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We round up some news from FOSDEM 2023, update a 21-year-old project, and the Fedora fix that's been a few releases in the making. Sponsored By: Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: FOSDEM 2023: Matrix 2.0 — In this talk we will explain the fundamental changes which are landing in Matrix 2.0, which speeds up Matrix to be at least as snappy as the fastest proprietary messaging apps - all while handling thousands of rooms spanning millions of s. FOSDEM 2023: Fedora Asahi — Asahi Fedora Remix exists to assist the Asahi community with Apple Silicon upstreaming and to provide a nifty ARM-based Fedora Workstation for those that own Apple Silicon hardware. Fedora Asahi Aims To Provide The Fedora Workstation Experience For Apple Silicon Systems SIGs/Asahi - Fedora Project Wiki FOSDEM 2023: Podcasting 2.0 — In this talk we will show how the Podcasting 2.0 community is reinventing Podcasting by adding tons of new features, while keeping all this interoperable. MythTV 33 Released — Some of the MythTV 33 highlights include a new web interface for the MythTV setup experience, a new waveform visualization for the MythMusic area, and switching to the latest upstream FFmpeg release. MythTV, Open Source DVR Linode's Green Light Beta Program — Get early access and test new Linode products before they hit the market, provide valuable to influence product direction, and become part of a community of developers helping us build the cloud that works for you. Fedora 38 Change: Unfiltered Flathub — This change would remove the filtering from our Flathub offering, so that s can enable a complete version of Flathub using the third party repositories feature. Fedora 38 To Get Rid Of Its Flathub Filtering, Allowing Many More Apps On Fedora The Coder Robe | Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale — The Coder Robe is black and is a one-size-fits-most robe made from 100% cotton terry velour for soft, cozy wear. It is embroidered on the left chest with a classic white on black Coder Radio logo.

A lot happened in the free desktop world this week, we cover the impressive releases, changes, and surprises. Sponsored By: Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: elementary OS 7 Available Now — Today we’re proud to announce that OS 7, codenamed Horus, is available to now and shipping soon on several high-quality computers. Xfce Going Wayland — That’s right, work on Xfce 4.20 kicked off earlier this month with the release of libxfce4windowing, a new dependency for the Xfce desktop environment to provide for the next-generation Wayland display protocol. Xfce / libxfce4windowing COSMIC DE has Speed — Alex here with the latest batch of updates from System76 engineers on the development of COSMIC DE, as well as some Settings mockups where you can explore some of the new changes. System76 Adding XWayland & Other Improvements Ubuntu Pro for All — First released in a beta version in October 2022. helloSystem 0.8 — helloSystem is now based on FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE. A desktop system for creators that focuses on simplicity, elegance, and usability. helloSystem 0.8: A friendly, all-graphical FreeBSD — Since most applications I am using on a daily basis are cross-platform and many of them are written in Qt, it seemed logical to choose Qt as the native toolkit for helloSystem.

An Ubuntu expiration date approaches, openSUSE has a new handy solution, and the container security issue that remains unfixed. Sponsored By: Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS End Of Life — Ubuntu 18.04 ‘Bionic Beaver’ is reaching End of Standard this April, also known sometimes as End Of Life (EOL). Ubuntu 22.04.2 Point Release Delayed by 2 Weeks — Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS was due for release on Thursday, February 9. However, the release has had to be delayed by two weeks, and is now scheduled to arrive on Thursday, February 23. Ubuntu Pro Ubuntu Extended Security Maintenance Wine 8.0 is out now with major compatibility improvements — One of the major changes here is the conversion to the PE format for various modules. This format is used by Windows, and an important milestone for Wine to increase compatibility with copy protection, 32-bit applications on 64-bit hosts, Windows debuggers and more. openSUSE Making It Easier To Install H.264 Codec — Inspired by the Fedora / Red Hat and Cisco collaboration around OpenH264 , openSUSE/SUSE set out for a similar arrangement with Cicsco and its OpenH264 codecs. Linux 6.2-rc5 Released — Due to an uptick in activity this week and the downtime around Christmas / end-of-year holidays, Torvalds is planning on this cycle spanning through Linux 6.2-rc8 before going gold. Linux 6.3 To Remove Obsolete GPU Drivers: ATI Rage 128, 3Dfx, S3 Savage, i810 & More — Hitting the chopping block with the Linux 6.3 kernel are the following DRM drivers: i810, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, and via. Kernel Security Korner — The issue involved in that compromise became known as CVE-2019-5736 and a complex workaround was implemented in runC to prevent similar vulnerabilities in the future.

