Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/995550/

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (grafana, NetworkManager-libreswan, python3.11, and python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9), Fedora (dotnet6.0, koji, python-fastapi, python-openapi-core, python-platformio, python-starlette, rust-pyo3, rust-pyo3-build-config, rust-pyo3-ffi, rust-pyo3-macros, rust-pyo3-macros-backend, and yarnpkg), Oracle (grafana, kernel, linux-firmware, NetworkManager-libreswan, and python3.11), Slackware (php81), and SUSE (apache2, buildah, cups-filters, go1.21-openssl, podman, postgresql16, python-pyOpenSSL, and webkit2gtk3).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/994941/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (asterisk, chromium, php-horde-mime-viewer, and php-horde-turba), Fedora (apache-commons-io, buildah, chromium, containers-common, libarchive, libdigidocpp, oath-toolkit, podman, rust-hyper-rustls, rust-reqwest, rust-rustls-native-certs, rust-rustls-native-certs0.7, rust-tonic, rust-tonic-build, rust-tonic-types, rust-tower, rust-tower-http, rust-tower-http0.5, rust-tower0.4, thunderbird, and unbound), SUSE (buildah, chromedriver, chromium, element-desktop, element-web, jetty-annotations, nodejs-electron, php7, php74, php8, podman, python3-virtualbox, qemu, thunderbird, and valkey), and Ubuntu (amd64-microcode).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/994632/

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.11.4, 6.6.57, 6.1.113, 5.15.168, and 5.10.227 stable kernels. As usual, this set
of updates contains a long list of important fixes throughout the kernel
tree.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/994630/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-cryptography), Fedora (dnsdist and python-virtualenv), Red Hat (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, and java-21-openjdk), Slackware (libssh2 and mozilla), SUSE (haproxy, keepalived, libarchive, libnss_slurm2, php8, and python310-pytest-html), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gkeop,
linux-gkeop-5.15, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15,
linux-intel-iotg, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency,
linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-nvidia, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.15,
linux-raspi, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-bluefield, linux-gcp,
linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4,
linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4,
linux-xilinx-zynqmp, and linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-6.8, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.8, linux-hwe-6.8,
linux-ibm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-nvidia,
linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-oem-6.8, linux-oracle,
linux-oracle-6.8, linux-raspi).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/990177/

While Debian’s “sauce” is not actually all that secret, it is not particularly
well-known either, Samuel Henrique said at the start of his DebConf24 talk. There is a lot
of software-engineering effort that has been put in place by the
distribution in order to create and maintain its releases, but “loads of
people are not aware” of it. That may be due to the fact that all of
that is
not really documented anywhere in a central location that he can just point
someone to. Recognizing that is what led him to give the talk;
hopefully it will be a “first step toward” helping solve the problem.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/994080/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (docker.io, libreoffice, node-dompurify, python-reportlab, and thunderbird), Fedora (buildah, chromium, kernel, kernel-headers, libgsf, mosquitto, p7zip, podman, python-cramjam, python-virtualenv, redis, rust-async-compression, rust-brotli, rust-brotli-decompressor, rust-libcramjam, rust-libcramjam0.2, rust-nu-command, rust-nu-protocol, rust-redlib, rust-tower-http, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk4.0), Oracle (.NET 6.0, .NET 8.0, e2fsprogs, firefox, golang, openssl, python3-setuptools, systemd, and thunderbird), SUSE (chromium, firefox, java-jwt, libmozjs-128-0, libwireshark18, ntpd-rs, OpenIPMI, thunderbird, and wireshark), and Ubuntu (firefox, python2.7, python3.5, thunderbird, and ubuntu-advantage-desktop-daemon).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/993596/

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.11.3, 6.10.14, 6.6.55, and 6.6.56 stable kernels. The 6.6.56 release
fixes a problem with building perf in 6.6.55; “If you do not use the
perf tool in the 6.6.y tree, there is no need to upgrade.“. Meanwhile,
6.10.14 is the last of the 6.10.y series, so users should now be moving to
6.11.y. Other than 6.6.56, they contain the usual long list of important
fixes throughout the kernel tree.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/993595/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (firefox, koji, unbound, webkit2gtk4.0, and xen), Red Hat (glibc, net-snmp, and tomcat), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (apache-commons-io, buildah, cups-filters, liboath-devel, libreoffice, libunbound8, podman, and redis), and Ubuntu (cups-browsed, cups-filters, edk2, linux-raspi-5.4, and oath-toolkit).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/993160/

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (go-toolset:rhel8 and linux-firmware), Arch Linux (oath-toolkit), Debian (e2fsprogs, firefox-esr, libgsf, mediawiki, and oath-toolkit), Fedora (aws, chromium, firefox, p7zip, pgadmin4, python-gcsfs, unbound, webkitgtk, znc, znc-clientbuffer, and znc-push), Mageia (ghostscript and rootcerts nss firefox firefox-l10n), Oracle (kernel, oVirt 4.4 ovirt-engine, and thunderbird), SUSE (chromedriver, chromium, cups-filters, ffmpeg-7, frr, Mesa, openssl-3, openvpn, pcp, and redis), and Ubuntu (firefox and ruby-webrick).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/992798/

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cups-filters), Debian (chromium and php8.2), Fedora (firefox), Oracle (cups-filters, flatpak, kernel, krb5, oVirt 4.5 ovirt-engine, and python-urllib3), Red Hat (cups-filters, firefox, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, and thunderbird), SUSE (postgresql16), and Ubuntu (gnome-shell and linux-azure-fde-5.15).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/991732/

The open-source vector-graphics editor, Inkscape, is expected to release version 1.4
in October. The release represents an evolutionary step for the program, which
brings new features, user-interface improvements, new and improved
file-format support, and important changes to the code base. The changes in
this release should improve the user experience for both casual and
professional designers, and make Inkscape more compatible with proprietary
vector-graphics software, including Adobe Illustrator and Affinity
Designer.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/992292/

