[$] Python JIT stabilization
On April 11, Brandt Bucher posted PEP 744 ("JIT Compilation"), which summarizes the current state of...
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) released [LWN.net]
Version 24.04 LTS of the Ubuntu distribution is out. This release continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of...
[$] The state of realtime and embedded Linux
Linux, famously, appears in a wide range of systems. While servers and large data centers get...
Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (curl, filezilla, flatpak, kubernetes, libfilezilla, thunderbird, and xen), Oracle...
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 25, 2024
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 25, 2024 is available.
GitHub comments used to distribute malware (BleepingComputer) [LWN.net]
BleepingComputer reported on April 20 that some malware was being distributed via GitHub. Uploading files as...
A new crash reporter for Firefox [LWN.net]
On April 23, Mozilla announced that Firefox's crash reporter has been rewritten in Rust, allowing the...
QEMU 9.0 released [LWN.net]
Version 9.0 of the QEMU emulator has been released. "This release contains 2700+ commits from 220...
[$] Existential types in Rust
For several years, contributors to the Rust project have been working to improve support for asynchronous...
Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (abseil-cpp, chromium, filezilla, libfilezilla, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Oracle (firefox, gnutls,...
[$] A change in direction for security-module stacking?
The long-running effort to complete the work on stacking (or composing) the Linux security modules (LSMs)...
Fedora 40 released [LWN.net]
The Fedora 40 distribution has been released. See the "what's new" pages for Fedora Workstation and...
[$] Rust for embedded Linux kernels
The Rust programming language, it is hoped, will bring a new level of safety to the...
Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (glibc and samba), Fedora (chromium, cjson, mingw-python-idna, and pgadmin4),...
The Open Home Foundation launches [LWN.net]
The Open Home Foundation has announced its existence as a home and support resource for free...
Andreas Tille elected as Debian project leader [LWN.net]
The Debian project leader election results are in and Andreas Tille has been elected. In a...
[$] Linus and Dirk chat about AI, XZ, hardware, and more
One of the mainstays of the the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit is the "fireside chat"...
Hutterer: udev-hid-bpf: quickstart tooling to fix your HID devices with eBPF [LWN.net]
Peter Hutterer announces udev-hid-bpf, a tool to facilitate the loading of BPF programs that make human-input...
Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox and java-1.8.0-openjdk), Debian (chromium, flatpak, guix, openjdk-11, openjdk-17,...
Kernel prepatch 6.9-rc5 [LWN.net]
Linus has released 6.9-rc5 for testing. But if you ignore those oddities, it all looks pretty...
[$] Weighted memory interleaving and new system calls
Gregory Price recently posted a patch set that adds support for weighted memory interleaving — allowing...
Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gnutls, java-17-openjdk, mod_http2, and squid), Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (editorconfig,...
[$] Gentoo bans AI-created contributions
Gentoo Council member Michał Górny posted an RFC to the gentoo-dev mailing list in late February...
[$] Warning about WARN_ON()
Kernel developers, like conscientious developers for many projects, will often include checks in the code for...
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,...
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 18, 2024
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 18, 2024 is available.
[$] 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...
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.
Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (apache2 and cockpit), Fedora (firefox, kernel, mbedtls, python-cbor2, wireshark,...
[$] Identifying dependencies used via dlopen()
The recent XZ backdoor has sparked a lot of discussion about how the open-source community links...
[$] 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...
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...
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),...
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...
[$] Cleaning up after BPF exceptions
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi has been working to add support for exceptions to BPF since mid-2023. In...
Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, bind and dhcp, bind9.16, gnutls, httpd:2.4/mod_http2, squid:4, and...
Kernel prepatch 6.9-rc4 [LWN.net]
The 6.9-rc4 kernel prepatch is out for testing. "Nothing particularly unusual going on this week -...
Saturday's stable kernel updates [LWN.net]
The 6.8.6, 6.6.27, 6.1.86, 5.15.155, 5.10.215, 5.4.274, and 4.19.312 stable kernel updates have all been released;...
[$] A tale of two troublesome drivers
The kernel project merges dozens of drivers with every development cycle, and almost every one of...
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,...
Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (rust, trafficserver, and upx), Mageia (postgresql-jdbc and...
[$] Completing the EEVDF scheduler
The Earliest Virtual Deadline First (EEVDF) scheduler was merged as an option for the 6.6 kernel....
Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, less, libreoffice, nodejs:18, nodejs:20, rear, thunderbird, and varnish),...
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 11, 2024
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 11, 2024 is available.
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...
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...
[$] Book review: Practical Julia
A recent book by LWN guest author Lee Phillips provides a nice introduction to the Julia...
[$] Continued attacks on HTTP/2
On April 3 security researcher Bartek Nowotarski published the details of a new denial-of-service (DoS) attack,...
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,...
The "branch history injection" hardware vulnerability [LWN.net]
The mainline kernel has just received a set of commits mitigating the latest x86 hardware vulnerability,...