A high-profile Linux kernel network flaw, we put JFS on a death watch, and break down the controversial Firefox update this week. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linux Action News Links: A new privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel — The vulnerability consists of a stack buffer overflow due to an integer underflow vulnerability inside the nft_payload_copy_vlan function, which is invoked with nft_payload expressions as long as a VLAN tag is present in the current skb. netfilter: nft_payload: add C-VLAN · torvalds/linux@f6ae9f1 CVE-2023-0179 CVE-2023-0179- Red Hat Customer Portal [net,3/3] netfilter: nft_payload: incorrect arithmetics when fetching VLAN header bits - Patchwork oss-sec: Re: CVE-2023-0179: Linux kernel stack buffer overflow in nftables: PoC and writeup libvirt 9.0 Released For Latest Linux Virtualization API — Libvirt 9.0 adds for external snapshot deletion with QEMU using its existing API, libvirt 9.0 with QEMU now s T as "Plug A Simple Socket Transport" for connecting an emulated network device to the host's network, QEMU external back-end for SWTPM as a software Trusted Platform Module (TPM), for ing file descriptors rather than ing files for the QEMU disk, and other additions. JFS Filesystem’s Days are Numbered — IBM developed the JFS file-system originally in the 90's for AIX and the second-generation implementation then ported to Linux after it was made open-source. Firefox 109.0 Ships Manifest Version 3 — Manifest Version 3 (MV3) extension is now enabled by default (MV2 remains enabled/ed). This major update also ushers an exciting interface change in the form of the new extensions button. Here’s what’s going on in the world of extensions Manage your extensions using the extensions button in the toolbar Manifest v3 g available November 21 on Firefox Nightly Google delays start of Manifest V2 Chrome extension deprecation — The original plan called for Chrome Beta, Dev, and Canary builds to start experiments that turned off Manifest V2 extension . Additionally, Manifest V3 would be required to get the “Featured” badge in the Chrome Web Store.  Firefox 109 Adds New Extensions Button, Manifest V3 — The biggest new feature is the new Unified Extensions button in the toolbar. Chrome’s “Manifest V3” plan to limit ad-blocking extensions is delayed Chrome s Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening — Manifest V3, or Mv3 for short, is outright harmful to privacy efforts. It will restrict the capabilities of web extensions

OpenZFS has performance gains inbound, the end of a Linux era, and the achievement unlocked by the open-source NVIDIA driver. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linux Action News Links: KDE Plasma 5.27 To Provide Better Multi-Monitor — KDE developer Marco Martin wrote a blog post today outlining some of the multi-monitor work that's been going into Plasma 5.27 This week in KDE: big UI improvements! Schedules/Plasma 5 - KDE Community Wiki KDE Kicks Off 2023 With UI Refinements, More Fixes GNOME 44 Hopes and Dreams — GNOME devs are already working hard on the next major release, GNOME 44, due out in late March 2023 with more new features and enhancements. Dynamic Triple Buffering Hopefully Will Land For GNOME 44 OpenZFS Performance Gains — With the combination of enabled prefetch and avoided memory copy this change improves sequential single-threaded read speed from a wide NVMe pool from 2049 to 3932 MiB/s. During write profiler shows 22% reduction of unhalted U cycles at the same throughput of 3653 MiB/s. End of the 4.9 Series — Greg KH: I'm announcing the release of the 4.9.337 kernel. All s of the 4.9 kernel series must upgrade. Linux 6.1.4 Linux 4.9.337 Released To End Out The 2016 LTS Series Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Starts to Play Games — Red Hat engineer and longtime open-source Nouveau developer Karol Herbst wrote on his chaos.social about NVK running games and showing off a screenshot of The Talos Principle running with this open-source, "community" Vulkan driver. karolherbst on Social The Talos Principle — The Talos Principle is a philosophical first-person puzzle game from Croteam, the creators of the legendary Serious Sam series, written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

