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Ente introduces self-hosting via Docker, offering a secure, open-source photo backup alternative to Google Photos with end-to-end encryption.

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OpenSSL 3.3 has been released today as a major update to this powerful, open-source, cross-platform, and free software library that provides secure communications over computer networks for applications and websites.

The post OpenSSL 3.3 Released With Support for QLog for Tracing QUIC Connections appeared first on Linux Today.

Canonical, the maker of Ubuntu, announced the launch of Ubuntu Pro for Devices, bringing security and long-term compliance to IoT deployments.

The post Canonical Announces Ubuntu Pro for Devices Subscription for IoT Deployments appeared first on Linux Today.

Grafana Loki 3.0 enhances log management with advanced query filters and comprehensive OpenTelemetry support.

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A week after finding a malicious backdoor, GitHub has safely restored access to the XZ Utils repo for developers worldwide.

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The Earliest Virtual Deadline First (EEVDF) scheduler was merged as an option for the 6.6 kernel. It represents a major change to how CPU scheduling is done on Linux systems, but the EEVDF front has been relatively quiet since then. Now, though, scheduler developer Peter Zijlstra has returned from a long absence to post a patch series intended to finish the EEVDF work. Beyond some fixes, this work includes a significant behavioral change and a new feature intended to help latency-sensitive tasks.

GStreamer’s latest 1.24.2 release fixes security flaws and bugs, including notable fixes in H.264 parsing, WavPack typefinding, and more.gr

The post GStreamer 1.24.2 Brings Security & Bug Fixes appeared first on Linux Today.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, less, libreoffice, nodejs:18, nodejs:20, rear, thunderbird, and varnish), Debian (pillow), Fedora (dotnet7.0), SUSE (sngrep, texlive-specs-k, tomcat, tomcat10, and xorg-x11-server), and Ubuntu (nss, squid, and util-linux).

Version:next-20240411 (linux-next) Released:2024-04-11

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 11, 2024 is available.

AppImage is a universal software format for distributing portable software on Linux without needing superuser permissions to install the application. AppImage doesn’t really install software. It’s a compressed image with all the dependencies and libraries needed to run the desired software. This article looks at software that helps you manage AppImages on your system.

The post 5 Best Free and Open-Source AppImage Package Managers appeared first on Linux Today.

The Gentoo Linux project has announced that it is now an Associated Project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI), which will allow it to accept tax deductible donations in the US and reduce its "non-technical workload":

The current Gentoo Foundation has bylaws restricting its behavior to that of a non-profit, is a recognized non-profit only in New Mexico, but a for-profit entity at the US federal level. A direct conversion to a federally recognized non-profit would be unlikely to succeed without significant effort and cost.

[...] SPI is already now recognized at US federal level as a full-[fledged] non-profit 501(c)(3). It also handles several projects of similar type and size (e.g., Arch and Debian) and as such has exactly the experience and background that Gentoo needs.

According to the announcement, the goal is to "eventually transfer the existing assets to SPI and dissolve the Gentoo Foundation". How to do that is still under discussion. This will not affect Förderverein Gentoo e.V., which has public-benefit status in Germany and can accept tax deductible donations in Europe.

Managing users and their group memberships efficiently is a fundamental task in Linux and Unix system administration. In this tutorial, we will explain how to add a user to multiple groups in Linux and Unix.

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Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced another round of stable kernel updates: 6.8.5, 6.6.26, 6.1.85, and 5.15.154 have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes, including the mitigations for the recently disclosed branch history injection hardware vulnerability.

Version:6.8.5 (stable) Released:2024-04-10 Source:linux-6.8.5.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.8.5.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.8.5

Version:6.6.26 (longterm) Released:2024-04-10 Source:linux-6.6.26.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.26.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.26

A recent book by LWN guest author Lee Phillips provides a nice introduction to the Julia programming language. Practical Julia does more than that, however. As its subtitle ("A Hands-On Introduction for Scientific Minds") implies, the book focuses on bringing Julia to scientists, rather than programmers, which gives it something of a different feel from most other books of this sort.

Version:6.1.85 (longterm) Released:2024-04-10 Source:linux-6.1.85.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.1.85.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.85