Urgent.News

What's breaking now, across thousands of outlets.

Tech

[$] The rest of the 7.3 merge window

By the time Linus Torvalds released 7.3-rc1 and closed the merge window for this release, 15,267 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline repository. That is the second-highest commit count for an -rc1 release in the kernel's history; only the 6.7-rc1 release, which included nearly 3,000 commits of bcachefs history, had more. About 13,000 of those commits entered the mainline after…

We haven't written up this one. LWN has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

Read the original at lwn.net →

More in Tech

What your site tells a stranger before it renders a single pixel

Type a domain, hit enter, and before anything paints, your server and the browser have already had a short conversation. The server sends back response headers — and to anyone who knows how to read…

  • Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS) header enforces HTTPS communication
  • Content-Security-Policy (CSP) restricts script execution sources
  • Set-Cookie attributes include HttpOnly, Secure, and SameSite=Lax

More from Monday 31 August →