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vendredi 13 septembre 2024, 19:47
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has agreed to invest €688,800 to improve the security, stability, and functionality of Samba. The investment will take place over three years and will be managed by SerNet, a company that employs several Samba core developers and offers...
Read-copy-update (RCU) is a synchronization mechanism that was added to the Linux kernel in October 2002. RCU is most frequently used as a replacement for reader-writer locking, but is also used in a number of other ways. This article covers recent changes to the RCU API; it ...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (haproxy, osc, and python3.11), Oracle (389-ds:1.4), Red Hat (kernel), SUSE (clamav, colord, kernel, postgresql16, and qemu), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop,...
jeudi 12 septembre 2024, 23:42
Version 7.1.0 of the VirtualBox virtualization system has been released. Changes include a major GUI update, a new Network Address Translation (NAT) engine with IPv6 support, shared clipboard support on Wayland, and more.
Debian does not have an official way to configure networking. Instead, it has four recommended ways to configure networking, one of which is the venerable ifupdown, which has been part of Debian since the turn of the century and is showing its age. A conversation about its...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of seven new stable kernels: 6.10.10, 6.6.51, 6.1.110, 5.15.167, 5.10.226 5.4.284, and 4.19.322. As usual, they all contain lots of important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and redis), Fedora (nextcloud, python3.10, python3.13, python3.6, vim, and wolfssl), Mageia (expat, libpcap, and microcode), Oracle (dovecot, kernel, and kernel-container), Red Hat (kernel and krb5), SUSE (389-ds, colord, ...
mercredi 11 septembre 2024, 18:09
The Python community has been roiled, to a certain extent, by an action taken by the steering council (SC): the three-month suspension of a unnamed—weirdly—Python core developer. Tim Peters is the developer in question, as he has acknowledged, though it could easily be...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds:1.4, dovecot, emacs, and glib2), Fedora (bluez, iwd, libell, linux-firmware, seamonkey, vim, and wireshark), Mageia (apr, libtiff, Nginx, openssl, orc, unbound, webmin, and zziplib), Red Hat (389-ds:1.4), and SUSE...
mardi 10 septembre 2024, 20:43
Version 3.4 of the Pandoc document-conversion tool has been released. Notable changes in this release include a new ANSI output format (for console output), a switch to WeasyPrint as the PDF engine for HTML to PDF conversion, the ability to position captions above or below...
CPU scheduling is a challenging job; since it inherently requires making guesses about what the demands on the system will be in the future, it remains reliant on heuristics, despite ongoing efforts to remove them. Some of those heuristics take special note of tasks that are ...
Version 1.0 of the Radicle development platform has been released. Radicle 1.0 represents the culmination of years of experimentation and hard work from our team and community, where we set out to ensure that free and open source software ecosystems can flourish without...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cacti), Fedora (aardvark-dns, expat, and firefox), Mageia (ffmpeg, ntfs-3g, and vim), Oracle (emacs, glib2, java-11-openjdk, and qt5-qtbase), Red Hat (emacs, python-setuptools, python3.11, python3.11-setuptools,...
lundi 9 septembre 2024, 21:09
Version 0.9.0 of Redox OS, an open-source, Unix-like operating system written in Rust, has been released. Notable changes in this release include performance and stability improvements, better management of physical and virtual memory, bootloader improvements, and more. It...
Many projects struggle with attracting and retaining contributors; Debian is no different in that regard. At DebConf24, Carlos Henrique Lima Melara and Lucas Kanashiro gave a presentation about efforts that the Brazilian Debian community has made to increase participation....
Jacob Adams wanders into the kernel's hibernation code: How does Linux move from an awake machine to a hibernating one? How does it then manage to restore all state? These questions led me to read way too much C in trying to figure out how this particular hardware/software ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (amanda, aom, bluez, python-jwcrypto, and thunderbird), Fedora (chromium, firefox, and thunderbird), Red Hat (bubblewrap and flatpak, containernetworking-plugins, flatpak, and runc), Slackware (python3), SUSE (apache2, bubblewrap...
Linus has released 6.11-rc7 for testing. And I wish I could say that things have calmed down, but I can't really say that. In fact, rc7 is slightly bigger than both rc6 and rc5 were, both in number of commits, and in actual diff size. That's not really how it should work...
dimanche 8 septembre 2024, 18:08
The 6.10.9, 6.6.50, and 6.1.109 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
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