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Kernel release status

The 6.4 merge window remains open; it can be expected to close on May 7.

Stable updates: 6.3.1, 6.2.14, 6.1.27, and 5.15.110 were released on May 1.

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Quote of the week

We are planning to perform a migration of email distribution for the netdev@vger mailing list on Tue, May 2nd (4PM EDT / 1PM PDT).

There should be no impact to the workflow, the only expected change will be a different set of Received: headers. The emails should start to flow via the kernel.org servers. [...]

vger have served us well over the decades (let's defer the full "thank yous" for after the migration ;)) but we're hoping that migrating to a more recent(?) stack will smooth out remaining occasional glitches. And perhaps more importantly allow us to integrate better with existing kernel.org infrastructure (lore).

— Jakub Kicinski announces the move of the netdev mailing list — the first active kernel list to be migrated off the venerable vger server.

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Debian "bookworm" release on June 10

For those who are waiting for the upcoming Debian "bookworm" release, the date has now been set: it's coming out on June 10. The full-freeze date for the distribution will be May 24.

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The Guix (almost) full-source bootstrap

The Guix project ("a transactional package manager and an advanced distribution of the GNU system") has announced a milestone toward its goal of bootstrapping an entire distribution from source:

If you run guix pull today, you get a package graph of more than 22,000 nodes rooted in a 357-byte program—something that had never been achieved, to our knowledge, since the birth of Unix.

This is an interesting exercise, but should also be a defense against "trusting trust" attacks. (Thanks to Ludovic Courtès and Andy Tai).

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SystemTap 4.9 released

Version 4.9 of the SystemTap tracing tool has been released. The headline changes this time include a new, Jupyter-based frontend and a language-server-protocol interface for name completion.

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Valgrind-3.21.0 released

Version 3.21.0 of the Valgrind code-analysis tool is out. Changes include better integration with the GDB debugger, better checks for non-portable realloc() calls, and a number of other improvements.

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