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])

Ruby 3.1.2 Released

Posted on by Michael G

Ruby 3.1.2 has been released.

This release includes security fixes.
Please check the topics below for details.

See the commit logs for further details.

Download

  • https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/3.1/ruby-3.1.2.tar.gz

    SIZE: 20553628
SHA1: b0d86c60457fdfbcb532cb681877a2f790f66b25
SHA256: 61843112389f02b735428b53bb64cf988ad9fb81858b8248e22e57336f24a83e
SHA512: 9155d1150398eaea7c9954af61ecf8dfdb885cfcf63a67bbcf6c92e282cd3ccac0ff9234d039286a9623297b65197441438c37f707e31d270ce2fe11e8f38a44

  • https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/3.1/ruby-3.1.2.tar.xz

    SIZE: 15101588
SHA1: 4c47f1dfeeb23fc55d65bcae50cf70c23bc28aa3
SHA256: ca10d017f8a1b6d247556622c841fc56b90c03b1803f87198da1e4fd3ec3bf2a
SHA512: 4a74e9efc6ea4b3eff4fec7534eb1fff4794d021531defc2e9937e53c6668db8ecdc0fff2bc23d5e6602d0df344a2caa85b31c5414309541e3d5313ec82b6e21

  • https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/3.1/ruby-3.1.2.zip

    SIZE: 24837444
SHA1: 2e04f25dc73d7236fd4f4a170329793cd5e7dc38
SHA256: f2bb80de50bcc17c29c1995d87d657d461ede6a73e71db44c0cf77f65f32e9b6
SHA512: fa3ba25a051bd1e0ea1ee9fadfeef674f2f3217b1468ccb24975c4a19493115cdeb0015a78d391d08870947de95a8c7409f1c00fed51dc49d40cc3e6cda25bb7

Release Comment

Many committers, developers, and users who provided bug reports helped us make this release.
Thanks for their contributions.

Posted by naruse and mame on 12 Apr 2022

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 🙂 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 623 – Deprecate and prepare for the removal of the wstr member in PyUnicodeObject.
  • PEP 604 – Allow writing union types as X | Y
  • PEP 612 – Parameter Specification Variables
  • PEP 626 – Precise line numbers for debugging and other tools.
  • PEP 618 – Add Optional Length-Checking To zip.
  • bpo-12782: Parenthesized context managers are now officially allowed.
  • PEP 634 – Structural Pattern Matching: Specification
  • PEP 635 – Structural Pattern Matching: Motivation and Rationale
  • PEP 636 – Structural Pattern Matching: Tutorial
  • PEP 644 – Require OpenSSL 1.1.1 or newer
  • PEP 624 – Remove Py_UNICODE encoder APIs

More resources

bpo-38605: from __future__ import annotations (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 it here to learn more.

And now for something completely different

Strange quarks are the third lightest quarks, which are subatomic particles that are so small,  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 quarks–apart from having 25 times the mass of down quarks–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 @nad 
Steve Dower @steve.dower 
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 ‘inxi’, 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/