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Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc7

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Linus has released 6.18-rc7, probably the last -rc before the 6.18 release.

So the rc6 kernel wasn't great: we had a last-minute core VM regression that caused people problems.

That's not a great thing late in the release cycle like that, but it was a fairly trivial fix, and…

PHP 8.5.0 released

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Version 8.5.0 of the PHP language has been released. Changes include a new "|>" operator that, for some reason, makes these two lines equivalent:

    $result = strlen("Hello world");
    $result = "Hello world" |> strlen(...);

Other changes include a new function attribute, "#[\NoDiscard]" to indicate that the…

Security updates for Friday

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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (delve and golang), Debian (webkit2gtk), Oracle (expat and thunderbird), Red Hat (kernel), Slackware (openvpn), SUSE (chromium, grub2, and kernel), and Ubuntu (cups-filters, imagemagick, and libcupsfilters).

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