~lwn | Bookmarks (341)
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[$] Gentoo bans AI-created contributions
Gentoo Council member Michał Górny posted an RFC to the gentoo-dev mailing list in late February...
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[$] Warning about WARN_ON()
Kernel developers, like conscientious developers for many projects, will often include checks in the code for...
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Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, jetty9, libdatetime-timezone-perl, tomcat10, and tzdata), Fedora (cockpit, filezilla,...
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 18, 2024
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 18, 2024 is available.
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[$] Managing to-do lists on the command line with Taskwarrior
Managing to-do lists is something of a universal necessity. While some people handle them mentally or...
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Four more stable kernels [LWN.net]
The 6.8.7, 6.6.28, 6.1.87, and 5.15.156 stable kernel updates have all been released.
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Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (apache2 and cockpit), Fedora (firefox, kernel, mbedtls, python-cbor2, wireshark,...
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[$] Identifying dependencies used via dlopen()
The recent XZ backdoor has sparked a lot of discussion about how the open-source community links...
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[$] Fedora 40 firms up for release
Fedora 40 Beta was released on March 26, and the final release is nearing completion. So far, the release...
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PuTTY 0.81 security release [LWN.net]
Version 0.81 of the PuTTY SSH client is out with a fix for CVE-2024-31497; some users...
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Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (php7.4 and php8.2), Fedora (c-ares), Mageia (python-pillow and upx),...
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OpenSSF and OpenJS warn about social-engineering attacks [LWN.net]
The Open Source Security Foundation and the OpenJS Foundation have jointly posted a warning about XZ-like...
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[$] Cleaning up after BPF exceptions
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi has been working to add support for exceptions to BPF since mid-2023. In...
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Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, bind and dhcp, bind9.16, gnutls, httpd:2.4/mod_http2, squid:4, and...
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Kernel prepatch 6.9-rc4 [LWN.net]
The 6.9-rc4 kernel prepatch is out for testing. "Nothing particularly unusual going on this week -...
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Saturday's stable kernel updates [LWN.net]
The 6.8.6, 6.6.27, 6.1.86, 5.15.155, 5.10.215, 5.4.274, and 4.19.312 stable kernel updates have all been released;...
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[$] A tale of two troublesome drivers
The kernel project merges dozens of drivers with every development cycle, and almost every one of...
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What we need to take away from the XZ Backdoor (openSUSE News) [LWN.net]
Dirk Mueller has posted a lengthy analysis of the XZ backdoor on the openSUSE News site,...
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Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (rust, trafficserver, and upx), Mageia (postgresql-jdbc and...
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[$] Completing the EEVDF scheduler
The Earliest Virtual Deadline First (EEVDF) scheduler was merged as an option for the 6.6 kernel....
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Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, less, libreoffice, nodejs:18, nodejs:20, rear, thunderbird, and varnish),...
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 11, 2024
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 11, 2024 is available.
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Gentoo Linux becomes an SPI Associated Project [LWN.net]
The Gentoo Linux project has announced that it is now an Associated Project of Software in...
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Four stable kernel updates [LWN.net]
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced another round of stable kernel updates: 6.8.5, 6.6.26, 6.1.85, and 5.15.154 have...