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Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, openjdk-17, and wpa), Gentoo (aiohttp, Bitcoin, Cairo, Go, json-c, Levenshtein, libXpm, nghttp2, PostgreSQL, and Redis), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, python-setuptools, python-urllib3, python3.11-setuptools, and wget), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (bind, curl, docker, ffmpeg, ffmpeg-4, kernel, kernel-firmware, libnbd, patch, shadow, and thunderbird), and Ubuntu (python-django and wpa).
jzb
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CircuitPython is an open-source
implementation of the Python programming language for microcontroller
boards. The project, which is sponsored by
Adafruit Industries, is designed with
new programmers in mind, but it also has many features that may be of
interest to more-experienced developers. The recent
9.1.0 release
adds a few minor features, but it follows just a few months after
CircuitPython 9.0.0,
which brings some more significant changes, including improved graphics and
USB support.
jake
1 év 1 hónap óta
Version
129.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes include some
improvements to the reader mode, tab previews, and use of HTTPS by default.
corbet
1 év 1 hónap óta
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libreoffice), Gentoo (containerd and firefox), Red Hat (httpd), SUSE (ca-certificates-mozilla, ksh, openssl-3-livepatches, podman, python-Twisted, and skopeo), and Ubuntu (imagemagick).
corbet
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David Howells wanted to discuss changing the way filesystem code handles
the ability to interrupt or kill operations, in order to fix some
longstanding problems with network
(and other) filesystems, in a session at
the 2024
Linux
Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. As noted in
his
session
proposal, some filesystems may be expecting to not be interruptible,
but are calling code can take locks and mutexes that are interruptible (or
killable), which are effectively
changing the state of the task incorrectly.
He would like to find a solution for that problem.
jake
1 év 1 hónap óta
The Business
Source License (BUSL) is a source-available license that "converts"
to an open-source license after a period of time. In theory, this
means that a few years after a version of a product is released under
the BUSL, it becomes open source and is fair game for Linux
distributions to package along with regular open-source projects. In
practice, the license throws a few curveballs that require special
consideration and caution, as the Fedora Project recently discussed.
jzb
1 év 1 hónap óta
Version 2.43 of the GNU Binutils package is out. Changes include some
improvements to the assembler and the linker, better support for hardware
event counters in the Gprofng profiler, and more.
corbet
1 év 1 hónap óta
Security updates have been issued by Debian (openjdk-11), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, chromium, ffmpeg, hostapd, trafficserver, and wpa_supplicant), and Ubuntu (curl and linux-oem-6.5).
jake
1 év 1 hónap óta
Linus has released
6.11-rc2 for testing.
"Hopefully we've gotten rid of the bulk of the silly noise here in rc2,
and not added too much new noise, so that we can get on with the process of
finding more meaningful issues."
corbet
1 év 1 hónap óta
The 6.10.3, 6.6.44, and 6.1.103 stable kernel updates have all been released. As usual, they
contain important fixes throughout the tree. Users of those kernels
should upgrade.
jzb
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daroc
1 év 1 hónap óta
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (chromium), SUSE (docker and patch), and Ubuntu (bind9, gross, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5, and tomcat8, tomcat9).
daroc
1 év 1 hónap óta
The Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has announced
a fellowship program to support "the dedicated individuals who keep
our digital infrastructure running":
Over the past two years, STF has successfully contracted over 40 FOSS
projects, enhancing their technical sustainability through targeted
milestones. However, the activities of maintainers, who often work on
multiple FOSS projects, are hard to quantify for funding applications,
as the demands and challenges vary and can change quickly. This is
where the fellowship for maintainers comes into play.
According to the fellowship
page the STF plans to fund five fellowships, beginning in the
fourth quarter of this year, for a period of 12 months.
jzb
1 év 1 hónap óta
Like many projects written in C, the kernel makes extensive use of the C
preprocessor; indeed, the kernel's use is rather more extensive than most.
The preprocessor famously has a number of sharp edges associated with it.
One might not normally think of increased compilation time as one of them,
though. It turns out that some changes to a couple of conceptually simple
preprocessor macros — min() and max() — led to some truly
pathological, but hidden, behavior where those macros were used.
corbet
1 év 1 hónap óta
We have received the
sad news that Dr. Mel Chua has passed away. Mel was probably best
known in the free-software community as a contributor to the Fedora
Project in its early days. The Fedora Community blog honored
Mel recently after she had moved to hospice care with tributes
from several Fedorans. Stephen Jacobs wrote:
I can't find the words to express how much of a positive impact Mel
has had on my work, our shared work, my family, the experiences of my
students, and the world of FOSS writ large. Nor can I find the words
to convey just how much I will miss her.
Mel will be greatly missed.
jzb
1 év 1 hónap óta
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (kernel, obs-cef, and xen), Mageia (emacs), Oracle (freeradius, freeradius:3.0, and kernel), Red Hat (emacs, httpd, and kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_120_1), Slackware (curl), SUSE (apache2, cockpit-wicked, glibc, gnutls, gvfs, less, nghttp2, opensc, python-idna, python-requests, qemu, rpm, tpm2-0-tss, tpm2.0-tools, and unbound), and Ubuntu (clickhouse, exim4, libcommons-collections3-java, linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial, mysql-8.0, openssl, php-cas, prometheus-alertmanager, and snapd).
jzb
1 év 1 hónap óta
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 1, 2024 is available.
corbet
1 év 1 hónap óta
Arnd Bergmann has posted
a
detailed timeline for the deprecation of support for old Arm CPUs in
both the kernel and the compiler toolchain. Anybody who is working with
that hardware will likely want to review this list and let the relevant
developers know if any of that support is still needed.
corbet
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Version 2.0 of the Vanilla OS image-based Linux distribution has
been released. Dubbed
"Orchid", Vanilla OS is now based on Debian Sid (prior versions were Ubuntu-based),
allows creation
of customized Linux environments, support for running Android
applications using Waydroid, and many other improvements.
jzb
1 év 1 hónap óta
A few years ago, PyGObject—the Python
package that provides bindings for GTK and GNOME applications—was not
faring particularly well. Several maintainers had left the project and its
development was not keeping pace with changes in GTK. At this year's
GUADEC, Dan Yeaw presented a talk
about the project's decline, improvements in the last year, and his
experience getting involved in an undermaintained project.
jzb
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