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Kernel prepatch 6.17-rc3

4시간 57분 지남
Linus has released 6.17-rc3 (called "3.17-rc3" in the email, but the tag in the repository is correct) for testing. "Anyway, things seem fairly normal for this phase in the release cycle, nothing stands out. Please keep testing,"
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Stable kernel 6.16.3

일, 2025/08/24 - 3:26오전
The 6.16.3 stable kernel update has been released. It contains a set of ext4 filesystem fixes that are probably a good thing for any 6.16 ext4 user to have.
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FFmpeg 8.0 released

토, 2025/08/23 - 6:01오전
Version 8.0 of the FFmpeg audio and video toolkit has been released.

Thanks to several delays, and modernization of our entire infrastructure, this release ended up being one of our largest releases to date. In short, its new features are:

  • Native decoders: APV, ProRes RAW, RealVideo 6.0, Sanyo LD-ADPCM, G.728
  • VVC decoder improvements: IBC, ACT, Palette Mode
  • Vulkan compute-based codecs: FFv1 (encode and decode), ProRes RAW (decode only)
  • Hardware accelerated decoding: Vulkan VP9, VAAPI VVC, OpenHarmony H264/5
  • Hardware accelerated encoding: Vulkan AV1, OpenHarmony H264/5
  • Formats: MCC, G.728, Whip, APV
  • Filters: colordetect, pad_cuda, scale_d3d11, Whisper, and others
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[$] The "impossibly small" Microdot web framework

금, 2025/08/22 - 11:22오후
The Microdot web framework is quite small, as its name would imply; it supports both standard CPython and MicroPython, so it can be used on systems ranging from internet-of-things (IoT) devices all the way up to large, cloudy servers. It was developed by Miguel Grinberg, who gave a presentation about it at EuroPython 2025. His name may sound familiar from his well-known Flask Mega-Tutorial, which has introduced many to the Flask lightweight Python-based web framework. It should come as no surprise, then, that Microdot is inspired by its rather larger cousin, so Flask enthusiasts will find much to like in Microdot—and will come up to speed quickly should their needs turn toward smaller systems.
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Security updates for Friday

금, 2025/08/22 - 10:03오후
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (tomcat), Debian (squid), Fedora (matrix-synapse, rust-slab, socat, and webkitgtk), SUSE (firefox-esr, gdk-pixbuf, gdk-pixbuf-devel, govulncheck-vulndb, rust-keylime, and wicked2nm), and Ubuntu (linux-nvidia, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8, php7.0, php7.2, php7.4, python3.13, python3.12, python3.11, python3.10, python3.9, python3.8, python3.7, python3.6, python3.5, python3.4, and ruby-webrick).
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Arch Linux recent service outages

금, 2025/08/22 - 12:23오후

The Arch Linux project has posted an update about recent service outages that have affected its infrastructure:

The Arch Linux Project is currently experiencing an ongoing denial of service attack that primarily impacts our main webpage, the Arch User Repository (AUR), and the Forums.

We are aware of the problems that this creates for our end users and will continue to actively work with our hosting provider to mitigate the attack. We are also evaluating DDoS protection providers while carefully considering factors including cost, security, and ethical standards.

The post contains information on workarounds to use during the service disruption, and notes that Arch is not sharing technical details about the attack or mitigation while the attack is still ongoing.

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[$] Bringing restartable sequences out of the niche

금, 2025/08/22 - 1:12오전
The restartable sequences feature, which was added to the 4.18 kernel in 2018, exists to enable better performance in certain types of threaded applications. While there are users for restartable sequences, they tend to be relatively specialized code; this is not a tool that most application developers reach for. Over time, though, the use of restartable sequences has grown, and it looks to grow further as the feature is tied to new capabilities provided by the kernel. As restartable sequences become less of a niche feature, though, some problems have turned up; fixing one of them may involve an ABI change visible in user space.
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Security updates for Thursday

