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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,

The Linux kernel has many tunable parameters. While there is much advice available on the internet about how to set them, few people have the time to weed through the (often contradictory) explanations and choose appropriate values. One possible way ...

Systemd 257 has been released. As usual, the list of changes is long; it includes support for multipath TCP in socket units, the ability to run processes as init in their own PID namespace, a new tool for signing EFI binaries for secure boot, and a ...

Fedora Project Leader (FPL) Matthew Miller writes that he will soon be hanging up the FPL hat: Stay tuned for a job posting from Red Hat, and details about all that. I'm hoping we can hire someone awesome early in 2025, and make the official handover ...

In a session at Open Source Summit Europe (OSSEU) back in September, Alex Bucknall gave an overview of a camera "trap"--a device to capture images in a non-intrusive way--that he helped develop which is being used to monitor seagrass. He works for ...

Version 1.0.0 of the GNU Shepherd service manager has been released after a mere 21 years of development. This 1.0.0 release is published today because we think Shepherd has become a solid tool, meeting user experience standards one has come to ...

When the Fedora Engineering Steering Council (FESCo) is up for election, the project posts interviews of the candidates in order to help Fedora contributors make an informed choice. This year, the candidates are Zbigniew Jdrzejewski-Szmek, Tomáš

In 2019, the Python community had a lengthy discussion about changing the rules (that some find counterintuitive) on using break, continue, or return statements in finally blocks. These are all ways of jumping out of a finally block, which can ...

The OpenWrt project has issued an advisory regarding a vulnerability found in its Attended Sysupgrade Server that could allow compromised packages to be installed on a router by an attacker. No official OpenWrt images were affected, and the ...