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Security updates have been issued by Fedora (libssh), Mageia (firefox), Slackware (httpd), SUSE (xen), and Ubuntu (firefox and mysql-5.7).

Stable kernels 5.14.10 and 4.4.287 have been released. 5.14.10 is a
standard stable release, with fixes throughout the kernel tree, while
4.4.287 is fixing a build problem: “You only need this release if you
are building for ARM64 and had build…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr), Mageia (cockpit, fail2ban, libcryptopp, libss7, nodejs, opendmarc, and weechat), openSUSE (curl, ffmpeg, git, glibc, go1.16, libcryptopp, and nodejs8), SUSE (apache2, curl, ffmpeg, git, …

Sasha Levin, one of the maintainers of the stable kernels, gave a
presentation at
Open
Source Summit North America 2021 on a proposal for a different way to
handle the stable tree. He noted that throughout most of the kernel’s history,
version…

Two Google engineers came to Open
Source Summit North America 2021 to talk about a project to change the
way the company creates and maintains the kernel it runs in its data
centers on its production
systems. Andrew Delgadillo and Dylan Hatch de…

Julia is an open-source programming
language and ecosystem for high-performance scientific computing; its
development team has made the first release candidate for version 1.7
available for testing on Linux, BSD, macOS, and Windows. Back in…

Paul McKenney has started a blog series on Rust for the Linux kernel. He has posted six of a planned 11 articles, though several are labeled as “under construction”.

This series focuses mostly on use cases and opportunities, rather than on any…

A controversy about the handling of the Time Zone Database (tzdb) has
been brewing since May, but has come to a head in recent weeks.
Changes that were proposed to simplify the main database file have some
consequences in terms of time-zone hi…

The GNU Core Utilities (coreutils) has announced the release of version 9.0 of “the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities” used by the GNU operating system and various Linux distributions. In the year and a half or so since the…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (mupdf), Fedora (ghostscript, gifsicle, and ntfs-3g), openSUSE (kernel and nodejs14), and SUSE (curl, ffmpeg, gd, hivex, kernel, nodejs14, python-reportlab, sqlite3, and xen).