Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.19.9 and 6.18.19 stable kernels. As usual, each has important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to upgrade.

Version 1.7.0 ("Daffodil") of the Radicle peer-to-peer, local-first code collaboration stack has been released. Some of the changes in this release include improved I/O usage, the ability to block nodes at the connection level, and clearer errors for rad id updates. See the release notes for a full list of changes and bug fixes.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (freetype), Fedora (aqualung, kiss-fft, libtasn1, mac, and vim), Red Hat (libarchive, osbuild-composer, and rhc), Slackware (expat), SUSE (ca-certificates-mozilla, chromium, cockpit, cockpit-machines, cockpit-podman, curl, docker, docker-compose, docker-stable, gnutls, gstreamer-rtsp-server, gstreamer-plugins-ugly, gstreamer- plugins-rs, gstreamer-plugins-libav, gstreamer-plugins-good, gstreamer-plugins- base, gstreamer-plugins-bad, gstreamer-docs, gstreamer-devtools, gstreamer, gvfs, helm, kernel, krb5-appl, libsoup, libxslt, libxml2, openssh, python-cryptography, python-django, python-pypdf2, python-simpleeval, python311, qemu, ruby4.0-rubygem-sprockets, ruby4.0-rubygem-thor, ruby4.0-rubygem-web-console, ruby4.0-rubygem-websocket-extensions, skaffold, smb4k, tomcat, ucode-intel, util-linux, virtiofsd, and zlib), and Ubuntu (bouncycastle, exiv2, freerdp3, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, linux-aws-fips, python2.7, roundcube, and valkey).

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Privacy battles; page-cache-timing protections; null filesystems; Fedora Sandbox; safer kmalloc(); BPF in io_uring.
• Briefs: AppArmor vulnerabilities; snapd vulnerability; Sashiko; DPL election; Fedora Asahi 43; GIMP 3.2; Marknote 1.5; Quotes; ...
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