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The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 6, 2022 is available.

The
5.15.13,
5.10.90,
5.4.170,
4.19.224,
4.14.261,
4.9.296, and
4.4.298
stable kernel updates have all been released. These medium-size updates
all contain another set of important fixes.

Security updates have been issued by CentOS (xorg-x11-server), Debian (apache2), openSUSE (libvirt), Oracle (grafana, qemu, and xorg-x11-server), Red Hat (idm:DL1, samba, and telnet), SUSE (libvirt), and Ubuntu (python-django).

The Gentoo Linux project looks back at
2021.

The number of commits to the main ::gentoo repository has once more
clearly grown in 2021, from 104507 to 126920, i.e., by 21%. While
the number of commits by external contributors, 11775, has r…

Version 1.22.0 of the NumPy scientific computing module is out.
“NumPy 1.22.0 is a big release featuring the work of 153
contributors spread over 609 pull requests. There have been many
improvements”. Those improvements include the “essentially…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (salt and thunderbird), Red Hat (xorg-x11-server), and Scientific Linux (xorg-x11-server).

It is 2022 already, and that can only mean one thing: it’s time for your
editor to make a (bigger) fool of himself by posting a set of
predictions for what may come in the new year. One should never pass up an
opportunity for a humbling experie…

Longtime GnuPG maintainer Werner Koch has posted an update on the project,
mostly focused on the new associated “GnuPG VS-Desktop” business that is,
it seems, going quite well:

For many years our work was mainly financed by donations and sma…

The GIMP project has put out a
report summarizing a year of development on this image-manipulation
application.

With 4 development versions released already, you know that we are
working very hard on the future: GIMP 3.0.

Some features too…

Kernel developer Ingo Molnar has been quiet for a while; now we know why.
He has just announced a massive
set of patches (touching over half of the files in the kernel tree)
reworking how header files are handled.

The fast-headers tree offers…