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While it is often relatively straightforward to determine what package
provided a binary that is misbehaving—crashing for instance—on Fedora and
other Linux distributions, there are situations where it may be harder to
do so. A feature recently…

Version 3.4 of The Yocto Project has been released. Yocto provides a system for building embedded Linux distributions. This release comes with “Linux kernel 5.14, glibc 2.34 and ~280 other recipe upgrades”, support for building and cross-compi…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (bind9, gpsd, jbig2dec, libdatetime-timezone-perl, tzdata, webkit2gtk, and wpewebkit), Fedora (flatpak, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, and php), SUSE (qemu), and Ubuntu (bind9).

Software Freedom Conservancy has had several exemptions granted that it requested to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by the US Library of Congress for activities of interest to free-software developers:

Software Freedom Conservancy …

Security updates have been issued by openSUSE (salt), Slackware (bind), SUSE (salt), and Ubuntu (php5, php7.0, php7.2, php7.4, php8.0).

The oss-security
mailing list is specifically set up for reports and discussion of security flaws in
open-source software after their embargo, if any, has expired. But the
response to a recent
report
of the fix for a security flaw in the Linux …

Uniquely identifying users so that they can be tracked as they go about
their business on the internet is, sadly, a major goal for advertisers and
others today. Web browser cookies provide a fairly well-known avenue
for tracking users as they t…

Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (apache, chromium, nodejs, nodejs-lts-erbium, nodejs-lts-fermium, and virtualbox), Fedora (vsftpd and watchdog), Oracle (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, and redis:6), and Ubuntu (libcaca, linu…

The Rust language project has announced the release of stable version 1.56.0 and the Rust 2021 edition.

We wrote about plans for the Rust 2021 Edition in May. Editions are a mechanism for opt-in changes that may otherwise pose backwards c…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-babel, squashfs-tools, and uwsgi), Fedora (gfbgraph and rust-coreos-installer), Mageia (aom, libslirp, redis, and vim), openSUSE (fetchmail, go1.16, go1.17, mbedtls, ncurses, python, squid, and…