Cockpit 250 comes with basic kpatch support, an improved admin switcher, and VM migration.

Some of the new features are support for Java 11, Virtual Tables, Audit logging, and full query logging.

OpenShift 4.8 brings, among other improvements, an additional OCI-compliant runtime based on Kata Containers, NVIDIA multi-instance GPU, OpenShift Pipelines, IPv6 support, and serverless functions as a technology preview.

This blog post investigates HTTP/2 implementation issues and some of the resulting security implications.

Suggests for improving Linux Kernel security, e.g. by converting redundant downstream kernel bug-fixing by vendors into greater upstream collaboration.

Paper about the cryptography and security analysis behind the Apple PSI system.

Kubernetes hardening guide by the NSA and CISA.

This blog post gives background information on the three random words password creation advice.

List of personal blogs focusing on software.

Distribution-independent installer framework.

»If you like the interface of HTTPie but miss the features of curl, curlie is what you are searching for.«

»Szyszka is a simple but powerful and fast bulk file renamer.«

Amongst other news, the report for Q2 contains information on:

• A new, web-based installer.
• LLDB Debugger Improvements.
• Update of the Linux compatibility layer.
• pf syncookie support.
• The RAIDZ expansion update
• helloSystem

Version 2021.07 of the Debian-based live system, primarily targeted at system administrators, was released.

An empirical study of vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries.

The author explains how he optimized the performance of conflict-free replicated data types.