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Friday, November 30th, 2012

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    12:57a
    Mozilla joins Internet Society

    Mozilla's Josh Aas announced on his blog that the browser maker was joining the Internet Society (ISOC) as a "Silver" member, in order to support its Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) work on core protocols beyond HTTP. "Today we’re heavily involved in IETF working groups relating to key Internet technologies such as TLS, HTTP and HTTP/2, RTCWeb, WebSockets, and others." ISOC, of course, is the parent organization of IETF and an alphabet soup of other Internet standards bodies.

    3:34p
    Taylor: Avoiding Jitter in Composited Frame Display

    Owen Taylor has written a detailed update about his ongoing work on compositor frame timing (to which we provided an introduction back in August). This time, the issue at hand is coping with video playback or other sources that need a fixed frame rate not equal to the display's refresh rate. "I’m pretty happy with how this algorithm works out in testing, and it may be as good as we can get for X. The main downside I know of is that it only individually solves the two problems – handling clients that need all the rendering resources of the system and handling clients that want minimum jitter for displayed frames, it doesn’t solve the combination."

    6:16p
    Friday's security updates

    CentOS has updated libxml2 (C5, C6; code execution).

    Debian has updated apache2 (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Mageia has updated libssh (multiple vulnerabilities), lighttpd (denial of service), and perl-CGI (header injection).

    Oracle has updated bind (OL4; multiple vulnerabilities) and libxml2 (OL5, OL6; code execution).

    Red Hat has updated libxml2 (code execution).

    Scientific Linux has updated libxml2 (code execution).

    Ubuntu has updated kernel (8.04, 10.04, 10.04 Oneiric backport, 11.10, 11.10 OMAP4, 12.04, 12.04 OMAP4, 12.10, 12.10 OMAP4; multiple vulnerabilities), lynx (multiple vulnerabilities), mozilla-devscripts (package update), and perl (multiple vulnerabilities).

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