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Monday, August 16th, 2021

    Time Event
    2:30a
    Kernel prepatch 5.14-rc6
    The 5.14-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for
    testing. "Nothing particular stands out to me. Go test, we should be
    getting pretty close to done with this release...    "
    3:11p
    Security updates for Monday
    Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (c-ares, firefox, fossil, gitlab, jupyterlab, loki, lynx, opera, prosody, and vivaldi), Debian (amd64-microcode, exiv2, ffmpeg, thunderbird, and trafficserver), Fedora (libsndfile, rust-argh, rust-argh_derive, rust-argh_shared, rust-askalono-cli, rust-asyncgit, rust-bugreport, rust-crosstermion, rust-diskonaut, rust-dua-cli, rust-fancy-regex, rust-fedora-update-feedback, rust-filetreelist, rust-git-version, rust-git-version-macro, rust-gitui, rust-heatseeker, rust-jql, rust-pulldown-cmark, rust-sd, rust-shadow-rs, rust-skim, rust-textwrap, rust-tokei, rust-tui, rust-tui-react, rust-unicode-linebreak, rust-unicode-truncate, rust-urlencoding, rust-versions, rust-weezl, and zola), Mageia (dino, firefox, glibc, libvirt, mariadb, qtwebengine5, spice, sylpheed, claws-mail, and webkit2), openSUSE (grafana, kernel, libdnf, and openscad), Oracle (.NET 5.0, .NET Core 3.1, and virt:ol and virt-devel:rhel), Red Hat (compat-exiv2-026, exiv2, firefox, sssd, and thunderbird), SUSE (cpio and kernel), and Ubuntu (mariadb-10.3, mariadb-10.5).
    3:29p
    Debian Edu / Skolelinux Bullseye released
    Following the Debian "Bullseye" release is a new Skolelinux distribution for a school near you.

    Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school network. Immediately after installation, a school server running all services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users and machines to be added via GOsa², a comfortable web interface.
    4:02p
    Asahi Linux progress report for August
    For those waiting to run Linux on Apple M1 hardware, the the August Asahi Linux progress report is out.

    Instead, a much safer approach that has been used by projects such as Nouveau in the past is to record a log of the hardware accesses that the official drivers perform on a real system, without actually looking at the code. Nouveau accomplished this by using a Linux driver to intercept accesses by Nvidia’s official Linux driver. Of course, Apple’s M1 drivers are for macOS, not Linux. While we could implement the same approach with a custom patch to the open source core of the macOS kernel, we decided instead to go one level deeper and build a hypervisor that can run the entirety of macOS, unmodified, in a VM that transparently presents it the real M1 hardware.
    4:27p
    [$] Short subjects: Realtime, Futexes, and ntfs3
    Even in the dog days of (northern-hemisphere) summer, the kernel community
    is a busy place. There are many developments that show up on your editor's
    radar, but which, for whatever reason, do not find their way into a
    full-length feature article. The time has come to catch up with a few of
    those topics; read on for updates on the realtime patch set, the effort to
    reinvent futexes, and the ntfs3 filesystem.
    10:05p
    Go 1.17 is released
    The Go blog has announced the release of version 1.17 of the Go programming language. The new version has some fairly small changes to the language, support for the Arm 64-bit architecture on Windows, along with other features, bug fixes, and more:


    This release brings additional improvements to the compiler, namely a new way of passing function arguments and results. This change has shown about a 5% performance improvement in Go programs and reduction in binary sizes of around 2% for amd64 platforms. Support for more platforms will come in future releases.

    </p>
    See the
    release notes for more information.

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