Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/972186/
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and distro-info-data), Fedora (et, php-tcpdf, python-aiohttp, python-openapi-core, thunderbird, tpm2-tools, and tpm2-tss), Red Hat (nodejs:16 and podman), and Ubuntu (firefox).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/971568/
The Amarok music player project
has announced
the release of version 3.0, which is codenamed “Castaway”. It is the first
stable version using Qt 5 and KDE Frameworks 5, and the first stable
release since the final Qt-4-based 2.9.0 in 2018.
The road to 3.0 has not been a short one. Much of the Qt5/KF5 porting was done in 2015 already, but finishing and polishing everything up has been a slow, sometimes ongoing and sometimes stalled process ever since. 3.0 Alpha was released in February 2021 and has been since used by many people, as have been nightly builds of git master available for various distributions. Now in the past few months, an effort was made to get everything ready for a proper 3.0 release.
Common usecases should work quite well, and in addition to fixing KF5 port
related regressions reported in pre-releases, 3.0 features many bugfixes
and implemented features for longstanding issues, the oldest such
documented being from 2009. However, with more than 20 years of development
history, it is likely that not every feature Amarok has been tested
thoroughly in the new release, and specifically some Internet services that
have changed their API in recent years are not available, at least for
now. It might well be that getting them in better state wouldn’t require
huge effort, however, so if you know your way with Qt and KDE Frameworks
and your favourite Internet music service does not work with Amarok 3.0,
you are extremely welcome to join in and help!
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/971487/
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, java-11-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, libreswan, thunderbird, and tigervnc), Debian (chromium, emacs, frr, mediawiki, ruby-rack, trafficserver, and zabbix), Fedora (chromium, grub2, python-idna, and python-reportlab), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable, firefox, opencryptoki, and thunderbird), Red Hat (container-tools:4.0, container-tools:rhel8, git-lfs, and shim), SUSE (frr, java-11-openjdk, java-1_8_0-openjdk, kernel, pdns-recursor, and shim), and Ubuntu (apache2, cpio, curl, glibc, gnutls28, less, libvirt, and pillow).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/971140/
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (curl, filezilla, flatpak, kubernetes, libfilezilla, thunderbird, and xen), Oracle (go-toolset:ol8, kernel, libreswan, shim, and tigervnc), Red Hat (buildah, gnutls, libreswan, tigervnc, and unbound), SUSE (cockpit-wicked, nrpe, and python-idna), and Ubuntu (dnsmasq, freerdp2, linux-azure-6.5, and thunderbird).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/970070/
The long-running effort to complete the work on stacking (or composing) the
Linux security modules (LSMs) recently encountered a barrier—in the form of
a “suggestion” to discontinue it from Linus Torvalds. His complaint
revolved around the indirect function calls that are used to implement
LSMs, but he also did not think much of the effort to switch away from
those calls. While it does not appear that a major course-change is in store
for LSMs, it is clear that Torvalds is not happy with the direction of that
subsystem.
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/970814/
The Debian project leader
election results are in and Andreas Tille
has been elected.
In a fairly competitive vote, Tille beat Sruthi Chandran to fill the
position for
the coming year. We looked at the election and the
candidates a few weeks back.
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/970793/
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox and java-1.8.0-openjdk), Debian (chromium, flatpak, guix, openjdk-11, openjdk-17, thunderbird, and tomcat9), Fedora (chromium, firefox, glibc, nghttp2, nodejs18, python-aiohttp, python-django3, python-pip, and uxplay), Mageia (putty & filezilla), Red Hat (Firefox, firefox, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, nodejs:18, shim, and thunderbird), Slackware (freerdp), SUSE (apache-commons-configuration2, nodejs14, perl-CryptX, putty, shim, and wireshark), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, 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-intel-iotg, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-kvm,
linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.15, 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-iot, linux-kvm, linux-oracle,
linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-6.5, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.5,
linux-hwe-6.5, linux-laptop, linux-lowlatency, linux-nvidia-6.5,
linux-oem-6.5, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.5, linux-raspi,
linux-starfive, linux-starfive-6.5, 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, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial, lxd, percona-xtrabackup, and pillow).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/970324/
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, jetty9, libdatetime-timezone-perl, tomcat10, and tzdata), Fedora (cockpit, filezilla, and libfilezilla), Red Hat (firefox, gnutls, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, kernel, kernel-rt, less, mod_http2, nodejs:18, rhc-worker-script, and shim), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (kernel), and Ubuntu (apache2, glibc, and linux-xilinx-zynqmp).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/969904/
Managing to-do lists is something of a universal necessity. While some
people handle them mentally or on paper, others resort to a web-based tool or
a mobile
application. For those preferring the command line, the MIT-licensed Taskwarrior offers a flexible solution
with a healthy community and lots of extensions.
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/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).