- new[$] FFI type mismatches in Rust for Linux
At Kangrejos, Gary Guo wanted to discuss three problems with the wayRust and C code in the kernel interact: mismatched types, too many type casts,and the overhead of helper functions. To fix the first two problems, Guo proposedchanging the way th…
- 16 hours ago 11 Oct 24, 1:56pm -
- newSecurity updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 6.0, .NET 8.0, and openssl), Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (firefox), Mageia (php, quictls, and vim), Red Hat (buildah, container-tools:rhel8, containernetworking-plugins, firefox, podman, skopeo, a…
- 17 hours ago 11 Oct 24, 1:07pm -
- Ubuntu 24.10 released
Version24.10 of the Ubuntu distribution is out. This release includes GNOME 47, Linux 6.11,security enhancements for managing Personal Package Archives (PPAs),experimental security controls for Snap packages, and more.
- 2 days ago 10 Oct 24, 4:46pm -
- [$] On Rust in enterprise kernels
At the recently concluded Maintainers Summit, it was generally agreed that the Rust experiment wouldcontinue, and that the path was clear for more Rust code to enter thekernel. But the high-level view taken at such gatherings cannot alwaysaccount…
- 2 days ago 10 Oct 24, 1:11pm -
- Updating Firefox is highly recommended
Mozilla has released Firefox versions 131.0.2, ESR 128.3.1, and ESR115.16.1. These updates address asevere, remotely exploitable code-execution vulnerability that isevidently already being exploited. Updating to a fixed release seems likea wise…
- 2 days ago 10 Oct 24, 12:54pm -
- New stable kernels released
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.11.3, 6.10.14, 6.6.55, and 6.6.56 stable kernels. The 6.6.56 releasefixes a problem with building perf in 6.6.55; "If you do not use theperf tool in the 6.6.y tree, there is no need to upgrade.…
- 2 days ago 10 Oct 24, 11:51am -
- Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (firefox, koji, unbound, webkit2gtk4.0, and xen), Red Hat (glibc, net-snmp, and tomcat), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (apache-commons-io, buildah, cups-filters, liboath-devel, libreoffice, l…
- 2 days ago 10 Oct 24, 11:37am -
- [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 10, 2024
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 10, 2024 is available.
- 2 days ago 10 Oct 24, 1:07am -
- [$] Improving bindgen for the kernel
Bindgen is a widely used tool that automatically generates Rust bindings from Cheaders. TheRust-for-Linux project uses it to create some ofthe bindings between Rust code and the rest of the kernel. John Baublitzpresented at Kangrejos about the…
- 3 days ago 9 Oct 24, 5:20pm -
- Julia v1.11.0 has been released
The Julia project hasreleased version 1.11.0. A separateblog post covers some of the highlights. The release includes a number of helpful features.In previous Julia versions, there was no "programmatic way" of knowing if an unexported name w…
- 3 days ago 9 Oct 24, 2:13pm -