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Tor, 09/05/2023 - 14:46
Security updates have been issued by Debian (file and thunderbird), Fedora (exercism, libtommath, moby-engine, and python-pyramid), Oracle (cups and kernel), Red Hat (firefox, kernel, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, and thunderbird), SUSE (amazon-ecs-init, buildah, busybox, djvulibre, exempi, firefox, gsl, keylime, kubernetes1.18, php7, and sccache), and Ubuntu (docker-registry and linux-azure-5.4).
Pon, 09/04/2023 - 15:24
The kernel-development community has recently been discussing a number of
independent patches, each of which is intended to help improve the security
of deployed systems in some way. They touch on a number of areas within the
kernel, including the question of how widely io_uring should be available,
how to allow virtual machines to attest to their integrity, and the best
way to inform applications when their random-number generators need to be
reseeded.
Pon, 09/04/2023 - 14:54
Security updates have been issued by Debian (thunderbird), Fedora (firefox, kernel, kubernetes, and mediawiki), Mageia (openldap), SUSE (terraform), and Ubuntu (atftp, busybox, and thunderbird).
Pet, 09/01/2023 - 15:46
The
pidfd API has been added to the kernel
over the last several years to provide a race-free way for processes to
refer to each other. While the
GNU C Library (glibc) gained
basic pidfd support with the 2.36 release in 2022, it still lacks a
complete solution for race-free process creation.
This
patch set from Adhemerval Zanella seems likely to fill that gap in the
near future, though, with an extension to the
posix_spawn()
API.
Pet, 09/01/2023 - 15:05
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, and gst-plugins-ugly1.0), Fedora (firefox, libeconf, libwebsockets, mosquitto, and rust-rustls-webpki), SUSE (amazon-ssm-agent, open-vm-tools, and terraform-provider-helm), and Ubuntu (linux-azure, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.15, linux-intel-iotg, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, and python-git).
Čet, 08/31/2023 - 16:09
As of this writing, 4,588 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the
mainline repository for the 6.6 kernel release. The 6.6 merge window, in
other words, is just getting started. Nonetheless, a fair amount of
significant work has already been pulled, so the time has come to summarize
what has happened so far in this development cycle.
Čet, 08/31/2023 - 14:51
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, json-c, opendmarc, and otrs2), Red Hat (java-1.8.0-ibm and kpatch-patch), Scientific Linux (kernel), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (haproxy, php7, vim, and xen), and Ubuntu (elfutils, frr, and linux-gcp, linux-starfive).
Čet, 08/31/2023 - 01:14
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 31, 2023 is available.
Sre, 08/30/2023 - 19:50
A series of rabbit holes, some of which led to
unshaved
yaks,
recently landed me on a book called
Mastering Emacs.
Given that I have been using Emacs "professionally" for more than 16
years—and first looked into it a good ways into the previous century—I
should probably be pretty well-versed in that editor-cum-operating-system.
Sadly, for a variety of reasons, that is not really true, but the book and
some concerted effort have been helping me down a path toward Emacs-ian
enlightenment.
Mastering Emacs may also help others who are
struggling in the frothy sea that makes up Emacs documentation.
Sre, 08/30/2023 - 14:22
Security updates have been issued by Debian (qpdf, ring, and tryton-server), Fedora (mingw-qt5-qtbase and moby-engine), Red Hat (cups, kernel, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, librsvg2, and virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel), and Ubuntu (amd64-microcode, firefox, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-gkeop,
linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency,
linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-nvidia, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.15, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-kvm,
linux-oracle, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-6.2, linux-azure, linux-hwe-6.2, linux-ibm,
linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2, linux-raspi, linux-bluefield, linux-ibm, linux-oem-6.1, and openjdk-lts, openjdk-17).