목, 2025/08/21 - 10:56오후
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (libarchive, mingw-sqlite, pki-deps:10.6, and tomcat), Debian (chromium and firefox-esr), Fedora (python3.6 and suricata), Oracle (go-toolset:rhel8, kernel, libarchive, mingw-sqlite, tomcat, and xterm), Red Hat (kernel), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (aws-efs-utils, docker-machine-driver-kvm2, nova, pluto, polaris, and python310), and Ubuntu (ceph, gcc-10, gcc-11, gcc-12, linux-aws-6.8, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.8, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-6.8, linux-hwe-6.14, linux-oem-6.14, linux-ibm, linux-intel-iotg, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux-iot, poppler, and tiff).
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 21, 2025

목, 2025/08/21 - 12:01오후
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

  • Front: Debian; CPython; huge zero folio; kexec handover; FHS; Koka programming language
  • Briefs: PyPI domain checks; Firefox 142.0; Git v2.51; Ghostty; LibreOffice 25.8; Zig 0.15.1; Quotes; ...
  • Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
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Zig version 0.15.1

목, 2025/08/21 - 5:58오전

The Zig project has announced version 0.15.1 of the language. The release, much like the last one, includes incremental progress toward the goal of completely dropping LLVM and improving compile time, as well as a handful of breaking changes as the language team wrestles with past API design. The biggest change this time around is to the standard library Reader and Writer interfaces, which have been completely rearranged in the name of performance and reducing unneeded copies.

All existing std.io readers and writers are deprecated in favor of the newly provided std.Io.Reader and std.Io.Writer which are non-generic and have the buffer above the vtable - in other words the buffer is in the interface, not the implementation. This means that although Reader and Writer are no longer generic, they are still transparent to optimization; all of the interface functions have a concrete hot path operating on the buffer, and only make vtable calls when the buffer is full.

These changes are extremely breaking. I am sorry for that, but I have carefully examined the situation and acquired confidence that this is the direction that Zig needs to go. I hope you will strap in your seatbelt and come along for the ride; it will be worth it.

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Adding stubble to Ubuntu's generic Arm64 Desktop ISOs

목, 2025/08/21 - 3:46오전

Tobias Heider has written an article that explains changes that are coming for Ubuntu's generic Arm64 desktop ISO images in the 25.10 release. The current solution, Heider says, depends on GRUB features that are unavailable in secure boot mode and require adding device-specific logic to multiple packages. The new solution, called stubble, is derived from systemd-stub:

A bundled stubble image contains stubble itself, a Linux kernel, a HWID lookup table to map devices to device trees and multiple device trees. When grub loads this "kernel", stubble executes first, reads the SMBIOS table to generate HWIDs, looks for a match in the embeeded lookup table and loads a matching device tree before passing control to the actual Linux kernel.

The elegance in this approach lies in how it interacts with the rest of the system. Integrating stubble happens entirely at build time in the kernel package. The stubble package is a build dependency for the kernel. After building the kernel itself, we bundle it with stubble and our DTBs and ship the combined binary instead. The resulting stubble + kernel + dtb bundle can be loaded by grub like any other Ubuntu kernel. No further changes in grub or other packages are necessary to make it work.

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Three stable kernels for Wednesday

목, 2025/08/21 - 2:59오전

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.16.2, 6.15.11, and 6.12.43 stable kernels. He notes that this is the last release in the 6.15.y series, and recommends that users move to the 6.16.y kernel branch at this time.

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[$] Python, tail calls, and performance

수, 2025/08/20 - 11:45오후
Ken Jin welcomed EuroPython 2025 attendees to his talk entitled "Building a new tail-calling interpreter for Python", but noted that the title really should be: "Measuring the performance of compilers and interpreters is really hard". Jin's efforts to switch the CPython interpreter to use tail calls, which can be optimized as regular jumps, initially seemed to produce an almost miraculous performance improvement. As his modified title suggests, the actual improvement was rather smaller; there is still some performance improvement and there are other benefits from the change.
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LibreOffice 25.8 released

수, 2025/08/20 - 11:33오후

Version 25.8 of the LibreOffice open-source office suite has been released. Notable changes include several new functions in the Calc spreadsheet application, ability to export to the PDF 2.0 format, better PowerPoint font compatibility with Impress, and significant performance improvements. For a full list of changes, see the release notes on the Document Foundation wiki.

