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Commits in the Git source-code management system are identified by the SHA-1 hash of their contents -- though the specific hash may change someday. The full hash is a 160-bit quantity, normally written as a 40-character hexadecimal string. While ...

Handling time in a networked environment is never easy. The Network Time Protocol (NTP) has been used to synchronize clocks across the internet for almost 40 years -- but, as computers and networks get faster, the degree of synchronization it offers ...

The CentOS Project has announced the general availability of CentOS Stream 10. See the release notes for information on new features, changes, and removed software. The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) 10 repository is also available, and ...

Version 1.32 (dubbed "Penelope") of Kubernetes has been released with 13 major features graduating to Stable status, 12 entering Beta, and 19 entering Alpha. If Kubernetes is Ancient Greek for "pilot", in this release we start from that origin and ...

The Python Package Index (PyPI) Blog has an analysis of the compromise of the ultralytics project, and what PyPI has learned from this event: PyPI staff and volunteers do their best to remove malware, but because the service is open to anyone looking ...

The release of the 4.19.325 stable kernel update on December 5 marked the end of an era of sorts. This kernel had been supported for just over six years since its initial release in October 2018; over that time, 325 updates were released, adding 30 ...

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 12, 2024 is available.

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 beta was released in mid-November and, if all goes according to plan, CentOS Stream 10 should be released before the end of the year. While nothing is etched in stone just yet, it is a good time for anyone using ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released version 6.6.65 of the kernel: This release only fixes a build regression for openrisc, and a runtime regression for domU guests. If you don't have problems with them, no need to upgrade.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (proftpd-dfsg and smarty3), Fedora (python3.14), Gentoo (Distrobox, eza, idna, libvirt, and OpenSC), Red Hat (container-tools:rhel8 and edk2), SUSE (avahi, curl, libsoup2, lxd, nodejs20, python-Django,