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The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 17, 2024 is available.

Version 9.0 of the Forgejo software forge system has been released. Changes include a switch to the GPLv3 license, the beginning of a quota system, the removal of go-git support, and a lot of fixes. (LWN looked at Forgejo in February).

Rust, like C, has its own memory model describing how concurrent access to the same data by multiple threads can behave. The Linux kernel, however, has its own ideas. The Linux kernel memory model (LKMM) is subtly different from both the standard C ...

The pidfd mechanism, which uses file descriptors to refer to processes in an unambiguous and race-free way, was first introduced in 2018. Since then, the interface has gained a number of new features, but development has slowed over time as the ...

Version 4.0.0 of the LibreSSL TLS/cryptography stack has been released. Changes include a cleanup of the MD4 and MD5 implementations, removal of unused DSA methods, changes in libtls protocol parsing to ignore unsupported TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.0 ...

Paul McKenney gave a presentation at Kangrejos this year that wasn't (directly) related to Rust. Instead, he spoke about the work he has been doing in concert with many other contributors on improving the handling of subtle concurrency problems in C+

Version 1.4 of the Inkscape open-source vector-graphics editor has been released. Highlights of this release include a filter gallery, import for Affinity Designer files, internal links in exported PDFs, and more. See the release notes for all of the ...

It is too early to say what the outcome will be in the ongoing fight between Automattic and WP Engine, but the WordPress community at large is already the loser. Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg has been using his control of the project, and ...

While Debian's "sauce" is not actually all that secret, it is not particularly well-known either, Samuel Henrique said at the start of his DebConf24 talk. There is a lot of software-engineering effort that has been put in place by the distribution in ...

The 6.12-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. So the diffstat looks a bit odd, because one of the fixes here caused the UTF tables to be regenerated, and an effective one-liner change turned into 6703 lines of diff. But if you ignore that effect,