VirtualBox 7.1.0 released
Version 7.1.0 of the VirtualBox virtualization system has
been released. Changes include a major GUI update, a new Network Address
Translation (NAT) engine with IPv6 support, shared clipboard support on Wayland,
and more.
[$] Debating ifupdown replacements for Debian trixie
Debian does not have an official way to configure
networking. Instead, it has four recommended ways to configure networking, one
of which is the venerable ifupdown, which has been part of Debian since the turn
of the century and is showing its age. A conversation about its maintainability
and possible replacement with ifupdown‑ng has led to discussions about the
default network-management tools for Debian "trixie" (Debian 13, which is
expected in 2025) and beyond. No route to consensus has been found, yet.
New stable kernels released
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of seven new
stable kernels: 6.10.10, 6.6.51, 6.1.110, 5.15.167, 5.10.226 5.4.284, and
4.19.322. As usual, they all contain lots of important fixes throughout the
kernel tree.
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and
redis), Fedora (nextcloud, python3.10, python3.13, python3.6, vim, and wolfssl),
Mageia (expat, libpcap, and microcode), Oracle (dovecot, kernel, and kernel-
container), Red Hat (kernel and krb5), SUSE (389-ds, colord, containerd, curl,
expat, glib2, go1.22, go1.23, kernel, libpcap, postgresql16, and runc), and
Ubuntu (expat, libxmltok, linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-bluefield, linux-
gcp, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux, linux-aws, linux-
gcp, linux-gke, linux-ibm, linux-lowlatency, linux-oem-6.8, linux-oracle, linux-
aws-5.4, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-
oracle-5.4, linux-raspi-5.4, linux-azure, linux-iot, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-
lowlatency, python-setuptools, setuptools, tiff, and unbound).
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 12, 2024
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 12, 2024 is
available.