The Register reportsfrom Jiřà Benc's talk on the making of the CentOS Streamkernel.
Read on for LWN's summary of the first set of changes merged forthe next major kernel release. Those changesets include a fair amount of significant work,though. The first days of the 6.5 merge window have been a bit calmer than usual,with "only" 4,000 non-merge changesets having been pulled into the mainlinerepository. The first half of the 6.5 merge window.The 6.4.1, 6.3.11, and 6.1.37stable kernels have been released each contains another set of importantfixes. Security updates have been issued by Debian (cups, gst-plugins-bad1.0, gst-plugins-base1.0, gst-plugins-good1.0, python3.7, and yajl), Fedora (chromium, kubernetes, pcs, and webkitgtk), Scientific Linux (open-vm-tools), SUSE (iniparser, keepass, libvirt, prometheus-ha_cluster_exporter, prometheus-sap_host_exporter, rekor, terraform-provider-aws, terraform-provider-helm, and terraform-provider-null), and Ubuntu (python-reportlab and vim). "Perl 5.38.0 representsapproximately 12 months of development since Perl 5.36.0 and containsapproximately 290,000 lines of changes across 1,500 files from 100authors." Significant changes include a new class feature,Unicode 15.0 support, a new API for hooking into functions, and more seethe5.38.0 perldelta page for details. Version 5.38.0 of the Perl language is out. The adoption of of thoseextensions, in the form of the _counted_by() macro, has beenmerged for the 6.5 kernel release, even though the compiler feature itdepends on has not yet been finalized.
The C language is expressive in many ways, but it still does not have waysto express many of the relationships between fields in a data structure.That gap can be at least partially filled, though, if one is willing tocreate and use non-standard extensions.
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