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LibreSSL 4.2.0 Released

2 hét óta
The LibreSSL project has announced their latest release LibreSSL 4.2.0, with numerous improvements. The release announcement reads, List: openbsd-announce Subject: LibreSSL 4.2.0 Released From: Brent Cook <busterb () gmail ! com> Date: 2025-10-14 14:19:28 We have released LibreSSL 4.2.0, which will be arriving in the LibreSSL directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon. This is the first stable release for the 4.2.x branch, also to be available with OpenBSD 7.8 It includes the following changes from LibreSSL 4.1.0:

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The FSF's Librephone project

2 hét óta
The Free Software Foundation has announced the launch of the Librephone project, which is aimed at the creation of a fully-free operating system for mobile devices.

Practically, Librephone aims to close the last gaps between existing distributions of the Android operating system and software freedom. The FSF has hired experienced developer Rob Savoye (DejaGNU, Gnash, OpenStreetMap, and more) to lead the technical project. He is currently investigating the state of device firmware and binary blobs in other mobile phone freedom projects, prioritizing the free software work done by the not entirely free software mobile phone operating system LineageOS.

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[$] The end of the 6.18 merge window

2 hét 1 nap óta

The 6.18 merge window has come to an end, bringing with it a total of 11,974 non-merge commits, 3,499 of which came in after LWN's first-half summary. The total is a little higher than the 6.17 merge window, which saw 11,404 non-merge commits. There are once again a good number of changes and new features included in this release.

daroc

Firefox 144.0 released

2 hét 1 nap óta
Version 144.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes this time include improvements to tab-group and profile management, stronger encryption for stored passwords, a "search image with Google Lens" operation, and "Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine built into the browser".
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[$] The FSF considers large language models

2 hét 1 nap óta
The Free Software Foundation's Licensing and Compliance Lab concerns itself with many aspects of software licensing, Krzysztof Siewicz said at the beginning of his 2025 GNU Tools Cauldron session. These include supporting projects that are facing licensing challenges, collecting copyright assignments, and addressing GPL violations. In this session, though, there was really only one topic that the audience wanted to know about: the interaction between free-software licensing and large language models (LLMs).
corbet

Security updates for Tuesday

2 hét 1 nap óta
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ghostscript and libfcgi), Fedora (qt5-qtsvg), Red Hat (kernel, perl-FCGI, perl-FCGI:0.78, and vim), SUSE (bluez, curl, podman, postgresql14, python-xmltodict, and udisks2), and Ubuntu (linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-azure-fips, linux-oracle, and subversion).
corbet

[$] Debian Technical Committee overrides systemd change

2 hét 2 nap óta

Debian packagers have a great deal of latitude when it comes to the configuration of the software they package; they may opt, for example, to disable default features in software that they feel are a security hazard. However, packagers are expected to ensure that their packages comply with Debian Policy, regardless of the upstream's preferences. If a packager fails to comply with the policy, the Debian Technical Committee (TC) can step in to override them, which it has done in the case of a recent systemd change that broke several programs that depend on a world-writable /run/lock directory.

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Four new stable kernels

2 hét 2 nap óta
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.17.2, 6.16.12, 6.12.52, and 6.6.111 stable kernels. They each contain a relatively small set of important fixes. In addition: "Note, this is the LAST 6.16.y kernel release, this branch is now end-of-life. Please move to the 6.17.y branch at this point in time."
jake