Android is getting RISC-Y, the handy new Google tool going open source, the next nail in the coffin for ZFS on Ubuntu, and why you were right about smart speakers all along. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linux Action News Links: Android Gets RISC-Y — Google's keynote at the RISC-V Summit promises official, polished . Keynote: The Android Open Source Project and RISC-V - Lars Bergstrom, Google Director of Engineering New Google Tool Goes Open — The OSV database is a distributed, open-source database that stores vulnerability information in the OSV format. The OSV-Scanner assesses a project's dependencies against the OSV database showing all vulnerabilities relating to the project. Ubuntu’s New Installer Milestone — With Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" in April that new desktop installer is poised to finally be used by default. HDR Beginning To Work For Linux Gaming — "New Linux gaming milestone: with the latest work from Josh Ashton, HDR can now be enabled for real games! Tested it tonight on my AMD desktop with Halo Infinite, Deep Rock Galactic, DEATH STRANDING DC. Very early and will still need some time to bake to be useful to most." Red Hat Planning HDR Hackfest GNOME Shell + Mutter 43 Alpha Released VKD3D-Proton 2.7 Released With Eight Months Worth Of Changes Google Home speakers allowed hackers to snoop on conversations — A bug in Google Home smart speaker allowed installing a backdoor that could be used to control it remotely and to turn it into a snooping device by accessing the microphone feed.

There are some stories so big they need a little more air time. Sponsored By: Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: Akademy 2022: Full Steam ahead! — In this talk I will share how Plasma fits into the Steamdeck and what aspects of KDE made us the right choice for their new base. I will then share some of the projects that contractors Blue Systems have been doing for Valve and how the work there benefits not just the Steamdeck but improves the ecosystem for all Plasma s. GamingOnLinux category: Steam Deck Anaconda Web UI preview image — the Anaconda Web UI preview image and boot it on VM or hardware that contains no important data. Fedora 37 Hopes To Have A Preview Of The New Web-Based Install UI Libadwaita in the Wild — It’s hard to believe, but Libadwaita is not even one year old, having first been released on December 31, 2021. libadwaita — Building blocks for modern GNOME applications. Why the open source driver release from NVIDIA is so important for Linux? — Today NVIDIA announced that they are releasing an open source kernel driver for their GPUs, so I want to share with you some background information and how I think this will impact Linux graphics and compute going forward. Linux Action News 240 — NVIDIA has announced its plans for an open-source GPU driver. Christian Schaller, the Director for Desktop, Graphics, Infotainment and more at Red Hat, gives us the inside scoop on this historic announcement. Nvidia Scraps ARM Acquisition After Regulatory Pressure, Owner SoftBank Prepares Chipmaker For IPO Chips are down: Nvidia abandons $40 billion deal to purchase Arm Holdings

Why we won't see a new Raspberry Pi until 2025, the first steps to Plasma 6 are being taken, and PipeWire gets a major Bluetooth upgrade. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linux Action News Links: Raspberry Pi 5 Not Launching Until After 2023 — Don't expect a Pi 5 next year [2023]" Upton then expands and explains that 2023 is a "recovery year". Eben Upton Interview: Raspberry Pi Availability & More! - YouTube Raspberry Pi Adds 100,000 Units to Supply Chain, Back to Pre-pandemic Levels in 2023 | Tom’s Hardware — In the blog post, Upton acknowledged the patience of the community and offers the 100,000 units, made up of Raspberry Pi Zero W, 3A+ and Raspberry Pi 4 2GB and 4GB for single-unit sale. We don't know the breakdown of how many of each model there will be, but Upton does indicate that it is likely that Raspberry Pi Zero W will come back into stock first. KDE Frameworks 5.101 Released — Per the plans laid out earlier this year at the Akademy developer conference, KDE Frameworks 5 feature development stops following the v5.101 release. KDE Frameworks 5 will now just see maintenance updates moving forward. Xfce 4.18 Released — After almost two years of work, we are happy to announce the release of Xfce 4.18 ! Xfce 4.18 by muscaln · Pull Request #206282 · NixOS/nixpkgs PipeWire Bluetooth Improvements — Most exciting with today's PipeWire 0.3.62 release is now ing Bluetooth offloading. Releases · PipeWire / wireplumber · GitLab Feature Preview: Gitea Actions — Gitea Actions goes beyond just DevOps and lets you run workflows when other events happen in your repository. act_runner — A runner for Gitea based on act. act — Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀

