Linus has released 6.18-rc7, probably the last -rc before the 6.18 release. So the rc6 kernel wasn't great: we had a last-minute core VM regression that caused people problems. That's not a great thing late in the release cycle like that, but it was a fairly trivial fix, and the cause wasn't some horrid bug, just a latent gotcha that happened to then bite a late VM fix. So while not great, it also doesn't make me worry about the state of 6.18. We're still on track for a final release next weekend unless some big new problem rears its ugly head.
Since the 2022 release of memtest86+ 6.0 as a rewrite of this long-used RAM testing utility, this open-source software has continued advancing nicely after a decade hiatus. Released on Sunday night was memtest86+ 8.0 as the latest iteration of this popular RAM tester for enthusiasts...
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Canonical's engineers have submitted pull requests to add RISC-V support to Google's Flutter toolkit, which Ubuntu uses to built many of its desktop apps.
This year’s Linux Foundation TAB election is in its nominating phase, with seats open to kernel developers and contributors who meet the commit‑based voting requirements. The post Linux Foundation Is Seeking Technical Advisory Board Candidates appeared first on FOSS Force.
Linux 6.18-rc7 just arrived in the Git tree as the newest weekly test build leading up to Linux 6.18 stable hopefully debuting next Sunday, 30 November...
Wayland Protocols 1.46 released this evening with new experimental protocols for text improvements as well as refinements to the color management protocol for HDR...
The Racket programming language project has released Racket version 9.0. Racket is a descendant of Scheme, so it is part of the Lisp family of languages. The headline feature in the release is parallel threads, which adds to the concurrency tools in the language: "While Racket has had green threads for some time, and supports parallelism via futures and places, we feel parallel threads is a major addition." Other new features include the black-box wrapper to prevent the compiler from optimizing calculations away, the decompile-linklet function to map linklets back to an s-expression, the addition of Weibull distributions to the math library, and more.
The Oracle blog has a lengthy article on enhancements to GCC to help detect overflows of flexible array members (FAMs) in C programs. We describe here two new GNU extensions which specify size information for FAMs. These are a new attribute, "counted_by" and a new builtin function, "__builtin_counted_by_ref". Both extensions can be used in GNU C applications to specify size information for FAMs, improving the buffer overflow detection for FAMs in general. This work has been covered on LWN as well.
The call for candidates for the 2025 election for the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board has been posted. The TAB exists to provide advice from the kernel community to the Linux Foundation and holds a seat on the LF's board of directors; it also serves to facilitate interactions both within the community and with outside entities. Over the last year, the TAB has overseen the organization of the Linux Plumbers Conference, advised on the setup of the kernel CVE numbering authority, worked behind the scenes to help resolve a number of contentious community discussions, worked with the Linux Foundation on community conference planning, and more. Nominations close on December 13.
Recent policy updates point to a new direction for Arduino with Qualcomm at the helm. Will Arduino's open-source legacy survive? The post Privacy and Openness Collide as Qualcomm Reshapes Arduino’s Rules appeared first on FOSS Force.
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