Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/959931/

EmacsConf 2023 was, like its
recent predecessors, an online conference with lots of talks about various
aspects of the Emacs
editor—though, of course, it is way more than just an editor. Last year’s
edition was held in early December. One of the
talks that looked interesting was on Emacs
development, which was given live by John Wiegley. In it, he briefly
described some
of the biggest features coming in Emacs 30, which is the next major version
coming for the tool.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/959882/

Security updates have been issued by CentOS (gstreamer-plugins-bad-free, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, kernel, LibRaw, python-pillow, and xorg-x11-server), Debian (gst-plugins-bad1.0, libspreadsheet-parsexlsx-perl, mariadb-10.3, and slurm-wlm), Fedora (atril, dotnet8.0, gnutls, prometheus-podman-exporter, python-jinja2, sudo, and vips), Oracle (frr, kernel, php:8.1, python-urllib3, python3.9, rpm, sqlite, and tomcat), Slackware (pam), SUSE (cpio, rear23a, rear27a, sevctl, and xorg-x11-server), and Ubuntu (exim4 and firefox).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/959640/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (xorg-server), Fedora (chromium, dotnet8.0, firefox, freeipa, and thunderbird), Red Hat (avahi, c-ares, curl, edk2, expat, freetype, frr, git, gnutls, grub2, kernel, kernel-rt, libcap, libfastjson, libssh, libtasn1, libxml2, linux-firmware, ncurses, oniguruma, openssh, openssl, perl-HTTP-Tiny, protobuf-c, python-urllib3, python3, python3.9, rpm, samba, shadow-utils, sqlite, tcpdump, tomcat, and virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules), SUSE (cpio, jasper, rear23a, thunderbird, and xorg-x11-server), and Ubuntu (jinja2, kernel, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-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-hwe-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-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4,
linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-6.2, linux-azure, linux-azure-6.2,
linux-azure-fde-6.2, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-6.5, linux-laptop,
linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5, linux-oem-6.5, linux-oracle,
linux-raspi, linux-starfive, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe,
linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde, linux-azure-fde-5.15, linux-oem-6.1, and mariadb, mariadb-10.3, mariadb-10.6).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/959509/

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.7.2, 6.6.14,
6.1.75, 5.15.148, 5.10.209, 5.4.268, and 4.19.306 stable kernels. As usual, they
contain a long list of fixes throughout the kernel tree.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/959455/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, php-phpseclib, phpseclib, thunderbird, and zabbix), Fedora (dotnet7.0, firefox, fonttools, and python-jinja2), Mageia (avahi and chromium-browser-stable), Oracle (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, LibRaw, openssl, and python-pillow), Red Hat (gnutls, kpatch-patch, php:8.1, and squid:4), SUSE (apache-parent, apache-sshd, bluez, cacti, cacti-spine, erlang, firefox, java-11-openjdk, opera, python-Pillow, tomcat, tomcat10, and xwayland), and Ubuntu (paramiko and puma).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/959236/

Python packaging discussions seem like they often just go around and
around, ending up where they started and recapitulating many of the points that
have come up before. A recent discussion revolves around the pip package installer, as they
often do. The central role that is occupied by pip has both
good points and bad. There is a clear need for something that
can install from the Python Package Index
(PyPI) immediately after Python itself is installed. Whether there
should be additional features, including project management, that come
“inside the box”, as well,
is much less clear—not unlike the question of which project management
“style” should be chosen.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/959067/

There are many different Python web frameworks, from
nano-frameworks all the way up to the full-stack variety. One that
recently caught my eye is Microdot, the
“impossibly small web framework for Python and MicroPython“; since
it
targets MicroPython, it is
plausible for running the user
interface of an “internet of things” (IoT) device, for example. Beyond
that, it is Flask-inspired,
which should make it reasonably familiar to many potential web
developers.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/959067/

There are many different Python web frameworks, from
nano-frameworks all the way up to the full-stack variety. One that
recently caught my eye is Microdot, the
“impossibly small web framework for Python and MicroPython“; since
it
targets MicroPython, it is
plausible for running the user
interface of an “internet of things” (IoT) device, for example. Beyond
that, it is Flask-inspired,
which should make it reasonably familiar to many potential web
developers.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/959006/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (keystone and subunit), Fedora (dotnet6.0, golang, kernel, sos, and tigervnc), Mageia (erlang), Red Hat (openssl), SUSE (bluez, python-aiohttp, and seamonkey), and Ubuntu (postfix and xorg-server).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/958781/

Internet pioneer and Network Time Protocol (NTP) inventor Dave Mills has died, as reported by Vint Cerf:

His daughter, Leigh, just sent me the news that Dave passed away peacefully
on January 17, 2024. He was such an iconic element of the early Internet.
Network Time Protocol, the Fuzzball routers of the early NSFNET, INARG
taskforce lead, COMSAT Labs and University of Delaware and so much more.

