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On April 11, Brandt Bucher posted PEP 744 ("JIT Compilation"), which summarizes the current state of Python's new copy-and-patch just-in-time (JIT) compiler . The JIT is currently experimental,...

https://lwn.net/Articles/970397/

Version 24.04 LTS of the Ubuntu distribution is out. > This release continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the > latest and greatest open source technologies into a�...

https://lwn.net/Articles/971175/

Linux, famously, appears in a wide range of systems. While servers and large data centers get a lot of the attention, and this year will always be the year of the Linux desktop, there is also a g...

https://lwn.net/Articles/970555/

Security updates have been issued by FEDORA (curl, filezilla, flatpak, kubernetes, libfilezilla, thunderbird, and xen), ORACLE (go-toolset:ol8, kernel, libreswan, shim, and tigervnc), RED HAT (bu...

https://lwn.net/Articles/971140/

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 25, 2024 is available.

https://lwn.net/Articles/970328/

BleepingComputer reported on April 20 that some malware was being distributed via GitHub. Uploading files as part of a comment gives them a URL that appears to be associated with a repository, ...

https://lwn.net/Articles/971008/

On April 23, Mozilla announced that Firefox's crash reporter has been rewritten in Rust, allowing the project to address a backlog of issues. > Even though it is important to properly�...

https://lwn.net/Articles/971006/

Version 9.0 of the QEMU emulator has been released. "This release contains 2700+ commits from 220 authors." The list of improvements is long; see the announcement and the changelog for details.

https://lwn.net/Articles/971007/

For several years, contributors to the Rust project have been working to improve support for asynchronous code. The benefits of these efforts are not confined to asynchronous code, however. Memb...

https://lwn.net/Articles/970186/

Security updates have been issued by FEDORA (abseil-cpp, chromium, filezilla, libfilezilla, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), ORACLE (firefox, gnutls, golang, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, ja...

https://lwn.net/Articles/971004/

The long-running effort to complete the work on stacking (or composing) the Linux security modules (LSMs) recently encountered a barrier—in the form of a "suggestion" to discontinue it from Lin...

https://lwn.net/Articles/970070/

The Fedora 40 distribution has been released . See the "what's new" pages for Fedora Workstation and Fedora KDE to learn more about the desktop spins, along with this LWN article , for more inf...

https://lwn.net/Articles/970893/

The Rust programming language, it is hoped, will bring a new level of safety to the Linux kernel. At the moment, though, there are still a number of impediments to getting useful Rust code into t...

https://lwn.net/Articles/970216/

Security updates have been issued by DEBIAN (glibc and samba), FEDORA (chromium, cjson, mingw-python-idna, and pgadmin4), MAGEIA (kernel, kmod-xtables-addons, kmod-virtualbox, kernel-linus, and p...

https://lwn.net/Articles/970889/

The Open Home Foundation has announced its existence as a home and support resource for free home-automation projects. > We created the Open Home Foundation to fight for the fundame...

https://lwn.net/Articles/970835/