Monday, October 15th, 2012

Time	Event
12:17a	The end of the 3.7 merge window Linus has announced 3.7-rc1 and closed the merge window for this cycle. The biggest feature merged since last week's merge window summary is arguably support for cryptographically-signed kernel modules. (Comment on this)
1:33p	Schaller: The long journey towards good free video conferencing Christian Schaller writes about why we don't have good video calling yet and what is being done to get there. "In addition to the nitty gritty of protocols and codecs there are other pieces that has been lacking to give users a really good experience. The most critical one is good echo cancellation. This is required in order to avoid having an ugly echo effect when trying to use your laptop built-in speakers and microphone for a call. So people have been forced to use a headset to make things work reasonably well." (Comment on this)
5:54p	Security advisories for Monday CentOS has updated bind (C5; C6: denial of service), bind97 (C5: denial of service), xulrunner (C5; C6: code execution) and thunderbird (C5; C6: code execution). Fedora has updated dracut (F17; F16: information disclosure), qt (F17: CRIME attacks), qemu (F17: privilege escalation), ruby (F17; F16: two access restriction bypass flaws) and perl-HTML-Template-Pro (F17; F16: cross-site scripting). Mageia has updated glib (root code execution) and ruby (access restriction bypass). Mandriva has updated firefox (code execution). openSUSE has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities) and emacs (code execution). Oracle has updated bind (OL6; OL5: denial of service), xulrunner (OL6; OL5: code execution), thunderbird (OL6: code execution) and bind97 (OL5: denial of service). Red Hat has updated xulrunner (code execution), thunderbird (code execution), bind97 (denial of service) and bind (RHEL5&6; RHEL4: denial of service). SUSE has updated flash-player (multiple vulnerabilities) and bind (denial of service). Ubuntu has updated thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities) and libgssglue (privilege escalation). (Comment on this)
10:12p	Plasma Active Three released The third release of the Plasma Active "device-independent mobile user experience" system is available from the KDE Project. It includes a lot of improvements, new features, and some new applications (including a file manager inevitably called "Files"). "Okular Active is Plasma Active's new Ebook Reader. Okular Active is built on the technology which also drives the desktop version of the popular Document Viewer, and is optimized for reading documents on a touch device." For more information, see this post from Aaron Seigo. "Unlike traditional file managers, Files doesn't directly expose the file system. We see that as an implementation detail like 'which kernel drivers are loaded.' Yes, it's needed for the device to function, but the person using the device shouldn't have to care. Instead, Files promotes meaning and content. On starting Files, you select what you wish to view such as documents, images, music, videos, etc.." (Comment on this)

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