Three stable kernel updates for Saturday
The 6.10.3, 6.6.44, and 6.1.103 stable kernel updates have all been released. As usual, they
contain important fixes throughout the tree. Users of those kernels
should upgrade. ⌘ Read more

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Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (chromium), SUSE (docker and patch), and Ubuntu (bind9, gross, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5, and tomcat8, tomcat9). ⌘ Read more

Sovereign Tech Fund introduces fellowship pilot program
The Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has announced
a fellowship program to support “the dedicated individuals who keep
our digital infrastructure running”:

Over the past two years, STF has successfully contracted over 40 FOSS
projects, enhancing their technical sustainability through targeted
milestones. However, the activities of maintainers, who often work on
multiple FOSS projects, are hard t … ⌘ Read more

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Mel Chua RIP
We have received the\
sad news that Dr. Mel Chua has passed away. Mel was probably best
known in the free-software community as a contributor to the Fedora
Project in its early days. The Fedora Community blog honored\
Mel recently after she had moved to hospice care with tributes
from several Fedorans. Stephen Jacobs wrote:

I can’t find the words to exp … ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (kernel, obs-cef, and xen), Mageia (emacs), Oracle (freeradius, freeradius:3.0, and kernel), Red Hat (emacs, httpd, and kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_120_1), Slackware (curl), SUSE (apache2, cockpit-wicked, glibc, gnutls, gvfs, less, nghttp2, opensc, python-idna, python-requests, qemu, rpm, tpm2-0-tss, tpm2.0-tools, and unbound), and Ubuntu (clickhouse, exim4, libcommons-collections3-java, linux, linux-aws, linux- … ⌘ Read more

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A deprecation timeline for older Arm CPUs
Arnd Bergmann has posted a\
detailed timeline for the deprecation of support for old Arm CPUs in
both the kernel and the compiler toolchain. Anybody who is working with
that hardware will likely want to review this list and let the relevant
developers know if any of that support is still needed. ⌘ Read more

Vanilla OS 2 “Orchid” released
Version 2.0 of the Vanilla OS image-based Linux distribution has
been released. Dubbed
“Orchid”, Vanilla OS is now based on Debian Sid (prior versions were Ubuntu-based),
allows creation\
of customized Linux environments, support for running Android
applicatio … ⌘ Read more

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Forgejo v8.0 released
Version 8.0 of the Forgejo
software-development platform has been released. Notable
changes include the removal
of non-free software found in the codebase, improved stability, and a
reduction
in “seemingly random User Interface changes”:

A gentle way of describing Forgejo User eXperience is that it is an
acquire … ⌘ Read more

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Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland), Red Hat (freeradius, freeradius:3.0, git-lfs, httpd, kernel, openssh, and varnish:6), SUSE (cdi-apiserver-container, cdi-cloner-container, cdi- controller-container, cdi-importer-container, cdi-operator-container, cdi- uploadproxy-container, cdi-uploadserver-container, cont, git, gtk2, gtk3, kubevirt, virt-api-container, virt-controller-container, virt-exportproxy-container, virt-exportserver-container, virt-handler-co … ⌘ Read more

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Funtoo Linux is being discontinued
Daniel Robbins, founder of the Gentoo Linux distribution and its
spinoff Funtoo Linux, has
announced
that he has decided to end the Funtoo project:

Funtoo started as a philosophy to create a fun
community of contributors building something great together. For me,
it’s no longer that so I need to move on to other things. There is not
a successor BDFL for Fu … ⌘ Read more

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Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (curl), Mageia (virtualbox), Oracle (squid), Red Hat (kernel), SUSE (apache2, bind, cdi-apiserver-container, cdi-cloner-container, cdi- controller-container, cdi-importer-container, cdi-operator-container, cdi- uploadproxy-container, cdi-uploadserver-container, devscripts, espeak-ng, freerdp, ghostscript, gnome-shell, gtk2, gtk3, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, kubevirt, libgit2, openssl-3, orc, p7zip, python-dnspython, and shadow), and **Ub … ⌘ Read more

Git 2.46.0 released
Version 2.46.0 of the Git
source-code management system has been released. This release seems to
consist of a long list of interface and performance improvements rather
than big new features; see the announcement for the details. ⌘ Read more

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Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (java-11-openjdk), Debian (bind9), Fedora (darkhttpd, mod_http2, and python-scrapy), Red Hat (python3.11, rhc-worker-script, and thunderbird), SUSE (assimp, gh, opera, python-Django, and python-nltk), and Ubuntu (edk2, linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.15, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-intel-iotg, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-nvidia, linux-oracle, linux-azu … ⌘ Read more

Kernel prepatch 6.11-rc1
Linus has released 6.11-rc1 and closed the
merge window for this development cycle. “The merge window felt pretty
normal, and the stats all look pretty normal too. I was expecting things to
be quieter because of summer vacations, but that (still) doesn’t actually
seem to have been the case.” ⌘ Read more

Stable kernel updates for Saturday
The
6.10.2,
6.9.12,
6.6.43,
6.1.102,
5.15.164,
5.10.223,
5.4.281, and
4.19.319
stable kernel updates have all been released; each contains a relatively
small set of important fixes, [at\
least one of which](https://lw … ⌘ Read more