Why the next kernel will be "the merge window from hell," a holiday gift for Wayland s, and how the open source community could do more to take on YouTube. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linux Action News Links: Wine on Wayland 2022 update: more games, more apps, more fun! — Significant improvement compared to last year is for cross-process rendering, which is required by Chromium/CEF applications. Last year the driver was able to run Chrome with the "--in-process" command-line option. Chrome is now ed without any special flags, and is fully GPU accelerated on both OpenGL and Vulkan! A Wayland driver for Wine Wine on Wayland year-end update: improved functionality & stability Wine’s Wayland Driver Is Becoming Mature, May Aim For Upstreaming Early Next Year Linux 6.1 Released With MGLRU, Initial Rust Code — Linux 6.1 integrates the exciting Multi-Gen LRU (MGLRU) overhaul of the page reclamation code, the initial Rust programming language The 6.1 kernel is out [LWN.net] Linux 6.2 Graphics Changes: Intel Arc Graphics Stable, Initial NVIDIA RTX 30 Acceleration Linux 6.2 Addresses Another “Tasty Target For Attackers” Linux 6.2 Expands For More Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs, Apple M1 Pro/Ultra/Max Intel On Demand Driver Ready To Activate Your Licensed U Features With Linux 6.2 Btrfs With Linux 6.2 Bringing Performance Improvements, Better RAID 5/6 Reliability CERN recommendation for Linux distribution — CERN and Fermilab tly plan to provide AlmaLinux as the standard distribution for experiments at our facilities, reflecting recent experience and discussions with experiments and other stakeholders CERN, Fermilab select AlmaLinux as standard for big science AlmaLinux 9.1 - Now Available - AlmaLinux OS Blog Stephan Dörner (in English) on Twitter — CERN and Fermilab tly plan to provide AlmaLinux as the standard distribution for experiments at our facilities GCC Rust “gccrs” Code Merged Into Mainline GCC 13 — Following last week's approval with the GCC Rust v4 patches for them to be merged, all of the "gccrs" code was upstreamed this morning for GNU Compiler Collection 13. PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting — Five years later, we are releasing PeerTube v5, a tool used by hundreds of thousands people on a thousand interconnected platforms to share over 850,000 videos. Framasoft Settings Link Missing after 5.0 Upgrade

The Linux kernel has some exciting updates this week, including a significant Asahi milestone and some good news for Android. Then we take openSUSE's new web-based installer for a spin. Sponsored By: Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux — We’ve been working hard over the past two years to bring this new driver to everyone, and we’re really proud to finally be here. This is still an alpha driver, but it’s already good enough to run a smooth desktop experience and some games Asahi Linux Enables Early Apple GPU Driver - WIP OpenGL 2.1 + GLES 2.0 Apple Silicon UFreq Driver Heading To Linux 6.2 — Sent in yesterday were the Arm UFreq updates to queue in the Linux power management tree ahead of the Linux 6.2 merge window. [GIT PULL] ufreq/arm updates for 6.2 - Viresh Kumar Floppy Driver Update Ready For Linux 6.2 — This memory leak with the floppy disk driver has been in the mainline kernel since Linux 5.11 Android memory safety vulnerabilities declined as Rust usage grew — Specifically, the number of annual memory safety vulnerabilities fell from 223 to 85 between 2019 and 2022. They are now 35% of Android’s total vulnerabilities versus 76% four years ago. In fact, “2022 is the first year where memory safety vulnerabilities do not represent a majority of Android’s vulnerabilities.” Google says Android runs better when covered in Rust Fedora 38 Cleared To Produce “Mobility Phosh” Spins — The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has provided their blessing to begin creating new x86_64 and AArch64 ISO images for mobile devices that feature the Phosh Wayland compositor. Ping bug potentially allows remote hack of FreeBSD systemsSecurity Affairs — A remote attacker can trigger the vulnerability, causing the ping program to crash and potentially leading to remote code execution in ping. D-Installer needs your help — Today we published a new prototype of D-Installer, fixing several bugs reported by early testers and improving the usage experience in some areas like the configuration of s and s. But beyond those improvements, a couple of new features deserve some attention. Bug 1205938 – D-Installer - Slowness initialization on real hardware GitHub - yast/d-installer: A service-based Linux installer openSUSE’s D-Installer Adds LVM & Full Disk Encryption Configuration

