[$] A pair of memory-allocation improvements in 5.13
Among the many changes merged for 5.13 can be found performance improvements throughout the kernel. This...
Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-django), Fedora (java-latest-openjdk, libopenmpt, python-yara, skopeo, thunderbird, and yara),...
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 6, 2021
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 6, 2021 is available.
[$] A replacement for third-party cookies?
The era of tracking users all across the web using third-party cookies is coming to a...
The TAB report on the UMN affair [LWN.net]
The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board has issued its report on the submission of (intentionally and...
Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cgal, exim4, and mediawiki), Fedora (axel, libmicrohttpd, libtpms, perl-Image-ExifTool,...
[$] Rustls: memory safety for TLS
The movement toward using memory-safe languages, and Rust in particular, has picked up a lot of...
Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (bind9, chromium, exim4, and subversion), Fedora (exiv2 and skopeo),...
An important Exim security release [LWN.net]
There are, it seems, 21 vulnerabilities in the Exim email server that have been fixed in...
Instant replay: Debugging C and C++ programs with rr (Red Hat Developer) [LWN.net]
The Red Hat Developer Blog has posted an introduction to the rr debugger. "rr records trace...
[$] A "kill" button for control groups
The kernel's control-group mechanism exists to partition processes and to provide resource guarantees (and limits) for...
Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (bind, GNOME, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, nss and nspr, xstream, and...
Some weekend stable kernels [LWN.net]
The 5.12.1, 5.11.18, 5.10.34, and 5.4.116 stable updates have been released. These are small and relatively...
QEMU 6.0.0 released [LWN.net]
Version 6.0.0 of the QEMU hardware emulator is out. "This release contains 3300+ commits from 268...
[$] The first half of the 5.13 merge window
As of this writing, just over 7,800 non-merge commits have been pulled into the mainline repository...
Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (bind, chromium, firefox, gitlab, libupnp, nimble, opera, thunderbird,...
Michlmayr: Growing open-source projects with a stable foundation [LWN.net]
Martin Michlmayr has put together a primer on managing open-source projects through their growth cycle, specifically...
[$] An update on the UMN affair
On April 20, the world became aware of a research program conducted out of the University...
Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (ceph, jetty, kernel, kernel-headers, kernel-tools, openvpn, and shim-unsigned-x64), Mageia...
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 29, 2021
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 29, 2021 is available.
"Full disclosure" from the University of Minnesota [LWN.net]
The researchers at the University of Minnesota have posted a description of the work they did...
[$] Rethinking Fedora's compiler policy
Now that the Fedora 34 release is out the door, the Fedora project is turning its...
A set of stable kernel updates [LWN.net]
Stable kernels 5.11.17, 5.10.33, 5.4.115, 4.19.189, 4.14.232, 4.9.268, and 4.4.268 have been released. They all contain...
Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and shibboleth-sp), Fedora (ceph and salt), Oracle (thunderbird),...
An Interview With Linus Torvalds: Linux and Git (Tag1) [LWN.net]
The Tag1 Consulting site has posted an interview with Linus Torvalds. So I think the GPLv2...
Yocto Project 3.3 (hardknott-25.0.0) released [LWN.net]
Yocto Project, a system to build embedded Linux distributions, released version 3.3 "Hardknott". In this version...
[$] Preventing information leaks from ext4 filesystems
A filesystem's role is to store information and retrieve it in its original form on request....
Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gst-libav1.0, gst-plugins-bad1.0, gst-plugins-base1.0, and gst-plugins-ugly1.0), Fedora (kernel, kernel-headers, kernel-tools,...
Fedora Linux 34 released [LWN.net]
The Fedora 34 release is now available. "This release features GNOME 40, the next step in...
GCC 11.1 released [LWN.net]
Version 11.1 of the GCC compiler suite is out. "This release switches the default debugging format...
Computer security world in mourning over death of Dan Kaminsky (The Register) [LWN.net]
The Register reports on the death of security researcher Dan Kaminsky. "Though Kaminsky rose to fame...
[$] Some 5.12 development statistics
By the time the 5.12 kernel was finally released, some 13,015 non-merge changesets had been pulled...
Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (drupal7, gst-libav1.0, gst-plugins-bad1.0, gst-plugins-base1.0, gst-plugins-good1.0, gst-plugins-ugly1.0, jackson-databind, libspring-java, opendmarc,...
The 5.12 kernel has been released [LWN.net]
Linus Torvalds has released the 5.12 kernel. "Thanks to everybody who made last week very calm...
A letter from the UMN researchers [LWN.net]
The University of Minnesota researchers who have stirred up the kernel community with various types of...
[$] Avoiding unintended connection failures with SO_REUSEPORT
Many of us think that we operate busy web servers; LWN's server, for example, sweats hard...
Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, openjdk-8, and wpa), openSUSE (irssi, jhead, opera, and...
A statement on the UMN mess [LWN.net]
Speaking for the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board, Kees Cook has posted a brief statement on...
Ubuntu 21.04 released [LWN.net]
The Ubuntu 21.04 distribution release is available. "Today, Canonical released Ubuntu 21.04 with native Microsoft Active...
[$] Toward signed BPF programs
The kernel's BPF virtual machine is versatile; it is possible to load BPF programs into the...
Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (thunderbird and wordpress), Fedora (curl, firefox, mediawiki, mingw-binutils, os-autoinst,...
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 22, 2021
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 22, 2021 is available.
[$] Intentionally buggy commits for fame—and papers
A buggy patch posted to the linux-kernel mailing list in early April was apparently the last...
Three stable kernels [LWN.net]
Stable kernels 5.11.16, 5.10.32, and 5.4.114 have been released. They contain important fixes and users should...
Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, php-pear, wordpress, and zabbix), Oracle (java-1.8.0-openjdk and java-11-openjdk),...
[$] Rust heads into the kernel?
In a lengthy message to the linux-kernel mailing list, Miguel Ojeda "introduced" the Rust for Linux...
In the trenches with Thomas Gleixner (Linux.com) [LWN.net]
Linux.com has published an interview with Thomas Gleixner with a focus on the realtime preemption work....
[$] Btrfs on zoned block devices
Zoned block devices have some unfamiliar characteristics that result from compromises made in the name of...