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[$] Some 6.11 development statistics

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The 6.11 kernel was released on September 15 after a typical nine-week development cycle. This release integrates 13,890 non-merge changesets, so it was a moderately busy cycle, slightly more so that 6.10 was. With a new release comes a new round of development statistics; read on for the details.
corbet

Security updates for Monday

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Security updates have been issued by Debian (git, nodejs, and ring), Fedora (apr, bubblewrap, chromium, clamav, flatpak, mingw-expat, python3-docs, python3.12, and thunderbird), Mageia (assimp, botan2, python-tqdm, and radare2), Slackware (libarchive), and SUSE (curl).
jake

The 6.11 kernel has been released

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Linus has released the 6.11 kernel. "I'm once again on the road and not in my normal timezone, but it's Sunday afternoon here in Vienna, and 6.11 is out." Significant changes in this release include new io_uring operations for bind() and listen(), the nested bottom-half locking patches, the ability to write to busy executable files, support for writing block drivers in Rust, support for atomic write operations in the block layer, the dedicated bucket slab allocator, the vDSO implementation of getrandom(), and more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) for more information.
corbet

GNOME Foundation opens search for new Executive Director

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The GNOME Foundation has announced that it is looking for a new Executive Director following the departure of Holly Million in July:

As the cornerstone of our leadership team, the Executive Director will play a critical role in shaping the strategic direction of the Foundation, working closely with staff, community members, and partners to expand our reach and impact. The ideal candidate will have professional experience working with nonprofits, a strong passion for open-source software, a deep commitment to our community values, and the vision to drive the next phase of GNOME's growth and development.

The window of opportunity for the job is closing quickly, applications are due by September 20.

jzb

Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) to invest in Samba improvements

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Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has agreed to invest €688,800 to improve the security, stability, and functionality of Samba. The investment will take place over three years and will be managed by SerNet, a company that employs several Samba core developers and offers support for Samba. According to its announcement, work has already begun and is expected to complete in 2026:

The project's focus is on areas like transparent failover, SMB3 UNIX extensions, and modern security protocols such as SMB over QUIC. These improvements are designed to ensure that Samba remains a robust and secure solution for organizations that rely on a sovereign IT infrastructure that is as independent as possible of proprietary software regimes, but including optimal interoperability.
jzb

Linux Plumbers Conference: Playback of Presenter and BBB Training is available

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We recorded a playback of the 10:00 session which you can watch:

https://bbb1.lpc.events/playback/presentation/2.3/62e3456da3c0598910e28d204ee24b669d714c04-1725975646004

To get a feel for how the BBB platform works.  In addition, your credentials are the email address you registered with in cvent and the confirmation number of the registration it sent you back.  You can use those to log in here:

https://meet.lpc.events

And practice in a Hackroom (after logging in select Hackrooms from the leftnav and then pick a Hackroom which is empty).

Security updates for Friday

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Security updates have been issued by Fedora (haproxy, osc, and python3.11), Oracle (389-ds:1.4), Red Hat (kernel), SUSE (clamav, colord, kernel, postgresql16, and qemu), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.15, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-intel-iotg, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-kvm, linux-nvidia, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-nvidia-6.8, and linux-xilinx-zynqmp).
jzb