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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...
vendredi 23 février 2024, 22:42
Version 2.44.0 of the Git source-code management system has been released. There is a long list of changes, including the git replay command for faster, server-side rebasing, a number of command-line completion improvements, and more.
The world of open-source 'forges' is becoming a little more fragmented. The Forgejo project is a software-development platform that started as a 'soft' fork of Gitea in late 2022. On February 16, Forgejo announced its intent to become a 'hard fork' of Gitea to help address...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of seven new stable kernels: 6.7.6, 6.6.18, 6.1.79, 5.15.149, 5.10.210, 5.4.269, and 4.19.307. As usual, they contain many important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, imagemagick, and iwd), Fedora (chromium, firefox, and pdns-recursor), Mageia (nodejs and yarnpkg), Red Hat (firefox, postgresql, and postgresql:15), and SUSE (bind, mozilla-nss, openssh, php-composer2,...
The Curl project has previously had problems with CVEs issued for things that are not security issues. On February 21, Daniel Stenberg wrote about the Curl project's most recent issue with the CVE system, saying: I keep insisting that the CVE system is broken and that the ...
jeudi 22 février 2024, 16:24
The Linux kernel uses a number of hardening techniques to try to protect itself against compromise; one of those is kernel address-space layout randomization (KASLR). But randomization is of little benefit if the kernel spills the beans on where its code has ended up. As it...
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (python-pillow), Debian (firefox-esr and imagemagick), Fedora (kernel, mbedtls, rust-asyncgit, rust-bat, rust-cargo-c, rust-eza, rust-git-absorb, rust-git-delta, rust-git2, rust-gitui, rust-libgit2-sys, rust-lsd, rust-pore,...
mercredi 21 février 2024, 20:19
Sudo is a ubiquitous tool for running commands with the privileges of another user on Unix-like operating systems. Over the past decade or so, some alternatives have been developed; the base system of OpenBSD now comes with doas instead, sudo-rs is a subset of sudo...
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