The 6.9.6, 6.6.35, 6.1.95, and 5.10.220 stable kernels have all been released; as usual, users are advised to update immediately.
The usual "must upgrade" Posted Jun 21, 2024 22:55 UTC (Fri) by proski (guest, #104) [Link] (1 responses) The announcements don't say "immediately". They use the usual language: "All users of the x.y kernel series must upgrade." That being said, look for "use-after-free" in the logs. Quite a lot. One is in btrfs. Another argument for implementing filesystems in Rust. The usual "must upgrade" Posted Jun 22, 2024 2:58 UTC (Sat) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] Skimmed it looking for anything “headline worthy” and nothing jumped out, but that's a good thing. But still, quite a few iwlwifi fixes and that's fairly common hardware, and the big chunk of cachefiles stability fixes looks relevant to me.
Posted Jun 21, 2024 22:55 UTC (Fri) by proski (guest, #104) [Link] (1 responses)
That being said, look for "use-after-free" in the logs. Quite a lot. One is in btrfs. Another argument for implementing filesystems in Rust.
The usual "must upgrade" Posted Jun 22, 2024 2:58 UTC (Sat) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] Skimmed it looking for anything “headline worthy” and nothing jumped out, but that's a good thing. But still, quite a few iwlwifi fixes and that's fairly common hardware, and the big chunk of cachefiles stability fixes looks relevant to me.
Posted Jun 22, 2024 2:58 UTC (Sat) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]
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