BlogFlockVersion 2.49.0 of the Git source-code management system has been released. This release comprises 460 non-merge commits since 2.48.0, with contributions from 89 people, including 24 new contributors. There is a long list of improvements and bug fixes; see the highlights blog from GitHub's Taylor Blau for some of the…
A Short History of Now
Doc Searls Weblog21 posts last monthSo there must be something to it. Watch how often people interrupt each other by saying the word "So," and then launching into whatever they would rather have said. Or start out a speech with "So." The first speaker I heard do that was Larry Lessig, one of…
[$] The burden of knowledge: dealing with open-source risks
LWN.net95 posts last monthOrganizations relying on open-source software have a wide range of tools, scorecards, and methodologies to try to assess security, legal, and other risks inherent in their so-called supply chain. However, Max Mehl argued recently in a short talk at FOSS Backstage in Berlin (and online) that all of this objective…
Security updates for Friday
LWN.net95 posts last monthSecurity updates have been issued by Fedora (iniparser, thunderbird, trafficserver, and xorg-x11-server), Mageia (opensc), Oracle (.NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, gcc, kernel, and libxml2), Red Hat (firefox, grub2, and krb5), Slackware (libxslt), SUSE (amazon-ssm-agent, bsdtar, build, ffmpeg-4, forgejo-runner, kernel, python, python3, python313, rubygem-rack-1_6, and tailscale), and Ubuntu (linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde, linux-azure-fde-5.15).
Tonight’s Lunar Eclipse
Doc Searls Weblog21 posts last monthRight now, for those on Earth who see it when they look up, the Moon is as full as it can get without moving into the shadow of the Earth . Which it will. Shortly. Here is where Earth’s shadow is right now, as I write this, at around 10…
Choi: announcing Casual Make
LWN.net95 posts last monthCharles Choi has announced the release of the Casual Make: a menu-driven interface, implemented as part of the Casual suite of tools, for Makefile Mode in GNU Emacs.
Emacs supports makefile editing with make-mode which has a mix of useful and half-baked (though thankfully obsoleted in 30.1) commands. It…
[$] Warming up to frozen pages for networking
LWN.net95 posts last monthWhen the 6.14 kernel is released later this month, it will include the
usual set of internal changes that users should never notice, with the
possible exception of changes that bring performance improvements. One of
those changes is frozen pages, a memory-management optimization that should fly mostly under the…
Seven new stable kernels
LWN.net95 posts last monthSecurity updates for Thursday
LWN.net95 posts last monthSecurity updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (ffmpeg, qt6-qtwebengine, tigervnc, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Red Hat (fence-agents and libxml2), SUSE (amazon-ssm-agent, ark, chromium, fake-gcs-server, gerbera, google-guest-agent, google-osconfig-agent, grafana, kernel, libtinyxml2-10, podman, python311, python312, restic, ruby3.4-rubygem-rack, and thunderbird), and Ubuntu (jinja2, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-lts-xenial, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, netatalk, python3.5, python3.8, rar,…
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 13, 2025
LWN.net95 posts last monthInside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:
- Front: PyPI terms of service; Zig 0.14; Matrix; Timer IDs and ABI; Module integrity checking; Capability analysis.
- Briefs: Path traversal; Below vulnerability; Ubuntu 25.04; Flang; Gstreamer 1.26.0; Framework Mono 6.14.0; Quotes; ...
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