Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/969873/

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, bind and dhcp, bind9.16, gnutls, httpd:2.4/mod_http2, squid:4, and unbound), Debian (kernel, trafficserver, and xorg-server), Fedora (chromium, kernel, libopenmpt, and rust-h2), Mageia (apache-mod_jk, golang, indent, openssl, perl-HTTP-Body, php, rear, ruby-rack, squid, varnish, and xfig), Oracle (bind, squid, unbound, and X.Org server), Red Hat (bind and dhcp and unbound), Slackware (less and php), SUSE (gnutls, python-Pillow, webkit2gtk3, xen, xorg-x11-server, and xwayland), and Ubuntu (yard).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/966684/

A recent book by LWN guest
author Lee Phillips provides a nice introduction to the Julia programming language.
Practical Julia
does more than that, however. As its subtitle (“A Hands-On Introduction
for Scientific Minds”) implies, the book focuses on bringing Julia to
scientists, rather than programmers, which gives it something of a
different feel from most other books of this sort.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/968468/

The 6.8.4 and 6.6.25 stable kernels have been released.
They both contain 11 reversions of workqueue patches.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/968395/

Security updates have been issued by CentOS (firefox and thunderbird), Debian (chromium and gtkwave), Fedora (micropython), Slackware (xorg), SUSE (util-linux and xen), and Ubuntu (firefox).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/967851/

Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (xz), Debian (libvirt, mediawiki, util-linux, and xz-utils), Fedora (apache-commons-configuration, cockpit, ghc-base64, ghc-hakyll, ghc-isocline, ghc-toml-parser, gitit, gnutls, pandoc, pandoc-cli, patat, podman-tui, prometheus-podman-exporter, seamonkey, suricata, and xen), Gentoo (XZ utils), Mageia (aide & mhash, emacs, microcode, opensc, and squid), Red Hat (ruby:3.1), and SUSE (kanidm and qpid-proton).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/966961/

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, nss firefox, nss, python3, python, tcpreplay, and thunderbird), Oracle (nodejs:18), Red Hat (.NET 6.0 and dnsmasq), SUSE (avahi and python39), and Ubuntu (curl, linux-intel-iotg, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, unixodbc, and util-linux).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/966755/

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 4.19.311 stable kernels. Each contains a long
list of important fixes throughout the kernel tree.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/966678/

Security updates have been issued by CentOS (kernel), Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (webkitgtk), Mageia (curaengine & blender and gnutls), Red Hat (firefox, grafana, grafana-pcp, libreoffice, nodejs:18, and thunderbird), SUSE (glade), and Ubuntu (crmsh, debian-goodies, linux-aws, linux-aws-6.5, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-oracle, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.15, pam, and thunderbird).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/966611/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (cacti, firefox-esr, freeipa, gross, libnet-cidr-lite-perl, python2.7, python3.7, samba, and thunderbird), Fedora (amavis, chromium, clojure, firefox, gnutls, kubernetes, and tcpreplay), Mageia (freeimage, libreswan, nodejs-hawk, and python, python3), Oracle (golang, nodejs, nodejs:16, and postgresql-jdbc), Slackware (emacs and mozilla), SUSE (dav1d, ghostscript, go1.22, indent, kernel, openvswitch, PackageKit, python-uamqp, rubygem-rack-1_4, shadow, ucode-intel, xen, and zziplib), and Ubuntu (firefox, graphviz, libnet-cidr-lite-perl, and qpdf).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/966525/

The 6.9-rc1 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. Linus Torvalds described some rather large updates to the core
kernel code that are coming for 6.9:

The timer subsystem had a fairly big rewrite, to have per-cpu timer
wheels to improve performance of timers, which can be a big deal
particularly for networking. The other fairly notable core update is
to the workqueue subsystem, where one notable addition is for BH
workqueue support. That’s notable mainly because it means we finally
have a way away from tasklets. The tasklet interface has basically
been deprecated for a long while, but we’ve never really had any good
alternatives (with threaded interrupt handlers being one suggested
use-case, but not realistic in many cases).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/966246/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (pdns-recursor and php-dompdf-svg-lib), Fedora (grub2, libreswan, rubygem-yard, and thunderbird), Mageia (libtiff and python-scipy), Red Hat (golang, nodejs, and nodejs:16), Slackware (python3), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde,
linux-azure-fde-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop,
linux-gkeop-5.15, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-kvm,
linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-nvidia, linux, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.5, linux-hwe-6.5,
linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5, linux-oem-6.5, linux-oracle,
linux-oracle-6.5, linux-raspi, linux-starfive, linux-starfive-6.5, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4,
linux-xilinx-zynqmp, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-kvm, linux-laptop, linux-oem-6.1, and linux-raspi).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/964839/