More information about Mills can be found on his Wikipedia page.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/958760/

Security updates have been issued by Fedora (chromium, golang-github-facebook-time, podman, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Oracle (.NET 6.0, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, and python3.11-cryptography), Red Hat (java-11-openjdk, python-requests, and python-urllib3), SUSE (chromium, kernel, libcryptopp, libuev, perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel, suse-module-tools, and xwayland), and Ubuntu (filezilla and xerces-c).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/958676/

Security updates have been issued by CentOS (ImageMagick), Debian (chromium), Fedora (golang-x-crypto, golang-x-mod, golang-x-net, golang-x-text, gtkwave, redis, and zbar), Mageia (tinyxml), Oracle (.NET 7.0, .NET 8.0, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, python3, and sqlite), Red Hat (gstreamer-plugins-bad-free, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, and java-21-openjdk), SUSE (kernel, libqt5-qtbase, libssh, pam, rear23a, and rear27a), and Ubuntu (pam and zookeeper).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/958326/

Python’s static-typing feature has come a long way since it was introduced in 2014. Adding type
information to functions has always been—and will remain—optional, but typing
still remains somewhat contentious. There are multiple kinds of
consumers of the information, each with their own needs and
wishes, as well as users of the feature with expectations of their own. That has
led to the formation of a Python typing council
to govern the type system for the language, though, as might be guessed,
there are still grumblings from various quarters.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/958337/

The new year arrived bearing a new version of Julia, a general-purpose, open-source
programming language
with a focus on high-performance
scientific computing.
Some of Julia’s unusual features are Lisp-inspired
metaprogramming, the ability to examine compiled representations of code in
the REPL or in a “reactive
notebook“, an advanced type and dispatch system, and a sophisticated,
built-in package manager.
Version 1.10 brings big increases in
speed and developer convenience,
especially improvements in code precompilation and loading times. It also
features a new parser written in Julia.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/958341/

The 6.6.12, 6.1.73, 5.15.147, 5.10.208, 5.4.267, and 4.19.305 stable kernels have been
released. They contain a relatively small number of important fixes.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/958315/

Security updates have been issued by CentOS (bind, cups, curl, firefox, ipa, iperf3, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, kernel, libssh2, linux-firmware, open-vm-tools, openssh, postgresql, python, python3, squid, thunderbird, tigervnc, and xorg-x11-server), Fedora (chromium, python-flask-security-too, and tkimg), Gentoo (libgit2, Opera, QPDF, and zlib), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable, gnutls, openssh, packages, and vlc), Oracle (.NET 6.0, fence-agents, frr, ipa, kernel, nss, pixman, and tomcat), and SUSE (gstreamer-plugins-bad).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/958162/

The Linux Mint distribution has announced the release of Linux Mint 21.3, which is codenamed “Virginia”. It has the Cinnamon 6.0 desktop, “comes with full support for SecureBoot and compatibility with a wider variety of BIOS and EFI implementation“, has added new features to the Hypnotix TV-viewer application, and more. See the release notes for even more information about it.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/958162/

The Linux Mint distribution has announced the release of Linux Mint 21.3, which is codenamed “Virginia”. It has the Cinnamon 6.0 desktop, “comes with full support for SecureBoot and compatibility with a wider variety of BIOS and EFI implementation“, has added new features to the Hypnotix TV-viewer application, and more. See the release notes for even more information about it.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/958124/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (kernel, linux-5.10, php-phpseclib, php-phpseclib3, and phpseclib), Fedora (openssh and tinyxml), Gentoo (FreeRDP and Prometheus SNMP Exporter), Mageia (packages), Red Hat (openssl), SUSE (gstreamer-plugins-rs and python-django-grappelli), and Ubuntu (dotnet6, dotnet7, dotnet8, openssh, and xerces-c).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/958029/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (chromium, python-paramiko, tigervnc, and xorg-x11-server), Oracle (ipa, libxml2, python-urllib3, python3, and squid), Red Hat (.NET 6.0, .NET 7.0, .NET 8.0, container-tools:4.0, fence-agents, frr, gnutls, idm:DL1, ipa, kernel, kernel-rt, libarchive, libxml2, nss, openssl, pixman, python-urllib3, python3, tigervnc, tomcat, and virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules), SUSE (gstreamer-plugins-bad), and Ubuntu (firefox, Go, linux-aws, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-iot, linux-oem-6.1, and twisted).