corbet

The Kernel Maintainers Summit is an invitation-only gathering of top-level
kernel subsystem maintainers; it is concerned mostly with process-oriented
issues that are not easily worked out on the mailing lists. There was no
maintainers summit in…

The third 5.15 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. “So after a somewhat rocky merge window and second rc,
things are now actually looking pretty normal for rc3. Knock wood”.

The
5.14.8,
5.10.69,
5.4.149,
4.19.208,
4.14.248,
4.9.284, and
4.4.285
stable kernels have all been released; each contains another set of
important fixes.

The 2021 election for the Linux Foundation’s Technical Advisory board
resulted in all five incumbent members (Greg Kroah-Hartman, Jonathan
Corbet, Steven Rostedt, Ted Ts’o, and Sasha Levin) being re-elected. Of the
1,012 developers authorized to…

It has often been said that the competition between the GCC and LLVM
compilers is good for both of them. One place where that competition
shows up is in the area of security features; if one compiler adds a way to
harden programs, the other is…

Here’s a
lengthy missive from Lennart Poettering taking Linux distributors to
task for inadequately protecting systems from physical attacks.

So, does the scheme so far implemented by generic Linux
distributions protect us against the latter…

For the second year in a row, the GNU Tools Cauldron (the annual gathering
of GNU toolchain developers) has been held as a dedicated track at the
online Linux Plumbers
Conference. For the 2021 event, that track started with a talk by
David Malc…

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 23, 2021 is available.

Craig Kerstiens highlights
some of the “little things” featured in the upcoming PostgreSQL 14
release.

And now in PostgreSQL 14 there is this seemingly small update,
pipeline mode, which, according to the docs, allows applications to
s…

The Google security blog provides
an overview of what is being done to address memory-safety problems in
the Chrome browser.

In parallel, we’ll be exploring whether we can use a memory safe
language for parts of Chrome in the future. The lea…