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[$] The race to replace Redis
On March 21, Redis Ltd. announced that the Redis "in-memory data store" project would now be...
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[$] Declarative partitioning in PostgreSQL
Keith Fiske gave a talk (with slides) about the state of partitioning — splitting a large...
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Samba 4.20.0 released [LWN.net]
Version 4.20.0 of the Samba Windows interoperability suite has been released. Changes include better support for...
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Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (perl-Data-UUID, python-pygments, and thunderbird), Mageia (clojure, grub2, kernel,kmod-xtables-addons,kmod-virtualbox, kernel-linus,...
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 28, 2024
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 28, 2024 is available.
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The PostgreSQL community mourns Simon Riggs [LWN.net]
The PostgreSQL community is dealing with the loss of Simon Riggs, who passed away on March 26:...
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[$] High-performance computing with Ubuntu
Jason Nucciarone and Felipe Reyes gave back-to-back talks about high-performance computing (HPC) using Ubuntu at SCALE...
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Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (composer and nodejs), Fedora (w3m), Mageia (tomcat), Oracle (expat,...
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Eight new stable kernels [LWN.net]
Sasha Levin has announced the release of the 6.8.2, 6.7.11, 6.6.23, 6.1.83, 5.15.153, 5.10.214, 5.4.273, and...
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[$] GNOME 46 puts Flatpaks front and center
The GNOME project announced GNOME 46 (code-named "Kathmandu") on March 20. The release has quite a few updates...
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Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (kernel), Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (webkitgtk), Mageia (curaengine & blender...
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[$] Nix at SCALE
The first-ever NixCon in North America was co-located with SCALE this year. The event drew a...
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[$] The rest of the 6.9 merge window
The 6.9-rc1 kernel prepatch was released on March 24, closing the merge window for this development cycle....
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Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cacti, firefox-esr, freeipa, gross, libnet-cidr-lite-perl, python2.7, python3.7, samba, and...
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Emacs 29.3 released [LWN.net]
Version 29.3 of the Emacs editor has been released: Emacs 29.3 is an emergency bugfix release;...
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Kernel prepatch 6.9-rc1 [LWN.net]
The 6.9-rc1 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus Torvalds described some rather large updates to...
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Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, pillow, and thunderbird), Fedora (apptainer, chromium, ovn, and...
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[$] Hardening the kernel against heap-spraying attacks
While a programming error in the kernel may be subject to direct exploitation, usually a more...
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Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (pdns-recursor and php-dompdf-svg-lib), Fedora (grub2, libreswan, rubygem-yard, and thunderbird),...
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Rust 1.77.0 released [LWN.net]
Version 1.77.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include support for NUL-terminated C-string literals,...
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Perl 5.39.9 released [LWN.net]
Verson 5.39.9 of the Perl language has been released. Changes this time include a new "medium-precedence"...
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Redis is no longer free software [LWN.net]
The Redis in-memory database system has had its license changed to either the Redis Source Available...
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The "Nova" driver for NVIDIA chipsets [LWN.net]
Danilo Krummrich has announced the existence of the "Nova" project within Red Hat. We just started...
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 21, 2024
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 21, 2024 is available.