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Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.12.11, 6.6.74, 6.1.127, and 5.15.177 stable kernels. They all contain important fixes, as is the usual case.

A "uretprobe" is a dynamic, user-space tracepoint injected by the kernel into a running process; this document tersely describes their use. Among other things, uretprobes are used by the perf utility to time function calls. The 6.11 kernel saw a significant change to uretprobes that improved their performance, but that change is also creating trouble for some users. The best way to solve the problem is not entirely clear.

GParted Live is a live distribution with a single purpose - to provide tools for partitioning hard disks in an intuitive, graphical environment. The distribution uses X.Org, the light-weight Fluxbox window manager, and the latest 4.x Linux kernel. GParted Live runs on most x86 machines with a Pentium II or better.

Version:6.12.11 (stable) Released:2025-01-23 Source:linux-6.12.11.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.11.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.11

Version:6.6.74 (longterm) Released:2025-01-23 Source:linux-6.6.74.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.74.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.74

Version:6.1.127 (longterm) Released:2025-01-23 Source:linux-6.1.127.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.1.127.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.127

Version:5.15.177 (longterm) Released:2025-01-23 Source:linux-5.15.177.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-5.15.177.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.15.177

One of the popular forum software NodeBB, is joining the fediverse. Starting with NodeBB v4.0.0, federation is a core feature.

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As of this writing, just over 4,300 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline repository for the 6.14 release. Many of the pull requests this time around include remarks saying that activity has been relatively low this time around, presumably due to the holidays. So those 4,300 changesets are probably closer to the merge-window halfway point than usual. Much of the work merged thus far looks more like incremental improvements than major new initiatives, but there still have been a number of interesting changes in the mix.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (redis:6), Debian (frr and git-lfs), Fedora (SDL2_sound and webkit2gtk4.0), Gentoo (firefox, GPL Ghostscript, libgsf, libuv, PHP, Qt, QtWebEngine, and Yubico pam-u2f), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable), SUSE (helmfile, nvidia-modprobe, qt6-webengine, ruby3.4-rubygem-actioncable-8.0-8.0.1-1.1, ruby3.4-rubygem-actionpack-8.0-8.0.1-1.1, ruby3.4-rubygem-actiontext-8.0-8.0.1-1.1, ruby3.4-rubygem-actionview-8.0-8.0.1-1.1, ruby3.4-rubygem-activejob-8.0-8.0.1-1.1, ruby3.4-rubygem-activerecord-8.0-8.0.1-1.1, ruby3.4-rubygem-activestorage-8.0-8.0.1-1.1, ruby3.4-rubygem-rails-8.0-8.0.1-1.1, and ruby3.4-rubygem-railties-8.0-8.0.1-1.1), and Ubuntu (bluez, openjpeg2, and python-django).

Vivaldi browser 7.1 introduces customizable widgets, tab imports, and speed dial improvements for a seamless browsing experience.

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Wine is an open-source and free application for Linux that allows users to run Windows-based software and games on Unix/Linux-like operating systems.

Recently, the Wine team proudly announced the stable release of version 10.0, which is now available for download as the source and binary packages for various distributions including Linux, Windows, and Mac.

This release reflects a year of hard work and over 8,600 changes, introducing several exciting improvements.

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Stratoshark is an innovative open-source tool that brings Wireshark’s detailed network visibility to the cloud, providing users with a standardized approach to cloud observability.

The post Stratoshark: Wireshark For The Cloud – Now Available! appeared first on Linux Today.

Learn the difference between monitor mode, managed mode, and packet injection, then learn how to enable monitor mode for your interface in Linux.

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The biggest change in the Archinstall 3.0.2 release is support for the Wayfire Wayland compositor and stacked window manager. When installing Arch Linux, Wayfire can be selected as a standalone environment from the Profile > Desktop section, but you’ll also be able to use it in other desktop environments, such as Xfce 4.20.

The post Arch Linux Installer Archinstall Gets Support for the Wayfire Wayland Compositor appeared first on Linux Today.

Integrating traffic management, policy enforcement, and role-based access control, Red Hat Connectivity Link is a new technology that’s aimed at simplifying how enterprises manage application connectivity across distributed cloud environments. The technology is based on the open-source Kuadrant project, which combines traffic routing, security controls, and policy management capabilities that organizations typically handle through separate tools.

The post Red Hat Unveils Kubernetes Connectivity Solution to Tame Multi-Cloud Choas appeared first on Linux Today.

Version:next-20250123 (linux-next) Released:2025-01-23

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Rsync vulnerability; Going mouseless; Commit IDs; 6.13 Development statistics; Python string formating; Python None-aware operators.
• Briefs: Kernel 6.13; Dillo 3.2.0; GDB 16.1; OpenVox; Wine 10.0; Quotes; ...
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

LibreELEC is "just enough OS" to run the Kodi media centre. LibreELEC is a Linux distribution built to run Kodi on current and popular hardware. The project is an evolution of the OpenELEC project. LibreELEC software will be familiar to OpenELEC users. The distribution runs on x86 desktop computers, Raspberry Pi devices and ODroid and WeTek computers.

January Steam Client Update: Adds game update controls, library tweaks, improved overlay notes, and Linux/macOS fixes.

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