Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/1002917/

The 6.12.6, 6.6.67, 6.1.121, 5.15.175, 5.10.232, and 5.4.288 stable kernels have been released.
As usual, they contain important fixes throughout the kernel tree.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/1001645/

Emacs is, famously, an
editor—perhaps far more—that is extensible using its own
variant of the Lisp programming language, Emacs
Lisp (or Elisp). This year’s
edition of EmacsConf, which is an annual “gathering” that has been held
online for the past five years, had two separate talks on using a different
variant of Lisp, Guile,
for Emacs. Both projects would preserve Elisp compatibility, which is a
must, but they would use Guile differently. The first talk we will cover
was given by Robin Templeton, who described the relaunch of the Guile-Emacs project, which would replace
the Elisp in Emacs with a compiler using Guile. A subsequent article will look
at the other talk, which is about an Emacs clone written
using Guile.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/1002338/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (gst-plugins-base1.0, gstreamer1.0, and libpgjava), Fedora (bpftool, chromium, golang-x-crypto, kernel, kernel-headers, linux-firmware, pytest, python3.10, subversion, and thunderbird), Gentoo (NVIDIA Drivers), Oracle (kernel, perl-App-cpanminus:1.7044, php:7.4, php:8.1, php:8.2, postgresql, python3.11, python3.12, python3.9:3.9.21, python36:3.6, ruby, and ruby:2.5), SUSE (docker-stable, firefox-esr, gstreamer, gstreamer-plugins-base, gstreamer-plugins-good, kernel, python-Django, python312, and socat), and Ubuntu (mpmath).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/1001863/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (libsoup2.4, python-aiohttp, and upx-ucl), Fedora (iaito, python3.11, python3.9, and radare2), Red Hat (ruby, ruby:2.5, and ruby:3.1), Slackware (mozilla-thunderbird), SUSE (govulncheck-vulndb, nodejs18, nodejs20, and socat), and Ubuntu (ofono and python-tornado).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/998893/

In a session at
Open Source Summit Europe
(OSSEU) back in September, Alex Bucknall gave an overview of a camera “trap”—a
device to capture images in a non-intrusive way—that he helped develop
which is being used to monitor seagrass. He works for
the Arribada Initiative, which is a
non-profit organization
focused on creating open-source technology for studying wildlife and ecosystems.
The camera system uses the Zephyr
realtime operating system (RTOS) on an open platform that is designed to be
inexpensive and usable for multiple applications.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/1001436/

The 6.12.4 and 6.6.64 stable kernels have been released,
each with a set of important fixes throughout the kernel tree, as usual.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/1001433/

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (redis:7, ruby, ruby:2.5, and ruby:3.1), Debian (avahi, ceph, chromium, gsl, jinja2, php7.4, renderdoc, ruby-doorkeeper, and zabbix), Fedora (chromium, python3.11, and uv), Gentoo (Asterisk, Cacti, Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge. Opera, Dnsmasq, firefox, HashiCorp Consul, icinga2, OATH Toolkit, OpenJDK, PostgreSQL, R, Salt, Spidermonkey, and thunderbird), Mageia (kubernetes), Red Hat (grafana, grafana-pcp, osbuild-composer, and postgresql), SUSE (ansible-core, firefox, glib2, java-1_8_0-ibm, kernel-firmware, nanopb, netty, python310-django-ckeditor, python310-jupyter-ydoc, radare2, skopeo, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (tinyproxy).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/1000871/

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.12.2, 6.11.11, and 4.19.325 stable kernels. Note that both
6.11.11 and 4.19.325 are the last kernels in those series, “please move
off to a newer kernel version“. In the 4.19.325 release notice, he has
a rather longer-than-usual message, including:

As a “fun” proof that this one is finished (and that any company saying
they care about it really should have their statements validated with
facts), I looked at the “unfixed” CVEs from this kernel release.
Currently it is a list 983 CVEs long, too long to list here.

You can verify it yourself by cloning the vulns.git repo at
git.kernel.org and running:

	./scripts/strak v4.19.325

Note, this does NOT count the hardware CVEs which kernel.org does not
track, and many are sill unfixed in this kernel branch.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/1000870/

Security updates have been issued by Fedora (thunderbird, tuned, and webkitgtk), Mageia (python-aiohttp and qemu), Oracle (container-tools:ol8, firefox, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, kernel, kernel:4.18.0, krb5, pam, postgresql:16, python-tornado, python3:3.6.8, thunderbird, tigervnc, tuned, and webkit2gtk3), Red Hat (bzip2, postgresql, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, python-tornado, and ruby:3.1), Slackware (python3), SUSE (postgresql, postgresql16, postgresql17, postgresql13, postgresql14, postgresql15, python-python-multipart, and python3), and Ubuntu (python-django and recutils).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/1000469/

The most recent version of NixOS, 24.11,
was released
on November 30. It contains GNOME 47, Plasma 6.2, LLVM 19, and lots more:

The 24.11 release was made possible due to the efforts of 2669 contributors, who authored 49079 commits since the previous release. Our thanks go the contributors who also take care of the continued stability and security of our stable release.

