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Thursday, August 12th, 2021
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| 12:44a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 12, 2021
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 12, 2021 is available. | | 1:19p |
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (java-1.8.0-openjdk), Debian (firefox-esr, libspf2, and openjdk-11-jre-dcevm), Fedora (bluez, fetchmail, and prosody), Oracle (edk2, glib2, kernel, and libuv), Red Hat (.NET Core 3.1), SUSE (cpio), and Ubuntu (firefox and openssh). | | 1:35p |
Stable kernels 5.13.10, 5.10.58, 5.4.140, and 4.19.203 Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 5.13.10, 5.10.58, 5.4.140, and 4.19.203 stable kernels. As usual, they all contain important fixes throughout the kernel tree; users of those series should upgrade. | | 2:09p |
[$] PostgreSQL's commitfest clog
While it may seem like the number of developers would be the limiting factor
in a free-software project, the truth of the matter is that, for all but
the smallest of project, the scarcest resource is reviewer time. Lots of
people like to crank out code; rather fewer can find the time to take a
close look at somebody else's patches. Free-software projects have taken
a number of different approaches to address the review problem; the PostgreSQL developer
community is currently struggling with its review load and considering
changes to its commitfest process in response. | | 4:22p |
Facebook, Google, Isovalent, Microsoft and Netflix Launch eBPF Foundation as Part of the Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation has announced the formation of the eBPF Foundation:
Founding members include Facebook, Google, Isovalent, Microsoft and Netflix. This comes in advance of the eBPF Summit, a free and virtual event taking place August 18-19, 2021.
eBPF allows developers to safely and efficiently embed programs in any piece of software, including the operating system kernel. As a result, eBPF is quickly becoming the method of choice for achieving a wide range of infrastructure use cases, delivering significant efficiency and performance gains and dramatically reducing the complexity of the system. For example, Facebook is using eBPF as the primary software-defined load balancer in its data centers, and Google is using Cilium to bring eBPF-based networking and security to the managed Kubernetes offerings GKE and Anthos.
[...] The eBPF Foundation will expand the significant level of contributions being made to extend the powerful capabilities of eBPF and grow beyond Linux. It will be the home for open source eBPF projects and technologies and nurture the community through a variety of activities, including summits and other collaboration events in order to further drive the growth and adoption of the eBPF ecosystem.
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