Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/961842/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (libgit2), Fedora (chromium, firecracker, libkrun, openssh, python-nikola, runc, rust-event-manager, rust-kvm-bindings, rust-kvm-ioctls, rust-linux-loader, rust-userfaultfd, rust-versionize, rust-vhost, rust-vhost-user-backend, rust-virtio-queue, rust-vm-memory, rust-vm-superio, rust-vmm-sys-util, virtiofsd, webkitgtk, and wireshark), Mageia (filezilla and xpdf), Oracle (gimp), Red Hat (libmaxminddb, linux-firmware, squid:4, and tcpdump), Slackware (xpdf), SUSE (cdi-apiserver-container, cdi-cloner-container, cdi- controller-container, cdi-importer-container, cdi-operator-container, cdi- uploadproxy-container, cdi-uploadserver-container, cont and suse-build-key), and Ubuntu (python-glance-store and webkit2gtk).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/961655/

Over on the Collabora blog, Helen Koike writes
about the DRM-CI project for running automated continuous integration (CI)
tests on multiple graphics devices in several different labs. It uses the
IGT GPU
tools for testing, though there are plans to expand:

The roadmap for DRM-CI includes enabling other devices, incorporating
additional tests like kselftests, adding support for vgem driver, and
implementing further automations. DRM-CI builds upon the groundwork laid by
Mesa3D CI,
including its GitLab YAML files and most of its setup, fostering
collaboration and mutual strengthening.

[…] Adapting the DRM-CI pipeline to other subsystems is feasible with a
few modifications. The primary consideration is setting up dedicated
GitLab-CI runners since Freedesktop’s infrastructure is meant only for
graphics.

In light of this, our team is developing a versatile and user-friendly
GitLab-CI pipeline. This new pipeline is envisioned to function as a
flexible interface for kernel maintainers and developers that can be
evolved to connect with different test environments that can also be hooked
with CI systems such as KernelCI. This approach aims to simplify the
integration process, making GitLab-CI more accessible and beneficial to a
broader range of developers.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/961003/

Gnuplot 6.0 was released in
December 2023, bringing a host of significant improvements and new
capabilities to the open-source graphing tool. Here we survey the major
new features, including
filled contours in 3D, adaptive plotting resolution, watchpoints, clipping
of surfaces, sector plots for making things like pie charts, and new
syntax for conditionals in gnuplot’s scripting language. In addition, there
are
detailed examples of the features described.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/961584/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (webkit2gtk), Fedora (atril, chromium, gnutls, python-aiohttp, and webkitgtk), Gentoo (libxml2), Mageia (gnutls, gpac, kernel, kernel-linus, microcode, pam, and postfix), Red Hat (container-tools:2.0, container-tools:3.0, container-tools:4.0, container-tools:rhel8, gimp, libmaxminddb, python-pillow, runc, and unbound), SUSE (cosign, netpbm, python, python-Pillow, python3, and python36), and Ubuntu (libde265, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, and linux-intel-iotg).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/961330/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Red Hat (gimp, kernel, kernel-rt, and runc), Slackware (expat), SUSE (libavif), and Ubuntu (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-nvidia, linux-oracle,
linux-oracle-5.15, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4,
linux-bluefield, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4,
linux-iot, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, and linux, linux-aws, 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).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/961196/

Go 1.22, the most recent version of the Go programming language, has been released. It comes with two language changes to for loops: a fix for a longstanding “gotcha” with accidentally sharing loop variables between iterations and adding the ability to range over integer values. There are also additions to the standard library, improved performance, and more. See the release notes for further information.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/960913/

What is IP fragmentation, why is it important, and do people understand
it? The answer to that last question is “not as well as they think”. This
article will also answer the rest of those
questions and introduce fragquiz, a game that I
wrote to allow players to guess how IP packets will behave when they are
too large for the network. As evidence that IP fragmentation is not
well-understood, a room full of networking experts played fragquiz and got
a score that was
nowhere close to perfect. In addition, I will describe a new algorithm for
fragmentation avoidance, which some colleagues and I
developed, that helped motivate development of fragquiz.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/961009/

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.7.4, 6.6.16,
and 6.1.77 stable kernels. As usual, they
contain important fixes all over the kernel tree.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/960952/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (rear, runc, sudo, and zbar), Fedora (chromium, grub2, libebml, mingw-python-pygments, and python-aiohttp), Gentoo (FreeType, GNAT Ada Suite, Microsoft Edge, NBD Tools, OpenSSL, QtGui, SDDM, Wireshark, and Xen), Mageia (dracut, glibc, nss and firefox, openssl, packages, perl, and thunderbird), Slackware (libxml2), SUSE (java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, perl, python-uamqp, slurm, and xerces-c), and Ubuntu (libssh and openssl).

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/960439/

The 6.7.3, 6.6.15, and 6.1.76 stable kernels have been released.
These contain a large number of important fixes throughout the tree, as is
the norm.

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/960436/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (debian-security-support, firefox-esr, openjdk-11, and python-asyncssh), Fedora (glibc, python-templated-dictionary, thunderbird, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Gentoo (Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and WebKitGTK+), Red Hat (firefox, gnutls, libssh, thunderbird, and tigervnc), SUSE (mbedtls, rear116, rear1172a, runc, squid, and tinyssh), and Ubuntu (glibc and runc).

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).