Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 15, 2024

• A turning point for CVE numbers: the kernel project is taking on the responsibility of issuing its own CVE numbers; the approach being taken to that task may have wide-ranging repercussions.
• KDE Plasma X11 support gets a reprieve for Fedora 40: there is a strong desire to drop support for the X Window System in Fedora, but that support will live on for at least a little longer.
• Another runc container breakout: leaked file descriptors offer another way to escape from a container.
• Pitchforks for RDSEED: random-number generators built into the CPU are subject to entropy exhaustion, with possibly catastrophic consequences for some use cases.
• A look at dynamic linking: an overview of how dynamically linked programs are launched on a Linux system.
• Gnuplot 6 comes with pie: new features in the Gnuplot 6.0 release.

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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