GNU Tools Cauldron 2019
Simon Marchi just announced that the next GNU Tools Cauldron will be in Montreal, Canada from Thursday September 12 till Sunday September 15. The purpose of this workshop is to gather all GNU tools...
View ArticleBuilding GDB from GIT
Since the GNU Toolchain has many shared modules it sometimes feels like you have to rebuild everything (assembler, linker, binutils tools, debugger, simulators, etc.) just to get one of the latest...
View ArticleValgrind 3.15.0 with improved DHAT heap profiler
Julian Seward released valgrind 3.15.0 which updates support for existing platforms and adds a major overhaul of the DHAT heap profiler. There are, as ever, many refinements and bug fixes. The...
View Articleglibc 2.28 cleanup – no more memory leaks
glibc already released 2.29, but I was still on a much older version and hadn’t noticed 2.28 (which is the version that is in RHEL8) has a really nice fix for people who obsess about memory leaks. When...
View Articlebzip2 1.0.7
We are happy to announce the release of bzip2 1.0.7. This is an emergency release because the old bzip2 website is gone and there were outstanding security issues. The original bzip2 home, downloads...
View Articlebzip2 1.0.8
We are happy to announce the release of bzip2 1.0.8. This is a fixup release because the CVE-2019-12900 fix in bzip2 1.0.7 was too strict and might have prevented decompression of some files that...
View Articlebzip2 and the CVE that wasn’t
Compiling with the GCC sanitizers and then fuzzing the resulting binaries might find real bugs. But not all such bugs are security issues. When a CVE is filed there is some pressure to treat such an...
View Articleelfutils 0.177 released with eu-elfclassify
elfutils 0.177 was released with various bug fixes (if you ever had issues updating > 2GB ELF files using libelf, this release is for you!) and some new features. One of the features is...
View ArticleGo GNU!
FSF and GNU the FSF is now working with GNU leadership on a shared understanding of the relationship for the future. Joint statement on the GNU Project The GNU Project we want to build is one that...
View ArticleSoftware does not, by itself, change the world
Andy Wingo wrote some thoughts on rms and gnu. Although I don’t agree with the description of RMS as doing nothing for GNU, the part describing GNU itself is spot on: Software does not, by itself,...
View ArticleA public discussion about GNU
New GNU Governance There is now a public discussion about GNU governance issues as described in this LWN article: Rethinking the governance of the GNU Project. We have had private discussion about GNU...
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Software Freedom Conservancy Donor Match
I decided to be part of the Software Freedom Conservancy Donor Match this year. Because I believe many more free software communities deserve to have a home for their project at the Conservancy. In...
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Software Freedom Conservancy Interview
As part of the Software Freedom Conservancy Donor Match they did a little interview with me. Please read it and get inspired to Donate or join the Conservancy as a Supporter.
View ArticleProposals for the new GNU/FSF relationship
To: fsf-and-gnu@fsf.orgCC: gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org As volunteers for the GNU Project we are happy that the FSF provides GNU with services like fiscal sponsorship, technical infrastructure, promotion,...
View ArticleA mission statement and social contract for GNU
2019 was a difficult year for the Free Software Community with lots of questions about the future of GNU. It is hard to come up with good answers unless you know which shared principles you all value....
View ArticleGNU Social Contract version 1.0
Andreas Enge announced the GNU Social Contract version 1.0: Hello all, just a public heads-up on progress on the GNU Social Contract. Following our initially announced timeline, we had put online the...
View ArticleFSF Associate Membership
To the FSF leadership, Last year I wrote you the following: My membership name is mark and I am FSF associate member #6. I am currently contributing $10 + $32, for a total of $42 dollars a...
View ArticleValgrind Memcheck: Different ways to lose your memory
The Red Hat Developer blog posted an article I wrote. Valgrind Memcheck: Different ways to lose your memory. It explains the different kinds of memory leaks (definitely, reachable, possibly and...
View ArticleValgrind 3.18.1
We are pleased to announce a new release of Valgrind, version 3.18.1, available from http://valgrind.org/downloads/current.html. 3.18.1 fixes a number of bugs and adds support for glibc-2.34, and for...
View ArticleSourceware – GNU Toolchain Infrastructure roadmap
Making email/git based workflow more fun, secure and productive by automating contribution tracking and testing across different distros and architectures. What is Sourceware? Sourceware,...
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