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<title>LWN.net</title>
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<link>https://lwn.net</link>
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<description> LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
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and about the Linux community. This is the main LWN.net feed,
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listing all articles which are posted to the site front page.
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</description>
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<language>en-us</language>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2024 01:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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<lastBuildDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2024 01:00:55 +0000</lastBuildDate>
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<docs>https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification</docs>
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<webMaster>lwn@lwn.net</webMaster>
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<atom:link href="https://lwn.net/headlines/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/>
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<item>
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<title>Seven more stable kernel updates</title>
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<link>https://lwn.net/Articles/997525/</link>
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<guid>https://lwn.net/Articles/997525/</guid>
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<dc:creator>daroc</dc:creator>
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<description><p>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman has shared another seven stable kernel updates:
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<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/997527/">6.6.60</a>,
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<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/997528/">6.11.7</a>,
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<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/997529/">6.1.116</a>,
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<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/997530/">5.15.171</a>,
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<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/997533/">5.10.229</a>,
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<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/997535/">5.4.285</a>, and
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<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/997536/">4.19.323</a>.
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</p></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
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</item>
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<item>
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<title>Cohen: gccrs: An alternative compiler for Rust</title>
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<link>https://lwn.net/Articles/997483/</link>
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<guid>https://lwn.net/Articles/997483/</guid>
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<dc:creator>corbet</dc:creator>
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<description>Arthur Cohen has posted <a
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href="https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/11/07/gccrs-an-alternative-compiler-for-rust.html">a
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detailed introduction to the gccrs project</a> on the Rust Blog, seemingly
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with the goal of convincing the Rust community about the value of the
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project.
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<p>
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<blockquote class="bq">
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Likewise, many GCC plugins are used for increasing the safety of
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critical projects such as the Linux kernel, which has recently
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gained support for the Rust programming language. This makes
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<tt>gccrs</tt> a useful tool for analyzing unsafe Rust code, and
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more generally Rust code which has to interact with existing C
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code. We also want <tt>gccrs</tt> to be a useful tool for
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<tt>rustc</tt> itself by helping pan out the Rust specification
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effort with a unique viewpoint - that of a tool trying to replicate
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another's functionality, oftentimes through careful experimentation
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and source reading where the existing documentation did not go into
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enough detail.
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</blockquote>
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<p>
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(LWN last <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/991199/">looked at gccrs</a> in October).</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
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</item>
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<item>
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<title>Security updates for Friday</title>
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<link>https://lwn.net/Articles/997480/</link>
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<guid>https://lwn.net/Articles/997480/</guid>
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<dc:creator>daroc</dc:creator>
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<description>Security updates have been issued by <b>AlmaLinux</b> (edk2), <b>Debian</b> (webkit2gtk), <b>Fedora</b> (thunderbird), <b>Oracle</b> (bzip2, container-tools:ol8, edk2, go-toolset:ol8, libtiff, python-idna, python3.11, and python3.12), <b>Slackware</b> (expat), and <b>SUSE</b> (apache2, govulncheck-vulndb, grub2, java-1_8_0-openjdk, python3, python39, qemu, xorg-x11-server, and xwayland).
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</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 14:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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</item>
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<item>
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<title>Security updates for Thursday</title>
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<link>https://lwn.net/Articles/997378/</link>
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<guid>https://lwn.net/Articles/997378/</guid>
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<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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<description>Security updates have been issued by <b>AlmaLinux</b> (bcc, bpftrace, bzip2, container-tools:rhel8, grafana-pcp, haproxy, kernel, kernel-rt, krb5, libtiff, python-gevent, python3.11, python3.11-urllib3, python3.12, python3.12-urllib3, xmlrpc-c, and xorg-x11-server and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), <b>Debian</b> (puma and pypy3), <b>Fedora</b> (firefox), <b>Gentoo</b> (libgit2), <b>Mageia</b> (libarchive), <b>SUSE</b> (ghostscript, go1.22-openssl, go1.23-openssl, htmldoc, kmail-account-wizard, libarchive, libgsf, libmozjs-128-0, openssl-3, python-jupyterlab, python-mysql-connector-python, python36, and ruby2.1), and <b>Ubuntu</b> (cinder, linux-aws, linux-aws-6.8, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8, linux-aws, linux-azure-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, and linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency).
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</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
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</item>
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<item>
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<title>Funding restored for man-page maintenance</title>
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<link>https://lwn.net/Articles/997193/</link>
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<guid>https://lwn.net/Articles/997193/</guid>
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<dc:creator>corbet</dc:creator>
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<description>Man pages maintainer Alejandro Colomar <a
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href="https://lwn.net/Articles/989215/">announced</a> in September that he was suspending
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his work due to a lack of support. He has now <a
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href="https://lwn.net/ml/all/nimzecx26lzxo2v64qjazmisbwfeljpto522wlnauktqesmdoc@gv3yrp64cvug">let
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it be known</a> that funding has been found for the next year at least:
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<p>
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<blockquote class="bq">
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We've been talking for a couple of months, and we have already
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agreed to sign a contract through the LF [Linux Foundation], where
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a number of companies provide the funds for the contract. The
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contract will cover the next 12 months for the agreed amount, and
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we should sign it in the following days. Since I've already seen a
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draft of the contract, and it looks good, I've already started
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maintaining the project again, starting on Nov 1st.
