Firefox 147 released
Version 147.0 of the Firefox web browser has been released.
Notable changes in this release include support for the XDG Base Directory
specification, enabling local network access restrictions for users with
enhanced tracking protection (ETP) set to "Strict", and a fix that improves
Firefox's rendering with GNOME on fractionally scaled displays. Firefox 147
also includes a number of security fixes, including several sandbox-escape
vulnerabilities.
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux
(mariadb10.11, mariadb:10.11, mariadb:10.3, mariadb:10.5, and tar), Debian (net-
snmp), Fedora (coturn, NetworkManager-l2tp, openssh, and tuxanci), Mageia
(libtasn1), Oracle (buildah, cups, httpd, kernel, libpq, libsoup, libsoup3,
mariadb:10.11, mariadb:10.3, openssl, and podman), SUSE (cpp-httplib,
ImageMagick, libtasn1, python-cbor2, util-linux, valkey, and wget2), and Ubuntu
(google-guest-agent, linux-iot, and python-urllib3).
[$] Asciinema: making movies at the command-line
In open-source circles there are many situations, such as
bug reports, demos, and tutorials, when one might want to provide a play-by-play
of a session in one's terminal. The asciinema project provides a set of tools to
do just that. Its tools let users record, edit, and share terminal sessions in a
text-based format that has quite a few advantages compared to making and sharing
videos of terminal sessions. For example, it is easy to use, offers the ability
to search text from recorded sessions, and allows users to copy and paste
directly from the recording.
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and
sogo), Fedora (chromium, foomuuri, libpng, libsodium, mariadb10.11, musescore,
nginx, python-pdfminer, python-urllib3, python3.12, seamonkey, wasmedge, and
wget2), Mageia (curl, libpcap, sodium, wget2, and zlib), Slackware (lcms2), SUSE
(chromedriver, chromium, noopenh264, coredns, curl, dcmtk, fontforge, gdk-
pixbuf-loader-libheif, gimp, kernel, libheif, libpng16, libsoup-2_4-1, libvirt,
mariadb, php8, poppler, python-filelock, python-tornado6, python311-aiohttp,
qemu, sssd, and traefik), and Ubuntu (libheif, libtasn1-6, linux-azure-nvidia,
linux-kvm, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-realtime, and php7.2, php7.4, php8.1,
php8.3, php8.4).
The LSFMM+BPF 2026 call for proposals is out
The 2026 edition of the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory
Management, and BPF Summit will be held May 4-6 in Zagreb, Croatia. The
call for proposals has gone out for anybody who would like to attend this
invitation-only meeting. "We are asking that you please let us know you want to
be invited by February 20, 2026".