Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE Released After Three Year Hiatus

Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE is now available as the newest release of this Oracle Solaris “Common Build Environment” version that is essentially a community-supported. non-production version of Solaris intended for free / open-source software developers. Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE comes after not seeing any CBE updates the past three years and now rather unexpectedly seeing this new version drop even with Solaris very rarely making any news these days…

[$] A look at what’s possible with BPF arenas


BPF arenas
are areas of memory where the verifier can safely relax its checking of
pointers, allowing programmers to write arbitrary data structures in BPF. Emil
Tsalapatis reported on how his team has used arenas in writing

sched_ext schedulers
at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit. His biggest complaint was about the fact that
kernel pointers can’t be stored in BPF arenas — something that the BPF
developers hope to address, although there are some implementation problems that
must be sorted out first.

Nextcloud claims Google is being anticompetitive

Nextcloud provides an
open-source collaboration platform called Nextcloud Hub, which includes file-sharing and syncing
features. The company has written
a blog post explaining that Google has revoked a critical permission
from the Nextcloud Files app for Android that allows it to sync files
to Nextcloud Hub.

Google is stating security concerns as a reason for revoking the
permission. This is hard to believe for us. Nextcloud has had this
feature since its inception in 2016, and we have never heard about any
security concerns from Google about it. Moreover, several Big Tech
apps as well as Google’s own still have this. What we think: Google
owning the platform means they can and are giving themselves
preferential treatment.

Despite multiple appeals since mid-2024, Google has refused to
reinstate the permission, blocking automated Nextcloud file uploads
for millions of users.

The Nextcloud
app
available via F-Droid does not have this limitation, but the
post notes that that is not an option for many users.