La Chambre des communes se réunit exceptionnellement samedi pour se prononcer sur le nouvel accord de divorce conclu entre Londres et Bruxelles.

Quatre jours après la condamnation de neuf dirigeants catalans à des peines de prison pour la tentative de sécession de 2017, leurs partisans avaient appelé à une « grève générale ». La situation a, de nouveau, dégénéré dans la soirée.

Le mouvement de protestation, né d’un accident survenu dans les Ardennes, se produit alors que le corps social cheminot est vent debout contre la réforme ferroviaire et celle des retraites.

Un échange entre salariés de Boeing révèle qu’ils savaient que le système antidécrochage MCAS rendait l’appareil difficile à piloter en simulateur.

C’est enfin l’heure des quarts de finale ! On n’en pouvait plus de ne rien avoir à se mettre sous la dent. Programme du jour : Angleterre- Australie et Nouvelle-Zélande-Irlande.

A l’Ecole militaire, le premier ministre a expliqué vendredi vouloir resserrer les liens entre l’armée et le pays.

A la suite de l’arrestation d’Ovidio Guzman Lopez, des affrontements à l’arme lourde entre les membres du cartel de Sinaloa et les forces de l’ordre ont fait huit morts, dont un passant, jeudi.

Dans une tribune au « Monde », Vincent Baud, expert en management, lance un cri d’alarme sur les conditions de travail des cadres, happés par les tâches numériques.

L’éducation est une science (moyennement) exacte. Cette semaine, Nicolas Santolaria s’intéresse à ces deux tribus de parents : ceux qui hurlent à tout bout de champ et ceux qui restent calmes quoi qu’il arrive.

L’annonce des condamnations pour blanchiment des époux à la tête de la ville est accueillie diversement par leurs administrés. Certains seraient prêts à réélire leur maire.

kmalloc() is a frequently used primitive for the allocation of small objects in the kernel. During the 2019 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory Management Summit, Vlastimil Babka led a session about the unexpected alignment problems developers face when using this function. After a few months he has come back with the second version of a patch set implementing a natural alignment guarantee for kmalloc(). From the strong opposition it faced initially, it seemed that the change would not get accepted. However, it ended up in Linus Torvalds's tree. Let's explore what happened.

After more than two years of development, the Linux trace toolkit next generation (LTTng) project has released version 2.11.0 of the kernel and user-space tracing tool. The release covers the LTTng tools, LTTng user-space tracer, and LTTng kernel modules. It includes a number of new features that are described in the announcement including session rotation, dynamic user-space tracing, call-stack capturing for the kernel and user space, improved networking performance, NUMA awareness for user-space tracing buffer allocation, and more. "The biggest feature of this release is the long-awaited session rotation support. Session rotations now allow you to rotate an ongoing tracing session much in the same way as you would rotate logs.
The 'lttng rotate' command rotates the current trace chunk of the current tracing session. Once a rotation is completed, LTTng does not manage the trace chunk archive anymore: you can read it, modify it, move it, or remove it.
Because a rotation causes the tracing session’s current sub-buffers to be flushed, trace chunk archives are never redundant, that is, they do not overlap over time, unlike snapshots.
Once a rotation is complete, offline analyses can be performed on the resulting trace, much like in 'normal' mode. However, the big advantage is that this can be done without interrupting tracing, and without being limited to tools which implement the 'live' protocol."

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 5.3.7, 4.19.80, 4.14.150, 4.9.197, and 4.4.197 stable kernels. All five contain important fixes throughout the kernel tree, as usual. Users of those series should upgrade.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (poppler, sudo, and wordpress), Oracle (java-1.8.0-openjdk), Red Hat (java-1.8.0-openjdk), Scientific Linux (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, and kernel), and SUSE (kernel and postgresql10).

Ubuntu has announced the release of 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" in desktop and server editions as well as all of the different flavors: Ubuntu Budgie, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu. "The Ubuntu kernel has been updated to the 5.3 based Linux kernel, and our default toolchain has moved to gcc 9.2 with glibc 2.30. Additionally, the Raspberry Pi images now support the new Pi 4 as well as 2 and 3.
Ubuntu Desktop 19.10 introduces GNOME 3.34 the fastest release yet with significant performance improvements delivering a more responsive experience. App organisation is easier with the ability to drag and drop icons into categorised folders and users can select light or dark Yaru theme variants. The Ubuntu Desktop installer also introduces installing to ZFS as a root filesystem as an experimental feature." More information can also be found in the release notes.