The 6.11.1, 6.10.12, 6.6.53, and 6.1.112 stable kernels have been released.
Each contains important fixes and users of those series should upgrade.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/992284/

The most recent major release of the Tcl/Tk language and graphical-user-interface toolkit, Tcl/Tk 9.0, has been released, a mere 27 years after the 8,0 major release in 1997. There have been plenty of releases in the interim, though, as can be seen in the Tcl chronology. The 9.0 release brings 64-bit data values, better Unicode support, the ability to use zip files as filesystems, a switch to use epoll() or kqueue() where they are available, SVG support in Tk, access to notifications and other desktop-platform services in Tk, and lots more. For more information, see the release notes for Tcl and Tk that can be downloaded as Markdown files from the announcement page. (Thanks to Matt Bradley.)

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/992281/

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cups-filters, net-snmp, and osbuild-composer), Debian (booth, cups, cups-filters, python-asyncssh, ruby-httparty, ruby-loofah, ruby-rails-html-sanitizer, tryton-server, unbound, and wireshark), Fedora (chromium, cjson, cups, cups-browsed, libcupsfilters, and libppd), Gentoo (Apache HTTPD, Docker, HashiCorp Consul, IcedTea, nginx, tmux, and yt-dlp), Mageia (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, & java-latest-openjdk and libreoffice), Red Hat (git-lfs, grafana, and osbuild-composer), and SUSE (chromedriver, chromium, coredns, json-java-20240303, kernel, libmozjs-128-0, maven-archetype, python3, python312, and quagga).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/991899/

The online-privacy-focused Tor
project has announced
that it has “joined forces and merged operations” with the Tails OS Linux distribution.

Countering the threat of global mass surveillance and censorship to a free Internet, Tor and Tails provide essential tools to help people around the world stay safe online. By joining forces, these two privacy advocates will pool their resources to focus on what matters most: ensuring that activists, journalists, other at-risk and everyday users will have access to improved digital security tools.

In late 2023, Tails approached the Tor Project with the idea of merging operations. Tails had outgrown its existing structure. Rather than expanding Tails’s operational capacity on their own and putting more stress on Tails workers, merging with the Tor Project, with its larger and established operational framework, offered a solution. By joining forces, the Tails team can now focus on their core mission of maintaining and improving Tails OS, exploring more and complementary use cases while benefiting from the larger organizational structure of The Tor Project.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/991897/

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, dovecot, emacs, expat, git-lfs, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, grafana, grafana-pcp, gtk3, kernel, kernel-rt, nano, python3, python3.11, python3.12, and virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel), Debian (mediawiki and puredata), Fedora (chisel), Mageia (glib2.0, gtk+2.0 and gtk+3.0, and python-astropy), Red Hat (git-lfs, grafana, grafana-pcp, kernel, and kernel-rt), SUSE (kubernetes1.24, kubernetes1.25, kubernetes1.26, kubernetes1.27, kubernetes1.28, opensc, and python36), and Ubuntu (apparmor, apr, ca-certificates, linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-raspi, openjpeg2, ruby-rack, and tomcat8, tomcat9).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/990534/

The “Linus and Dirk show” has been a fixture at Open Source Summit for as
long as the conference has existed; it started back when the conference was
called LinuxCon. Since Linus Torvalds famously does not like to give
talks, as he said during this year’s edition at Open Source Summit Europe
(OSSEU) in Vienna, Austria, he and Dirk Hohndel have been sitting down for an
informal chat on a wide range of topics as a keynote session. That way,
Torvalds does not need to prepare, but also does not know what topics
will be brought up, which makes it “so much more fun for one of us”, Hohndel
said with a grin. The topics this time ranged from the just-released 6.11
kernel and the upcoming Linux 6.12, through Rust for the kernel, to the recurring topic of succession and
the graying of Linux maintainers.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/991377/

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (expat, fence-agents, firefox, libnbd, openssl, pcp, ruby:3.3, and thunderbird), Debian (ruby-saml), Fedora (aardvark-dns, chromium, expat, jupyterlab, less, openssl, python-jupyterlab-server, python-notebook, python3-docs, and python3.12), Gentoo (calibre, curl, Emacs, org-mode, Exo, file, GPL Ghostscript, gst-plugins-good, liblouis, Mbed TLS, OpenVPN, Oracle VirtualBox, PJSIP, Portage, PostgreSQL, pypy, pypy3, Rust, Slurm, stb, VLC, and Xen), SUSE (container-suseconnect, ffmpeg-4, kernel, libpcap, python3, python310, python36, and wpa_supplicant), and Ubuntu (firefox, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-azure, and linux-ibm-5.15, linux-oracle-5.15).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/990877/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (expat and tinyproxy), Fedora (frr, microcode_ctl, python3.10, python3.12, python3.6, and ruby), Oracle (expat, fence-agents, firefox, ghostscript, java-1.8.0-openjdk, kernel, and thunderbird), Red Hat (firefox, openssl, ruby:3.3, and thunderbird), SUSE (clamav, ffmpeg-4, kernel, libmfx, python3, python312, runc, ucode-intel, and wireshark), and Ubuntu (apache2, git, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.15, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-intel-iotg, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-kvm, linux-nvidia, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-bluefield, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, and linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-ibm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-oem-6.8, linux-oracle).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/990455/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (git, nodejs, and ring), Fedora (apr, bubblewrap, chromium, clamav, flatpak, mingw-expat, python3-docs, python3.12, and thunderbird), Mageia (assimp, botan2, python-tqdm, and radare2), Slackware (libarchive), and SUSE (curl).