New stable kernels

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 5.16.1, 5.15.15, 5.10.92, and 5.4.172 stable kernels. They contain a
relatively small set of important fixes; users should upgrade.

Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, ghostscript, libreswan, prosody, sphinxsearch, thunderbird, and uriparser), Fedora (cryptsetup, flatpak, kernel, mingw-uriparser, python-celery, python-kombu, and uriparser), Ma…

Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (cockpit, python-cvxopt, and vim), openSUSE (libmspack), Oracle (webkitgtk4), Scientific Linux (firefox and thunderbird), SUSE (kernel and libmspack), and Ubuntu (firefox and pill…

Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (epiphany-browser, lxml, and roundcube), Fedora (gegl04, mingw-harfbuzz, and mod_auth_mellon), openSUSE (openexr and python39-pip), Oracle (firefox and thunderbird), Red Hat (firefox and thunderbird), …

[$] Relocating Fedora’s RPM database

The deadlines
for various kinds of Fedora 36 change proposals have mostly passed at
this point, which led to something of a flurry of postings to the
distribution’s devel mailing list over the last month. One of those, for a seemingly fair…

[$] An outdated Python for openSUSE Leap

Enterprise distributions are famous for maintaining the same versions of
software throughout their, normally five-year-plus, support windows. But
many of the projects those distributions are based on have far shorter
support periods; part of wh…

Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (ghostscript and roundcube), Fedora (gegl04, mbedtls, and mediawiki), openSUSE (kubevirt, virt-api-container, virt-controller-container, virt-handler-container, virt-launcher-container, virt-operator-c…

Linux Mint 20.3 “Una” released

Linux Mint has announced its 20.3 (“Una”) release for three different desktop environments: the Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce editions. Mint 20.3 is a long-term support release, with support lasting until 2025. Each edition comes with a long li…

Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (sphinxsearch), Fedora (chromium and vim), Red Hat (rh-nodejs14-nodejs and rh-nodejs14-nodejs-nodemon), and Ubuntu (apache2 and webkit2gtk).

Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by Fedora (log4j and quaternion), Mageia (gnome-shell and singularity), SUSE (libsndfile, libvirt, net-snmp, and python-Babel), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.11, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.11, linux-…