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samedi 6 avril 2024, 23:24
Wayne Davison has announced the release of rsync version 3.3.0, which contains a number of bug fixes and minor enhancements. Davison has also announced a change in maintainers and a move to a new GitHub project: The github repos have moved to a new RsyncProject...
vendredi 5 avril 2024, 20:11
The nominations have closed and campaigning is underway to see who will be the next Debian Project Leader (DPL). This year, two candidates are campaigning for the position Jonathan Carter has held for four eventful years: Sruthi Chandran and Andreas Tille. Topics that have...
OpenBSD 7.5 has been released. The list of changes and improvements is, as usual, long; it includes the pinsyscalls() functionality covered here in January.
The Eclipse Foundation, the organization behind the Eclipse IDE and many other software projects, announced a collaboration between several different open-source-software foundations to create a specification describing secure software development best practices. This work...
Version 7.0 of the FFmpeg audio/video toolkit is out. 'The most noteworthy changes for most users are a native VVC decoder (currently experimental, until more fuzzing is done), IAMF support, or a multi-threaded ffmpeg CLI tool'. There's also the usual list of new formats and ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cockpit), Mageia (python-pygments), Red Hat (nodejs), Slackware (httpd and nghttp2), SUSE (avahi, gradle, gradle-bootstrap, and squid), and Ubuntu (xorg-server, xwayland).
jeudi 4 avril 2024, 21:13
The 6.8.4 and 6.6.25 stable kernels have been released. They both contain 11 reversions of workqueue patches.
V8, the JavaScript engine used in Chrome, announced that its memory sandbox is no longer experimental. Chrome 123 could therefore be considered to be a sort of 'beta' release for the sandbox. This blog post uses this opportunity to discuss the motivation behind the...
Among the numerous approaches to funding the development and advancement of open-source software, corporate sponsorship in the form of donations to umbrella organizations is perhaps the most visible. At SCALE21x in Pasadena, California, Duane O'Brien presented a slice of his ...
Version 6.0 LTS of the Incus container management system has been released. 'This is a major milestone for Incus as it marks our first release with extended support, suitable for use in production environments where monthly feature releases aren't suitable.' Changes include...
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (firefox and thunderbird), Debian (chromium and gtkwave), Fedora (micropython), Slackware (xorg), SUSE (util-linux and xen), and Ubuntu (firefox).
mercredi 3 avril 2024, 20:39
AlmaLinux has announced updated kernels for AlmaLinux 8 and 9 to address CVE-2024-1086, a use-after-free vulnerability in the kernel that could be exploited to gain local privilege escalation. This is notable because the fix marks a divergence between AlmaLinux and Red Hat...
David Malcolm writes about some static-analyzer features that are coming in the GCC 14 release. Solving the halting problem? Obviously I'm kidding with the title here, but for GCC 14 I've implemented a new warning: -Wanalyzer-infinite-loop that's able to detect some...
The 6.8.3, 6.7.12, 6.6.24, and 6.1.84 stable kernel updates have been released. Each contains an important set of fixes. Note that 6.7.12 is the final release for the 6.7.y series, and that branch is now end-of-life. Users should move to the 6.8.y branch.
The Rust programming language differs from C in many ways; those differences tend to be what users admire in the language. But those differences can also lead to an impedance mismatch when Rust code is integrated into a C-dominated system, and it can be even worse in the...
The SUSE Security Team Blog is carrying a detailed article on SUSE's review of the KDE6 release. The SUSE security team restricts the installation of system wide D-Bus services and Polkit policies in openSUSE distributions and derived SUSE products. Any package that ships...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (py7zr), Fedora (biosig4c++ and podman), Oracle (kernel, kernel-container, and ruby:3.1), Red Hat (.NET 7.0, bind9.16, curl, expat, grafana, grafana-pcp, kernel, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, less, opencryptoki, and postgresql-jdbc),...
The first stable release of Redict, a fork of the Redis in-memory database under a copyleft license, has been announced. You may be wondering why Redict would be of interest to you, particularly when compared with Valkey, another Redis fork that was announced on Thursday. ...
mardi 2 avril 2024, 22:41
Versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 of the XZ compression utility and library were shipped with a backdoor that targeted OpenSSH. Andres Freund discovered the backdoor by noticing that failed SSH logins were taking a lot of CPU time while doing some micro-benchmarking, and tracking...
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