but smooth, steady progress has been made and that goal is close to being achieved — for some types of drivers at least. Device drivers need to be able to set up memory areas for direct...
Visitors to the freedesktop.org GitLab instance are currently being greeted with a message noting that the company who has been hosting it for free for nearly five years, Equinix, has asked that it be moved (or start being paid for) by the end of April. The issue ticket...
Version 2.41 of the GNU C Library has been released. Changes include a number of test-suite improvements, strict-error support in the DNS stub resolver, wrappers for the the sched_setattr() and sched_getattr() system calls, Unicode 16.0.0 support, improved C23 support,...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (redis:7), Debian (bind9, chromium, flightgear, pam-u2f, and simgear), Red Hat (fence-agents, git-lfs, libsoup, python3.9, rsync, and traceroute), Slackware (bind), SUSE (apache2-mod_security2, corepack22, go1.24, hplip,...
The Thunderbird project has announced that it is making its Release channel the default download beginning with the 135.0 release in March. This will move users to major monthly releases instead of the annual major Extended Support Release (ESR) that is the current default. ...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Go vendoring in Fedora; Rust 2024 edition; 6.14 Merge window; uretprobe(); FOSDEM keynote; Earthstar. Briefs: Git security; Ubuntu discussion; LWN EPUBs; Facebook moderation; Quotes;... Announcements: Newsletters,...
Wednesday January 29, 2025. 07:14 PM
Version 6.9 of the Incus container and virtual-machine management system has been released. Changes include a command to provide virtual machine memory dumps, ability to set network ACLs for instances on bridged networks, and more.
For years we have had occasional requests to be able to receive LWN in a format for ebook readers. It took a while, but we are now happy to announce that all of LWN's feature content is available, to subscribers at the 'professional hacker' level and above, in the EPUB...
Security researcher RyotaK has shared a series of vulnerabilities that all have to do with how Git interfaces with external credential managers. In short, while Git guards against newline characters (n) being injected into a repository's URL, some programming languages also ...
Earthstar is a privacy-oriented, offline-first, LGPL-licensed database intended to support distributed applications. Unlike other distributed storage libraries, it focuses on providing mutable data with human-meaningful names and modification times, which gives it an...
Ubuntu will be moving its 'official realtime communications channels' from IRC to Matrix, beginning March 1, 2025, following a discussion on the ubuntu-devel mailing list. 'Official' communication, such as making realtime requests of privileged Ubuntu developer teams, could...
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