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vendredi 5 septembre 2025, 16:48
Like almost all human endeavors, open-source software development involves a range of power dynamics. Companies, developers, and users are all concerned with the power to influence the direction of the software — and, often, to profit from it. At the 2025 Open Source...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (udisks2), Oracle (httpd:2.4 and kernel), Red Hat (python-requests), and SUSE (chromium, gn, dcmtk, firefox, himmelblau, nginx, perl-Authen-SASL, perl-Crypt-URandom, postgresql15, python-Django, and python-maturin).
Mozilla has announced that support for the Firefox browser on 32-bit systems ends with version 144. 'For users who cannot transition immediately, Firefox ESR 140 will remain available — including 32-bit builds — and will continue to receive security updates until at least...
jeudi 4 septembre 2025, 17:18
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.16.5, 6.12.45, 6.6.104, 6.1.150, 5.15.191, 5.10.242, and 5.4.298 stable kernels. Each contains important fixes throughout the kernel tree; users should upgrade.
Deadlocks are a constant threat in concurrent settings with shared data; it is thus not surprising that the kernel project has long since developed tools to detect potential deadlocks so they can be fixed before they affect production users. Byungchul Park thinks that he has ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (httpd:2.4, kernel, pam, postgresql:12, and python3.12), Debian (clamav and node-cipher-base), Fedora (exiv2 and libsixel), Oracle (httpd, kernel, pam, postgresql:12, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, and udisks2), SUSE (gimp,...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Maintaining curl; GNOME governance; Guix in Debian; Tracking untrusted data in the kernel; 32-Bit support; systemd v258. Briefs: bcachefs maintenance; Linux from Scratch 12.4; ELF spec; Niri 25.08; Python documentary;...
mercredi 3 septembre 2025, 21:02
Version 2025.9 of the Home Assistant home automation system has been released. Changes include a new experimental dashboard that is eventually meant to become the default, a number of tile-card improvements, a reworked automation editor, several new integrations, and more.
Version 25.08 of the niri scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor has been released. Notable changes include xwayland-satellite integration, modal exit confirmation, and the introduction of basic support for screen readers: A series of posts by fireborn earlier this year on...
Version 12.4 of Linux From Scratch (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) have been released. LFS provides step-by-step instructions on building a customized Linux system entirely from source, and BLFS helps to extend an LFS installation into a more usable system....
The Linux kernel has to handle many different sources of data that should not be trusted: user space, network connections, and removable storage, to name a few. The kernel has to remain secure even if one of these sends garbled (or malicious) data. Benno Lossin has been...
During the opening of RustConf 2025 in Seattle, Washington, the Rust Foundation announced a new initiative to provide financial and administrative support to open-source Rust projects. The first project to benefit from the new Rust Innovation Lab is Rustls, an...
Cary Coutant has announced a draft for version 4.3 of the Executable and Linking Format (ELF) object file format. The specification was formerly part of the Unix System V Release 4 (SVR4) gABI document: The last published gABI documents were the Fourth Edition and a draft...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (httpd, kernel, and kernel-rt), Debian (python-eventlet and python-h2), Mageia (aide, gnutls, tomcat, and vim), Oracle (httpd, mod_http2, postgresql:15, python3.11, python3.12, python3.9, and udisks2), Red Hat (kernel,...
mardi 2 septembre 2025, 16:20
As a rule, if a package is shipped with a Debian release, users can count on it being available, and updated, for the entire life of the release. If package foo is included in the stable release—currently Debian 13 ('trixie')—a user can reasonably expect that it will...
The FastCode site has a lengthy article on how large language models make open-source projects far more vulnerable to XZ-style attacks. Open source maintainers, already overwhelmed by legitimate contributions, have no realistic way to counter this threat. How do you verify ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, mod_http2, postgresql, postgresql:15, and python39:3.9), Debian (libsndfile), Mageia (ceph, glibc, and golang), Oracle (postgresql and python39:3.9), Red Hat (aide, postgresql:12, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, and...
lundi 1 septembre 2025, 22:04
The GNOME Foundation has announced that Steven Deobald will be leaving the position of Executive Director after just four months. We are extremely grateful to Steven for all this and more. Despite these many positive achievements, Steven and the board have come to the...
Arnd Bergmann started his Open Source Summit Europe 2025 talk with a clear statement of position: 32-bit systems are obsolete when it comes to use in any sort of new products. The only reason to work with them at this point is when there is existing hardware and software to...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (postgresql16, postgresql:16, python3.11, and thunderbird), Debian (firebird4.0, libcommons-lang3-java, mbedtls, nodejs, openvpn, and ruby-saml), Fedora (cef, chromium, docker-buildx, exiv2, firefox, rocm-rpp, and udisks2),...
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