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Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (pillow, postfix, and redis), Fedora (python-templated-dictionary and selinux-policy), Red...
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[$] Defining the Rust 2024 edition
In December, the Rust project released a call for proposals for inclusion in the 2024 edition....
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Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (gstreamer-plugins-bad-free, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, kernel, LibRaw, python-pillow, and xorg-x11-server), Debian...
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Kernel prepatch 6.8-rc2 [LWN.net]
Linus has released 6.8-rc2 for testing. "So go out and test. It's safe now. You trust...
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[$] Better handling of integer wraparound in the kernel
While the mathematical realm of numbers is infinite, computers are only able to represent a finite...
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Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (xorg-server), Fedora (chromium, dotnet8.0, firefox, freeipa, and thunderbird), Red...
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Seven new stable kernels [LWN.net]
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.7.2, 6.6.14, 6.1.75, 5.15.148, 5.10.209, 5.4.268, and 4.19.306...
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[$] The things nobody wants to pay for
The free-software community has managed to build a body of software that is worth, by most...
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GCC security features from AdaCore [LWN.net]
The AdaCore blog describes some hardening features contributed to GCC for the GCC 14 release. With -fharden-control-flow-redundancy,...
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Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, php-phpseclib, phpseclib, thunderbird, and zabbix), Fedora (dotnet7.0,...
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 25, 2024
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 25, 2024 is available.
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[$] Python, packaging, and pip—again
Python packaging discussions seem like they often just go around and around, ending up where they...
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Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (jinja2, openjdk-11, ruby-httparty, and xorg-server), Fedora (ansible-core and mingw-jasper),...
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[$] Microdot: a web framework for microcontrollers
There are many different Python web frameworks, from nano-frameworks all the way up to the full-stack...
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Firefox 122.0 released [LWN.net]
Version 122.0 of the Firefox browser it out. Changes include improved search suggestions, improvements to the...
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Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (kodi and squid), Fedora (ansible-core, java-latest-openjdk, mingw-python-jinja2, openssh, and...
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[$] The rest of the 6.8 merge window
Linus Torvalds was able to release 6.8-rc1 and close the 6.8 merge window on time despite...
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Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (keystone and subunit), Fedora (dotnet6.0, golang, kernel, sos, and...
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Kernel prepatch 6.8-rc1 [LWN.net]
The 6.8-rc1 kernel prepatch is out for testing. So this wasn't the most pleasant merge window,...
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Some weekend stable kernel updates [LWN.net]
The 6.7.1, 6.6.13, and 6.1.74 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains another set of...
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SourceHut outage post-mortem [LWN.net]
SourceHut has published a post-mortem of its outage earlier this month. The post-mortem covers the causes...
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[$] Jujutsu: a new, Git-compatible version control system
Jujutsu is a Git-compatible distributed version control system originally started as a hobby project by Martin...
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Dave Mills RIP [LWN.net]
Internet pioneer and Network Time Protocol (NTP) inventor Dave Mills has died, as reported by Vint...
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[$] mseal() gets closer
The proposed mseal() system call stirred up some controversy when it was first posted in October...