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Sre, 12/21/2022 - 18:39
The
6.1.1,
6.0.15,
5.15.85, and
5.10.161
stable kernel updates have been released. Each contains a relatively small
set of important fixes.
Sre, 12/21/2022 - 14:48
Security updates have been issued by Debian (xorg-server), Fedora (samba, snakeyaml, thunderbird, xorg-x11-server, and xrdp), Slackware (libksba and sdl), and SUSE (cni, cni-plugins, java-1_7_1-ibm, kernel, openssl-3, and supportutils).
Tor, 12/20/2022 - 17:59
ActivityPub-enabled microblogs are gaining
popularity as a replacement for Twitter, but ActivityPub is for more than
just microblogging. Many other popular services also have open-source
alternatives that speak ActivityPub. Proprietary services operated by
commercial interests usually deliberately limit interoperability, but users
of any ActivityPub-enabled service should be able to communicate with each
other, even if they are using different services. This promise of
interoperability is often limited in practice, though; while ActivityPub
specifies how multiple types of content
can be published, the kinds of content that can be
displayed or interacted with vary from project to project.
Tor, 12/20/2022 - 15:50
Version 2.4.0 of the GNU Privacy Guard has been released. "Exactly 25 years ago the very first release of GnuPG was published. We
are pleased to take this opportunity to announce the availability of a
new stable GnuPG release: version 2.4.0." Changes in this release
include full support for the key database daemon, some performance
improvements, a change to AES256 as the default cipher, and much more.
Tor, 12/20/2022 - 15:46
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (mujs) and SUSE (kernel and thunderbird).
Tor, 12/20/2022 - 14:54
Linux Mint has announced the release of version 21.1 of the distribution in three editions:
Cinnamon (
what's new),
MATE (
what's new), and
Xfce (
what's new).
Mint 21.1 is based on Ubuntu 22.04 and uses kernel version 5.15.
Linux Mint 21.1 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2027. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.
Pon, 12/19/2022 - 17:01
The memfd interface is a bit of a strange and Linux-specific beast; it was
initially
created to support the secure
passing of data between cooperating processes on a single system. It has
since gained other roles, but it may still come as a surprise to some to
learn that memory regions created for memfds, unlike almost any other data
area, have the execute permission bit set. That can facilitate attacks;
this
patch set from Jeff Xu proposes an addition to the memfd API to close
that hole.
Pon, 12/19/2022 - 15:51
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the
6.0.14,
5.15.84,
5.10.160, and
5.4.228 stable kernels. They contain a
relatively small number of important fixes throughout the tree.
Pon, 12/19/2022 - 15:29
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and thunderbird), Fedora (keylime, libarchive, libtasn1, pgadmin4, rubygem-nokogiri, samba, thunderbird, wireshark, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Gentoo (curl, libreoffice, nss, unbound, and virtualbox), Mageia (advancecomp, couchdb, firefox, freerdp, golang, heimdal, kernel, kernel-linus, krb5, leptonica, libetpan, python-slixmpp, thunderbird, and xfce4-settings), Oracle (firefox, nodejs:16, and thunderbird), Scientific Linux (firefox and thunderbird), Slackware (samba), SUSE (chromium and kernel), and Ubuntu (linux-oem-5.17).
Ned, 12/18/2022 - 21:06
Version 4.0.0 of the Apache SpamAssassin spam filter has been released.
Apache SpamAssassin 4.0.0 contains numerous tweaks and bug fixes over
the past releases. In particular, it includes major changes that
significantly improve the handling of text in international language.
As with any major release, there are countless functional patches and
improvements to upgrade to 4.0.0. Apache SpamAssassin 4.0.0 includes
several years of fixes that significantly improve classification and
performance. It has been thoroughly tested in production systems. We
strongly recommend upgrading as soon as possible.
Sob, 12/17/2022 - 12:23
Version
5.0.0 of the OCaml programming language is out.
The highlight of this new major version of OCaml is the
long-awaited runtime support for shared memory parallelism and
effect handlers. This multicore support is the culmination of more
than 8 years of effort, and required a full rewrite of the OCaml
runtime environment. Consequently, OCaml 5.0.0 is expected to be a
more experimental version of OCaml than the usual OCaml releases.
Pet, 12/16/2022 - 14:45
Shadow stacks are one of the methods employed to enforce
control-flow
integrity and thwart attackers; they are a mechanism for fine-grained,
backward-edge protection. Most of the time, applications are not even
aware that shadow stacks are in use. As is so often the case, though, life
gets more complicated when the
Checkpoint/Restore in Userspace
(CRIU) mechanism is in use. Not breaking CRIU turns out to be one of the
big challenges facing developers working to get user-space shadow-stack
support into the kernel.
Pet, 12/16/2022 - 13:52
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, libde265, php7.3, and thunderbird), Fedora (firefox, freeradius, freerdp, and xorg-x11-server), Oracle (firefox, prometheus-jmx-exporter, and thunderbird), Red Hat (firefox, nodejs:16, prometheus-jmx-exporter, and thunderbird), and SUSE (ceph and chromium).
Čet, 12/15/2022 - 15:51
Version 4.18 of
the Xfce desktop environment has been released.
Since Xfce 4.16 a lot
of major development happened. Our team added multiple nice new features,
did a gazillion of bug fixes and did various minor improvements. Finally,
all that is going to be released for your pleasure.
See the announcement for a long list of new features.
Čet, 12/15/2022 - 15:37
Once upon a time, Linus Torvalds would try to set a pace of about 1,000
changesets pulled into the mainline each day during the early part of the
merge window. For 6.2, though, the situation is different; no less than
9,278 non-merge changesets were pulled during the first two days. Needless
to say, these commits affect the kernel in numerous ways, even though there
are fewer fundamental changes than were seen in 6.1.
Čet, 12/15/2022 - 14:52
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr and git), Slackware (mozilla and xorg), SUSE (apache2-mod_wsgi, capnproto, xorg-x11-server, xwayland, and zabbix), and Ubuntu (emacs24, firefox, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde, linux-oem-6.0, and xorg-server, xorg-server-hwe-18.04, xwayland).
Čet, 12/15/2022 - 09:18
Ted Ts'o, in collaboration with the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory
Board, has put together a document called the
Linux kernel
contribution maturity model to help companies improve their
participation in the kernel development process.
The goal is to encourage, in a management-friendly way, companies
to allow their engineers to contribute with the upstream Linux
Kernel development community, so we can grow the "talent pipeline"
for contributors to become respected leaders, and eventually kernel
maintainers.
Čet, 12/15/2022 - 01:43
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 15, 2022 is available.
Sre, 12/14/2022 - 19:20
A report from the
syzbot
kernel fuzz-testing robot does not usually spawn a
vitriolic mailing-list thread, but that is just what happened recently.
While the invective is regrettable, the underlying issue is important. The
dispute revolves around how best to report bugs
to affected subsystems and, ultimately, how not to waste maintainers' time.