TECH SAVIOURS News - 28.04.2024

What's going on?

Forgejo (Gitea) instance

We've changed our gitea instance to forgejo.
You might have seen the letter and since forgejo changed to hard fork we had to decide and went with forgejo too.
So change your repo URL via git remote set-url origin forgejo@git.techsaviours.org:USER/...

python 3.12 is out - rebuild your packages

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 6:15:00
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Dan

All new Python features can be found here.
If you have problems with Arch after upgrading your system, just run the command/s:

pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.11
pikaur -Sy $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.11) --rebuild

with your aur-helper.

Regarding our new wiki Linux Mobile section - we have updated the donations list

Sat, 20 Apr 2024 0:47:00
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Dan

It now includes danctnix and postmarketOS

https://wiki.techsaviours.org/en/extras/donation_list

There are still some links missing. If you have come across them, please let us know!

Thanks!

New Linux Mobile Operating Systems section and PinePhone (Pro) as a daily driver

Linux Mobile

A new section popped up in our wiki - Linux Mobile!
Based for now only on a PinePhone (Pro) specifically on a braveheart (original PP - latest motherboard) and explorer (PPP).
Arch Linux ARM and postmarketOS are the operating systems included in the wiki. It only contains the opti...

CVE-2024-3094 - xz/liblzma backdoor starting with version 5.6.0

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 22:01:00
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Dan

backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise
CVE-2024-3094 Detail
Archlinux - The xz package has been backdoored

All servers have already been updated and tested. Everything is fine.

If you use Arch, test it as follows:

ldd /usr/sbin/sshd | grep -e libsystemd -e liblzma...