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OpenSSH 9.3 released

OpenSSH 9.3 has been released. It includes a couple of security fixes, as well as adding an option for hash-algorithm selection to ssh-keygen and an option that allows configuration checking without actually loading any private keys.

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Kernel release status

The current development kernel is 6.3-rc3, released on March 19. "So rc3 is fairly big, but that's not hugely usual: it's when a lot of the fixes tick up as it takes a while before people find and start reporting issues."

Stable updates: 6.2.7, 6.1.20, 5.15.103, 5.10.175, 5.4.237, 4.19.278, and 4.14.310 were all released on March 17, followed by 6.2.8, 6.1.21, 5.15.104, 5.10.176, 5.4.238, 4.19.279, and 4.14.311 on March 22.

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Amazon Linux 2023 released

Amazon has released a new version of its vaguely Fedora-based, cloud-optimized distribution.

Last—and this policy is by far my favorite—Amazon Linux provides you with deterministic updates through versioned repositories, a flexible and consistent update mechanism. The distribution locks to a specific version of the Amazon Linux package repository, giving you control over how and when you absorb updates. By default, and in contrast with Amazon Linux 2, a dnf update command will not update your installed packages.

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coreutils-9.2 released

Version 9.2 of the GNU coreutils collection — the home of common tools like cp, mv, ls, rm, and more — is out. The changes are mostly minor; numerous bugs have been fixed and a few new command-line options have been added.

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25 Years of curl

Daniel Stenberg observes the 25th anniversary of the curl project.

We really have no idea exactly how many users or installations of libcurl there are now. It is easy to estimate that it runs in way more than ten billion installations purely based on the fact that there are 7 billion smart phones and 1 billion tablets in the world , and we know that each of them run at least one, but likely many more curl installs.

Curl 8.0.0 has also been released (quickly followed by 8.0.1).

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GNOME 44 released

Version 44 of the GNOME desktop environment has been released. "This release brings a grid view in the file chooser, improved settings panels for Device Security, Accessibility, etc, and refined quick settings in the shell. The Software and Files apps have seen improvements, and a whole slew of new apps has joined the GNOME Circle". See the release notes for details.

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JDK 20 released

Version 20 of the Java SE platform has been released. See the features list for an overview of the big additions, or the release notes for the details.

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LLVM 16.0.0 released

Version 16.0.0 of the LLVM compiler suite has been released. As usual, the list of changes is long; see the specific release notes for LLVM, Clang, Libc++, and others linked from the announcement.

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The FSF's Free Software Awards

The Free Software Foundation has announced the recipients of this year's Free Software Awards:

• Eli Zaretskii (advancement of free software)
• Tad (SkewedZeppelin) (outstanding new free software contributor)
• GNU Jami (project of social benefit)

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SFC: John Deere's ongoing GPL violations: What's next

The Software Freedom Conservancy calls out John Deere for failure to comply with the GPL and preventing farmers from repairing their own equipment.

This is a serious issue that goes far beyond one person wanting to fix their printer software, or install an alternative firmware on a luxury device. It has far-reaching implications for all farmers' livelihoods, for food security throughout the world, and for how we as a society choose to reward those who make our lives better, or stand in the way of empowering everyone to improve the world.

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