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Linus has released 6.13-rc6 for testing. So we had a slight pickup in commits this last week, but as expected and hoped for, things were still pretty quiet. About twice as many commits as the holiday week, but that's still not all that many. I expect things will start becoming more normal now that people are back from the holidays and are starting to...

The Pony programming language is dedicated to exploring how to make high-performance actor-based systems. Started in 2014, the language's most notable feature is probably reference capabilities, a system of pointer annotations that gives the developer fine manual control over how data is shared between actors, while simultaneously ensuring that Pony programs don't have data races. The language is not likely to overtake other more...

Security updates have been issued by Debian (linux-6.1), Fedora (iwd and libell), Red Hat (python-requests), and SUSE (velero).