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[$] The Rust 2024 Edition takes shape

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Last year, LWN examined the changes lined up for Rust's 2024 edition. Now, with the edition ready to be stabilized in February, it's time to look back at the edition process and see what was successfully adopted, which new changes were added, and what still remains to work on. A surprising amount of new work was proposed, implemented, and stabilized during the year.

daroc

Security updates for Friday

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Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and python-django), Fedora (git-lfs and pam-u2f), Mageia (golang), Red Hat (java-11-openjdk with Extended Lifecycle Support, java-17-openjdk, and java-21-openjdk), SUSE (cheat, dante, docker-stable, grafana, and kernel), and Ubuntu (cacti, cyrus-imapd, HTMLDOC, and PCL).
daroc

[$] The trouble with the new uretprobes

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A "uretprobe" is a dynamic, user-space tracepoint injected by the kernel into a running process; this document tersely describes their use. Among other things, uretprobes are used by the perf utility to time function calls. The 6.11 kernel saw a significant change to uretprobes that improved their performance, but that change is also creating trouble for some users. The best way to solve the problem is not entirely clear.
corbet

[$] The first part of the 6.14 merge window

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As of this writing, just over 4,300 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline repository for the 6.14 release. Many of the pull requests this time around include remarks saying that activity has been relatively low this time around, presumably due to the holidays. So those 4,300 changesets are probably closer to the merge-window halfway point than usual. Much of the work merged thus far looks more like incremental improvements than major new initiatives, but there still have been a number of interesting changes in the mix.
corbet

Security updates for Thursday

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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (redis:6), Debian (frr and git-lfs), Fedora (SDL2_sound and webkit2gtk4.0), Gentoo (firefox, GPL Ghostscript, libgsf, libuv, PHP, Qt, QtWebEngine, and Yubico pam-u2f), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable), SUSE (helmfile, nvidia-modprobe, qt6-webengine, ruby3.4-rubygem-actioncable-8.0-8.0.1-1.1, ruby3.4-rubygem-actionpack-8.0-8.0.1-1.1, ruby3.4-rubygem-actiontext-8.0-8.0.1-1.1, ruby3.4-rubygem-actionview-8.0-8.0.1-1.1, ruby3.4-rubygem-activejob-8.0-8.0.1-1.1, ruby3.4-rubygem-activerecord-8.0-8.0.1-1.1, ruby3.4-rubygem-activestorage-8.0-8.0.1-1.1, ruby3.4-rubygem-rails-8.0-8.0.1-1.1, and ruby3.4-rubygem-railties-8.0-8.0.1-1.1), and Ubuntu (bluez, openjpeg2, and python-django).
jake