Old school Ubuntu has a new cool, Google calls out Google, and some IoT news you can use. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linux Action News Links: New versions of Ubuntu Touch, Mir, and Unity arrive — Various parts of Ubuntu's canceled desktop/fondleslab convergence project are all still ticking away – some officially and some thanks to communities. Ubuntu Touch OTA-24 Release Mir release 2.10.0 Unity 7.6 is now available for Arch Linux Ubuntu Touch OTA-24 Released for Ubuntu Phone s Google updates 2013 Chromecast for first time in over three years — In a new batch of Chromecast updates, Google has released new firmware for the first-generation Chromecast for the first time in years. Chromecast firmware versions and release notes Eufy cameras caught sending local footage to cloud — Paul Moore, a security researcher, posted on Twitter last week a frightening security situation with Eufy home security products including camera-equipped doorbells. Google says Google should do a better job of patching Android phones — Project Zero calls out Android and Pixel for not fixing a GPU vulnerability. ClamAV 1.0.0 Released — The first version of ClamAV, which is developed by the US-based tech company Cisco and the open-source community, was released back in 2002. 20 Years in the Making: ClamAV Finally Hits Version 1.0 Compute Accelerator Subsystem Being Introduced For Linux 6.2 — It's happening: the new "accel" compute accelerator subsystem is now queued for introduction with the Linux 6.2 kernel once that merge window opens in December. Red Hat Developers Announce Work On New “Composefs” File-System — Red Hat is working on Composefs as a way to construct and use read-only images that are verifiable and have some immediate use-cases around sharing of Podman container layers and with the verification for use by OSTree. GitHub - composefs

The contested subsystem coming soon, a sobering assessment of wireless in Linux, and a triumph for free software. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linux Action News Links: New subsystem for compute accelerator devices — This is the fourth (and hopefully last) version of the patch set to add the new subsystem for compute accelerators. Compute Accelerator Subsystem Hopes To Be Ready For Linux 6.2 Peter's Talk at Linux Plumbers Conference — All types of wireless in Linux are terrible and why the vendors should feel bad - Peter Robinson Intel’s IWD 2.0 Released For Modern Linux Wireless Daemon — Released this week was IWD 2.0 as the latest milestone for this open-source wireless daemon. Phoronix Black Friday Deal — For this year's deal, you can go for just $30 per year or $150 for a lifetime subscription. Asahi Linux Updates — This month’s update is packed with new hardware , new features, and fixes for longstanding pain points, as well as a new bleeding-edge kernel branch with long-awaited for suspend and the display controller! Feature · AsahiLinux/docs Wiki

We tried Fedora 37 on the Pi 4, the Google surprise this week, and our thoughts on the WSL 1.0 release. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linux Action News Links: Announcing Fedora Linux 37 — Fedora Editions are flagship offerings targeted at a particular “market”. With Fedora Linux 37, we’re adding two new Editions. Fedora 37 Now Available With GNOME 43 Desktop, Official Raspberry Pi 4 Meta OSS’ Sapling — A new source control system with Git-compatible client. Get ready for Google Summer of Code 2023! — We are thrilled to announce the 2023 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program and share the timeline with you to get involved! 2023 will be our 19th consecutive year of hosting GSoC. Google Summer of Code Rust in the Kernel Update — This patch series is the first batch of changes to upstream the rest of the Rust . Rust Developers Preparing To Upstream More Code Into The Linux Kernel WSL 1.0 Released — Microsoft announces it is removing the Preview label and making WSL in the Microsoft Store "generally available". Release Notes for WSL kernel

