Tech News Digest - 2025-04-15

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Pinta 3.0 released

Category: Linux
Tags: General
Published: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:16:05 +0000
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Pinta version 3.0 has been released, marking the image editor's port to GTK 4.0 and libadwaita. This release also includes several improvements, new effects, and bug fixes.

Version 3.0 of the Pinta image editor has been released. The most notable change in this release is that Pinta has been ported to GTK 4.0 and libadwaita. It also includes a number of improvements, new effects, and bug fixes.

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[$] In search of a stable BPF verifier

Category: Linux
Tags: Linux
Published: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:47:53 +0000
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BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter) programs are not guaranteed to be compatible with new kernel versions, which can lead to instability and unintended breakages. In response, two researchers presented different approaches at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit to address this issue and improve the stability of deploying BPF programs across multiple kernel versions.

BPF is, famously, not part of the kernel's promises of user-space stability. New kernels can and do break existing BPF programs; the BPF developers try to fix unintentional regressions as they happen, but the whole thing can be something of a bumpy ride for users trying to deploy BPF programs across multiple kernel versions. Shung-Hsi Yu and Daniel Xu had two different approaches to fixing the problem that they presented at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit.

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[$] The state of the memory-management development process, 2025 edition

Category: Linux
Tags: Linux
Published: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:42:29 +0000
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Andrew Morton, the lead maintainer for the kernel's memory-management subsystem, typically keeps a low profile during the Linux Summit, letting developers work independently. However, when he leads the traditional development-process session in the memory-management track, he actively engages with developers to discuss ways to improve the process, but no significant problems were identified at the 2025 gathering.
Andrew Morton, the lead maintainer for the kernel's memory-management subsystem, tends to be quiet during the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, preferring to let the developers work things out on their own. That changes, though, when he leads the traditional development-process session in the memory-management track. At the 2025 gathering, this discussion covered a number of ways in which the process could be improved, but did not unearth any significant problems.
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Security updates for Monday

Category: Linux
Tags: Linux
Published: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:35:33 +0000
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Multiple Linux distributions have issued security updates to fix vulnerabilities in various packages, including glib2.0, jinja2, kernel, perl, subversion, and more. The affected distributions include Debian, Fedora, Mageia, Oracle, Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu, with updates ranging from fixes for individual packages to complete kernel updates.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (glib2.0, jinja2, kernel, mediawiki, perl, subversion, twitter-bootstrap3, twitter-bootstrap4, and wpa), Fedora (c-ares, chromium, condor, corosync, cri-tools1.29, exim, firefox, matrix-synapse, nextcloud, openvpn, perl-Data-Entropy, suricata, upx, varnish, webkitgtk, yarnpkg, and zabbix), Mageia (giflib, gnupg2, graphicsmagick, and poppler), Oracle (delve and golang, go-toolset:ol8, grub2, and webkit2gtk3), Red Hat (kernel and kernel-rt), SUSE (chromium, fontforge-20230101, govulncheck-vulndb, kernel, liblzma5-32bit, pgadmin4, python311-Django, and python311-PyJWT), and Ubuntu (graphicsmagick).
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Kernel prepatch 6.15-rc2

Category: Linux
Tags: General
Published: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 22:04:47 +0000
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Linus has released Linux kernel version 6.15-rc2 for testing. He notes that nothing particularly significant stands out at this early stage of the release, but wants to monitor its progress before making any further comments.
Linus has released 6.15-rc2 for testing. "Nothing particularly stands out to me, but it's early in the release yet, so let's see how it goes."
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