[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 15, 2024
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 15, 2024 is available.
This release builds upon the recently added OCI support from Incus 6.3, making it even easier to run application containers. It also adds a number of useful new features for clustered and larger environments with more control on the virtual CPU used when live migrating VMs and finer grained resource constraints within projects.
See this announcement for details.
Rust for Linux. The experimental support for Rust development in the Linux kernel is a watershed moment for Rust, demonstrating to the world that Rust is indeed capable of targeting all manner of low-level systems applications. And yet today that support rests on a number of unstable features, blocking the effort from ever going beyond experimental status. For 2024H2 we will work to close the largest gaps that block support.
Other goals include completing the 2024 Rust Edition and improving the language's async support.
Nothing particularly strange or interesting going on, things look normal".
To provide users with the absolute latest in features and hardware support, Ubuntu will now ship the absolute latest available version of the upstream Linux kernel at the specified Ubuntu release freeze date, even if upstream is still in Release Candidate (RC) status.
The post goes on to acknowledge that "there are issues with this
approach
"; there are a lot of policy details that will apply depending
on just how raw the shipped kernel is.
When services use localhost, they assume a constrained environment. This assumption, which can (as in the case of this vulnerability) be faulty, results in insecure server implementations."
Hopefully we've gotten rid of the bulk of the silly noise here in rc2, and not added too much new noise, so that we can get on with the process of finding more meaningful issues."