This
release on PostgreSQL.org describes an ongoing disagreement over the
PostgreSQL trademark:
In 2020, the PostgreSQL Core Team was made aware that an
organization had filed applications to register the ‘PostgreSQL’
and ‘PostgreSQL Commun…
[$] The rest of the 5.15 merge window
Linus Torvalds released 5.15-rc1 and closed
the merge window for
this release on September 12; at that point, 10,471 non-merge
changesets had found their way into the mainline repository. Those
changesets contain a lot of significant chan…
GDB 11.1 released
Version 11.1 of the GDB debugger is out. There are a number of new
features, and somebody will surely be disappointed to see that support for
debugging Arm Symbian programs has been removed.
Kernel prepatch 5.15-rc1
Linus has released 5.15-rc1 and closed the
merge window for this development cycle.
So 5.15 isn’t shaping up to be a particularly large release, at
least in number of commits. At only just over 10k non-merge
commits, this is in fact the sma…
Stable kernels for Sunday
The
5.14.3,
5.13.16,
5.10.64, and
5.4.145
stable kernel updates have been released; each contains another set of
important fixes.
[$] The folio pull-request pushback
When we last caught up with the page folio patch set, it appeared to be on
track to be pulled into the mainline during the 5.15 merge window. Matthew
Wilcox duly sent a pull
request in August to make that happen. While it is possible that
foli…
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, ghostscript, ntfs-3g, and postorius), Fedora (java-1.8.0-openjdk-aarch32, libtpms, and salt), openSUSE (libaom, libtpms, and openssl-1_0_0), Red Hat (openstack-neutron), SUSE (grilo, java…
Cro: Maintain it With Zig
This blog post by
Loris Cro makes the claim that the Zig
language is
the solution to a lot of low-level programming problems:
Freeing the art of systems programming from the grips of C/C++
cruft is the only way to push for real change in ou…
[$] Extended attributes for special files
The Linux extended-attribute mechanism allows the attachment of metadata to
files within a filesystem. It tends to be little used — at least, in the
absence of a security module like SELinux. There is interest in how these
attributes work, tho…
The Open Source Initiative’s new executive director
The Open Source Initiative has announced the
appointment of Stefano Maffulli as its executive director.
“‘Bringing Stefano Maffulli on board as OSI’s first Executive
Director is the culmination of a years-long march toward
professionalization, s…