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lundi 30 septembre 2024, 16:22
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cups-filters, net-snmp, and osbuild-composer), Debian (booth, cups, cups-filters, python-asyncssh, ruby-httparty, ruby-loofah, ruby-rails-html-sanitizer, tryton-server, unbound, and wireshark), Fedora (chromium, cjson, cups,...
The Arch Linux project has announced that Valve will be helping the distribution with a couple of important initiatives: Valve is generously providing backing for two critical projects that will have a huge impact on our distribution: a build service infrastructure and a...
Linus has released 6.12-rc1 and closed the merge window for this release. Despite conference travel (both for me and several maintainers), things seemed to go mostly fairly normally. There's a couple of notable new features in here: For one thing, PREEMPT_RT is now...
dimanche 29 septembre 2024, 09:23
Michał Górny describes the challenges involved in transitioning Gentoo to year-2038-safe time representations: There is a general agreement that the way forward is to change time_t to a 64-bit type. Musl has already switched to that, glibc supports it as an option. A...
vendredi 27 septembre 2024, 16:01
In the wake of the XZ backdoor, the Debian project has revisited some of the patches included in its OpenSSH packages to improve security. The outcome of this is that the project will be splitting out support for Kerberos key exchange into a separate set of packages, though...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and trafficserver), Fedora (chromium), Mageia (apache-mod_jk, gnome-shell, kernel, kmod-xtables-addons, and kmod-virtualbox, kernel-linus, and python3), Oracle (container-tools:ol8, dovecot, emacs, expat, firefox,...
jeudi 26 septembre 2024, 23:22
Security researcher Simone Margaritelli has reported a new vulnerability in CUPS, the software that many Linux systems use to manage printers and print jobs. Margaritelli describes the impact of the attack by saying: A remote unauthenticated attacker can silently replace ...
Danilo Krummrich gave a talk at Kangrejos 2024 focusing on the question of how the Rust-for-Linux project could improve at getting device and driver abstractions upstream. As a case study, he used some of his recent work that attempts to make it possible to write a PCI...
Version 17 of the PostgreSQL database has been released. This release of PostgreSQL adds significant overall performance gains, including an overhauled memory management implementation for vacuum, optimizations to storage access and improvements for high concurrency...
The online-privacy-focused Tor project has announced that it has 'joined forces and merged operations' with the Tails OS Linux distribution. Countering the threat of global mass surveillance and censorship to a free Internet, Tor and Tails provide essential tools to help...
The extensible scheduler class (sched_ext) enables the implementation of CPU schedulers as a set of BPF programs loaded from user space; it first hit the mailing lists in late 2022. Sched_ext has engendered its share of controversy since, but is currently slated to be part...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, dovecot, emacs, expat, git-lfs, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, grafana, grafana-pcp, gtk3, kernel, kernel-rt, nano, python3, python3.11, python3.12, and virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel), Debian (mediawiki and...
Here's a post on the Google Security Blog on how switching to a memory-safe language can quickly reduce vulnerabilities in a project, even if a large body of older code persists. This leads to two important takeaways: The problem is overwhelmingly with new code,...
mercredi 25 septembre 2024, 19:13
The Vanilla OS project has published a blog post to answer questions that users have raised since the release of Vanilla OS 2. The post has information about the update strategy for the distribution, an enterprise version with support, and plans for an experimental version...
In March, Danilo Krummrich announced the new Nova GPU driver — a successor to Nouveau for controlling NVIDIA GPUs. At Kangrejos 2024, Krummrich gave a presentation about what it is, why it's needed, and where it's going next. Hearing about the needs of the driver provoked...
The 'Linus and Dirk show' has been a fixture at Open Source Summit for as long as the conference has existed; it started back when the conference was called LinuxCon. Since Linus Torvalds famously does not like to give talks, as he said during this year's edition at Open...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (booth), Gentoo (Xpdf), Oracle (go-toolset:ol8, golang, grafana, grafana-pcp, kernel, libnbd, openssl, pcp, and ruby:3.3), Red Hat (container-tools:rhel8, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, kernel, and kernel-rt), SUSE (apr, cargo-audit,...
mardi 24 septembre 2024, 17:00
Almost a decade ago KDE e.V., the non-profit organization that supports KDE, started a process for selecting goals to help the community unite behind a common vision for where the project should go in the near future. KDE recently wrapped up its 2022-2024 cycle and announced...
Version 10.0.0 of the HarfBuzz text-shaping engine has been released. Notable changes in this release include Unicode 16.0.0 support, adding Cairo script as an output format for hb-view, and a number of bug fixes.
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