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Rust 1.85.0 released

6 hónap 3 hét óta
Version 1.85.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes in the release include support for async closures, some convenience iterators for tuples, and a number of stabilized APIs. The headline feature, though, is that this release stabilizes the Rust 2024 edition, described as "the largest edition we have released". The 2024 edition guide has a detailed listing of all the changes that were incorporated this time around.
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[$] Filesystem support for block sizes larger than the page size

6 hónap 3 hét óta
The maximum filesystem block size that the kernel can support has always been limited by the host page size for Linux, even if the filesystems could handle larger block sizes. The large-block-size (LBS) patches that were merged for the 6.12 kernel removed this limitation in XFS, thereby decoupling the page size from the filesystem block size. XFS is the first filesystem to gain this support, with other filesystems likely to add LBS support in the future. In addition, the LBS patches have been used to get the initial atomic-write support into XFS.
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[$] Support for atomic block writes in 6.13

6 hónap 3 hét óta
Atomic block writes, which have been discussed here a few times in the past, are block operations that either complete fully or do not occur at all, ensuring data consistency and preventing partial (or "torn") writes. This means the disk will, at all times, contain either the complete new data from the atomic write operation or the complete old data from a previous write. It will never have a mix of both the old and the new data, even if a power failure occurs during an ongoing atomic write operation. Atomic writes have been of interest to many Linux users, particularly database developers, as this feature can provide significant performance improvements.
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Security updates for Thursday

6 hónap 3 hét óta
Security updates have been issued by Debian (mosquitto), Fedora (gnutls, kernel, libtasn1, microcode_ctl, openssh, python3.10, python3.11, and python3.9), Red Hat (bind, bind9.16, buildah, container-tools:rhel8, podman, and redis:6), Slackware (libxml2), SUSE (dcmtk, google-osconfig-agent, java-17-openj9, kubernetes1.30-apiserver, kubernetes1.31-apiserver, openssh, and ruby3.4-rubygem-grpc), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-lowlatency and linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux-realtime).
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iPhone SE helyett: itt az iPhone 16e

6 hónap 3 hét óta
Majdnem iPhone 16, de inkább az iPhone 14-et helyettesíti az Apple eddig olcsó iPhone-ként is ismert szériájának újabb darabja.
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Mozilla announces leadership updates and next chapter

6 hónap 3 hét óta

Mark Surman, president of the Mozilla Corporation, has announced leadership updates for Mozilla. This includes a Mozilla Leadership Council made up of executives from each Mozilla organization, and new board chairs for the not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation, the Mozilla Corporation, and Mozilla.ai. The announcement also indicates a desire to further "diversify" Mozilla's focus:

We've recognized that Mozilla faces major headwinds in terms of both financial growth and mission impact. While Firefox remains the core of what we do, we also need to take steps to diversify: investing in privacy-respecting advertising to grow new revenue in the near term; developing trustworthy, open source AI to ensure technical and product relevance in the mid term; and creating online fundraising campaigns that will draw a bigger circle of supporters over the long run. Mozilla's impact and survival depend on us simultaneously strengthening Firefox AND finding new sources of revenue AND manifesting our mission in fresh ways. That is why we're working hard on all of these fronts.

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