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</blockquote></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
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</item>
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<item>
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<title>Security updates for Wednesday</title>
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<link>https://lwn.net/Articles/997182/</link>
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<guid>https://lwn.net/Articles/997182/</guid>
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<dc:creator>jzb</dc:creator>
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<description>Security updates have been issued by <b>AlmaLinux</b> (libtiff), <b>Debian</b> (context, libheif, and thunderbird), <b>Fedora</b> (php-tcpdf, syncthing, and thunderbird), <b>Gentoo</b> (EditorConfig core C library, Flatpak, Neat VNC, and Ubiquiti UniFi), <b>Oracle</b> (bcc, bpftrace, grafana-pcp, haproxy, kernel, krb5, libtiff, python-gevent, python3.11-urllib3, python3.12-urllib3, and xmlrpc-c), <b>Red Hat</b> (python3.11-urllib3), <b>SUSE</b> (audacity, curl, govulncheck-vulndb, gradle, htmldoc, libgsf, python310, and qbittorrent), and <b>Ubuntu</b> (linux-aws-5.4, linux-oracle-5.4, mpg123, and python-werkzeug).
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</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
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</item>
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<item>
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<title>LXQt 2.1.0 released</title>
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<link>https://lwn.net/Articles/997034/</link>
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<guid>https://lwn.net/Articles/997034/</guid>
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<dc:creator>jzb</dc:creator>
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<description><p><a
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href="https://lxqt-project.org/release/2024/11/05/release-lxqt-2-1-0/">Version
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2.1.0</a> of the <a href="https://lxqt-project.org/">LXQt</a>
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lightweight Qt desktop environment has been released. The highlight of
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this release is support for multiple Wayland compositors:</p>
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<blockquote class="bq">
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<p>Through its new component <tt>lxqt-wayland-session</tt>, LXQt 2.1.0
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supports 7 Wayland sessions (with Labwc, KWin, Wayfire, Hyprland,
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Sway, River and Niri), has two Wayland back-ends in
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<tt>lxqt-panel</tt> (one for <tt>kwin_wayland</tt> and the other
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general), and will add more later. All LXQt components that are not
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limited to X11 — i.e., most components — work fine on Wayland. [...]</p>
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<p><em><strong>Of course, the X11 session will be supported
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indefinitely</strong></em>. Wayland is optional and rather experimental.</p>
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</blockquote></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 15:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
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</item>
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<item>
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<title>The BPF instruction set architecture is now RFC 9669</title>
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<link>https://lwn.net/Articles/997002/</link>
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<guid>https://lwn.net/Articles/997002/</guid>
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<dc:creator>corbet</dc:creator>
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<description>After a couple of years of effort, the BPF instruction set architecture has
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been accepted as <a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9669.html">RFC
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9669</a>, giving it a standard outside of the in-kernel implementation. <a
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href="https://lwn.net/ml/all/20241105035101.GD41004@maniforge">This message from David
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Vernet</a> (who also contributed <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/926882/">an article on
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the standardization process</a> last year) describes the process and why it
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is important:
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<p>
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<blockquote class="bq">
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Though some vendors have already implemented BPF offloading
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capabilities without having a standardized ISA, others are not
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quite as risk tolerant. As Christoph [Hellwig] discussed at LSFMM
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2022, certain NVMe vendors have expressed an interest in building
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BPF offloading capabilities for various use cases such as eXpress
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Resubmission Path (XRP), but they simply can't fund such a project
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without certain components of BPF being standardized. Hence, the
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effort to standardize BPF was born.
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</blockquote></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 14:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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</item>
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<item>
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<title>Security updates for Tuesday</title>
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<link>https://lwn.net/Articles/997030/</link>
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<guid>https://lwn.net/Articles/997030/</guid>
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<dc:creator>corbet</dc:creator>
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<description>Security updates have been issued by <b>AlmaLinux</b> (firefox, openexr, and thunderbird), <b>Fedora</b> (llama-cpp and python-quart), <b>Oracle</b> (firefox, openexr, thunderbird, and xorg-x11-server and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), <b>SUSE</b> (chromium, govulncheck-vulndb, openssl-1_1, python311, and python312), and <b>Ubuntu</b> (linux-azure, linux-bluefield, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-ibm, openjpeg2, and ruby3.0, ruby3.2, ruby3.3).
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</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 14:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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