Category: Open Source

JRuby 9.3.6.0 Released

Posted on by Michael G

The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 9.3.6.0

JRuby 9.3.x is compatible with Ruby 2.6.x and stays in sync with C Ruby. As always there is a mix of miscellaneous fixes so be sure to read the issue list below.

Thanks to our contributors this cycle for helping to improve stability and compatibility of JRuby 9.3: @ahorek, @keimar, @k77ch7

Ruby Compatibility

  • Fixed a leak in the frozen string cache and now ensure frozen strings are reused correctly without reencoding. (#7166, #7229, #7242)

Java Integration

  • The internal cache for nested jar file contents has been optimized and a new option added for cache expiration. (#7225, #7232, [#7259])

Python 3.10.5 is available

Posted on by Michael G

The latest bugfix drop for Python 3.10 is here: Python 3.10.5. This release packs more than 230 bugfixes and docs changes, so you surely want to update šŸ™‚ You can get it here:

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3105/

This is the first maintenance release of Python 3.10


Python 3.10.5 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations.


Major new features of the 3.10 series, compared to 3.9

Among the new major new features and changes so far:

  • PEP 623Ā ā€“ Deprecate and prepare for the removal of the wstr member in PyUnicodeObject.
  • PEP 604Ā ā€“ Allow writing union types as X | Y
  • PEP 612Ā ā€“ Parameter Specification Variables
  • PEP 626Ā ā€“ Precise line numbers for debugging and other tools.
  • PEP 618Ā ā€“ Add Optional Length-Checking To zip.
  • bpo-12782: Parenthesized context managers are now officially allowed.
  • PEP 634Ā ā€“ Structural Pattern Matching: Specification
  • PEP 635Ā ā€“ Structural Pattern Matching: Motivation and Rationale
  • PEP 636Ā ā€“ Structural Pattern Matching: Tutorial

More resources

bpo-38605:Ā from __future__ import annotationsĀ (PEP 563) used to be on this list in previous pre-releases but it has been postponed to Python 3.11 due to some compatibility concerns. You can read the Steering Council communication about itĀ hereĀ to learn more.

And now for something completely different

Strange quarks are the third lightest quarks, which are subatomic particles that are so small,Ā  they are believed to be the fundamental particles, and not further divisible. Like down quarks, strange quarks have a charge of -1/3. Like all fermions (which are particles that can not exist in the same place at the same time), strange quarks have a spin of 1/2. What makes strange quarks different from down quarksā€“apart from having 25 times the mass of down quarksā€“is that they have something that scientists call “strangeness.” Strangeness is basically a resistance to decay against strong force and electromagnetism. This means that any particle that contains a strange quark can not decay due to strong force (or electromagnetism), but instead with the much slower weak force. It was believed that this was a ‘strange’ method of decay, which is why the scientists gave the particles that name.

We hope you enjoy the new releases!

Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development and these releases possible! Please consider supporting our efforts by volunteering yourself or through organization contributions to the Python Software Foundation.


https://www.python.org/psf/

Your friendly release team,
Ned Deily @nadĀ 
Steve Dower @steve.dowerĀ 
Pablo Galindo Salgado @pablogsal

GNUnet News: GNUnet 0.17.2

Posted on by Michael G

GNUnet 0.17.2

This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.17.1.

Download links

The GPG key used to sign is:

3D11063C10F98D14BD24D1470B0998EF86F59B6A

Note that due to mirror synchronization, not all links may be functional
early after the release. For direct access try

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnunet/

Noteworthy changes in 0.17.1 (since 0.17.2)


  • DHT

    : Various bugfixes in the protocol.

  • RECLAIM

    : OpenID Connect plugin improvements.

  • ABE

    : Removed.

A detailed list of changes can be found in the

ChangeLog

and
the

bugtracker

.

In -current, dhclient(8) now just logs warnings and executes ifconfig(8)

Posted on by Michael G

Theo de Raadt (deraadt@)
committed
the change:

CVSROOT:	/cvs
Module name:	src
Changes by:	deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org	2022/07/02 11:21:32

Modified files:
	sbin/dhclient  : dhclient.c 

Log message:
dhclient(8) has been undergoing replacement with "ifconfig xxx inet auto"
for a couple of years, backed by dhcpleased(8), which provides much better
dns handling.  The next step is to make the dhclient simply execve
ifconfig in that way, and provide syslog warnings about deprecated options
along the way.  This way, we can find the last few dhclient users, and what
they are missing.
ok florian krw

Finding System Information in Linux

Posted on by Michael G
Many people at some point may need to find specific information about their system. There are many ways to get specific information about your system, but some may take a while to remember or look up the command.

In this article, I want to cover a program called ā€˜inxiā€™, which helps get all the system information in one place.

Installation

Installation is a simple process from a command line for Ubuntu:

sudo apt install inxi -y

For any distro of Linux, use the proper…

https://www.linux.org/threads/finding-system-information-in-linux.40455/

The journey to Roe and after ā€“ a Pocket Collection unveils the stories behind Slateā€™s 7th season of Slow Burn

Posted on by Michael G

With the recent overturn of Roe v. Wade, many of us canā€™t help but wonder: How did we get here? It didnā€™t happen overnight ā€” no, it was more of a slow burn. Just in time for the seventh season of Slateā€™s Slow Burn, host and executive editor Susan Matthews explores the path to Roe [ā€¦]

The post The journey to Roe and after ā€“ a Pocket Collection unveils the stories behind Slateā€™s 7th season of Slow Burn appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Hello, Enact!

Posted on by Michael G

Hello, Enyoistas!Ā  Itā€™s been a while since we had a nice chat.Ā  How have you been?Ā  Oh, us?Ā  Ā Weā€™ve been quite busy these last few years working on Enact, the successor to Enyo.

If youā€™re like us, youā€™ve been keeping watch on the latest JavaScript trends and trying to figure out which technologies are just fads and which will change the way we build apps.

One technology that really caught our eye a few years ago was React. Its tight focus on being a UI library and its impressive performance were two of the reasons we decided to build our next generation framework with it.Ā  We took the great features from Enyo and reimplemented them with React as the presentation layer.Ā  If you havenā€™t had a chance to check out Enact yet, we encourage you to take a look.

Hereā€™s our official Enact Blog announcement.

Also, the Enact team is hiring! Ā Drop by the Enact chat to find out more.