BlogFlockLoris Cro has published a detailed YouTube video talking about the terminology used to discuss asynchronicity, concurrency, and parallelism in our recent article about Zig's new Io interface. Our article is not completely clear because it uses the term "asynchronous I/O" to refer to what should really be called…
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 4, 2025
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Home Assistant 2025.12 released
Version
2025.12 of the Home Assistant home-automation system has been released.
This month, we're unveiling Home Assistant Labs, a brand-new space where you can preview features before they go mainstream. And what better way to kick it off than with Winter mode? ❄️ Enable it and watch snowflakes drift across…
Django 6.0 released
The Django Python web
framework project has announced
the release of Django 6.0 including many new features, as can be seen in
the release
notes. Some highlights include template partials for modularizing
templates, a flexible task framework for running background tasks, a
modernized email API, and a Content Security…
[$] Just: a command runner
Over time, many Linux users wind up with a collection of aliases, shell scripts, and makefiles to run simple commands (or a series of commands) that are often used, but challenging to remember and annoying to type out at length. The just command runner is a Rust-based utility that just…
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Sometimes stupidity takes teamwork
I spent much of the last two days in lengthy correspondence with ChatGPT, and conversation with three different AppleCare agents, figuring out what caused my monitor (a 27" LG 5K Ultrafine) to blink off and on every minute or so. The culprits were the original and…
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (containerd, mako, and xen), Fedora (forgejo, nextcloud, openbao, rclone, restic, and tigervnc), Oracle (firefox, kernel, libtiff, libxml2, and postgresql), SUSE (libecpg6, lightdm-kde-greeter, python-cbor2, python-mistralclient-doc, python315, and python39), and Ubuntu (kdeconnect, linux, linux-aws, linux-realtime, python-django, and unbound).
A final stable kernel update for 5.4
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 5.4.302 stable kernel:
This is the LAST 5.4.y release. It is now end-of-life and should not be used by anyone, anymore. As of this point in time, there are 1539 documented unfixed CVEs for this kernel branch, and that number will only…
Let's Encrypt to reduce certificate lifetimes
Let's Encrypt has announced that it will be reducing the validity period of its certificates from 90 days to 45 days by 2028:
Most users of Let's Encrypt who automatically issue certificates will not have to make any changes. However, you should verify that your automation is compatible with certificates…
FreeBSD 15.0 released
FreeBSD 15.0 has been released. Notable changes in this release include a new method for installing the base system using the pkg package manager, an update to OpenZFS 2.4.0-rc4, native support for the inotify(2) interface, and the addition of Open Container Initiative (OCI) images to FreeBSD's release artifacts.…