Tor, 08/29/2023 - 16:46
"Sugar" is, to a certain extent, in the eye of the beholder—at least when
it comes to syntax. Programming languages are often made up of a (mostly)
irreducible core, with lots of sugary constructs sprinkled on top—the
syntactic sugar. No one
wants to be forced to do without the extra syntax—at least not for their
favorite pieces—but it is worth looking at how a language's constructs can
be built from the core. That is just what Brett Cannon has been doing for
Python,
on his blog and in talks,
including a talk at PyCon back in April (
YouTube video).
Tor, 08/29/2023 - 15:00
Security updates have been issued by Debian (flask-security and opendmarc), Fedora (qemu), Oracle (rust and rust-toolset:ol8), Red Hat (cups and libxml2), Scientific Linux (cups), SUSE (ca-certificates-mozilla, chromium, clamav, freetype2, haproxy, nodejs12, procps, and vim), and Ubuntu (faad2, json-c, libqb, linux, linux-aws, linux-lts-xenial, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gke-5.15, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.15, and linux-gke, linux-ibm-5.4).
Tor, 08/29/2023 - 14:50
The OpenChain site carries the sad news of
the
passing of Satoru Ueda. Your editor first met Ueda San at the
2007 Linux Foundation Japan Symposium, where a
small group of dedicated developers and managers was working hard to bring
open-source development practices to the country. Ueda San was always a
strong advocate for this cause and deserves much credit for the success of
Linux and open source in Japan. He was also always a warm and welcoming
person; he will be much missed.
Pon, 08/28/2023 - 16:16
The 6.5 kernel was
released
on August 27 after a nine-week development cycle. By that time, some
13,561 non-merge changesets had found their way into the mainline
repository, the lowest number seen since the 5.15 release (12,377
changesets) in late 2021. Nonetheless, quite a bit of significant work was
done in this cycle; read on for a look at where that work came from.
Pon, 08/28/2023 - 16:10
August 26 was the 25th anniversary of the release of the
Bugzilla bug tracker as open-source software under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). A
blog post for the occasion has some announcements, including several upcoming releases, help wanted, and a new legal entity to house the project:
Which now brings us to today, when I’m happy to announce the formation of Zarro Boogs Corporation, which will now be overseeing the Bugzilla Project. This is a taxable non-profit non-charitable corporation - we have filed with the IRS our intent to operate under US Tax Code §501(c)(4) (still pending approval from the IRS) meaning the IRS would require us to spend money raised on project expenses and not make a profit, but money donated to us will not earn you a tax deduction because we aren’t a charity (software development is not considered a charitable cause in the US). Unlike Thunderbird, which is a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, we are an independent entity not owned by or associated with the Mozilla Foundation, although they have licensed the use of the Bugzilla trademark to us.
Pon, 08/28/2023 - 15:32
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, clamav, librsvg, rar, and unrar-nonfree), Fedora (caddy, chromium, and xen), and SUSE (ca-certificates-mozilla, gawk, ghostscript, java-1_8_0-ibm, java-1_8_0-openjdk, php7, qemu, and xen).
Ned, 08/27/2023 - 23:30
Linus has, as expected,
released the 6.5
kernel.
I still have this nagging feeling that a lot of people are on
vacation and that things have been quiet partly due to that. But
this release has been going smoothly, so that's probably just me
being paranoid. The biggest patches this last week were literally
just to our selftests.
Headline features in 6.5 include
faster booting on large x86 systems,
Arm Permission Indirection Extension
support,
Rust 1.68.2 support,
unaccepted memory handling,
"mount beneath" support for filesystems,
the cachestat() system call,
the ability to pass a pidfd via a SCM_CREDENTIALS control message,
scope-based resource management for
internal kernel code,
the deprecation of the SLAB allocator,
and more. See the LWN merge-window summaries
(part 1,
part 2) and the (in-progress)
KernelNewbies 6.5 page
for details.
Ned, 08/27/2023 - 19:05
The
6.1.48,
5.15.128, and
5.10.192
stable kernels have been released; each contains another set of important
fixes.
Update: 6.1.49 has also been
released. "This upgrade is only for all users of the 6.1 series that
use the x86 platform OR the F2FS file system. If that's not you, feel free
to ignore this release."