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Tor, 03/21/2023 - 15:03
Security updates have been issued by Debian (apache2), Oracle (firefox, nss, and openssl), Slackware (curl and vim), SUSE (dpdk, firefox, grafana, oracleasm, python-cffi, python-Django, and qemu), and Ubuntu (ruby2.7, sox, and tigervnc).
Pon, 03/20/2023 - 22:39
Version 9.2 of the GNU coreutils collection — the home of common tools like
cp, mv, ls, rm, and more — is out. The
changes are mostly minor; numerous bugs have been fixed and a few new
command-line options have been added.
Pon, 03/20/2023 - 17:15
The kernel's direct map makes all of a system's physical memory available
to the kernel within its address space — on 64-bit systems, at least. This
seemingly simple feature has proved to be hard to maintain, in the face of
the requirements faced by current systems, while keeping good performance.
The latest attempt to address this issue is
this patch
set from Mike Rapoport adding more direct-map awareness to the kernel's
page allocator.
Pon, 03/20/2023 - 16:54
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, imagemagick, sox, thunderbird, and xapian-core), Fedora (chromium, containernetworking-plugins, guile-gnutls, mingw-python-OWSLib, pack, pypy3.7, sudo, thunderbird, tigervnc, and vim), Mageia (apache, epiphany, heimdal, jasper, libde265, libtpms, liferea, mysql-connector-c++, perl-HTML-StripScripts, protobuf, ruby-git, sqlite3, woodstox-core, and xfig), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (firefox, nss, and openssl), SUSE (apache2, docker, drbd, kernel, and oracleasm), and Ubuntu (curl, python2.7, python3.10, python3.5, python3.6, python3.8, and vim).
Pon, 03/20/2023 - 15:08
Daniel Stenberg
observes
the 25th anniversary of the curl project.
We really have no idea exactly how many users or installations of
libcurl there are now. It is easy to estimate that it runs in way
more than ten billion installations purely based on the fact that
there are 7 billion smart phones and 1 billion tablets in the world
, and we know that each of them run at least one, but likely many
more curl installs.
Curl
8.0.0 has also been released (quickly followed by 8.0.1).
Pon, 03/20/2023 - 01:22
The
6.3-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. "So rc3 is fairly big, but that's not hugely usual: it's when
a lot of the fixes tick up as it takes a while before people find and start
reporting issues."
Ned, 03/19/2023 - 16:49
Version
16.0.0 of the LLVM compiler suite has been released. As usual, the
list of changes is long; see the specific release notes for
LLVM,
Clang,
Libc++,
and others linked from the announcement.
Ned, 03/19/2023 - 16:39
The Free Software Foundation has
announced
the recipients of this year's Free Software Awards:
- Eli Zaretskii (advancement of free software)
- Tad (SkewedZeppelin) (outstanding new free software contributor)
- GNU Jami (project of social benefit)
Pet, 03/17/2023 - 14:44
BPF programs destined to be loaded into the kernel are generally written in
C but, increasingly, the environment in which those programs run differs
significantly from the C environment. The BPF virtual machine and
associated verifier make a growing set of checks in an attempt to make BPF
code safe to run. The proposed addition of an iterator mechanism to BPF
highlights the kind of features that are being added — as well as the
constraints placed on programmers by BPF.
Pet, 03/17/2023 - 12:55
Security updates have been issued by Debian (sox and thunderbird), Fedora (containerd, libtpms, mingw-binutils, mingw-LibRaw, mingw-python-werkzeug, stargz-snapshotter, and tkimg), Slackware (mozilla and openssh), SUSE (apache2, firefox, hdf5, jakarta-commons-fileupload, kernel, perl-Net-Server, python-PyJWT, qemu, and vim), and Ubuntu (abcm2ps, krb5, and linux-intel-iotg).
Čet, 03/16/2023 - 17:44
Amazon has
released
a new version of its vaguely Fedora-based, cloud-optimized
distribution.
Last—and this policy is by far my favorite—Amazon Linux provides
you with deterministic updates through versioned repositories, a
flexible and consistent update mechanism. The distribution locks to
a specific version of the Amazon Linux package repository, giving
you control over how and when you absorb updates. By default, and
in contrast with Amazon Linux 2, a dnf update command
will not update your installed packages.
Čet, 03/16/2023 - 17:26
The Software Freedom Conservancy
calls
out John Deere for failure to comply with the GPL and preventing
farmers from repairing their own equipment.
This is a serious issue that goes far beyond one person wanting to
fix their printer software, or install an alternative firmware on
a luxury device. It has far-reaching implications for all farmers'
livelihoods, for food security throughout the world, and for how
we as a society choose to reward those who make our lives better,
or stand in the way of empowering everyone to improve the world.
Čet, 03/16/2023 - 15:30
OpenSSH 9.3 has been released. It includes a couple of security fixes, as
well as adding an option for hash-algorithm selection to
ssh-keygen and an option that allows configuration checking
without actually loading any private keys.
Čet, 03/16/2023 - 15:22
The
ublk subsystem enables the creation of
user-space block drivers that communicate with the kernel using
io_uring. Drivers implemented this way show
some promise with regard to performance, but there is a bottleneck in the
way: copying data between the kernel and the user-space driver's address
space. It is thus not surprising that there is interest in implementing
zero-copy I/O for ublk. The mailing lists have recently seen three
different proposals for how this could be done.
Čet, 03/16/2023 - 12:56
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr and pcre2), Oracle (nss), Red Hat (kpatch-patch and nss), SUSE (java-11-openjdk, kernel, and python310), and Ubuntu (emacs24, ffmpeg, firefox, imagemagick, libphp-phpmailer, librecad, and openjpeg2).
Čet, 03/16/2023 - 03:16
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 16, 2023 is available.
Sre, 03/15/2023 - 21:53
Using
rules
as code to help bridge the gaps between policy creation, its
implementation, and its, often unintended, effects on people was the
subject of a talk by
Pia Andrews on the first day of the
inaugural
Everything Open conference in Melbourne, Australia. She
has long been exploring the space of open government,
and her talk was a report on what
she and others have been working on
over the last seven years. Everything Open is the successor
to the
long-running, well-regarded linux.conf.au (LCA); Andrews (then Pia Waugh)
gave the opening keynote at LCA 2017 in
Hobart, Tasmania, and helped organize the 2007 event in Sydney.
Sre, 03/15/2023 - 14:22
The 2023 election for the Debian project leader looks to be a relatively
unexciting affair: incumbent leader Jonathan Carter is running unopposed
for a fourth term.
His platform lays
out his hopes and plans for that term.
Sre, 03/15/2023 - 14:05
Security updates have been issued by Debian (node-sqlite3 and qemu), Fedora (libmemcached-awesome, manifest-tool, sudo, and vim), Red Hat (gnutls, kernel, kernel-rt, lua, and openssl), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (amanda, firefox, go1.19, go1.20, jakarta-commons-fileupload, java-1_8_0-openjdk, nodejs18, peazip, perl-Net-Server, python, python-cryptography, python-Django, python3, rubygem-rack, and xorg-x11-server), and Ubuntu (ipython, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, and linux-kvm).