Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) released [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....
The race to replace Redis [LWN.net] (lwn.net)
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.
How free software hijacked Philip Hazel's life [LWN.net] (lwn.net)
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/