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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....

Cranelift code generation comes to Rust (lwn.net)

A new filesystem for pidfds [LWN.net] (lwn.net)

A modest update to Qubes OS (lwn.net)

Looking ahead to Emacs 30 (lwn.net)

Villa: Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL? (lwn.net)

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.

The early days of Linux (lwn.net)

The 6.7 kernel has been released (lwn.net)

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...

The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell, part 2 (lwn.net)

Part 1: lwn.net/SubscriberLink/955376/b3fba3bbfabbc411/

The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell, part 1 [LWN.net] (lwn.net)

Rust for Linux — in space (lwn.net)

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...