Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 23, 2025
This edition contains the following feature content:
- A look at the recent rsync vulnerability: how things went badly wrong within rsync.
- A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop: a few useful tools for minimizing desktop rodent exposure.
- The many names of commit 55039832f98c: a mismatch between the stable and DRM workflows highlights some of the problems with using Git commit IDs as change identifiers.
- Development statistics for 6.13: where the changes in this kernel release came from.
- A revamped Python string-formatting proposal: yet another round of discussion and revision for the generic template proposal.
- Reviving None-aware operators for Python: seeking consensus on a new set of operators for the Python language.
This week's edition also includes these inner pages:
- Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
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