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Linus Torvalds released 5.17-rc1 and closed the 5.17 merge window on January 23 after having pulled just over 11,000 non-merge changesets into the mainline repository. A little over 4,000 of those changesets arrived after our first-half merge-window summary was written. Activity thus slowed down, as expected, in the second half of the merge window, but there still a number of significant changes that made it in for the next kernel release.

The netfilter project, which works on packet-filtering for the Linux kernel, has announced that it has reached a settlement (English translation) with Patrick McHardy that is "legally binding and it governs any legal enforcement activities" on netfilter programs and libraries as well as the kernel itself. McHardy has been employing questionable practices in doing GPL enforcement in Germany over the last six years or more. The practice has been called "copyright trolling" by some and is part of what led to the creation of The Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement. This settlement establishes that any decision-making around netfilter-related enforcement activities should be based on a majority vote. Thus, each active coreteam member at the time of the enforcement request holds one right to vote. This settlement covers past and new enforcement, as well as the enforcement of contractual penalties related to past declarations to cease-and-desist.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, golang-1.7, golang-1.8, pillow, qtsvg-opensource-src, util-linux, and wordpress), Fedora (expat, harfbuzz, kernel, qt5-qtsvg, vim, webkit2gtk3, and zabbix), Mageia (glibc, kernel, and kernel-linus), openSUSE (bind, chromium, and zxing-cpp), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (java-11-openjdk and kpatch-patch), Scientific Linux (java-11-openjdk), SUSE (bind, clamav, zsh, and zxing-cpp), and Ubuntu (aide, dbus, and thunderbird).

A százmilliárd dolláros beruházás első fázisaként New Albany mellett épülhet gyár.

Az új jogszabály számos új kötelezettséget és jogot hoz a szolgáltatók és a tartalomfogyasztók számára.

Gyerekeknek is megjelenített alkoholról és szerencsejátékokról szóló reklámokat.

A WarnerMedia új SVOD-szolgáltatása az HBO Go-t váltja majd.

Ariadne Conill writes about the FSF's policy toward proprietary firmware and, specifically, the rules for "Respects Your Freedom" certification.

Purism was able to accomplish this by making the Librem 5 have not one, but two processors: when the phone first boots, it uses a secondary CPU as a service processor, which loads all of the relevant blobs (such as those required to initialize the DDR4 memory) before starting the main CPU and shutting itself off. In this way, they could have all the blobs they needed to use, without having to worry about them being user visible from PureOS. Under the policy, that left them free and clear for certification.

This is not a new story; see Papering over a binary blob from 2011, for example.

The first 5.17 kernel prepatch is out for testing, and the merge window is closed for this release.

5.17 doesn't seem to be slated to be a huge release, and everything looks fairly normal. We've got a bit more activity than usual in a couple of corners of the kernel (random number generator and the fscache rewrite stand out), but even with those things, the big picture view looks very much normal: the bulk is various driver updates, with architectures updates, documentation, and tooling being the bulk of the rest.

One of your editor's long-time hobbies is photography; it is an activity that can be rewarding even with the lack of any particular talent — a useful attribute. Photography has changed greatly over the years; as a result, those hard-earned darkroom skills are of little use, and photo processing has become yet another software problem. This is a field that supports a lot of proprietary software, but there is also no shortage of free software available. The time has come to combine work and pleasure and catch up with the state of free software for photography, starting with the darktable raw photo editor.

Anybody who upgraded to the recent Rust 1.58.0 release will probably want to move on to Rust 1.58.1; among other things it contains a fix for a security vulnerability in the standard library. "We recommend all users to update their toolchain immediately and rebuild their programs with the updated compiler".

Security updates have been issued by Debian (aide, flatpak, kernel, libspf2, and usbview), Fedora (kernel, libreswan, nodejs, texlive-base, and wireshark), openSUSE (aide, cryptsetup, grafana, permissions, rust1.56, and stb), SUSE (aide, apache2, cryptsetup, grafana, permissions, rust1.56, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (aide, thunderbird, and usbview).

Ami ráadásul összeköti a két létszükségletet, az evést és a szexet.

De itt már nem kell az operátorokra várni az implementáláshoz.

Az Activision Blizzard akvizíció híre alaposan felkorbácsolta a kedélyeket.

A cég egy szempillantás alatt 20%-ot vesztett tőzsdei értékéből.

The kernel community is a busy place, so it is not even remotely possible to write full-length articles about everything that is going on. Other topics may be of interest, but not require a longer treatment. The answer is a collection of short topics covering developments that are on the radar; the selection this time around includes folios, the multi-generational LRU, and Rust in the kernel.

Four new stable kernels have been announced: 5.16.2, 5.15.16, 5.10.93, and 5.4.173. These contain a relatively small set of important fixes; users should upgrade.

A filmfeliratok letöltésére szolgáló, igencsak nagy népszerűségnek örvendő OpenSubtitles weboldalát zsarolóvírus támadás érte, és mivel az oldal üzemeltetői nem fizették ki a váltságdíjat, a támadók nyilvánosságra hozták az ellopott adatokat, így közel 7 millió regisztrált felhasználó e-mail címe, IP címe és jelszava szivárgott ki.

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