We tried Fedora 37 on the Pi 4, the Google surprise this week, and our thoughts on the WSL 1.0 release. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linux Action News Links: Announcing Fedora Linux 37 — Fedora Editions are flagship offerings targeted at a particular “market”. With Fedora Linux 37, we’re adding two new Editions. Fedora 37 Now Available With GNOME 43 Desktop, Official Raspberry Pi 4 Meta OSS’ Sapling — A new source control system with Git-compatible client. Get ready for Google Summer of Code 2023! — We are thrilled to announce the 2023 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program and share the timeline with you to get involved! 2023 will be our 19th consecutive year of hosting GSoC. Google Summer of Code Rust in the Kernel Update — This patch series is the first batch of changes to upstream the rest of the Rust . Rust Developers Preparing To Upstream More Code Into The Linux Kernel WSL 1.0 Released — Microsoft announces it is removing the Preview label and making WSL in the Microsoft Store "generally available". Release Notes for WSL kernel

Microsoft's new goodies for Linux s, the Ubuntu Summit wraps up, and our takeaways from the recent fireside chat with Linus Torvalds. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linux Action News Links: The Ubuntu Summit Just Wrapped Up — Vulture Towers Central Europe are in Prague – which, handily, is also the location for Canonical's 2022 Ubuntu Summit. Ubuntu Summit 2022 - Day 1! - YouTube Ubuntu Summit 2022 - Day 2! - YouTube Ubuntu Summit 2022 - Day 3! - YouTube Microsoft .NET 7 Released With Better Linux — Microsoft .NET 7 brings improved performance, enhanced .NET on Linux throughout, native for ARM64, developer productivity enhancements, better cross-platform mobile/desktop app , HTTP/3 improvements for cloud native apps, 64-bit IBM Power on Linux, and a variety of other run-time improvements. Microsoft Launches a Microsoft Teams PWA on Linux — The PWA enables us to ship the latest Microsoft Teams features faster to our Linux customers and helps us bridge the gaps between the Teams desktop client on Linux and Windows. Khronos Unveils Kamaros — An open, royalty-free standard for controlling camera system runtimes in embedded, mobile, industrial, XR, automotive, and scientific markets. The Khronos Group Announces “Kamaros” As Their Newest Forthcoming API Fwupd 1.8.7 is a Big Update — Linux firmware updating utility fwupd 1.8.7 has been released adding for new devices, as well as various improvements. Fwupd 1.8.7 Adds for More Star Labs Linux Laptops, Intel Discrete GPU Pat Gelsinger and Linus Torvalds talk Linux, open source, technology and more - YouTube — Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger sat down with Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux who is also known as “the godfather of Open-Source,” to talk about everything from the beginning of Linux to Linus’ advice for Intel and why he chose a penguin as the Linux mascot.

What you need to know about that new OpenSSL vulnerability, the big bcachefs update we've been waiting for, and why the community is creating a Gitea fork. Sponsored By: Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: OpenSSL 3.0.7 Released Fixing Critical Flaw — Today we published an advisory about CVE-2022-3786 (“X.509 Email Address Variable Length Buffer Overflow”) and CVE-2022-3602 (“X.509 Email Address 4-byte Buffer Overflow”). OpenSSL version 3.0.7 published /news/openssl-3.0-notes.html Fedora 37 Release Delayed To Mid-November Over Critical OpenSSL Vulnerability Linux 6.2 Power-Savings While Idle Or Lightly Loaded — The short story for Linux end-s is the Lazy RCU work can provide 5~10% power-savings for idle or lightly-loaded systems by this lazy/batching functionality. Linux 6.2 Picking Up Mainline For Apple M1 Pro/Max/Ultra Hardware — This gets the high-end Mac Studio systems with those SoCs now compatible with the mainline kernel. Hector's Deleted Tweet — I'm getting tired of arguing with kernel maintainers. The other day I spent 6 hours arguing on IRC about what should've been a 30 minute fix patch. Hector Martin on Twitter Follow Up Tweet — Like dude, if you aren't going to step into my world and actually understand what I'm trying to do here, just suck it up and ack my patch. It is not my job to drag you kicking and screaming until you either give up or have a lightbulb moment. Seems some Kernel Maintainers Noticed the Twitter Rant — Well they saw my tweets and apparently didn't like them 🤷‍♂️ Bcachefs Rolling Out New Allocator, Performance Continues Improving — Bcachefs developer Kent Overstreet on Friday published a new status update on this original file-system born out of Linux's block cache (BCache) code. FreeBSD Re-Introduces WireGuard Into Its Kernel — As of Friday, a new WireGuard driver implementation has been re-introduced with many fixes/improvements over the code state from 2020. Open Letter to Gitea - Restoring Trust in the Gitea Project — This unfortunately concludes the Gitea Open Letter has failed and there is no alternative but forking the project under a new name, with a healthy democratic governance.

