[$] A farewell to LWN

Back at the beginning of 2020, it was predicted that retirements would increase
during this decade. In 2021, the prediction
was that retirements would increase over the next couple of years. It is
happening and LWN is no exception. I am retiri…

Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by Fedora (libopenmpt), openSUSE (icu.691, log4j, nim, postgresql10, and xorg-x11-server), Red Hat (idm:DL1), SUSE (gettext-runtime, icu.691, runc, storm, storm-kit, and xorg-x11-server), and Ubuntu (xorg-server…

Stable kernel updates

Stable kernels 5.15.8, 5.10.85, 5.4.165, 4.19.221, 4.14.258, 4.9.293, and 4.4.295 have been released. As usual there
are important fixes and users should upgrade.

Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (libsamplerate and raptor2), Fedora (pam-u2f and python-markdown2), openSUSE (chromium, fetchmail, ImageMagick, and postgresql10), Oracle (samba), SUSE (fetchmail, postgresql10, python-pip, python3, an…

Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (chromium, firefox, gitlab, grafana, grafana-agent, thunderbird, and vivaldi), Debian (apache-log4j2, privoxy, and wireshark), Fedora (firefox, grub2, mariadb, mod_auth_openidc, rust-drg, rust-tiny…

Stable kernels for all

Stable kernels 5.15.7, 5.10.84, 5.4.164, 4.19.220, 4.14.257, 4.9.292, and 4.4.294 have been released. They all contain
important fixes and users of those series should upgrade.

Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (nss), Fedora (rubygem-rmagick), openSUSE (xen), Red Hat (firefox and nss), SUSE (kernel and xen), and Ubuntu (mailman and nss).

Firefox 95.0 and Firefox ESR 91.4.0

Firefox 95.0 is now
available. With this version the RLBox
sandboxing technology is enabled on all platforms, as is the Site
Isolation security architecture, which protects against side-channel
attacks.

Firefox ESR
91.4.0 is also available wit…

Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by CentOS (nss), Debian (roundcube and runc), openSUSE (aaa_base, brotli, clamav, glib-networking, gmp, go1.16, hiredis, kernel, mozilla-nss, nodejs12, nodejs14, openexr, openssh, php7, python-Babel, ruby2.5, sp…

Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (isync, lib32-nss, nss, opera, and vivaldi), Debian (gerbv and xen), Fedora (autotrace, chafa, converseen, digikam, dmtx-utils, dvdauthor, eom, kxstitch, libsndfile, nss, pfstools, php-pecl-imagick…