Tuesday, October 16th, 2012

Time	Event
4:00p	Wayland and Weston 0.99.0 snapshots released Version 0.99 of the Wayland protocol and Weston compositor implementation have been released. "We now have responsible error handling, we have a well-defined atomic update mechanism and event dispatching is thread safe. I've been very happy to see the effort and the amount of patches on the list recently, and without that we couldn't have wrapped up the protocol and client API changes in time." The 1.0 release is to be expected before the end of the month. (Comment on this)
5:35p	Tuesday's security updates Fedora has updated libvirt (F17: denial of service). Mageia has updated firefox (code execution), thunderbird (code execution), html2ps (directory traversal) and phpmyadmin (multiple vulnerabilities). openSUSE has announced end of support for openSUSE 11.4 on November 5, 2012. Red Hat has updated kernel (denial of service). Scientific Linux has updated bind (denial of service), xulrunner (code execution), thunderbird (code execution) and bind97 (SL5: denial of service). Slackware has updated seamonkey (multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
10:37p	[$] A report from the first Korea Linux Forum The Linux Foundation held its first ever Korea Linux Forum (KLF) in Seoul, South Korea, in mid-October. The stated goal was "to foster a stronger relationship between South Korea and the global Linux development community." In truth, South Korea is already a strong presence in this community; arguably KLF was more of a recognition and celebration of that relationship. In any case, one conclusion was clear: there is a lot going on in this part of the world. Click below (subscribers only) for a summary report from the event. (Comment on this)

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