NixOS is already known as the most up to date distribution while also being the distribution with the most packages. This release saw 8141 new packages and 20975 updated packages in Nixpkgs. We also removed 3970 packages in an effort to keep the package set maintainable and secure.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/1000465/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (dnsmasq, editorconfig-core, lemonldap-ng, proftpd-dfsg, python3.9, simplesamlphp, tgt, and xfpt), Fedora (qbittorrent, webkitgtk, and wireshark), Mageia (libsoup3 & libsoup), Red Hat (buildah, grafana, grafana-pcp, and podman), SUSE (gimp, kernel, postgresql14, python, webkit2gtk3, xen, and zabbix), and Ubuntu (ansible and postgresql-12, postgresql-14, postgresql-16).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/998793/

The long-awaited release of the GNU Image
Manipulation Program (GIMP) 3.0 is on the way, marking the first
major update since version 2.10 was
released in April 2018. It now features a GTK 3 user interface and GIMP 3.0
introduces significant changes to the core platform and plugins. This
release also brings performance and usability improvements, as well as more
compatibility with Wayland and complex input sources.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/1000084/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, netatalk, and thunderbird), Fedora (firefox, libsoup3, mingw-glib2, mingw-libsoup, mingw-python-waitress, mingw-python3, nss, perl-Module-ScanDeps, php, and python-aiohttp), Mageia (dcmtk, golang, iptraf-ng, libsndfile, microcode, php, postgresql15 & postgresql13, rapidjson, tomcat, wget, and zbar), Red Hat (openssl and openssl-fips-provider, toolbox, and webkit2gtk3), SUSE (firefox, frr, glib2, hplip, kernel, neomutt-20241114, ovmf, python-aiohttp, python-virtualenv, python310-tornado6, qemu, webkit2gtk3, and xen), and Ubuntu (mpg123 and vim).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/999597/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (ansible, chromium, ghostscript, glib2.0, intel-microcode, and kernel), Fedora (dotnet9.0, needrestart, php, and python3.6), Oracle (cups, kernel, osbuild-composer, podman, python3.12-urllib3, squid, and xerces-c), Red Hat (buildah, edk2, gnome-shell, haproxy, kernel, kernel-rt, libvpx, pam, python3.11-urllib3, python3.12-urllib3, qemu-kvm, rhc-worker-script, squid:4, and tigervnc), Slackware (php), SUSE (chromedriver, chromium, dcmtk, govulncheck-vulndb, iptraf-ng, and traefik2), and Ubuntu (linux-oracle and openjdk-23).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/999197/

The Linux Foundation Technical
Advisory Board (TAB) has decided to “restrict Kent Overstreet’s
participation in the kernel development process during the Linux 6.13
kernel development cycle” based on a recommendation from the Code of Conduct
committee. In particular, the scope of the restriction will be to “decline all pull
requests from Kent Overstreet” during the development cycle.
Overstreet is the creator and maintainer of the bcachefs filesystem.

This
action stems from a message
Overstreet posted back in early September that was abusive toward another
kernel developer; there is a fair amount of back-and-forth about the
incident and the committee’s attempts to extract a public apology from
Overstreet in that thread. Overstreet has published a lengthy blog post
describing his side of the story.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/998949/

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, NetworkManager-libreswan, and openssl), Fedora (chromium and llvm-test-suite), Mageia (thunderbird), and Ubuntu (linux-aws-6.8, linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8, linux-oracle-6.8,, linux-azure, and ruby2.7).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/997850/

At the 2024 X.Org Developers
Conference (XDC), Lyude Paul gave a talk on the work she has been doing
as part of the Nova
project, which is an effort build an NVIDIA
GPU driver in Rust. She wanted to provide an introduction to RVKMS, which
is being used to develop Rust kernel mode setting (KMS)
bindings; RVKMS is a port of the virtual KMS (VKMS)
driver to Rust. In addition, she wanted to give her opinion on Rust, and why she
thinks it is
a “game-changer for the kernel“, noting that the reasons are not
related to the oft-mentioned, “headline” feature of the language: memory
safety.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/998570/

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (binutils, libsoup, squid:4, tigervnc, and webkit2gtk3), Debian (icinga2, postgresql-13, postgresql-15, smarty3, symfony, thunderbird, and waitress), Fedora (dotnet9.0, ghostscript, microcode_ctl, php-bartlett-PHP-CompatInfo, python-waitress, and webkitgtk), Gentoo (Perl, Pillow, and X.Org X server, XWayland), Oracle (binutils, cups-filters, giflib, squid, and webkit2gtk3), Red Hat (webkit2gtk3), SUSE (ansible-core, apache2, gio-branding-upstream, icinga2, kernel-devel, libnghttp2-14, libsoup-2_4-1, libsoup-3_0-0, libvirt, nodejs-electron, postgresql13, postgresql16, python39, rclone, thunderbird, ucode-intel-20241112, and wget), and Ubuntu (python-asyncssh and tomcat9).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/998148/

A new batch of stable kernels has just been released: 6.11.8, 6.6.61, 6.1.117, and 5.15.172. As usual, they contain important
fixes throughout the kernel tree.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/998143/

Security updates have been issued by Fedora (llama-cpp, mingw-expat, python3.6, webkit2gtk4.0, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk & java-latest-openjdk and libarchive), Oracle (expat, gstreamer1-plugins-base, kernel, libsoup, podman, and tigervnc), SUSE (buildah, java-1_8_0-openjdk, and switchboard-plug-bluetooth), and Ubuntu (zlib).