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dimanche 9 février 2025, 22:13
The second 6.14 kernel prepatch is out for testing. It's Sunday afternoon, and I'm releasing the usual regularly scheduled release candidate while the rest of the US is getting ready for the biggest day in TV commercials interrupted by some kind of lawn bowling tournament.
samedi 8 février 2025, 22:26
The 6.13.2, 6.12.13, and 6.6.76 stable kernels have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
vendredi 7 février 2025, 16:30
The BPF verifier is charged with the challenging task of ensuring that a BPF program is safe for the kernel to run before that program is loaded. Among many other concerns, the verifier must ensure that any kfuncs (kernel functions that have been exported to BPF programs)...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (openjdk-17), Fedora (firefox, FlightGear, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-latest-openjdk, and SimGear), Mageia (gstreamer), Red Hat (firefox, kernel, kernel-rt, libsoup, and python-jinja2), SUSE (bind, curl, dcmtk, etcd, ...
jeudi 6 février 2025, 22:25
Jonathan Bryce has announced two open community meetings to hear input on the topic of the OpenInfra Foundation migrating to the Linux Foundation. Bryce wrote that the OpenInfra board has carefully evaluated its options, and sees joining the Linux Foundation as the best way...
Version 25.2 of the LibreOffice productivity suite is out. Changes include the ability to remove all personal information from any document, support for ODF version 1.4, a number of accessibility improvements, and more; see the release notes for details.
Version 24.10.0 of the OpenWrt router-oriented distribution has been released. Changes include an update to the 6.6 kernel, use of access control lists on larger systems, multipath TCP support, better WiFi6 support, the beginning of WiFi7 support, and more.
Open source is often described as a 'gift economy'—an ecosystem where contributors are motivated by a desire to make the world a better place. That is, sometimes, true. However, James Bottomley used his main track slot at FOSDEM 2025, on February 1, to make the case that it...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (asterisk and chromium), Fedora (FlightGear, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-latest-openjdk, and SimGear), Mageia (bind, chromium-browser-stable, python-django, and vim), Oracle (buildah, bzip2, firefox,...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Finding concurrency bugs with sched_ext; Rust abstractions; 6.14 Merge window; Sealed system mappings; OpenSUSE board; Julia; Site tour. Briefs: Binutils 2.44; Firefox 135.0; Freedesktop GitLab; GNU C Library 2.41; GTK;...
mercredi 5 février 2025, 21:04
The Servo Rust-based rendering engine project has published an article summarizing its progress in 2024, and plans for the future: Servo main dependencies (SpiderMonkey, Stylo and WebRender) have been upgraded, the new layout engine has kept evolving adding support for float...
Over the past year or so, LWN has added a number of useful new features for our subscribers to enhance the experience of reading and commenting on our content. Those features are of little use, however, to readers who do not know about them. It has been more than a decade...
Jake Hillion gave a presentation at FOSDEM about using sched_ext, the BPF scheduling framework that was introduced in kernel version 6.12, to help find elusive concurrency problems. In collaboration with Johannes Bechberger, he has built a scheduler that can reveal...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (fastd, ovn, and yq), Mageia (libreoffice), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (google-osconfig-agent, grafana, helm, and rime-schema-all), and Ubuntu (linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-lowlatency, openjdk-17,...
mardi 4 février 2025, 18:31
Jeff Xu has been working on a patch set that makes certain mappings in a process's address space impossible to change, sealing them against tampering. This has some potential security benefits — mainly, making sure that someone cannot relocate the vsyscall and vDSO...
Version 135.0 of the Firefox web browser has been released. Changes include more languages for the translations feature, increasing roll-out of the credit-card autofill and AI chatbot features, and (perhaps most welcome): Firefox now includes safeguards to prevent sites...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (openjdk-17), Fedora (chromium, fastd, ovn, and yq), Mageia (libxml2 and redis), Oracle (gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good), Red Hat (buildah, bzip2, galera, mariadb, grafana, keepalived, libsoup, mariadb:10.11,...
lundi 3 février 2025, 17:45
By the time that Linus Torvalds released 6.14-rc1 and closed the merge window for this development cycle, some 9,307 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline repository — the lowest level of merge-window activity seen in years. There were, nonetheless, a...
Matthias Clasen has written a short update on a GTK hackfest that took place at FOSDEM and what's coming in GTK 4.18. This includes fixes for pointer sizes in Wayland when fractional scaling is enabled, removal of the old GL renderer in favor of the GL renderer introduced in ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (git-lfs, libsoup, and unbound), Debian (dcmtk, ffmpeg, openjdk-11, pam-u2f, and python-aiohttp), Fedora (buku, chromium, jpegxl, nodejs18, nodejs20, and rust-routinator), Mageia (clamav, kernel, kmod-virtualbox,...
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