Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/965032/
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libuv1, nss, squid, tar, tiff, and wordpress), Fedora (chromium, exercism, grub2, qpdf, and wpa_supplicant), Oracle (edk2 and opencryptoki), and SUSE (cpio, openssl-1_0_0, openssl-1_1, openssl-3, sudo, tomcat, and xen).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/964075/
While programmers are used to having tools to check their code for
stylistic problems, writers often limit automatic checks of their texts to
spelling and, sometimes, grammar, because there are not a lot of options
for further checking. If that is the case, Vale, an
open-source, command-line tool to enforce editorial-style guidelines, would
make a
useful addition to their toolbox. The recent release of
Vale 3.0
warrants a look at this versatile tool, which assists writers by
identifying common errors and helping them maintain a consistent voice in their
prose.
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/964725/
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and yard), Fedora (cpp-jwt, golang-github-tdewolff-argp, golang-github-tdewolff-minify, golang-github-tdewolff-parse, and suricata), Mageia (wpa_supplicant), Oracle (curl, edk2, golang, haproxy, keylime, mysql, openssh, and rear), Red Hat (kernel and postgresql:12), SUSE (containerd, giflib, go1.21, gstreamer-plugins-bad, java-1_8_0-openjdk, python3, python311, python39, sudo, and vim), and Ubuntu (frr, linux, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-iot,
linux-kvm, linux-raspi, and linux, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.5, linux-laptop, linux-lowlatency,
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5, linux-oem-6.5, linux-oracle, linux-raspi,
linux-starfive, linux-starfive-6.5).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/964376/
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr and thunderbird), Fedora (dotnet6.0, dotnet8.0, and mod_auth_openidc), Gentoo (Blender, Tox, and UltraJSON), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (edk2), SUSE (sendmail and zabbix), and Ubuntu (nodejs and thunderbird).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/961682/
One of the outcomes of the (extremely) lengthy discussion about using
Common Lisp features in Emacs Lisp (Elisp), which we looked at back in November, was an effort to
start removing some of those uses from Emacs. The rewrite of some of the
Elisp in Emacs that uses the Common Lisp library (cl-lib) was started by
Richard Stallman as a way to reduce the cognitive load needed for
maintaining Emacs itself. Since then, he has broadened his efforts to
simplify Elisp by adding a new pattern-matching
conditional that would be a competitor to pcase,
which is a longstanding macro that he finds overly complex.
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/964090/
Over on the Collabora blog, Faith Ekstrand has announced that the NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA devices will be part of Mesa 24.1 and is ready for real-world use. It should be appearing in Linux distributions later this year.
Back in october, I announced that NVK had reached Vulkan 1.0 conformance on Turing hardware. As of today NVK is now a conformant Vulkan 1.3 implementation on Turing (RTX 2000 and GTX 1600 series), Ampere (RTX 3000 series), and Ada (RTX 4000 series) GPUs. Not only have we jumped forward three Vulkan versions, but the new test runs were done with the GSP firmware enabled and includes Ampere and Ada GPUs. Also, unlike the initial 1.0 run, there are no hacks this time. Every test we passed in those conformance test runs also passes on upstream Mesa.
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/964039/
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (moodle), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, and postgresql:15), Slackware (wpa_supplicant), SUSE (Java and rear27a), and Ubuntu (libcpanel-json-xs-perl, libuv1, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5, linux-oem-6.5, python-openstackclient, and unbound).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/963037/
At FOSDEM 2024,
the “Tool
the docs” devroom hosted several talks about free and open-source tools
for writing, managing, testing, and rendering documentation. The central
concept was to treat documentation as code, which makes it possible to
incorporate various tools into documentation workflows in order to maintain
high
quality.
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/963352/
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, imagemagick, and iwd), Fedora (chromium, firefox, and pdns-recursor), Mageia (nodejs and yarnpkg), Red Hat (firefox, postgresql, and postgresql:15), and SUSE (bind, mozilla-nss, openssh, php-composer2, python-pycryptodome, python-uamqp, python310, and tiff).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/963205/
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (python-pillow), Debian (firefox-esr and imagemagick), Fedora (kernel, mbedtls, rust-asyncgit, rust-bat, rust-cargo-c, rust-eza, rust-git-absorb, rust-git-delta, rust-git2, rust-gitui, rust-libgit2-sys, rust-lsd, rust-pore, rust-pretty-git-prompt, rust-shadow-rs, rust-silver, rust-tokei, and rust-vergen), Gentoo (LibreOffice), Red Hat (kpatch-patch), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (docker, python-pycryptodome, python3, and qemu), and Ubuntu (firefox and linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-bluefield, linux-gcp, linux-gkeop,
linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-iot, linux-kvm,
linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4,
linux-xilinx-zynqmp).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/962588/
Sudo is a ubiquitous tool for running
commands
with the privileges of another user on Unix-like operating systems. Over
the past decade or so,
some alternatives have
been developed; the base system of OpenBSD now comes with doas instead, sudo-rs is a subset of
sudo reimplemented in Rust, and, somewhat surprisingly, Microsoft also
recently announced
its own Sudo for Windows. Each of these offers a different approach to the
task of providing limited privileges to unprivileged users.