The focus of the new Ubuntu release, Gitea's surprising announcement, and Linux prepares to drop another architecture. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linux Action News Links: Ubuntu 22.10 Released — Codenamed “Kinetic Kudu”, this interim release improves the experience of enterprise developers and IT s. It also includes the latest toolchains and applications with a particular focus on the IoT ecosystem. LINUX Unplugged 481: Just a Prompt Away — We take a look at Ubuntu 22.10 on a ODRID H3+ Ubuntu 22.10 Pi Focused Features Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) Is Now Available for Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea — We’d like to announce that we have formed a company, Gitea Limited, to ensure the goals are met. Apple UFreq Driver Updated For Linux - Initial M2 Added — The new v3 patches have addressed raised during prior review. One notable addition with the new patches is adding initial for the Apple M2 SoC (T8112). Asahi Lina on Twitter — My Linux M1 GPU driver es >99% of the dEQP-GLES2 compliance tests! Hector Martin on Twitter Linus Torvalds may pull '486 from Linux kernel — As Torvalds surveyed contributors' code, he appears to have been frustrated by the need to include workarounds that cater to older Us. He therefore suggested ending for old kit could be an easier way to solve memory matters. Red Hat releases a virtual Red Hat Enterprise Linux desktop on AWS — Red Hat is positioning the service as suitable for processing-intensive workloads like animation rendering or data visualization but without the associated hardware costs. Stratis Storage 3.3 Released — Stratis 3.3.0 includes one significant enhancement and several smaller enhancements as well as number of stability and efficiency improvements. Stratis Storage Matthew Miller on Twitter — Heads up: we are very likely to slip the official Fedora Linux 37 release in order to integrate fixes for the critical openssl vulnerability. Official decision on this tomorrow. Forthcoming OpenSSL Releases — OpenSSL 3.0.7 is a security-fix release. The highest severity issue fixed in this release is CRITICAL

What makes Google's new OS so secure, a critical WiFi vulnerability in the Kernel, and why Linus is tapping the hype breaks for Linux 6.1. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linux Action News Links: Announcing KataOS and Sparrow — Our team in Google Research has set out to solve this problem by building a provably secure platform that's optimized for embedded devices that run ML applications. Google launches KataOS Google Announces KataOS As Security-Focused OS, Leveraging Rust & seL4 Microkernel Some remotely exploitable kernel WiFi vulnerabilities — It would appear that there is a set of memory-related vulnerabilities in the kernel's WiFi stack that can be exploited over the air via malicious packets; five CVE numbers have been assigned to the set. Linux Gets Patched For WiFi Vulnerabilities That Can Be Exploited By Malicious Packets - Phoronix Firefox 106 Brings Improved WebRTC - Better Screen Sharing On Wayland — Firefox 106 upgrades its WebRTC capabilities to now make use of libwebrtc 103. impervious.ai — A Suite of Peer-to-Peer Tools for Communications, Data Transport, and Payments, Built Directly Into the Web Browser Impervious Ai GitHub You’re invited to the Fedora Linux 37 Release Party! — Please on Hopin and us on November 4th and 5th for a short program of informational sessions and social activities. Fedora Linux 37 Release Party Registration Linus Torvalds to Linux devs: Stop pulling all-nighters — "Let me just say that after I got my machine sorted out and caught up with the merge window, I was somewhat frustrated with various late pull requests. I've mentioned this before, but it's _really_ quite annoying to get quite a few pull requests in the last few days of the merge window" Linux 6.1 Features Include Initial Rust Code, MGLRU, New AMD U Features, More Security Linux 6.1 Will Likely Be This Year’s LTS Kernel Release Taming the Beast - LUP 480 Send a Boost — a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app, and send a Boost and enjoy other improvements to your podcasts.

