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[$] Caching for extended attributes

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:40:08 -0500

From: LWN.net @2663.min_comp *61
To: All @Echomail *61
Subject: [$] Caching for extended attributes

Extended
attributes (xattrs) provide a way to attach key/value metadata to
inodes-files, directories, and the like-in a filesystem. As with many
Linux filesystems, the FUSE filesystem
supports xattrs. In a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, FUSE maintainer Miklos
Szeredi led a discussion about caching xattrs in kernel memory; he would
like to create some common infrastructure that could be used by FUSE and
shared with other filesystems.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1074919/
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[$] Trying to make sense of package-manager metadata

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:40:08 -0500

From: LWN.net @2662.min_comp *61
To: All @Echomail *61
Subject: [$] Trying to make sense of package-manager metadata

Package managers for operating systems and programming languages have been
around for decades. Each package manager, and its accompanying packaging format,
has been shaped by the needs of its respective ecosystem, but there is a growing
need to make use of package metadata for more than software management: for
example, in vulnerability scans, software bills of materials (SBOMs), and more.
On
May∩┐╜19, Dami├ín Vicino spoke at the Open Source Summit North America 2026
about his experiences in the past year trying to make sense of the varied
metadata provided by more than 20 package managers.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1074908/
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Vim Classic 8.3 released

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:40:08 -0500

From: LWN.net @2661.min_comp *61
To: All @Echomail *61
Subject: Vim Classic 8.3 released

Version
8.3 of Vim Classic has been
released. This is the first release of the Vim fork since the project
was announced
in March.

This release is based on Vim 8.2.0148, with a number of bug fixes
and patches conservatively backported from future versions of Vim
upstream. We elected to clean up this version of Vim, prepare it for a
release, and imagine an alternate history where Vim 8.3 was released
without Vim9 script. The result is Vim Classic 8.3. We chose to take
this approach in order to reduce the long-term maintenance burden of
Vim Classic, acknowledging that our fork lacks the resources and
institutional knowledge available to Vim upstream. However, a
consequence is that there are some Vim plugins which are not
compatible with Vim Classic.

We have made a special effort to assess patches from Vim upstream
which mitigate some of the many CVEs affecting Vim which were
discovered and fixed between versions 8.2 and modern-day Vim, but we
can't be sure we've got all of the security patches which are
applicable to Vim Classic (and practically exploitable). This version
of Vim Classic is therefore recommended for early adopters who are
comfortable adopting a security posture which accounts for the fact
that we may have overlooked some bugs.

LWN covered Vim
Classic and another Vim fork, EVi, in April.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1075967/
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Security updates for Tuesday

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:40:08 -0500

From: LWN.net @2660.min_comp *61
To: All @Echomail *61
Subject: Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (php:8.2 and php:8.3), Debian
(gst-plugins-good1.0, symfony, and yelp), Fedora (dovecot, freeipa, hplip,
libpng, perl-Catalyst-Plugin-Authentication, postfix, samba, unbound, and vim),
Mageia (assimp, libcaca, sdl2_sound, and tar), Slackware (kernel), SUSE (alloy,
apache-commons-lang3, apache-commons-text,, apache2, bubblewrap, busybox,
chromium, cups, docker-stable, ffmpeg-8, google-osconfig-agent, gsasl, ignition,
java-26-openjdk, kernel, libsolv-demo, libsoup, libzypp, localsearch, openjpeg2,
postgresql-jdbc, putty, python-mistune, python-Pillow, python-python-multipart,
python-Twisted, python3-Twisted, re, roundcubemail, vim, wireshark, and xz), and
Ubuntu (evolution-data-server, exim4, gsasl, haveged, lcms2, libreoffice,
linux-aws, linux-lts-xenial, linux-lowlatency, linux-nvidia-tegra, nginx, nncp,
qtdeclarative-opensource-src, sslh, sssd, and xz-utils).

https://lwn.net/Articles/1075966/
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Latest Distro Releases

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:40:07 -0500

From: Distro Watcher @2659.min_comp *61
To: All @Echomail *61
Subject: Latest Distro Releases

DistroWatch.com: Distributions
T2 Linux 26.6
Nemesis 26.06
Aeon 20260601
HackerOS 4.7
RakuOS 2026.06.02
Exton 260602 "exGENT"
blendOS 2026.06.01
Synex 13-u9
Clonezilla 3.3.2-31
Flatcar 4593.2.2
Fluff 2026.06.01
LinuxHub 2026.06.01
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