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/962753/
Security updates have been issued by Debian (engrampa, openvswitch, pdns-recursor, and runc), Fedora (caddy, expat, freerdp, libgit2, libgit2_1.6, mbedtls, python-cryptography, qt5-qtbase, and sudo), Gentoo (Apache Log4j, Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, CUPS, e2fsprogs, Exim, firefox, Glade, GNU Tar, intel-microcode, libcaca, QtNetwork, QtWebEngine, Samba, Seamonkey, TACACS+, Thunar, and thunderbird), Mageia (dnsmasq, unbound, and vim), Oracle (container-tools:4.0, container-tools:ol8, dotnet6.0, dotnet7.0, kernel, nss, openssh, and sudo), Red Hat (python-pillow), and SUSE (bitcoin, dpdk, libssh, openvswitch, postgresql12, and postgresql13).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/962556/
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.7.5, 6.6.17,
and 6.1.78 stable kernels. As is the norm,
they contain important fixes throughout the kernel tree. So far, there are no
new CVEs reported on
the linux-cve-announce mailing list, which means that the new kernel CVE numbering authority (CNA)
powers have not yet been used.
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/962506/
Security updates have been issued by Mageia (bind), Red Hat (.NET 8.0 and kpatch-patch), SUSE (golang-github-prometheus-alertmanager, java-1_8_0-openj9, kernel, libaom, openssl-3, postgresql15, salt, SUSE Manager Client Tools, SUSE Manager Server 4.3, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (shadow).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/961842/
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libgit2), Fedora (chromium, firecracker, libkrun, openssh, python-nikola, runc, rust-event-manager, rust-kvm-bindings, rust-kvm-ioctls, rust-linux-loader, rust-userfaultfd, rust-versionize, rust-vhost, rust-vhost-user-backend, rust-virtio-queue, rust-vm-memory, rust-vm-superio, rust-vmm-sys-util, virtiofsd, webkitgtk, and wireshark), Mageia (filezilla and xpdf), Oracle (gimp), Red Hat (libmaxminddb, linux-firmware, squid:4, and tcpdump), Slackware (xpdf), SUSE (cdi-apiserver-container, cdi-cloner-container, cdi- controller-container, cdi-importer-container, cdi-operator-container, cdi- uploadproxy-container, cdi-uploadserver-container, cont and suse-build-key), and Ubuntu (python-glance-store and webkit2gtk).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/961655/
Over on the Collabora blog, Helen Koike writes
about the DRM-CI project for running automated continuous integration (CI)
tests on multiple graphics devices in several different labs. It uses the
IGT GPU
tools for testing, though there are plans to expand:
The roadmap for DRM-CI includes enabling other devices, incorporating
additional tests like kselftests, adding support for vgem driver, and
implementing further automations. DRM-CI builds upon the groundwork laid by
Mesa3D CI,
including its GitLab YAML files and most of its setup, fostering
collaboration and mutual strengthening.[…] Adapting the DRM-CI pipeline to other subsystems is feasible with a
few modifications. The primary consideration is setting up dedicated
GitLab-CI runners since Freedesktop’s infrastructure is meant only for
graphics.In light of this, our team is developing a versatile and user-friendly
GitLab-CI pipeline. This new pipeline is envisioned to function as a
flexible interface for kernel maintainers and developers that can be
evolved to connect with different test environments that can also be hooked
with CI systems such as KernelCI. This approach aims to simplify the
integration process, making GitLab-CI more accessible and beneficial to a
broader range of developers.
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/961003/
Gnuplot 6.0 was released in
December 2023, bringing a host of significant improvements and new
capabilities to the open-source graphing tool. Here we survey the major
new features, including
filled contours in 3D, adaptive plotting resolution, watchpoints, clipping
of surfaces, sector plots for making things like pie charts, and new
syntax for conditionals in gnuplot’s scripting language. In addition, there
are
detailed examples of the features described.
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/961584/
Security updates have been issued by Debian (webkit2gtk), Fedora (atril, chromium, gnutls, python-aiohttp, and webkitgtk), Gentoo (libxml2), Mageia (gnutls, gpac, kernel, kernel-linus, microcode, pam, and postfix), Red Hat (container-tools:2.0, container-tools:3.0, container-tools:4.0, container-tools:rhel8, gimp, libmaxminddb, python-pillow, runc, and unbound), SUSE (cosign, netpbm, python, python-Pillow, python3, and python36), and Ubuntu (libde265, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, and linux-intel-iotg).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/961330/
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Red Hat (gimp, kernel, kernel-rt, and runc), Slackware (expat), SUSE (libavif), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke,
linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.15, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15,
linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-nvidia, linux-oracle,
linux-oracle-5.15, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4,
linux-bluefield, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4,
linux-iot, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, and linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-6.5, linux-laptop,
linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5, linux-oem-6.5, linux-oracle,
linux-raspi, linux-starfive).
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