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PostgreSQL 15 released
Version 15 of the PostgreSQL database management system is out.
PostgreSQL 15 builds on the performance improvements of recent releases with noticeable gains for managing workloads in both local and distributed deployments, including improved sorting. This release improves the developer experience with the addition of the popular MERGE command, and adds more capabilities for observing the state of the database.
There are a lot of changes in this release; click below for the details, and see the release notes for more.
Kategorije: Tuja odprtokodna scena
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libreoffice, rexical, ruby-nokogiri, and squid), Fedora (wavpack), Red Hat (expat), SUSE (gdcm, orthanc, orthanc-gdcm, orthanc-webviewer and rubygem-puma), and Ubuntu (GMP and unzip).
Kategorije: Tuja odprtokodna scena
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 13, 2022
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 13, 2022 is available.
Kategorije: Tuja odprtokodna scena
[$] (Re)moving outdated Python tools and scripts
At the end of September, Victor Stinner reported
on a security bug
fix he had been working on for a script from the CPython
Tools/scripts directory. As part of that work, he realized
that there were 74 scripts in that directory that were potentially
outdated, unused, unmaintained, trivial, buggy, or some combination of all
of those. It
is not uncommon for projects to have code that accretes in overlooked
corners of the source tree, but it makes sense to periodically take a look
to see if changes are needed. Stinner seems to have kicked that off for Python
with his message.
Kategorije: Tuja odprtokodna scena
Three stable kernel updates
The
6.0.1,
5.19.15, and
5.15.73
stable kernels have been released; each contains a relatively small set of
important fixes.
Kategorije: Tuja odprtokodna scena
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (mediawiki and twig), Oracle (expat, gnutls and nettle, and kernel), Red Hat (expat, kernel, and kpatch-patch), and Ubuntu (advancecomp and dotnet6).
Kategorije: Tuja odprtokodna scena
[$] A plan for the kernel Bugzilla
The kernel's Bugzilla
instance is largely unloved and ignored, at least as a bug-reporting
tool for the bulk of the upstream kernel. At the recent Maintainers Summit,
Bugzilla was discussed during the regression-handling session led by Thorsten
Leemhuis. In a followup to that discussion, Leemhuis posted
some ideas for improving the state of bugzilla.kernel.org to the
ksummit-discuss mailing list recently; the resulting discussion helped
clarify a number of problem areas for it—and for the Bugzilla tool itself.
Kategorije: Tuja odprtokodna scena
Patent clouds for the Opus codec
The Opus codec is an audio codec that
was designed from the beginning to avoid existing patents in the field and
be royalty-free for all users. It was standardized by the IETF in 2012 as
RFC 6716.
Now a company called Vectis ("a premier
full-suite IP licensing and consultancy boutique") is collecting
patents that are claimed to read on Opus as a way of demanding
royalties on its use.
"The planned Opus program will focus on hardware devices and will not be
directed towards open-source software, applications, services, or
content". (Thanks to Paul Wise).
Kategorije: Tuja odprtokodna scena
VirtualBox 7.0.0 released
Version 7.0.0
of the VirtualBox virtualization system is out. Changes include support
for fully encrypted virtual machines, a new performance-monitoring tool,
improved theme support, and a number of new devices.
Kategorije: Tuja odprtokodna scena
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (connman, dbus, git, isc-dhcp, strongswan, and wordpress), Fedora (rubygem-pdfkit and seamonkey), Red Hat (gnutls, nettle, rh-ruby27-ruby, and rh-ruby30-ruby), SUSE (libgsasl, python, and snakeyaml), and Ubuntu (graphite2, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15,
linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-kvm,
linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux, linux-aws, linux-bluefield, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4,
linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux, linux-dell300x, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2,
linux-snapdragon, linux-hwe, linux-oracle, openssh, and pcre3).
Kategorije: Tuja odprtokodna scena