Happy Thanksgiving

November 23 is the US Thanksgiving holiday; as is our tradition, we will
not be publishing an LWN Weekly Edition this week as we will be far too
busy eating. We wish a good holiday to all of our readers (whether they
celebrate it or not); the weekly edition will return on November 30.

Source: LWN.net – Happy Thanksgiving

[$] Committing to Rust for kernel code

Rust has been a prominent topic at the Kernel Maintainers Summit for the
last couple of years, and the 2023 meeting continued that tradition. As
Rust-for-Linux developer Miguel Ojeda noted at the beginning of the session
dedicated to the topic, the level of interest in using Rust for kernel
development has increased significantly over the last year. But Rust was
explicitly added to Linux as an experiment; is the kernel community now
ready to say that the experiment has succeeded?

Source: LWN.net – [$] Committing to Rust for kernel code

Xen Hypervisor 4.18 Released With Initial RISC-V Support

The Xen Project has just released version 4.18. Packed with many features and improvements, this release brings forth a few advancements catering to high-performance computing (HPC), machine learning (ML) applications, and an array of security and performance enhancements.

The post Xen Hypervisor 4.18 Released With Initial RISC-V Support appeared first on Linux Today.



Source: Linux Today – Xen Hypervisor 4.18 Released With Initial RISC-V Support

Xen Project improves the art of virtual machine maintenance with annual hypervisor release

Version 4.18 brings first ports to RISC-V and PowerPC, support for next-gen datacenter CPUsThe Xen Project has quietly debuted version 4.18 of its eponymous hypervisor – the year’s only release of the virtualization tool.…

Source: LXer – Xen Project improves the art of virtual machine maintenance with annual hypervisor release

Intel Fixes Microcode Bug that Could Expose Your Sensitive Data

It was discovered that a sequence of processor instructions for some Intel processors leads to unexpected behavior that could allow an authenticated local user to escalate privileges (CVE-2023-23583). This bug, dubbed “Reptar,” could expose sensitive information or cause system crashes, resulting in a denial of service.

The post Intel Fixes Microcode Bug that Could Expose Your Sensitive Data appeared first on Linux Today.



Source: Linux Today – Intel Fixes Microcode Bug that Could Expose Your Sensitive Data

Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver NVK Reaches Vulkan 1.0 Conformance

Collabora announced today that its open-source NVK graphics driver in Mesa is now officially conformant with the Vulkan 1.0 graphics API on NVIDIA Turing hardware.

The post Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver NVK Reaches Vulkan 1.0 Conformance appeared first on Linux Today.



Source: Linux Today – Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver NVK Reaches Vulkan 1.0 Conformance

RFC 9498: The GNU Name System

The GNU Name System has now been formalized as RFC 9498.

GNS addresses long-standing security and privacy issues in the
ubiquitous Domain Name System (DNS). Previous attempts to secure
DNS (DNSSEC) fail to address critical security issues such as
end-to-end security, query privacy, censorship, and centralization
of root zone governance. After 40 years of patching, it is time for
a new beginning.



Source: LWN.net – RFC 9498: The GNU Name System