A set of Git security-fix releases
Versions v2.43.7, v2.44.4, v2.45.4, v2.46.4, v2.47.3,
v2.48.2, v2.49.1 and v2.50.1 of the Git source-code management system have been
released.
"This is a set of coordinated security fix releases. Please update
at your earliest convenience". See the announcement for details; many of the
vulnerabilities have to do with tricks buried in untrusted repositories.
Thunderbird 140 released
Version 140 of the Thunderbird mail client has been
released. Notable features include "dark message mode" to adapt message content
to dark mode, the ability to easily transfer desktop settings to the mobile
Thunderbird client, experimental support for Microsoft Exchange, as well as
global controls for message threading and sort order.
Thunderbird 140
is an extended-support release (ESR) which will be supported for 12 months.
However, the Thunderbird project is trying to encourage users to adopt the
Release channel for monthly updates instead. The project is staggering upgrades
to 140 for existing Thunderbird users in order to catch any significant bugs
before they are widely deployed, but users can upgrade manually via the Help
> About menu. See the release notes for a full list of changes.
[$] Toward the unification of kselftests and KUnit
The kernel project, for many years, lacked a formal testing
setup; it was often joked that testing was the project's main reason for keeping
users around. While many types of kernel testing can only be done in the
presence of specific hardware, there are other parts of the kernel that could be
more widely tested. Over time, though, the kernel has gained two separate
testing frameworks and a growing body of automated tests to go with them. These
two frameworks — kselftests and KUnit — take different approaches to the testing
problem; now this patch series from Thomas Weißschuh aims to bring them
together.
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (djvulibre and
slurm-wlm), Red Hat (apache-commons-vfs, container-tools:rhel8, kernel, kernel-
rt, podman, python3, rsync, socat, and sudo), SUSE (apache2, helm-mirror, incus,
kernel, openssl-3, python-Django, and systemd), and Ubuntu (dcmtk,
File::Find::Rule, ghostscript, jquery, and libssh).
U-Boot v2025.07 released
The U-Boot universal bootloader project has announced the
release of version 2025.07. It has multiple new features including "uthreads"
(inspired by the "bthreads" coroutines in the barebox bootloader), exFAT
support, new architecture and SoC support and improvements to existing
platforms, cleanups, better testing, and more. Project leader Tom Rini took the
opportunity to mention his efforts toward getting some help with the project and
more formal governance: As this is a full release, and not just a release
candidate I'm hoping for a few more people to read this and then read what I'm
linking to as well. For the overall health of the project, and the community,
I'm hoping to find a few people within the community that can help with overall
organization and management. I would like to long term be able to move us to
being under the Software Freedom Conservancy umbrella and that in turn means
having a organizational structure that's not just a single person.
He also
noted that there is a community meeting on July 8th, 2025 at 9am (GMT -06:00) on
Google Meet.
