Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

Time	Event
5:38p	Tuesday's security updates Fedora has updated fetchmail (F17; F16: denial of service). Mandriva has updated apache (multiple vulnerabilities), bind (denial of service), inn (man-in-the-middle attack), xinetd (service disclosure flaw) and dhcp (denial of service). openSUSE has updated tor (denial of service). Ubuntu has updated software-properties (man-in-the-middle attack), glibc (multiple vulnerabilities) and qemu-kvm (privilege escalation). (Comment on this)
8:05p	Stable kernels 3.5.5, 3.4.12 and 3.0.44 Greg KH has released stable kernels 3.5.5, 3.4.12 and 3.0.44. All of them contain plenty of important fixes. (Comment on this)
11:21p	[$] How 3.6 nearly broke PostgreSQL In mid-September, the 3.6 kernel appeared to be stabilizing nicely. Most of the known regressions had been fixed, the patch volume was dropping, and Linus was relatively happy. Then Nikolay Ulyanitsky showed up with a problem: the pgbench PostgreSQL benchmark ran 20% slower than under 3.5. The resulting discussion shows just how hard scalability can be on contemporary hardware and how hard scheduling can be in general. Click below (subscribers only) for the full article from this week's Kernel Page. (Comment on this)

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