Rust 1.82.0 released
Version 1.82.0 of the Rust language has been released.
There are a lot of new features this time, including a cargo info command,
tier-1 support for 64-bit Apple Arm systems, a new native syntax (&raw) to
create raw pointers, changes to unsafe extern, unsafe attributes, standardized
rules around the handling of floating-point not-a-number values, and more.
[$] A look at the aerc mail client
Email has become somewhat unfashionable as a collaboration
tool for open-source projects, but there are still a number of projects—such as
PostgreSQL and the Linux kernel—that expect contributors to send and review
patches via email. The aerc mail client is aimed at developers looking for a
text-based, efficient, and extensible client that is meant to be used for
working with Git and email. It uses Vim-style keybindings by default, and has an
interface inspired by tmux that lets users manage multiple accounts, mails, and
embedded terminals at once.
Five new stable kernels
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.11.4,
6.6.57, 6.1.113, 5.15.168, and 5.10.227 stable kernels. As usual, this set of
updates contains a long list of important fixes throughout the kernel
tree.
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-
cryptography), Fedora (dnsdist and python-virtualenv), Red Hat
(java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, and java-21-openjdk),
Slackware (libssh2 and mozilla), SUSE (haproxy, keepalived, libarchive,
libnss_slurm2, php8, and python310-pytest-html), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws,
linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.15,
linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-intel-iotg, linux-intel-
iotg-5.15, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-
nvidia, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.15, linux-raspi, linux-xilinx-zynqmp,
linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-bluefield, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4,
linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle,
linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, and linux,
linux-aws, linux-aws-6.8, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.8, linux-hwe-6.8, linux-ibm,
linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8,
linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-oem-6.8, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8, linux-
raspi).
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 17, 2024
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 17, 2024 is
available.