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jeudi 1 mai 2025, 02:19
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Mailman 2 vulnerabilities; AI in Debian; __nonstring__; Cache-aware scheduling; Freezing filesystems; Socket-level storage; Debugging information; LWN in 2025. Briefs: Debian election; Kali Linux key; OpenBSD 7.7; Firefox ...
mercredi 30 avril 2025, 22:06
Lance Albertson writes that the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, the home of many prominent free-software projects over the years, has run into financial trouble: I am writing to inform you about a critical and time-sensitive situation facing the Open Source Lab....
Many eyebrows were raised recently when three vulnerabilities were announced that allegedly impact GNU Mailman 2.1, since many folks assumed that it was no longer being supported. That's not quite the case. Even though version 3 of the GNU Mailman mailing-list manager has...
Modern compilers perform a lot of optimizations, which can complicate debugging. Song Liu and Thierry Treyer spoke about a potential improvement to BPF Type Format (BTF) debugging information that could partially combat that problem at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,...
The Free Software Foundation has announced the completion of the review of its board of directors; the process resulted in the reconfirmation of all five sitting board members. The review examined board members Ian Kelling, Geoffrey Knauth, Henry Poole, Richard Stallman,...
Just over six months ago, The Economist described the US economy as 'the envy of the world'. That headline would be unlikely to appear now. The economic boom referenced in that article feels like a distant memory, markets are falling, and uncertainty is at an all-time high....
Security updates have been issued by Debian (glibc and libraw), Fedora (digikam, icecat, mingw-LibRaw, perl, perl-Devel-Cover, and perl-PAR-Packer), Red Hat (ghostscript, kernel, and kernel-rt), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (augeas, firefox, and java-11-openjdk), and Ubuntu...
mardi 29 avril 2025, 21:29
The LWN.net fediverse (Mastodon) feed has moved; we are now known as @LWN@lwn.net. The migration magic has shifted many of our followers over automatically but, if you follow that stream, you might want to make sure that you have shifted to the new source.
Version 1.8.0 of the Meson build system has been released. Notable changes in this release include the ability to run rustdoc for Rust projects, support for the c2y and gnu2y compiler options, and a new argument (android_exe_type) that makes it possible to use the same...
Version 138.0 of the Firefox web browser has been released. Changes include some profile-management improvements, the ability to get weather-related suggestions in the address bar (US only), and some security fixes.
Tavian Barnes takes on the tedious process of waiting for configure scripts to run. I paid good money for my 24 CPU cores, but./configure can only manage to use 69% of one of them. As a result, this random project takes about 13.5× longer to configure the build than it...
The kernel's CPU scheduler has to balance a wide range of objectives. The tasks in the system must be scheduled fairly, with latency for any given task kept within bounds. All of the CPUs in the system should be kept busy if there is enough work to do, but unneeded CPUs...
The Kali Linux distribution has announced that software updates will soon start failing for all users: This is not only you, this is for everyone, and this is entirely our fault. We lost access to the signing key of the repository, so we had to create a new one. At the...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (glibc, php:8.1, and thunderbird), Debian (libreoffice), Fedora (caddy), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable), Red Hat (php:8.1), SUSE (glow), and Ubuntu (kicad, linux-aws-5.15, linux-azure-nvidia, linux-gcp-5.15, mistral,...
lundi 28 avril 2025, 20:44
Version 3.25.0 of the Valgrind dynamic-analysis tool has been released. It has lots of new features, including initial support for RISC-V on Linux, handling zstd-compressed debug sections, integration of the Linux Test Project test suite, support for lots more Linux system...
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has quietly published 'takeaways' from its internal retrospective on the recent board of directors election as an update to the March blog post that announced the new members of the board. The election was controversial, in part, due to poor...
Martin Lau gave a talk in the BPF track of the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit about a performance problem plaguing the networking subsystem, and some potential ways to fix it. He works on BPF programs that need to store socket-local data;...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (thunderbird), Debian (distro-info-data, imagemagick, kernel, libsoup2.4, and poppler), Fedora (chromium, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-1.8.0-openjdk-portable, java-17-openjdk, java-17-openjdk-portable, java-latest-openjdk, pgadmin4, ...
The 6.15-rc4 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'So let's see if this rc ends up avoiding any silly issues - things certainly look pretty normal, and there were no hurried last-minute changes this week due to system upgrades'.
dimanche 27 avril 2025, 21:59
The OpenBSD 7.7 release is available. There is, as usual, a long list of changes; see the full changelog for lots of details.
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