Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) released [LWN.net] (lwn.net)
Gentoo bans AI-created contributions (lwn.net)
The race to replace Redis [LWN.net] (lwn.net)
A backdoor in xz (current versions are impacted) (lwn.net)
TL;DR: Update immediately, especially if SSH is enabled. xz versions 5.6.0 & 5.6.1 are impacted. The article contains links to each distro’s specific instructions of what to do....
Villa: Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL? (lwn.net)
Luis Villa writes about the recent ruling in the Software Freedom Conservancy's GPL-violation lawsuit against Vizio, wherein the judge refused to agree that the SFC lacks standing to sue.
The 6.7 kernel has been released (lwn.net)
Some of the headline features in this release are: the removal of support for the Itanium architecture, the first part of the futex2 API, futex support in io_uring, the BPF exceptions mechanism, the bcachefs filesystem, the TCP authentication option, the kernel samepage merging smart scan mode, and networking support for the...
The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell, part 2 (lwn.net)
Part 1: lwn.net/SubscriberLink/955376/b3fba3bbfabbc411/