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Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, python-html-sanitizer, and trafficserver), Fedora (nginx, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-mod-vts, python-webob, python3-docs, python3.11, python3.12, python3 ...

The 6.11-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. "Other than the timing, there's not a whole lot unusual here. The diffstat looks fairly flat, which means 'mostly pretty small changes'." Linus Torvalds added a note that today marks the 33rd ...

On the second day of DebConf24 in Busan, South Korea, Holger Levsen provided a history lesson on the "first 11 years" of the Reproducible Builds project. He has been involved in the project for most of that time and has been a Debian user since the ...

The Forgejo project has announced that, starting from version 9.0, Forgejo will be released under the GPLv3 license (or a later version). Older versions of the software forge remain MIT-licensed. A copyleft license makes reusing other copyleft ...

Version 24.8 of the LibreOffice office suite has been released. Changes include the ability to filter identifying information from exported files, easier creation of cross reference, better control over hyphenation, a number of new spreadsheet ...

On July 30, Al Viro sent a patch set to the linux-fsdevel mailing list with a comprehensive cover letter explaining his recent work on ensuring that the kernel's internal representation of file descriptors are used correctly in the kernel. File ...

Matthew Garrett describes the role of the Secure Boot Advanced Targeting mechanism and how it played into the recent Windows upgrade problems. So why is this suddenly relevant? SBAT was developed collaboratively between the Linux community and ...

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Ars Technica covers a recent update that is causing problems for users with systems that dual-boot Windows and Linux. "Note that Windows says this update won't apply to systems that dual-boot Windows and Linux," one frustrated person wrote. "This ...

Gentoo developer Micha Górny has written a lengthy blog post that explains how Gentoo approaches releases: Gentoo is something of a hybrid, as it combines the best of both worlds. It is a rolling release distribution with a single shared repository ...