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Security updates have been issued by Debian (ruby-kaminari and tomcat8), Mageia (389-ds-base, ansible, apache, apr, cpio, curl, firefox, ghostscript, gifsicle, gpac, libarchive, libgd, libssh, lynx, nextcloud-client, openssl, postgresql, proftpd…

Over at the Guix-HPC blog, Ludovic Courtès writes about trying to package the PyTorch machine-learning library for the Guix distribution. Building from source in a user-verifiable manner is part of the philosophy behind Guix, but there were a n…

A few weeks ago, Matthew Wilcox might have guessed that his session
at the 2021 Linux
Plumbers Conference would be focused rather differently. But, as we reported earlier in September, his folio patch set ran into some, perhaps
unexpected, oppo…

Middleboxes are,
unfortunately in many ways, a big part of today’s internet. While middleboxes
inhabit the same physical niche as routers, they are not aimed at packet forwarding;
instead they are meant to monitor and manipulate the packets tha…

Security updates have been issued by CentOS (firefox and thunderbird), Fedora (haproxy, wordpress, and xen), openSUSE (apache2-mod_auth_openidc, fail2ban, ghostscript, haserl, libcroco, nextcloud, and wireshark), Oracle (kernel and kernel-contai…

Four new stable kernels, 5.14.5, 5.13.18, 5.10.66, and 5.4.147, have been released.

This, and the other stable kernels released today, consist of only some
reverts to solve some reported problems with the last round of stable
releases. Upgradi…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (sssd), Fedora (libtpms and vim), openSUSE (kernel and php7-pear), Oracle (kernel), Slackware (curl), and Ubuntu (libgcrypt20 and squashfs-tools).

Back in January 2020, we looked at some
oddities in Python’s handling of Not a Number (NaN) values in
its statistics
module. The conversation went quiet after that, but it has been
revived recently with an eye toward fixing the problems that we…

The Roundup Issue Tracker
is a flexible tool for managing issues via the web or
email. However, Roundup is useful for more than
web-based bug tracking or help-desk ticketing; it can be used as a simple
wiki or to manage tasks
with the Getting T…

The Linux Foundation has announced that Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) has become an international standard (ISO/IEC 5962:2021). SPDX has been used in the kernel and other projects to identify the licenses and attach other metadata to …