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vendredi 1 mars 2024, 17:30
One of the outcomes of the (extremely) lengthy discussion about using Common Lisp features in Emacs Lisp (Elisp), which we looked at back in November, was an effort to start removing some of those uses from Emacs. The rewrite of some of the Elisp in Emacs that uses the...
On February 29, the musl project announced release 1.2.5, including support for loongarch64 and riscv32. This release also contains support for the statx(), preadv2(), and pwritev2() system calls.
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of seven new stable kernels: 6.7.7, 6.6.19, 6.1.80, 5.15.150, 5.10.211, 5.4.270, and 4.19.308. As usual, they contain many important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (firefox and thunderbird), Debian (gsoap, python-django, and wireshark), Fedora (dotnet7.0 and gifsicle), Mageia (sympa), Oracle (postgresql:10, postgresql:12, thunderbird, and unbound), Red Hat (kpatch-patch, python-pillow, and...
jeudi 29 février 2024, 19:10
Over on the Collabora blog, Faith Ekstrand has announced that the NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA devices will be part of Mesa 24.1 and is ready for real-world use. It should be appearing in Linux distributions later this year. Back in october, I announced that NVK had reached ...
Netflix has announced the release of a tool called bpftop to help with the performance optimization of BPF programs in the kernel: bpftop provides a dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs. It displays the average execution runtime, events per second, and estimated ...
The Linux kernel follows a monolithic design, and that brings a well-known problem: all code in the kernel has access to the entirety of the kernel's address space. As a result, a bug in (for example) an obscure driver may well be exploitable to wreak havoc on core-kernel...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (moodle), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, and postgresql:15), Slackware (wpa_supplicant), SUSE (Java and rear27a), and Ubuntu (libcpanel-json-xs-perl, libuv1, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4,...
mercredi 28 février 2024, 20:24
Tails 6.0 is now available. Based on Debian, Tails is a portable operating system designed to run from a USB stick and help users avoid surveillance and censorship. This release updates most Tails applications, and includes important security and usability improvements. One...
It's been nearly 10 years since KDE Plasma 5, which is the last major release of the desktop. On February 28 the project announced its 'mega release' of KDE Plasma 6, KDE Frameworks 6, and KDE Gear 24.02 — all based on the Qt 6 development framework. This release focuses heav...
The Open Collective Foundation is an organization created to provide legal and financial services for non-profit projects, many of which are associated with free software. Projects hosted there are now beginning to report that the Open Collective Foundation will be shutting...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (knot-resolver and wpa), Fedora (chromium, kernel, thunderbird, and yarnpkg), Mageia (c-ares), Oracle (firefox, kernel, opensc, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, and thunderbird), Red Hat (edk2, gimp:2.8, and kernel), SUSE (bind,...
mardi 27 février 2024, 22:24
Nix and Guix are a pair of unusual package managers based on the idea of declarative configurations. Their associated Linux distributions — NixOS and the Guix System — take the idea further by allowing users to define a single centralized configuration describing the...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (engrampa and libgit2), Fedora (libxls, perl-Spreadsheet-ParseXLSX, and wpa_supplicant), Gentoo (PyYAML), Mageia (packages and thunderbird), Red Hat (firefox, kernel, linux-firmware, thunderbird, and unbound), Slackware (openjpeg), ...
lundi 26 février 2024, 18:53
In a recent episode, 'Pitchforks for RDSEED', we learned that there was some uncertainty around whether hardware-based random-number generators on x86 CPUs could fail. Since the consequences of failure in some situations (confidential-computing applications in particular)...
Version 0.6 of Incus, a fork of LXD, has been released. This release includes a number of changes, including a new storage driver called lvmcluster, improvements for Open Virtual Network (OVN) users, improvements to migration tooling, a number of new security features, and...
At FOSDEM 2024, the 'Tool the docs' devroom hosted several talks about free and open-source tools for writing, managing, testing, and rendering documentation. The central concept was to treat documentation as code, which makes it possible to incorporate various tools into...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gnutls28, iwd, libjwt, and thunderbird), Fedora (chromium, expat, mingw-expat, mingw-openexr, mingw-python3, mingw-qt5-qt3d, mingw-qt5-qtactiveqt, mingw-qt5-qtbase, mingw-qt5-qtcharts, mingw-qt5-qtdeclarative,...
Linus has released 6.8-rc6 for testing. Last week I said that I was hoping things would calm down a bit. Technically things did calm down a bit, and rc6 is smaller than rc5 was. But not by a huge amount, and honestly, while there's nothing really alarming here, there's...
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