memory management

Th What's new in this release: * A large number of regression test fixes. * Performance improvements in memory management.

* Improved POP3 support in inetcomm. * Initial implementation of the XInput DLL.

The release of WINE 1.1.7 two weeks ago marked their initial work on implementing Direct3D 10 support, but still in a very early form.

WINE 1.1.8 has now been released and while doesn’t contain anything quite as exciting, there are a few interesting...

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CentOS has updated libxml2 (buffer overflow).

Debian has updated the kernel (multiple vulnerabilities).

Filed under: Google, Browsers

Mandriva has updated libpn (denial of service).

rPath has updated fetchmail (denial of service), httpd (multiple vulnerabilities), tshark (denial of service), firefox (multiple vulnerabilities).

CentOS has updated php (C3, C4: multiple vulnerabilities).

Debian has updated cacti (fix to previous update).

Gentoo has updated mercurial (directory traversal).

Mandriva has updated poppler ("a memory management issue") and pcre (buffer overflow).

In November of last year, LWN covered the TTM memory manager for graphics processors.

Since then, TTM has remained outside of the kernel - as have any drivers which make use of it. Now a competitor to TTM has emerged, and the situation has become more complicated.

This article (from this week's Kernel Page, subscribers only) looks at the new GEM subsystem and the future of memory management for 3D graphics.

Linus has released the 2.6.26-rc1 prepatch and declared the 2.6.26 merge window to be closed.

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