[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 13, 2024
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 13, 2024 is available.
Leap 15.6 is projected to receive maintenance and security updates until the end of 2025 to ensure sufficient overlap with the next release". Changes include the addition of the Cockpit server-management tool, a 6.4 kernel, GNOME 45, and many other upgrades. This release also removes a long list of unmaintained Python packages. See the release notes for details.
I honestly see no reason to delay this any more. This whole patchset was the major (private) discussion at last year's kernel maintainer summit, and I don't find any value in having the same discussion (whether off-list or as an actual event) at the upcoming maintainer summit one year later, so to make any kind of sane progress, my current plan is to merge this for 6.11.
Update: this Mozilla Security Blog post describes the HTTPS-related changes in detail.
Perl 5.40.0 represents approximately 11 months of development since Perl 5.38.0 and contains approximately 160,000 lines of changes across 1,500 files from 75 authors". Significant changes include a new __CLASS__ keyword, a :reader attribute for field variables, a new "^^" logical-XOR operator (because two of those were not enough), moving "try/catch" out of the experimental category, and more; see this page for lots of details.
So things look good, the water is warm, please jump right in and keep testing,"
This release contains the second wave of changes contributed by students of the University of Texas at Austin and a few other features and improvements." The features include a new incus top command, a new API for system load information, and more.
Give it a try; if you have comments on the new mechanism, this is the place to put them.
Nothing feels particularly odd, but rc2 is usually fairly small and people are only starting to find regressions. So please go test some more."