Plasma 5.26's standout features, Canonical flips the script on Red Hat, and why Android is leaking traffic outside VPNs. Sponsored By: Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: Plasma 5.26 Released — Plasma 5.26 comes with new and tweaked widgets, improves the desktop experience leaps and bounds, and Plasma Big Screen's app family grows These weeks in KDE: Akademy and Plasma 5.26 Google Reveals ‘First Laptops Built For Cloud Gaming’ — Google says the Acer Chromebook 516 GE, ASUS Chromebook Vibe CX55 Flip and Lenovo Ideapad Gaming Chromebook all have refresh rates of at least 120Hz, displays with up to 1600p resolution, immersive audio and, critically for cloud gaming, WiFi 6 or 6E connectivity. Intel Arc Graphics - A750 and A770 GPUs Release — The Intel Arc A750 and A770 GPUs officially launch today, October 12th in select markets. Everyone at Intel is beyond thrilled to get graphics cards with modern features and extremely competitive performance-per-dollar into your hands. Intel Arc Graphics Running On Fully Open-Source Linux Driver Canonical Launches Free Ubuntu Pro Subscriptions for Everyone — Ubuntu Pro is available for every ed Ubuntu LTS version, starting with Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and up to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Android leaks some traffic even when ‘Always-on VPN’ is enabled — The data being leaked outside VPN tunnels includes source IP addresses, DNS lookups, HTTPS traffic, and likely also NTP traffic. Incorrect VPN lockdown documentation [249990229] - Visible to Public - Issue Tracker Android leaks connectivity check traffic — As a closing note, we would like to recommend Google to adopt the ability to disable the connectivity checks, like on GrapheneOS, into stock Android. iOS VPN apps have another flaw: excluding many Apple apps — We confirm that iOS 16 does communicate with Apple services outside an active VPN tunnel. Worse, it leaks DNS requests. Apple services that escape the VPN connection include Health, Maps, and Wallet.

Our thoughts on IBM slicing up more of Red Hat, what stands out in Nextcloud Hub 3, and a few essential fixes finally landing in the Linux kernel. Sponsored By: Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: IBM Takes Over Red Hat Storage to IBM Offerings — IBM announced today it will add Red Hat storage product roaps and Red Hat associate teams to the IBM Storage business unit, bringing consistent application and data storage across on-premises infrastructure and cloud. Why Whitehurst is stepping away from IBM IBM Does A “Quasi-Acquisition” Of Red Hat Storage — Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation is also being absorbed into IBM Spectrum Fusion. IBM is assuming the Premier Sponsorship role of the Ceph Foundation from Red Hat. Announcing Nextcloud Hub 3 — Our design always followed three principles. Focus on content, ease of use, and great accessibility. For this refresh, we added a fourth: make it your own. Introducing NVK — NVK is a new open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa. Debian’s firmware vote results — The winning option allows the installer image to include firmware necessary to use the system. Intel Laptop s Should Avoid Linux 5.19.12 — After looking at some logs we do end up with potentially bogus power sequencing delays, which may harm the LCD . Intel Laptop s Should Avoid Linux 5.19.12 To Avoid Potentially Damaging The Display - Phoronix Linux 6.0 Released With Many Intel & AMD Driver Additions — Linus Torvalds just promoted Linux 6.0 to stable on-schedule and thereby now ushering in the Linux 6.1 merge window to officially get underway tomorrow. Some 6.0 development statistics — A total of 2,034 developers contributed to the 6.0 release; of those, 236 made their first contribution during this cycle. The total number of developers is just short of the record (2,086) set for 5.19, but the number of first-time contributors is the lowest seen since the 5.6 release (216) in 2020. Linux 6.0 ing New Intel/AMD Hardware Btrfs Brings Some Great Performance Improvements With Linux 6.1 The Initial Rust Infrastructure Has Been Merged Into Linux 6.1 — As a follow-up to the Rust infrastructure pull request for Linux 6.1, Linus Torvalds pulled the initial Rust code into the mainline Linux kernel this evening.