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[$] Book review: Practical Julia
A recent book by LWN guest author Lee Phillips provides a nice introduction to the Julia...
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[$] Continued attacks on HTTP/2
On April 3 security researcher Bartek Nowotarski published the details of a new denial-of-service (DoS) attack,...
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Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gtkwave), Fedora (dotnet7.0, dotnet8.0, and python-pillow), Mageia (apache, gstreamer1.0,...
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The "branch history injection" hardware vulnerability [LWN.net]
The mainline kernel has just received a set of commits mitigating the latest x86 hardware vulnerability,...
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[$] The first Linaro Forum for Arm Linux kernel topics
On February 20, Linaro held the initial get-together for what is intended to be a regular...
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OpenSSL 3.3.0 released [LWN.net]
Version 3.3.0 of the OpenSSL SSL/TLS implementation has been released. Changes include a number of additions...
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[$] Diagnosing workqueues
There are many mechanisms for deferred work in the Linux kernel. One of them, workqueues, has...
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Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (expat), Oracle (less and nodejs:20), Slackware (libarchive), SUSE (kubernetes1.23,...
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Rivendell v4.2.0 released [LWN.net]
Version 4.2.0 of the Rivendell radio automation system has been released. Changes include a new data...
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Introducing Jpegli: A New JPEG Coding Library (Google Open Source Blog) [LWN.net]
The Google Open Source Blog is carrying an announcement for a new JPEG library called "Jpegli"....
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[$] The PostgreSQL community debates ALTER SYSTEM
Sometimes the smallest patches create the biggest discussions. A case in point would be the process...
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GNU Stow 2.4.0 released [LWN.net]
Version 2.4.0 of the GNU Stow symbolic-link manager has been released. This marks the first release...
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Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (jetty9, libcaca, libgd2, tomcat9, and util-linux), Fedora (chromium, micropython,...
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Kernel prepatch 6.9-rc3 [LWN.net]
The 6.9-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Ok, so this rc3 looks a bit different...
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Tridge returns to rsync [LWN.net]
Wayne Davison has announced the release of rsync version 3.3.0, which contains a number of bug...
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[$] A look at the 2024 Debian Project Leader election
The nominations have closed and campaigning is underway to see who will be the next Debian...
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OpenBSD 7.5 released [LWN.net]
OpenBSD 7.5 has been released. The list of changes and improvements is, as usual, long; it...
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Eclipse Foundation announces collaboration for CRA compliance [LWN.net]
The Eclipse Foundation, the organization behind the Eclipse IDE and many other software projects, announced a...
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FFmpeg 7.0 released [LWN.net]
Version 7.0 of the FFmpeg audio/video toolkit is out. "The most noteworthy changes for most users...
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Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cockpit), Mageia (python-pygments), Red Hat (nodejs), Slackware (httpd and...
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Stable kernels 6.8.4 and 6.6.25 [LWN.net]
The 6.8.4 and 6.6.25 stable kernels have been released. They both contain 11 reversions of workqueue...
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V8 incorporates new sandbox [LWN.net]
V8, the JavaScript engine used in Chrome, announced that its memory sandbox is no longer experimental....
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[$] A focus on FOSS funding
Among the numerous approaches to funding the development and advancement of open-source software, corporate sponsorship in...
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Incus 6.0 LTS released [LWN.net]
Version 6.0 LTS of the Incus container management system has been released. "This is a major...