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Version:6.13-rc7 (mainline) Released:2025-01-12 Source:linux-6.13-rc7.tar.gz Patch:full (incremental)

In this article, you’ll learn how to install and use MediaWiki on Ubuntu 24.04 with a step-by-step guide from installation to configuration.

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GnuPG is a superb tool though it’s a command line affair. If you’re looking for a GUI frontend, check out these tools

The post 5 Best Free and Open Source Frontends for GnuPG appeared first on Linux Today.

Version 2.48.0 of the Git source-code management system has been released. There is a long list of incremental improvements and bug fixes; see the announcement and the highlights blog from GitHub for details.

We have just now received word of the passing of Paolo Mantegazza, the driving force behind the Real Time Application Interface project and a key figure in the development of realtime Linux.

Paolo used to describe himself as a simple practitioner of software development, one of whose missions was to contribute a free real-time system his students could use, study and improve for their research work at the university, welcoming others to join. Many Linux users and businesses owe him a lot, because under his leadership, the RTAI project has always defended the freedom of developers to implement real-time systems, particularly at times when it was threatened. His fierce will for RTAI served the Xenomai project, as well as others.

He will be missed. (LWN interviewed Mantegazza in 2001).

The death of Bram Moolenaar, Vim founder and benevolent dictator for life (BDFL), in 2023 sent a shock through the community, and raised concern about the future of the project. At VimConf 2024 in November, current Vim maintainer Christian Brabandt delivered a keynote on "the new Vim project" that detailed how the community has reorganized itself to continue maintaining Vim and what the future looks like.

Automattic has announced that it is reallocating its resources away from contributing to the WordPress project as a response to the WP Engine lawsuit:

As part of this reset, Automattic will match its volunteering pledge with those made by WP Engine and other players in the ecosystem, or about 45 hours a week that qualify under the Five For the Future program as benefitting the entire community and not just a single company. These hours will likely go towards security and critical updates.

LWN last covered the ongoing WordPress saga in December. [Thanks to Paul Wise for the heads-up on this latest development.]

After yesterday's stable kernel releases, Chris Clayton reported a build problem with 6.6.70, which prompted Greg Kroah-Hartman to release 6.6.71 to fix it.

Security updates have been issued by Fedora (chromium and mingw-poppler), Red Hat (dpdk, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk3), SUSE (firefox, govulncheck-vulndb, gstreamer, gstreamer-plugins-base, gstreamer-plugins-good, libmfx, openjpeg2, python310, python312, python39, tomcat, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (golang-golang-x-net).

Version:6.6.71 (longterm) Released:2025-01-10 Source:linux-6.6.71.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.71.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.71

Version:next-20250110 (linux-next) Released:2025-01-10

Version 1.84.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include improved version selection for dependencies in Cargo, the beginning of the migration to a new trait solver, and some updated pointer-provenance APIs.

Most of the time, programmers do not need to worry much about provenance, and it is very clear how a pointer got derived. However, when casting pointers to integers and back, the provenance of the resulting pointer is underspecified. With this release, Rust is adding a set of APIs that can in many cases replace the use of integer-pointer-casts, and therefore avoid the ambiguities inherent to such casts. In particular, the pattern of using the lowest bits of an aligned pointer to store extra information can now be implemented without ever casting a pointer to an integer or back. This makes the code easier to reason about, easier to analyze for the compiler, and also benefits tools like Miri and architectures like CHERI that aim to detect and diagnose pointer misuse.

Kloxo is a powerful web hosting control panel that allows you to manage your server, websites, email accounts, databases, and more. It’s a popular choice among server administrators because it’s easy to use and provides a lot of features without the complexity of other control panels.

Kloxo 8 is the latest version, and it’s designed to work with a variety of Linux distributions, including RHEL 9. It has a web-based interface that lets you manage all aspects of your server from a single dashboard.

The post How to Setup Kloxo Web Hosting Control Panel in Linux appeared first on Linux Today.

Are you looking for a mini-computer that combines retro charm with modern technology? Meet Pilet, a new open-source, modular mini-computer powered by the Raspberry Pi 5.

The post Pilet: An Opensource, Modular, Portable Mini-Computer Powered by Raspberry Pi appeared first on Linux Today.

The Software Freedom Conservancy is reporting that AVM has released the full source and installation scripts for its routers in response to a lawsuit, filed by Sebastian Steck, based on Lesser GNU Public License rights.

Historically, lawsuits have focused on the copyrights licensed under GPL (or the GPL and LGPL together). Steck's lawsuit uniquely focused exclusively on users' rights under the LGPL. Steck's work showed that despite being a "Lesser" license than GPL, LGPLv2.1 still guarantees users the right to repair, modify and reinstall modified versions of the software on their device. There is now no doubt that both GPL and LGPL mandate the device owner's ability to make changes to the software in the flash memory so those changes persist across reboots.

Attacks on the kernel can take many forms; one popular exploitation path is to find a way to overwrite some memory with attacker-supplied data. If the right memory can be targeted, one well-targeted stray write is all that is needed to take control of the system. Since the system's page tables regulate access to memory, they are an attractive target for this type of attack. This patch set from Kevin Brodsky is an attempt to protect page tables (and, eventually, other data structures) using the "memory protection keys" feature provided by a number of CPU architectures.

Sara is an open-source tool designed to analyze RouterOS configurations and identify security vulnerabilities on MikroTik hardware. Sara’s main feature is using regular expressions as the primary analysis mechanism. This allows you to quickly and accurately process RouterOS configuration text files, making the tool powerful and easy to use.

The post Sara: Open-source RouterOS Security Inspector appeared first on Linux Today.

The 6.12.9, 6.6.70, 6.1.124, 5.15.176, 5.10.233, and 5.4.289 stable kernels have been released. As usual, they contain important fixes all over the kernel tree.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cups, kernel, and kernel-rt), Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, and webkit2gtk), Fedora (curl, firefox, gimp, mupdf, openjpeg2, and valkey), Red Hat (389-ds-base, cups, firefox, iperf3, kernel, kernel-rt, libreswan, python3.11-urllib3, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk3), Slackware (firefox, seamonkey, and thunderbird), SUSE (apptainer, firefox-esr, libopenjp2-7, libruby3_4-3_4, openjpeg2, and tomcat10), and Ubuntu (firefox, linux-azure, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8, linux-azure, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-azure-5.15, python2.7, thunderbird, and xfpt).

In today’s fast-paced world, developers are constantly looking for ways to improve their productivity and streamline their workflows. With the rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), developers now have a wide range of AI-powered tools at their disposal to make their coding experience faster, easier, and more efficient.

These tools can automate repetitive tasks, help write cleaner code, detect bugs early, and even assist in learning new programming languages.

In this blog post, we’ll dive deep into some of the best AI tools available for developers. We’ll explore their key features, how they can help boost productivity, and why they are worth considering for your development process.

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