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There are many mechanisms for deferred work in the Linux kernel. One of them, workqueues, has seen increasing use as part of the move away from software interrupts. Alison Chaiken gave a talk at SCALE about how they compare to software interrupts, the new challenges they pose for system administrators, and what tools are available to kernel developers wishing to diagnose problems with workqueues as they become increasingly prevalent.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (expat), Oracle (less and nodejs:20), Slackware (libarchive), SUSE (kubernetes1.23, nghttp2, qt6-base, and util-linux), and Ubuntu (python-django).

Version:next-20240409 (linux-next) Released:2024-04-09

After more than seven years of development, Canonical’s Netplan utility for easily configuring networking on a Linux system has finally matured with version 1.0, a major release introducing exciting new features.

The post Canonical Announces Netplan 1.0 with Simultaneous WPA2 and WPA3 Support appeared first on Linux Today.

Wine 9.6 brings advanced AVX support, Direct2D effects, RSA OAEP padding in BCrypt, and bug fixes. Here’s more on that!

The post Wine 9.6 Introduce Advanced AVX and More Direct2D Enhancements appeared first on Linux Today.

FFmpeg 7.0 ‘Dijkstra’ is a major release with experimental VVC decoding, IAMF support, a multithreaded CLI tool, and more.

The post FFmpeg 7.0 Brings Experimental VVC Decoder & IAMF Support appeared first on Linux Today.

Version 4.2.0 of the Rivendell radio automation system has been released. Changes include a new data feed for 'next' data objects, improvements to its podcast system, numerous bug fixes, and more.

Until last November’s release of AlmaLinux 9.3, you wouldn’t see AlmaLinux issuing a security patch to fix any hole that remains unpatched in RHEL, just as you would be unlikely to see Rocky Linux — another RHEL clone — issuing a patch for its distro until after Red Hat had fixed the same vulnerability in RHEL.

The post In a First, AlmaLinux Patches a Security Hole That Remains Unpatched in Upstream RHEL appeared first on Linux Today.

After a vibrant five-year journey enhancing ARM device support, EndeavourOS ARM concludes, thanking its lead devs. Here’s more on that!

The post EndeavourOS Bids Farewell to ARM Branch appeared first on Linux Today.

If you’ve ever wondered why some Linux users are experiencing issues with an NVIDIA GPU on Wayland and you aren’t, KDE developer Xaver Hugl explains in a recent post why the explicit sync protocol will finally settle the score for everyone.

The post Developer Explains Why Explicit Sync Will Finally Solve the NVIDIA/Wayland Issues appeared first on Linux Today.

PiVPN’s journey concludes with v4.6.0. The last update brings bug fixes, refactors, and the addition of Pi-hole in unattended installs.

The post PiVPN Releases Final Version and Announces Project Shutdown appeared first on Linux Today.

The Google Open Source Blog is carrying an announcement for a new JPEG library called "Jpegli". There are a number of advantages claimed, including:

Jpegli can be encoded with 10+ bits per component. Traditional JPEG coding solutions offer only 8 bit per component dynamics causing visible banding artifacts in slow gradients. Jpegli's 10+ bits coding happens in the original 8-bit formalism and the resulting images are fully interoperable with 8-bit viewers. 10+ bit dynamics are available as an API extension and application code changes are needed to benefit from it.

The library is BSD-licensed.

Sometimes the smallest patches create the biggest discussions. A case in point would be the process by which the PostgreSQL community — not a group normally prone to extended, strongly worded megathreads — resolved the question of whether to merge a brief patch adding a new configuration parameter. Sometimes, a proposal that looks like a security patch is not, in fact, intended to be a security patch, but getting that point across can be difficult.

Version 2.4.0 of the GNU Stow symbolic-link manager has been released. This marks the first release for GNU Stow since 2019. Maintainer Adam Spires wrote:

I would like to sincerely apologise to all Stow users for this incredibly overdue release, the cadence of which is perhaps vaguely reminiscent of releases by the great Donald Knuth, except with none of the grace and deliberate planning.

Spires notes that this release "makes considerable efforts to make the internals more understandable and easy to maintain", and has put out a call for a co-maintainer.

Schleswig-Holstein Government agencies to adopt Linux and LibreOffice to move away from vendor lock-in.

The post 30,000 German Government PCs to Switch to LibreOffice appeared first on Linux Today.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (jetty9, libcaca, libgd2, tomcat9, and util-linux), Fedora (chromium, micropython, and upx), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable, dav1d, libreswan, libvirt, nodejs, texlive-20220321, and util-linux), Red Hat (less, nodejs:20, and varnish), Slackware (tigervnc), and SUSE (buildah, c-ares, cdi-apiserver-container, cdi-cloner-container, cdi- controller-container, cdi-importer-container, cdi-operator-container, cdi- uploadproxy-container, cdi-uploadserver-container, cont, curl, expat, go1.21, go1.22, guava, helm, indent, krb5, kubevirt, virt-api-container, virt-controller-container, virt-exportproxy-container, virt-exportserver-container, virt-handler-container, virt-launcher-container, virt-libguestfs-t, libcares2, libvirt, ncurses, nghttp2, podman, postfix, python-Django, python-Pillow, python310, qemu, rubygem-rack, thunderbird, ucode-intel, and xen).

The 6.9-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing.

Ok, so this rc3 looks a bit different than the usual ones, because there's a large series to bcachefs to do filesystem repair after corruption. Not normally something we'd see in an rc kernel, but hey, if you had a corrupted bcachefs filesystem you'd probably want this, and if you thought bcachefs was stable already, I have a bridge to sell you. Special deal only for you, real cheap.

Peppermint Mini’s latest ISO updates enhance setup with direct firmware integration and a unified installer theme. Here’s more on that!

The post Peppermint Mini ISOs Get a Major Update appeared first on Linux Today.

Kodi’s latest update, 21.0′ Omega,’ brings many improvements, including HiDPI support, speech recognition, DXVA Video Super Resolution, and more.

The post Kodi 21.0 ‘Omega’ Rolls Out, Here’s What’s New appeared first on Linux Today.

Version:next-20240408 (linux-next) Released:2024-04-08