There are a number of different language-enhancement ideas that crop up
with some
regularity in
the Python community; many of them have been debated and shot down multiple
times over the years. When one inevitably arises anew, it can sometimes be
difficult to tamp it down, even if it is unlikely that the idea will go
any further than the last N times it cropped up. A recent discussion about
“real” anonymous functions follows a somewhat predictable path, but there
are still reasons to participate in vetting these “new” ideas, despite the
tiresome, repetitive
nature of the exercise—examples of
recurring feature ideas that were eventually adopted definitely exist.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/965829/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (curl, spip, and unadf), Fedora (chromium, iwd, opensc, openvswitch, python3.6, shim, shim-unsigned-aarch64, and shim-unsigned-x64), Mageia (batik, imagemagick, irssi, jackson-databind, jupyter-notebook, ncurses, and yajl), Oracle (.NET 7.0, .NET 8.0, and dnsmasq), Red Hat (postgresql:10), SUSE (chromium, kernel, openvswitch, python-rpyc, and tiff), and Ubuntu (openjdk-8).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/965470/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and openvswitch), Fedora (chromium, python-multipart, thunderbird, and xen), Mageia (java-17-openjdk and screen), Red Hat (.NET 7.0, .NET 8.0, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, postgresql:13, and postgresql:15), Slackware (expat), SUSE (glibc, python-Django, python-Django1, sudo, and vim), and Ubuntu (expat, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-lowlatency, linux-raspi, python-cryptography, texlive-bin, and xorg-server).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/965032/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (libuv1, nss, squid, tar, tiff, and wordpress), Fedora (chromium, exercism, grub2, qpdf, and wpa_supplicant), Oracle (edk2 and opencryptoki), and SUSE (cpio, openssl-1_0_0, openssl-1_1, openssl-3, sudo, tomcat, and xen).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/964075/

While programmers are used to having tools to check their code for
stylistic problems, writers often limit automatic checks of their texts to
spelling and, sometimes, grammar, because there are not a lot of options
for further checking. If that is the case, Vale, an
open-source, command-line tool to enforce editorial-style guidelines, would
make a
useful addition to their toolbox. The recent release of
Vale 3.0
warrants a look at this versatile tool, which assists writers by
identifying common errors and helping them maintain a consistent voice in their
prose.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/964725/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and yard), Fedora (cpp-jwt, golang-github-tdewolff-argp, golang-github-tdewolff-minify, golang-github-tdewolff-parse, and suricata), Mageia (wpa_supplicant), Oracle (curl, edk2, golang, haproxy, keylime, mysql, openssh, and rear), Red Hat (kernel and postgresql:12), SUSE (containerd, giflib, go1.21, gstreamer-plugins-bad, java-1_8_0-openjdk, python3, python311, python39, sudo, and vim), and Ubuntu (frr, linux, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-iot,
linux-kvm, linux-raspi, and linux, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.5, linux-laptop, linux-lowlatency,
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5, linux-oem-6.5, linux-oracle, linux-raspi,
linux-starfive, linux-starfive-6.5).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/964376/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr and thunderbird), Fedora (dotnet6.0, dotnet8.0, and mod_auth_openidc), Gentoo (Blender, Tox, and UltraJSON), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (edk2), SUSE (sendmail and zabbix), and Ubuntu (nodejs and thunderbird).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/961682/

One of the outcomes of the (extremely) lengthy discussion about using
Common Lisp features in Emacs Lisp (Elisp), which we looked at back in November, was an effort to
start removing some of those uses from Emacs. The rewrite of some of the
Elisp in Emacs that uses the Common Lisp library (cl-lib) was started by
Richard Stallman as a way to reduce the cognitive load needed for
maintaining Emacs itself. Since then, he has broadened his efforts to
simplify Elisp by adding a new pattern-matching
conditional that would be a competitor to pcase,
which is a longstanding macro that he finds overly complex.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/964090/

Over on the Collabora blog, Faith Ekstrand has announced that the NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA devices will be part of Mesa 24.1 and is ready for real-world use. It should be appearing in Linux distributions later this year.

Back in october, I announced that NVK had reached Vulkan 1.0 conformance on Turing hardware. As of today NVK is now a conformant Vulkan 1.3 implementation on Turing (RTX 2000 and GTX 1600 series), Ampere (RTX 3000 series), and Ada (RTX 4000 series) GPUs. Not only have we jumped forward three Vulkan versions, but the new test runs were done with the GSP firmware enabled and includes Ampere and Ada GPUs. Also, unlike the initial 1.0 run, there are no hacks this time. Every test we passed in those conformance test runs also passes on upstream Mesa.