jzb    Version . . of the Git source code management system has been released. There is a long list of incremental improvements and bug fixes; see the announcement and the highlights blog from GitHub for details.

corbet    We have just now received word of the passing of Paolo Mantegazza, the driving force behind the Real Time Application Interface project and a key figure in the development of realtime Linux. Paolo used to describe himself as a simple practitioner of software development, one of whose missions...

jzb    The death of Bram Moolenaar, Vim founder and benevolent dictator for life BDFL , in sent a shock through the community, and raised concern about the future of the project. At VimConf in November, current Vim maintainer Christian Brabandt delivered a keynote on the new Vim project that...

jzb    Automattic has announced that it is reallocating its resources away from contributing to the WordPress project as a response to the WP Engine lawsuit: As part of this reset, Automattic will match its volunteering pledge with those made by WP Engine and other players in the ecosystem, or...

daroc    After yesterday’s stable kernel releases, Chris Clayton reported a build problem with . ., which prompted Greg Kroah Hartman to release . . to fix it.

daroc    Security updates have been issued by Fedora chromium and mingw poppler , Red Hat dpdk, thunderbird, and webkit gtk, SUSE firefox, govulncheck vulndb, gstreamer, gstreamer plugins base, gstreamer plugins good, libmfx, openjpeg , python , python , python, tomcat, and webkit gtk, and...

corbet    Version . . of the Rust language has been released. Changes include improved version selection for dependencies in Cargo, the beginning of the migration to a new trait solver, and some updated pointer provenance APIs. Most of the time, programmers do not need to worry much about provenance,...

corbet    The Software Freedom Conservancy is reporting that AVM has released the full source and installation scripts for its routers in response to a lawsuit, filed by Sebastian Steck, based on Lesser GNU Public License rights. Historically, lawsuits have focused on the copyrights licensed under GPL ...

corbet    Attacks on the kernel can take many forms; one popular exploitation path is to find a way to overwrite some memory with attacker supplied data. If the right memory can be targeted, one well targeted stray write is all that is needed to take control of the system. Since the system’s page tables...

jake    The . . , . ., . . , . . , . . , and . . stable kernels have been released. As usual, they contain important fixes all over the kernel tree.

jake    Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux cups, kernel, and kernel rt , Debian chromium, firefox esr, and webkit gtk , Fedora curl, firefox, gimp, mupdf, openjpeg , and valkey , Red Hat ds base, cups, firefox, iperf , kernel, kernel rt, libreswan, python . urllib , thunderbird, and...

corbet    Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: What to expect in ; Sequoia; Emacs in Scheme; Pony; Homa; Timeline. Briefs: Colliding SHAs; netdev in ; Gentoo retrospective; LineageOS . ; pkgsrc Q ; RIP Steve Langasek; Firefox . ; Algol ;...

daroc    The Sequoia OpenPGP library has been in development for some time. LWN covered the library in . Now the project’s command line interface has been released. The sq tool offers a promising alternative to the venerable GNU Privacy Guard GPG tool albeit one with a different interface, set of...

jzb    The Tor Project has published a review of major milestones from , including merging with the Tails project, work to enable human friendly .onion addresses, and the launch of WebTunnel: By mimicking common internet protocols, WebTunnel improves the resilience of the Tor network in regions with...

jzb    The pkgsrc developers have announced the Q branch of the pkgsrc cross platform packaging system. It is the default package manager for NetBSD, SmartOS, and is available for Linux as well. This marks the th quarterly release of pkgsrc: Since the pkgsrc Q release, packages were...