Security updates have been issued by Debian (audiofile, libcaca, libetpan, libxml2, php7.4, snapcast, and thunderbird), Fedora (glibc, iputils, mingw-binutils, and thunderbird), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, mod_auth_openidc, and mod_auth_openidc:2.3), SUSE (afterburn, apache2, atop, chromedriver, chromium, cloud-init, deepin-feature-enable, firefox, firefox-esr, grafana, grype-db, gstreamer-plugins-bad, javamail, jupyter-jupyterlab-templates, jupyter-nbdime, konsole, libetebase, libxmp, minio-client-20250721T052808Z, MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE, opera, pdns-recursor, perl-Authen-SASL, polkit, python-Django, python3-pycares, python311-starlette, rpi-imager, ruby3.4-rubygem-thor, spdlog, thunderbird, varnish, viewvc, and xtrabackup), and Ubuntu (openjdk-21-crac).
The good folks at Linode still have not managed to fix whatever broke in
their data center, so we are running on an emergency backup server. Things
seem to be working, but the occasional glitch is to be expected. Please
accept our apologies for the extended downtime!
Update: we're back on the regular production server, and all seems
stable now.
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Linus has
released the 6.16 kernel:
It's Sunday afternoon, and the release cycle has come to an end. Last
week was nice and calm, and there were no big show-stopper surprises
to keep us from the regular schedule, so I've tagged and pushed out
6.16 as planned.
Headline changes in this release include
enabling five-level page tables by default
on x86 systems,
a number of core-dump changes including
the ability to send core dumps to a socket,
the ability to create
pipes in io_uring,
atomic-write support in the XFS
filesystem,
the elimination of block-layer bounce
buffering,
a new DMA-mapping API,
an option to block file descriptors passed
in via Unix-domain sockets,
and more.
See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1,
part 2) and the KernelNewbies 6.16 page for
more information.
video: https://youtu.be/ucGrNLdsql0
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This week in Linux, we've got a bit of bad news from Intel as they abruptly ended Clear Linux out of no where and Arch Linux warned users that malware was found in the AUR. It's not all bad this week though because Wayback is back on the show with the first preview release for keeping X11 desktops alive in our future Wayland powered world. Plus according to one source, Linux usage is even higher than we already thought it was. A couple of episodes ago I reported that we broke the 5% threshold on the US desktop market based on StatCounter data but according to one source it's already climbed passed 6%. What source you ask? The analytics of U.S. federal government websites. Speaking of governments, GitHub is trying to get EU lawmakers to scale Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund into a EU wide program to fund critical open‑source projects. Also for some more good news, we're so close to hitting 100,000 subscribers on the channel, if you want to help please consider subscribing. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what’s going on in the Linux and Open Source world. Now let's jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews!
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There is an inherent limit to the privacy of the
public
cloud. While Linux can isolate virtual machines (VMs) from each other,
nothing in the system's memory is ultimately out of reach for the host cloud
provider. To accommodate the most privacy-conscious clients,
confidential
computing protects the memory of guests, even from
hypervisors. But the Linux cloud stack needs to be rethought in order to host
confidential VMs, juggling two goals that are often at odds: performance
and security.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (git, kernel, nginx:1.24, and sudo), Fedora (dpkg, java-21-openjdk, java-25-openjdk, java-latest-openjdk, and valkey), Oracle (apache-commons-vfs, sudo, tigervnc, and xorg-x11-server), Red Hat (kernel, krb5, and openssh), SUSE (gnutls, ImageMagick, iputils, kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RT_Update_10, kubernetes1.18, libarchive, ovmf, python, and salt), and Ubuntu (iputils, linux-aws-6.14, linux-raspi, openjdk-21, and openjdk-24).
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