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TL;DR: Update immediately, especially if SSH is enabled. xz versions 5.6.0 & 5.6.1 are impacted. The article contains links to each distro’s specific instructions of what to do....

Luis Villa writes about the recent ruling in the Software Freedom Conservancy's GPL-violation lawsuit against Vizio, wherein the judge refused to agree that the SFC lacks standing to sue.

Some of the headline features in this release are: the removal of support for the Itanium architecture, the first part of the futex2 API, futex support in io_uring, the BPF exceptions mechanism, the bcachefs filesystem, the TCP authentication option, the kernel samepage merging smart scan mode, and networking support for the...

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The Rust for Linux (RFL) project may not have (yet) resulted in user-visible changes to the Linux kernel, but it seems the wider world has taken notice. Hongyu Li has announced that the Rust for Linux code is now part of a satellite just launched out of China. The satellite is running a system called RROS, which follows the old...

Security updates have been issued by Debian (gst-plugins-bad1.0 and postgresql-multicorn), Fedora (golang-github-nats-io,...

What is really needed, [Linus Torvalds] said, is to find ways to get away from the email patch model, which is not really working anymore. He feels that way now, even though he is “an old-school email person”.

By Jonathan Corbet October 23, 2023