Highlights

• Avoid a crash in cleanup - of globals. (#4250)
• Use systemd-logind to scan for new devices in v4l2.
• Some more bugfixes and improvements.

PipeWire

• Avoid a crash in cleanup of globals. (#4250)
• Improve RequestProcess dispatch.

Tools

• Improve float parsing. (#4234)

SPA

• Clear the ringbuffer when stopping in libcamera.
• Use systemd-logind to scan for new devices in v4l2. (#3539, #3960)
• Queue dropped first buffer in v4l2.
• Unlink pcm devices when moving drivers to avoid broken pipe.

JACK

• Emit buffer_size callback in jack_activate() to improve compatibility with GStreamer. (#4260)

In numbers, the LibreOffice 24.8.1 point release addresses a total of 89 bugs. Details about these bugs are available in the RC1 and RC2 changelogs. The new release is available for download right from the official website as binaries for DEB and RPM-based GNU/Linux distributions.

Please have a look at the warnings in the comments:

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/21632052/12893621

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/21632052/12897257

Work on realtime preemption for the Linux kernel got its start almost exactly 20 years ago (though it had its roots in earlier work, of course). It is fair to say that finishing that job has taken a bit longer than anybody involved would have expected. Now, though, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior has posted a brief patch series making it possible to enable realtime preemption in the mainline kernel on three architectures.

From: Alejandro Colomar <alx-AT-kernel.org>

Hi all,

As you know, I've been maintaining the Linux man-pages project for the last 4 years as a voluntary. I've been doing it in my free time, and no company has sponsored that work at all. At the moment, I cannot sustain this work economically any more, and will temporarily and indefinitely stop working on this project. If any company has interests in the future of the project, I'd welcome an offer to sponsor my work here; if so, please let me know.

Have a lovely day! Alex