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[$] Predictions for the new year

Par : corbet
5 janvier 2026 à 18:16
The calendar has flipped over to 2026; a new year has begun. That means the moment we all dread has arrived: it is time for LWN to put out a set of lame predictions for what may happen in the coming year. Needless to say, we do not know any more than anybody else, but that doesn't stop us from making authoritative-sounding pronouncements anyway.

GNU ddrescue 1.30 released

Par : jzb
5 janvier 2026 à 14:27

Version 1.30 of the GNU ddrescue data recovery tool has been released. Notable changes in this release include improvements to automatic recovery of a drive with a dead head, addition of a --no-sweep option to disable reading of skipped areas, and more.

Security updates for Monday

Par : jzb
5 janvier 2026 à 14:19
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (tar), Debian (curl and gimp), Fedora (doctl, gitleaks, gnupg2, grpcurl, nginx, nginx-mod-brotli, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-headers-more, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-mod-vts, and usd), Mageia (cups), Red Hat (container-tools:rhel8, go-toolset:rhel8, grafana, and skopeo), and SUSE (dirmngr, fluidsynth, gnu-recutils, libmatio-devel, python311-marshmallow, python312-Django6, rsync, and thunderbird).

Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc4

Par : corbet
5 janvier 2026 à 01:16
The 6.19-rc4 kernel prepatch is out for testing.

So this rc is still a bit smaller than usual, but it's not _much_ smaller, and I think next week is likely going to be more or less back to normal.

Which is all exactly as expected, and nothing here looks particularly odd. I'll make an rc8 this release just because of the time lost to the holidays, not because it looks like we'd have any particular issues pending (knock wood).

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