Seven more stable kernels
The 6.2.8, 6.1.21, 5.15.104, 5.10.176, 5.4.238, 4.19.279,
and 4.14.311 stable kernel updates have all been released; each contains another
set of important fixes.
GNOME 44 released
Version 44 of the GNOME desktop environment has been
released. "This release brings a grid view in the file chooser, improved
settings panels for Device Security, Accessibility, etc, and refined quick
settings in the shell. The Software and Files apps have seen improvements, and a
whole slew of new apps has joined the GNOME Circle". See the release notes for
details.
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (firefox),
Oracle (kernel, kernel-container, and nss), and SUSE (curl, dpdk, drbd, go1.18,
kernel, openstack-cinder, openstack-glance, openstack-neutron-gbp, openstack-
nova, python-oslo.utils, oracleasm, python3, slirp4netns, and xen).
JDK 20 released
Version 20 of the Java SE platform has been released. See
the features list for an overview of the big additions, or the release notes for
the details.
[$] Hopes and promises for open-source voice assistants
At the end of 2022, Paulus Schoutsen declared 2023 "the
year of voice" for Home Assistant, the popular open-source home-automation
project that he founded nine years ago. The project's goal this year is to let
users control their home with voice commands in their own language, using
offline processing instead of sending data to the cloud. Offline voice control
has been the holy grail of open-source home-automation systems for years.
Several projects have tried and failed. But with Rhasspy's developer Mike Hansen
spearheading Home Assistant's voice efforts, this time things could be
different.