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[$] Reducing the bandwidth needs for fwupd

1 év 11 hónap óta
The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) provides a repository where vendors can upload firmware updates that can be accessed by the fwupd firmware update daemon on Linux systems. That mechanism allows users to keep the hardware components of their systems up to date with the latest firmware releases, but it has gotten so popular that the daily metadata queries are starting to swamp the LVFS content delivery network (CDN) server. So Richard Hughes, who developed fwupd and LVFS, suggested that it would make sense to start looking at ways to reduce that burden; the idea was discussed in a recent thread on the Fedora devel mailing list.
jake

KDE Gear 23.08 Arrived With Plenty of Changes (FOSS Force)

1 év 11 hónap óta
FOSS Force looks at the KDE Gear 23.08 release.

For this release, developers have been working in high gear (no pun intended) as there were important improvements made to many of Gear’s most iconic applications. Not only that: just a little over a year after its arrival, the Kalendar app is going through a name change as it morphs into what appears will eventually become a full-featured email application.

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Security updates for Tuesday

1 év 11 hónap óta
Security updates have been issued by Debian (file and thunderbird), Fedora (exercism, libtommath, moby-engine, and python-pyramid), Oracle (cups and kernel), Red Hat (firefox, kernel, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, and thunderbird), SUSE (amazon-ecs-init, buildah, busybox, djvulibre, exempi, firefox, gsl, keylime, kubernetes1.18, php7, and sccache), and Ubuntu (docker-registry and linux-azure-5.4).
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[$] Security topics: io_uring, VM attestation, and random-reseed notifications

1 év 11 hónap óta
The kernel-development community has recently been discussing a number of independent patches, each of which is intended to help improve the security of deployed systems in some way. They touch on a number of areas within the kernel, including the question of how widely io_uring should be available, how to allow virtual machines to attest to their integrity, and the best way to inform applications when their random-number generators need to be reseeded.
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Security updates for Monday

1 év 11 hónap óta
Security updates have been issued by Debian (thunderbird), Fedora (firefox, kernel, kubernetes, and mediawiki), Mageia (openldap), SUSE (terraform), and Ubuntu (atftp, busybox, and thunderbird).
jake

Linux Plumbers Conference: Registration Currently Sold Out, We’re Trying to Add More Places

1 év 11 hónap óta

Linux Plumbers is now sold out and in-person registration is closed.

This year it happened not as fast as in 2022, but the registration is still sold out long before the event.

We are setting up a waitlist for in-person registration (virtual attendee places are still available). Please fill in this form and try to be clear about your reasons for wanting to attend. This year we’re giving waitlist priority to new attendees and people expected to contribute content.

Linux Plumbers Conference: Containers and Checkpoint/Restore MC CFP

1 év 11 hónap óta

The Containers and Checkpoint/Restore micro-conference focuses on both userspace and kernel related work. The micro-conference targets the wider container ecosystem ideally with participants from all major container runtimes as well as init system developers.

The microconference will be discussing recent advancements in container technologies with some of the usual candidates being:

  • CGroupV2 feature parity with CGroupV1
  • Emulation of various files and system calls through FUSE and/or Seccomp
  • Dealing with the eBPF-ification of the world
  • Making user namespaces more accessible
  • VFS idmap improvements

On the checkpoint/restore front, some of the potential topics include:

  • Restoring FUSE services
  • Handling GPUs
  • Dealing with restartable sequences

And quite likely a variety of other container and checkpoint/restore topics as things evolve between now and the event.

Past editions of this micro-conference have been the source of many developments in the Linux kernel, including:

Use LPC abstract submission page to submit your proposals and select “Containers and Checkpoint/Restart” track.

[$] Race-free process creation in the GNU C Library

1 év 11 hónap óta
The pidfd API has been added to the kernel over the last several years to provide a race-free way for processes to refer to each other. While the GNU C Library (glibc) gained basic pidfd support with the 2.36 release in 2022, it still lacks a complete solution for race-free process creation. This patch set from Adhemerval Zanella seems likely to fill that gap in the near future, though, with an extension to the posix_spawn() API.
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Security updates for Friday

1 év 11 hónap óta
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, and gst-plugins-ugly1.0), Fedora (firefox, libeconf, libwebsockets, mosquitto, and rust-rustls-webpki), SUSE (amazon-ssm-agent, open-vm-tools, and terraform-provider-helm), and Ubuntu (linux-azure, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.15, linux-intel-iotg, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, and python-git).
jake

Kritikus Juniper Junos OS hibajavítás érhető el

1 év 11 hónap óta

Biztonsági frissítés érkezett a Juniper Junos OS-hez, ami olyan sérülékenységeket foltoz be, amelyek együttes kihasználása távoli kódfuttatást (RCE) vagy szolgáltatásmegtagadásos támadást (DoS) tesz lehetővé. PoC nyilvános elérhetősége miatt nagy a valószínűsége, hogy kiberfenyegetési szereplők aktívan ki is fogják használni. Javasolt a sérülékeny eszközök frissítés mielőbbi frissítése.

The post Kritikus Juniper Junos OS hibajavítás érhető el first appeared on Nemzeti Kibervédelmi Intézet.

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[$] The first half of the 6.6 merge window

1 év 11 hónap óta
As of this writing, 4,588 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline repository for the 6.6 kernel release. The 6.6 merge window, in other words, is just getting started. Nonetheless, a fair amount of significant work has already been pulled, so the time has come to summarize what has happened so far in this development cycle.
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Security updates for Thursday

1 év 11 hónap óta
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, json-c, opendmarc, and otrs2), Red Hat (java-1.8.0-ibm and kpatch-patch), Scientific Linux (kernel), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (haproxy, php7, vim, and xen), and Ubuntu (elfutils, frr, and linux-gcp, linux-starfive).
jake

Linux Plumbers Conference: Power Management and Thermal Control MC CFP

1 év 11 hónap óta

The Power Management and Thermal Control microconference focuses on power management and thermal control infrastructure, CPU and device power-management mechanisms, and thermal control methods.

In particular, we are interested in improving the thermal control infrastructure in the kernel to cover more use cases and utilizing energy-saving opportunities offered by modern hardware in new ways.

The goal is to facilitate cross-framework and cross-platform discussions that can help improve energy-awareness and thermal control in Linux.

The current list of topics proposed so far includes the following:

 

[$] Mastering Emacs

1 év 11 hónap óta
A series of rabbit holes, some of which led to unshaved yaks, recently landed me on a book called Mastering Emacs. Given that I have been using Emacs "professionally" for more than 16 years—and first looked into it a good ways into the previous century—I should probably be pretty well-versed in that editor-cum-operating-system. Sadly, for a variety of reasons, that is not really true, but the book and some concerted effort have been helping me down a path toward Emacs-ian enlightenment. Mastering Emacs may also help others who are struggling in the frothy sea that makes up Emacs documentation.
jake