Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (erofs-utils, htmltest, indent, libeconf, netconsd, php-phpmailer6, tinyexr, and vim), Red Hat (firefox), and Ubuntu (linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.15, linux-azure, linux-azure-fde-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-raspi, linux-oem-6.1, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, shiro, and sox).
Four stable kernel releases
The
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,
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, and
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stable kernels have been released; each contains another set of important
fixes.
[$] The first half of the 6.6 merge window
As of this writing, 4,588 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the
mainline repository for the 6.6 kernel release. The 6.6 merge window, in
other words, is just getting started. Nonetheless, a fair amount of
significant work has already been pulled, so the time has come to summarize
what has happened so far in this development cycle.
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, json-c, opendmarc, and otrs2), Red Hat (java-1.8.0-ibm and kpatch-patch), Scientific Linux (kernel), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (haproxy, php7, vim, and xen), and Ubuntu (elfutils, frr, and linux-gcp, linux-starfive).
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 31, 2023
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 31, 2023 is available.
[$] Mastering Emacs
A series of rabbit holes, some of which led to unshaved
yaks,
recently landed me on a book called https://www.masteringemacs.org/book
.
Given that I have been using Emacs "professionally" for more than 16
years—and first looked into it a good ways into the previous century—I
should probably be pretty well-versed in that editor-cum-operating-system.
Sadly, for a variety of reasons, that is not really true, but the book and
some concerted effort have been helping me down a path toward Emacs-ian
enlightenment. Mastering Emacs may also help others who are
struggling in the frothy sea that makes up Emacs documentation.
Seven stable kernels
The
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,
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,
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,
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, and
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stable kernels have been released; each contains another set of important
fixes.
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (qpdf, ring, and tryton-server), Fedora (mingw-qt5-qtbase and moby-engine), Red Hat (cups, kernel, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, librsvg2, and virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel), and Ubuntu (amd64-microcode, firefox, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-gkeop,
linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency,
linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-nvidia, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.15, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-kvm,
linux-oracle, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-6.2, linux-azure, linux-hwe-6.2, linux-ibm,
linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2, linux-raspi, linux-bluefield, linux-ibm, linux-oem-6.1, and openjdk-lts, openjdk-17).
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (tiff), Fedora (curl), Red Hat (bind, ghostscript, iperf3, java-1.8.0-ibm, nodejs, nodejs:18, openssh, postgresql:15, and samba), Scientific Linux (iperf3), Slackware (mozilla and seamonkey), SUSE (compat-openssl098, gnuplot, guava, openssl-1_0_0, pipewire, python-requests, qemu, samba, and xmltooling), and Ubuntu (librsvg, openjdk-8, openjdk-lts, openjdk-17, openssh, rabbitmq-server, and webkit2gtk).