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[$] Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie

수, 2025/08/20 - 10:34오후

After more than two years of development, the Debian Project has released its new stable version, Debian 13 ("trixie"). The release comes with the usual bounty of upgraded packages and more than 14,000 new packages; it also debuts Advanced Package Tool (APT) 3.0 as the default package manager and makes 64-bit RISC-V a supported architecture. There are few surprises with trixie, which is exactly what many Linux users are hoping for—a free operating system that just works as expected.

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Security updates for Wednesday

수, 2025/08/20 - 10:16오후
Security updates have been issued by Debian (webkit2gtk), Fedora (firefox and libarchive), Red Hat (python3.11-setuptools and python3.12-setuptools), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (apache2-mod_security2, cairo-devel, cflow, docker, glibc, go1.25, govulncheck-vulndb, gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base, jq, kernel, libarchive, libssh, libxslt, openbao, python-urllib3, systemd, and xz), and Ubuntu (apache2, libssh, libxml2, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-intel-iot-realtime, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-nvidia-tegra, linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15, linux-nvidia-tegra-igx, linux-oracle-5.15, linux-realtime, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-bluefield, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, linux, linux-aws, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-realtime, linux-aws-fips, linux-fips, linux-gcp-fips, linux-fips, linux-aws-fips, linux-gcp-fips, linux-ibm-6.8, tomcat10, and webkit2gtk).
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Preventing domain-resurrection attacks (PyPI blog)

수, 2025/08/20 - 5:33오전

The Python Package Index (PyPI) has announced that it is now checking for expired domains to try to prevent domain-resurrection attacks. In this type of attack, a malicious user buys an expired domain and uses it to take over an account by resetting the password associated with the email used with PyPI. Since June, PyPI has unverified more than 1,800 email addresses after their associated domains entered expiration phases.

After an initial bulk check period that took place in April 2025, PyPI will check daily for any domains in use for status changes, and update its internal database with the most recent status.

If a domain registration enters the redemption period, that's an indicator to PyPI that the previously verified email destinations may not be trusted, and will un-verify a previously-verified email address. PyPI will not issue a password reset request to addresses that have become unverified.

PyPI recommends that users add a second verified email address "from another notable domain (e.g. Gmail)" to their account, if they do not have one already.

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Firefox 142.0 released

수, 2025/08/20 - 2:10오전
Version 142.0 of the firefox browser has been released. Changes include a new link preview feature (with optional "AI-generated key points"), and a "flexible exception list" for the strict tracking protection feature that allows relaxing specific protections on sites that otherwise will not work properly.
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[$] The Koka programming language

화, 2025/08/19 - 11:25오후

Statically typed programming languages can help catch mismatches between the kinds of values a program is intended to manipulate, and the values it actually manipulates. While there have been many bytes spent on discussions of whether this is worth the effort, some programming language designers believe that the type checking in current languages does not go far enough. Koka, an experimental functional programming language, extends its type system with an effect system that tracks the side-effects a program will have in the course of producing a value.

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Security updates for Tuesday

화, 2025/08/19 - 10:15오후
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (golang, openjpeg2, toolbox, and xterm), Debian (libxslt, mbedtls, openjdk-17, and webkit2gtk), Fedora (apptainer, mingw-gstreamer1, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-base, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-good, rust-h2, and uv), Oracle (golang, kernel, and openjpeg2), Red Hat (kernel and xterm), SUSE (389-ds, cairo, container-suseconnect, kernel, lua51-luajit, postgresql13, and trivy), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-6.14, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.14, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.14, linux-raspi, linux-realtime and openldap).
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