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Kernel prepatch 6.14-rc3

6 hónap 3 hét óta
The 6.14-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing; the announcement, for unknown reasons, went only to the linux-btrfs list.

So the first few weeks of the 6.14 release development were smaller-than-usual, but rc3 is actually right in line with normal releases at this point. Probably just timing of pull requests, and we'll see how next week goes. But nothing looks worrisome.

Along with the usual stream of fixes, this release includes the "faux bus", designed for simple drivers that just need some sort of virtual bus to be associated with; this bus come with Rust bindings from the outset.

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Game of Trees 0.109 released

7 hónap óta

Version 0.109 of Game of Trees has been released (and the port updated):

  • fix gotd failing to protect references when the client sends an empty pack
  • during pack generation, fix exclusion of commits via an ancestor commit
  • fix a bogus "received unexpected privsep message" error from gotsh
  • fix diffstat path order bug in field width computation
  • gotwebd: preserve 'folder=' parameter when following More links

[$] Fighting the AI scraperbot scourge

7 hónap óta
There are many challenges involved with running a web site like LWN. Some of them, such as finding the courage to write for people who know more about the subject matter than we do, simply come with the territory we have chosen. But others show up as an unwelcome surprise; the ongoing task of fending off bots determined to scrape the entire Internet to (seemingly) feed into the insatiable meat grinder of AI training is certainly one of those. Readers have, at times, expressed curiosity about that fight and how we are handling it; read on for a description of a modern-day plague.
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Security updates for Friday

7 hónap óta
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (doxygen, gcc-toolset-13-gcc, gcc-toolset-14-gcc, kernel, and libxml2), Debian (chromium, postgresql-13, and webkit2gtk), Fedora (krb5, openssl, and python3.13), Mageia (ark, ofono, and perl-Net-OAuth, perl-Crypt-URandom, perl-Module-Build), Oracle (firefox, gcc, gcc-toolset-14-gcc, kernel, openssl, tbb, and thunderbird), Red Hat (libxml2), SUSE (chromium, golang-github-prometheus-prometheus, grafana, kernel, kernel-firmware-ath10k-20250206, kernel-firmware-bnx2-20250206, kernel-firmware-brcm-20250206, kernel-firmware-chelsio-20250206, kernel-firmware-dpaa2-20250206, kernel-firmware-mwifiex-20250206, kernel-firmware-platform-20250206, kernel-firmware-realtek-20250206, kernel-firmware-serial-20250206, kernel-firmware-ueagle-20250206, libtasn1, python312, qemu, SUSE Manager Client Tools, SUSE Manager Client Tools MU 5.0.3, and ucode-intel-20250211), and Ubuntu (activemq and libsndfile).
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New leadership for Asahi Linux

7 hónap óta
The Asahi Linux project, which is working to support Linux on Apple silicon, has announced the resignation of Hector "marcan" Martin as its lead, and his replacement by a seven-person committee. "Today's news is bittersweet. We are grateful to marcan for kicking off this project and tirelessly working on it these past years. Our community will miss him. Still, with your support, the project has a bright future to come". Martin has explained his reasons for leaving at length in this blog post.
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