Tech News Digest - 2025-04-30

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How LWN is faring in 2025

Category: Linux
Tags: General
Published: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:37:17 +0000
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The US economy was once considered the envy of the world, but that perception has changed significantly over the past six years. Today, markets are declining and uncertainty is at an all-time high, causing challenges for even organizations like LWN, which expects to navigate this period despite the difficulties.
Just over six years ago, The Economist described the US economy as "the envy of the world". That headline would be unlikely to appear now. The economic boom referenced in that article feels like a distant memory, markets are falling, and uncertainty is at an all-time high. Like everybody else, LWN is affected by the current turbulence in the political and economic spheres; we expect to get through this period, but there will be some challenges.
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Security updates for Wednesday

Category: Linux
Tags: Linux
Published: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:33:39 +0000
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Multiple Linux distributions have issued security updates to fix various vulnerabilities. The affected distributions include Debian, Fedora, Red Hat, Slackware, SUSE, and Ubuntu, with issues affecting libraries, applications, and kernel components.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (glibc and libraw), Fedora (digikam, icecat, mingw-LibRaw, perl, perl-Devel-Cover, and perl-PAR-Packer), Red Hat (ghostscript, kernel, and kernel-rt), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (augeas, firefox, and java-11-openjdk), and Ubuntu (binutils, libxml2, and nodejs).
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LWN's Mastodon migration

Category: Linux
Tags: General
Published: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:29:45 +0000
TL;DR: The LWN.net Mastodon feed, previously known as @LWN, has been renamed to @LWN@lwn.net and is now located at fedi.lwn.net. If you follow the old stream, it's recommended to update your subscription to ensure you continue receiving updates from the new location.
The LWN.net fediverse (Mastodon) feed has moved; we are now known as @LWN@lwn.net. The migration magic has shifted many of our followers over automatically but, if you follow that stream, you might want to make sure that you have shifted to the new source.
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Meson 1.8.0 released

Category: Linux
Tags: General
Published: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:16:49 +0000
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Meson build system has released version 1.8.0, which includes notable changes such as the ability to run Rustdoc for Rust projects and support for new compiler options. Additionally, this release introduces an argument that allows the same meson.build file to be used for both Android and non-Android systems.

Version 1.8.0 of the Meson build system has been released. Notable changes in this release include the ability to run rustdoc for Rust projects, support for the c2y and gnu2y compiler options, and a new argument (android_exe_type) that makes it possible to use the same meson.build file for Android and non-Android systems.

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Firefox 138.0 released

Category: Linux
Tags: General
Published: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:56:56 +0000
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Mozilla has released version 138.0 of its Firefox web browser, which includes several updates including improved profile management and weather-related suggestions in the address bar for US users. The new release also features some security fixes to enhance user protection.
Version 138.0 of the Firefox web browser has been released. Changes include some profile-management improvements, the ability to get weather-related suggestions in the address bar (US only), and some security fixes.
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