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vendredi 22 août 2025, 05:23
The Arch Linux project has posted an update about recent service outages that have affected its infrastructure: The Arch Linux Project is currently experiencing an ongoing denial of service attack that primarily impacts our main webpage, the Arch User Repository (AUR), and...
jeudi 21 août 2025, 18:12
The restartable sequences feature, which was added to the 4.18 kernel in 2018, exists to enable better performance in certain types of threaded applications. While there are users for restartable sequences, they tend to be relatively specialized code; this is not a tool that ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (libarchive, mingw-sqlite, pki-deps:10.6, and tomcat), Debian (chromium and firefox-esr), Fedora (python3.6 and suricata), Oracle (go-toolset:rhel8, kernel, libarchive, mingw-sqlite, tomcat, and xterm), Red Hat (kernel),...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Debian; CPython; huge zero folio; kexec handover; FHS; Koka programming language Briefs: PyPI domain checks; Firefox 142.0; Git v2.51; Ghostty; LibreOffice 25.8; Zig 0.15.1; Quotes;... Announcements: Newsletters,...
mercredi 20 août 2025, 22:58
The Zig project has announced version 0.15.1 of the language. The release, much like the last one, includes incremental progress toward the goal of completely dropping LLVM and improving compile time, as well as a handful of breaking changes as the language team wrestles...
Tobias Heider has written an article that explains changes that are coming for Ubuntu's generic Arm64 desktop ISO images in the 25.10 release. The current solution, Heider says, depends on GRUB features that are unavailable in secure boot mode and require adding...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.16.2, 6.15.11, and 6.12.43 stable kernels. He notes that this is the last release in the 6.15.y series, and recommends that users move to the 6.16.y kernel branch at this time.
Ken Jin welcomed EuroPython 2025 attendees to his talk entitled 'Building a new tail-calling interpreter for Python', but noted that the title really should be: 'Measuring the performance of compilers and interpreters is really hard'. Jin's efforts to switch the CPython inter...
Version 25.8 of the LibreOffice open-source office suite has been released. Notable changes include several new functions in the Calc spreadsheet application, ability to export to the PDF 2.0 format, better PowerPoint font compatibility with Impress, and significant...
After more than two years of development, the Debian Project has released its new stable version, Debian 13 ('trixie'). The release comes with the usual bounty of upgraded packages and more than 14,000 new packages; it also debuts Advanced Package Tool (APT) 3.0 as the defaul...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (webkit2gtk), Fedora (firefox and libarchive), Red Hat (python3.11-setuptools and python3.12-setuptools), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (apache2-mod_security2, cairo-devel, cflow, docker, glibc, go1.25, govulncheck-vulndb,...
mardi 19 août 2025, 22:33
The Python Package Index (PyPI) has announced that it is now checking for expired domains to try to prevent domain-resurrection attacks. In this type of attack, a malicious user buys an expired domain and uses it to take over an account by resetting the password associated...
Version 142.0 of the firefox browser has been released. Changes include a new link preview feature (with optional 'AI-generated key points'), and a 'flexible exception list' for the strict tracking protection feature that allows relaxing specific protections on sites that...
Statically typed programming languages can help catch mismatches between the kinds of values a program is intended to manipulate, and the values it actually manipulates. While there have been many bytes spent on discussions of whether this is worth the effort, some...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (golang, openjpeg2, toolbox, and xterm), Debian (libxslt, mbedtls, openjdk-17, and webkit2gtk), Fedora (apptainer, mingw-gstreamer1, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-base,...
lundi 18 août 2025, 22:51
The JetBrains blog presents the results of the eighth annual Python Developers Survey, carried out in partnership with the Python Software Foundation. This year, 51% of all surveyed Python developers are involved in data exploration and processing, with pandas and NumPy...
The Git distributed version-control system has released version 2.51, with '506 non-merge commits since v2.50.1, contributed by 91 people, 21 of which are new faces'. It brings multiple new features, some of which are highlighted in a post on the GitHub blog. It includes...
Rebooting a computer ordinarily brings an abrupt end to any state built up by the old system; the new kernel starts from scratch. There are, however, people who would like to be able to reboot their systems without disrupting the workloads running therein. Various developers ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (go-toolset:rhel8, kernel, and kernel-rt), Fedora (chromium), Oracle (libxml2), Red Hat (go-toolset:rhel8, golang, kernel, kernel-rt, openjpeg2, rsync, and tigervnc), and SUSE (apache-commons-lang3, chromedriver, fractal,...
The second 6.17 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'So it's been a very calm week, and this is one of the smaller rc2 releases we've had lately. I'm definitely not complaining, since I've been jetlagged much of the week, but I have this suspicion that it just means that...
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