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Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (linux-firmware and squid), Debian (bind9), Fedora (kubernetes, thunderbird, and tinyproxy), Oracle (containernetworking-plugins, cups, edk2, httpd, httpd:2.4, kernel, kernel-container, libreoffice, libuv, libvirt, python3, and runc), Red Hat (freeradius:3.0, httpd, and squid), and SUSE (giflib and python-dnspython). ⌘ Read more

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Rust 1.80.0 released
Version\
1.80.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include the new
LazyCell and LazyLock types (which delay data
initialization until the first access), the stabilization of the
exclusive-range syntax for match patterns, and more. ⌘ Read more

Three new stable kernels
The 6.9.11, 6.6.42, and 6.1.101 stable kernels have been released. As
usual, they contain important fixes throughout the tree. ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (containernetworking-plugins, cups, edk2, httpd, httpd:2.4, libreoffice, libuv, libvirt, python3, and runc), Fedora (exim, python-zipp, xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland, and xmedcon), Red Hat (cups, fence-agents, freeradius, freeradius:3.0, httpd:2.4, kernel, kernel-rt, nodejs:18, podman, and resource-agents), Slackware (htdig and libxml2), SUSE (exim), and Ubuntu (ocsinventory-server, php-cas, and poppler). ⌘ Read more

Linux Mint 22 “Wilma” released
Linux Mint has announced version 22 of
the distribution in three editions: Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce. Mint 22
is based on Ubuntu 24.04 and uses kernel version 6.8.0:

Linux Mint 22 is a long term support release which will be supported
until 2029. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and
many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.

LWN covered the
Linux Mint 22 beta in early July. See … ⌘ Read more

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Stable kernel update 6.10.1
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.10.1 stable kernel update. This release
contains a small number of seemingly urgent regression fixes. Users of
this kernel series are advised to upgrade. ⌘ Read more

OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 released
Updated installation images for the OpenMandriva ROME rolling release Linux distribution are now available. Notable features in the
24.07 snapshot include KDE Plasma 6 as the default desktop, the addition of Proton and Proton
experimental packages for playing Windows games on Linux, as well as
GNOME 46.3 and LXQt 2.0.0 spins. ⌘ Read more

OpenSSL announces new governance structure
OpenSSL has announced
that it has adopted a new governance framework:

The OpenSSL Management Committee (OMC) has been dissolved, and two
boards of directors have been elected for the Foundation and the Corporation. Each
organization has ten voting members. These boards share all the
responsibilities and authorities of the former OMC c … ⌘ Read more

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Let’s Encrypt plans to drop support for OCSP.
Let’s Encrypt has
announced
that it intends to end support “as soon as possible” for the
Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) over privacy concerns. OCSP was developed as a
lighter-weight alternative to
Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) that did not involve downloading
the entire CRL in or … ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (ghostscript and xmedcon), Gentoo (Dmidecode, ExifTool, and Freenet), Red Hat (containernetworking-plugins, cups, edk2, httpd, httpd:2.4, kernel, kernel-rt, krb5, libreoffice, libuv, libvirt, linux-firmware, nghttp2, nodejs, openssh, python3, runc, thunderbird, and tpm2-tss), Slackware (aaa_glibc, bind, and mozilla), SUSE (postgresql14, python-sentry-sdk, and shadow), and Ubuntu (activemq, bind9, haproxy, nova, provd, python-zipp, squid … ⌘ Read more

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Improvements to the PSF Grants program
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) board has announced
improvements to its grants program that have been enacted as a
response to “concerns and frustrations” with the program:

The PSF Board takes the open letter from the pan-African delegation
seriously, and we began to draft a plan to address everything in the
letter. … ⌘ Read more

Zuckerberg: Open Source AI Is the Path Forward
Mark Zuckerberg has posted\
an article announcing some new releases of the Llama large language
model and going on at length about why open-source models are important:

AI has more potential than any other modern technology to increase
human productivity, creativity, and quality of life – and to
accelerate economic growth while unlocking progress in medical and
scientific research. Open source will ensure … ⌘ Read more

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GNU C Library 2.40 released
Version 2.40 of the GNU C
Library has been released. Changes include partial support for the ISO C23
standard, a new tunable for the testing of setuid programs, improved 64-bit
Arm vector support, and a handful of security fixes. See the release notes
for details. ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (gtk3 and jpegxl), Red Hat (kpatch-patch and thunderbird), SUSE (apache2, git, gnome-shell, java-11-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, kernel, kernel-firmware, kernel-firmware-nvidia-gspx-G06, libgit2, mozilla-nss, nodejs20, python-Django, and python312), and Ubuntu (linux-aws, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-iot, linux-aws-5.15, pymongo, and ruby-rack). ⌘ Read more

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Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (botan2, chromium, ffmpeg, fluent-bit, gtk3, httpd, suricata, tcpreplay, and thunderbird), Mageia (apache, chromium-browser-stable, libfm & libfm-qt, and thunderbird), Oracle (firefox, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, kernel, libndp, qt5-qtbase, ruby, skopeo, thunderbird, and virt:ol and virt-devel:rhel), Red Hat (containernetworking-plugins, firefox, libndp, qt5-qtbase, and thunderbird), SUSE (caddy, chrom … ⌘ Read more