[$] May the FOLL_FORCE not be with you
One of the simplest hardening concepts to understand is that memory should never be both writable...
Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (linux-firmware and squid), Debian (bind9), Fedora (kubernetes, thunderbird, and...
[$] What became of getrandom() in the vDSO
In the previous episode of the vgetrandom() story, Jason Donenfeld had put together a version of...
[$] More informative kernel panics for Fedora
On July 12, Jocelyn Falempe proposed a change to the configuration options that Fedora sets for...
Rust 1.80.0 released [LWN.net]
Version 1.80.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include the new LazyCell and LazyLock...
Three new stable kernels [LWN.net]
The 6.9.11, 6.6.42, and 6.1.101 stable kernels have been released. As usual, they contain important fixes...
Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (containernetworking-plugins, cups, edk2, httpd, httpd:2.4, libreoffice, libuv, libvirt, python3,...
Linux Mint 22 "Wilma" released [LWN.net]
Linux Mint has announced version 22 of the distribution in three editions: Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce....
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 25, 2024
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 25, 2024 is available.
Stable kernel update 6.10.1 [LWN.net]
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.10.1 stable kernel update. This release contains a small number of...
OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 released [LWN.net]
Updated installation images for the OpenMandriva ROME rolling release Linux distribution are now available. Notable features...
OpenSSL announces new governance structure [LWN.net]
OpenSSL has announced that it has adopted a new governance framework: The OpenSSL Management Committee (OMC)...
[$] Large folios, swap, and FS-Cache
David Howells wanted to discuss swap handling in light of multi-page folios in a combined storage,...
[$] Lessons from the death and rebirth of Thunderbird
Ryan Sipes told the audience during his keynote at GUADEC 2024 in Denver, Colorado that the Thunderbird...
Let's Encrypt plans to drop support for OCSP [LWN.net]
Let's Encrypt has announced that it intends to end support "as soon as possible" for the...
Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (ghostscript and xmedcon), Gentoo (Dmidecode, ExifTool, and Freenet), Red...
[$] Imitation, not artificial, intelligence
Simon Willison, co-creator of the popular Django web framework for Python, gave a keynote presentation at...
Improvements to the PSF Grants program [LWN.net]
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) board has announced improvements to its grants program that have been...
Zuckerberg: Open Source AI Is the Path Forward [LWN.net]
Mark Zuckerberg has posted an article announcing some new releases of the Llama large language model...
[$] A look inside the BPF verifier
LWN has covered BPF since its initial introduction to Linux, usually through the lens of the...
GNU C Library 2.40 released [LWN.net]
Version 2.40 of the GNU C Library has been released. Changes include partial support for the...
Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (gtk3 and jpegxl), Red Hat (kpatch-patch and thunderbird), SUSE...
[$] "Opt-in" metrics planned for Fedora Workstation 42
Red Hat, through members of the Fedora Workstation Working Group, has taken another swing at persuading...
Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (botan2, chromium, ffmpeg, fluent-bit, gtk3, httpd, suricata, tcpreplay, and...
NGI project may lose funding [LWN.net]
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) project, an initiative of the EU's European Commission (EC), provides funding...
[$] A new major version of NumPy
The NumPy project released version 2.0.0 on June 16, the first major release of the widely...
[$] Restricting execution of scripts — the third approach
The kernel will not consent to execute just any file that happens to be sitting in...
Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, libndp, openssh, qt5-qtbase, ruby, skopeo,...
Peter de Schrijver RIP [LWN.net]
The sad news that Peter de Schrijver has passed away has just reached us. An obituary...
Evolving the ASF Brand (Apache Software Foundation blog) [LWN.net]
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced that it will be changing its logo to remove...
A bunch of new stable kernels [LWN.net]
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released seven new stable kernels: 6.9.10, 6.6.41, 6.1.100, 5.15.163, 5.10.222, 5.4.280, and 4.19.318....
[$] Filesystem testing for stable kernels
Leah Rumancik led a filesystem-track session at the 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF...
[$] The first half of the 6.11 merge window
The merge window for the 6.11 kernel release opened on July 14; as of this writing, 4,072...
Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (freeradius), Red Hat (firefox, java-1.8.0-openjdk, and java-17-openjdk),...
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 18, 2024
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 18, 2024 is available.
Blender 4.2 LTS released [LWN.net]
Version 4.2 LTS of the Blender open-source 3D creation suite has been released. Major improvements include...
[$] Changing the filesystem-maintenance model
Maintenance of the kernel is a difficult, often thankless, task; how it is being handled, the...
digiKam 8.4.0 released [LWN.net]
Version 8.4.0 of the digiKam photo editing and management application has been released. This release includes...
Silva: How to use the new counted_by attribute in C (and Linux) [LWN.net]
Gustavo A. R. Silva describes the path to safer flexible arrays in the kernel, thanks to...
Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (kernel), Fedora (golang and krb5), Red Hat (cups, firefox,...
[$] SUSE asks openSUSE to consider name change
SUSE has, in a somewhat clumsy fashion, asked openSUSE to consider rebranding to clear up confusion...
[$] Hierarchical storage management, fanotify, FUSE, and more
Amir Goldstein led a filesystem-track session at the 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF...
Redox to implement POSIX signals in user space [LWN.net]
Redox has received a grant to work on implementing POSIX-compatible signals. The draft design calls for...
Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (kernel), Fedora (erlang-jose, mingw-python-certifi, and yt-dlp), Mageia (firefox, nss,...
[$] A hash table by any other name
On June 25, Matthew Wilcox posted a second version of a patch set introducing a new...
[$] Development statistics for the 6.10 kernel
The 6.10 kernel was released on July 14 after a nine-week development cycle. This time around, 13,312...
Stable kernels 6.6.40 and 6.1.99 [LWN.net]
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.6.40 and 6.1.99 stable kernels. Both contain a fix for the...
Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (cups, krb5, pgadmin4, python3.6, and yarnpkg), Mageia (freeradius, kernel,...
The 6.10 kernel has been released [LWN.net]
Linus has released the 6.10 kernel. So the final week was perhaps not quote as quiet...
GNOME Foundation Announces Transition of Executive Director [LWN.net]
The GNOME Foundation has announced that executive director Holly Million is stepping down at the end...