Tech News Digest – April 25, 2025
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Debian Project Leader Election 2025 results
Category: Linux
Tags: General
Published: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 22:25:40 +0000
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Andreas Tille has been re-elected as Debian Project Leader and will serve another term through April 2026. LWN had previously covered the election and candidates in early April.
The Debian Project Leader election results have been announced. Andreas Tille has been re-elected and will serve another term through April 2026. LWN looked at the election and candidates in early April.
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[$] Some nonstring turbulence
Category: Linux
Tags: Linux
Published: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:17:29 +0000
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The introduction of new compiler warnings, such as those in GCC 15, can help developers catch problems before they become bugs, but it can also cause disruption to the development process if not handled carefully. In this case, the implementation of a new warning (-Wunterminated-string-initializer) caused issues when the kernel release was updated to GCC 15.
New compiler releases often bring with them new warnings; those warnings are usually welcome, since they help developers find problems before they turn into nasty bugs. Adapting to new warnings can also create disruption in the development process, though, especially when an important developer upgrades to a new compiler at an unfortunate time. This is just the scenario that played out with the 6.15-rc3 kernel release and the implementation of -Wunterminated-string-initialization in GCC 15.
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[$] Freezing filesystems for suspend
Category: Linux
Tags: Linux
Published: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:08:07 +0000
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James Bottomley discussed filesystem behavior at the LSFMM+BPF Summit, noting that the efivarfs filesystem had never been used to resynchronize after system resume due to lack of API availability. This led Luis Chamberlain to work on hooking up the freeze and thaw code with the system-wide suspend and resume code.
Sometimes worms have a tendency to multiply once their can is opened. James Bottomley recently encountered that situation; he led a session in the filesystem track at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) to discuss filesystem behavior with respect to suspending and resuming the system. As he noted in his topic proposal, he came at the problem because he needed a way to resynchronize the contents of efivarfs after a system resume and thought there should be an API available to use. But, as the resulting thread shows, the filesystem freeze and thaw code had never been used by the system-wide suspend and resume code. Due to a scheduling mixup, though, several of us missed Bottomley's session, including Luis Chamberlain who has been working on hooking those two pieces up; what follows is largely from a second session that Chamberlain led, with some background information from the topic-proposal discussion and an email exchange with Bottomley.
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Security updates for Thursday
Category: Linux
Tags: General
Published: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:00:08 +0000
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Multiple Linux distributions have issued security updates, including Debian, Fedora, Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu. The updates address vulnerabilities in various packages, including Apache, Erlang, Haproxy, Thunderbird, and more, to ensure the security and integrity of Linux systems.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (haproxy and openrazer), Fedora (c-ares and mingw-poppler), Red Hat (thunderbird), SUSE (epiphany, ffmpeg-6, gopass, and libsoup-3_0-0), and Ubuntu (erlang, haproxy, libapache2-mod-auth-openidc, libarchive, linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde, linux-azure-fde-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-intel-iotg, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-tegra, linux-nvidia-tegra-igx, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8, linux-ibm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-oem-6.8, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8, linux-aws-6.8, linux-aws-fips, linux-fips, linux-gcp-fips, linux-azure-fips, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-gcp-6.8, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-intel-iot-realtime, linux-realtime, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-realtime, perl, and yelp, yelp-xsl).
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 24, 2025
Category: Linux
Tags: General
Published: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:47:45 +0000
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The latest LWN.net Weekly Edition covers various topics including front-page articles on Linux kernel development, as well as briefs on new operating system releases, conference announcements, and security updates. The edition also includes announcements for newsletters, conferences, patches, and more.
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: Owen Le Blanc and MCC; UID/GID drift; DMA for UIO; More LSFMM+BPF 2025 coverage.
Briefs: EU OS; RISC-V Fedora; Ubuntu 25.04; NLnet funding; Template strings; Tor Browser 14.5; Quotes; ...
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
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