Open-source News

Linux Foundation unveils Redis alternative, 'Valkey', with backing from AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle  ITPro

German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating  Ars Technica

Back in 2022 Cloudflare began talking about replacing Nginx with their own in-house, Rust-written code called Pingora, talked about Pingora more in 2023, and then this past February made this Pingora framework open-source for creating reliable and fast networked systems. Today marks the first official release of Pingora with the v0.1 tag...

This backdoor almost infected Linux everywhere: The XZ Utils close call  ZDNet

Wine 9.6 has just been issued as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to enjoy Windows games and applications under Linux...

Wine 9.6 released with more Direct2D effects work, support for RSA OAEP padding in BCrypt  GamingOnLinux

Veteran Linux kernel developer Peter Zijlstra is working to wrap-up feature work around the EEVDF kernel scheduler code...

New EEVDF Linux Scheduler Patches Make It Functionally "Complete"  Phoronix

Linux backdoor was a long con, possibly with nation-state support, experts say  Nextgov/FCW

The OpenZFS file-system has merged support for using multiple task queues (TaskQs) to enhance performance for multi-core systems...

OpenZFS Merges Support For Using Multiple Task Queues To Increase Performance  Phoronix

OpenBLAS 0.3.27 is out as the newest version of this prominent open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) library...

Richard Hughes of Red Hat has published Fwupd 1.9.16 as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems that pairs with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for easy firmware redistribution...

Fwupd 1.9.16 Adds Support For More USB Docks & Qualcomm Devices  Phoronix

The XZ Backdoor explained  CyberNews.com

Wow! German State Ditches Microsoft for Open-Source Software  It's FOSS News

Fwupd 1.9.16 Brings Support for Acer T34 and U33 Docks, Qualcomm Series 5 Devices  9to5Linux

The very exciting FFmpeg 7.0 multimedia library has been released! FFmpeg 7.0 rolls out most notably the new native VVC decoder that is currently experimental for supporting Versatile Video Coding as well as introducing the multi-threaded FFmpeg CLI tool...

Following the Intel Linux kernel graphics driver patches last month adding two new DG2/Alchemist PCI IDs that when digging through the Intel Compute Runtime sources were confirmed as the Arc Graphics A580E and A750E, the Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan drivers have now added support for these new graphics processors...

Theo de Raadt has released OpenBSD 7.5 as the newest version of this security-focused BSD operating system. With OpenBSD 7.5 there is a number of improvements for ARM (AArch64) hardware, never-ending kernel optimizations and other tuning work, countless package updates, and other adjustments to this popular BSD platform...