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Security updates have been issued by Debian (node-tar, postgresql-11, postgresql-13, and postgresql-9.6), Fedora (autotrace, botan2, chafa, converseen, digikam, dmtx-utils, dvdauthor, eom, kxstitch, pfstools, php-pecl-imagick, psiconv, q, R-magi…

On November 10, the Go programming language community celebrated the 12th anniversary of its release as open-source software. The post covers a number of different topics, including the consolidation of web sites at go.dev, releases and their f…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (icinga2, libxstream-java, ruby-kaminari, and salt), Fedora (awscli, cacti, cacti-spine, python-boto3, python-botocore, radeontop, and rust), Mageia (firefox, libesmtp, libzapojit, sssd, and thunderbir…

Python supports default values for arguments to functions, but those
defaults are evaluated at function-definition time. A proposal to add
defaults that are evaluated when the function is called has been discussed
at some length on the python-i…

The Julia programming language has
its roots in high-performance scientific computing, so it is no surprise
that it has facilities for concurrent processing. Those features are not
well-known outside of the Julia community, though, so it is inte…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (containerd, redis, and sqlalchemy), Fedora (kernel, radeontop, rpki-client, and webkit2gtk3), openSUSE (java-1_8_0-openj9, libvirt, mailman, transfig, and webkit2gtk3), Oracle (thunderbird), SUSE (lib…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (python3.5, redis, and udisks2), Fedora (rust), openSUSE (binutils, java-1_8_0-openj9, and qemu), Oracle (firefox and httpd), Red Hat (thunderbird), Scientific Linux (thunderbird), and SUSE (binutils, …

Over at the SAMBA+ blog, the performance of the new ksmbd kernel SMB server and Samba in user space are compared:

ksmbd claims performance improvements on a wide range of benchmarks: the graphs on this page show a doubling of performance on som…

Security updates have been issued by Fedora (ansible, chromium, kernel, mupdf, python-PyMuPDF, rust, and zathura-pdf-mupdf), openSUSE (qemu and webkit2gtk3), Red Hat (firefox and kpatch-patch), Scientific Linux (firefox), SUSE (qemu, tomcat, and…

A new security vulnerability that was disclosed
on November 1 has some interesting properties. “Trojan Source”, as it has been
dubbed, is effectively an attack on human perceptions, especially as they
are filtered through the tools used fo…