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Monday, April 15th, 2013

    Time Event
    5:30a
    Kernel prepatch 3.9-rc7
    The 3.9-rc7 kernel prepatch is out. Linus
    says: "This is mostly random one-liners, with a few slightly larger driver
    fixes. The most interesting (to me, probably to nobody else) fix is a
    fix for a rather subtle TLB invalidate bug that only hits 32-bit PAE
    due to the weird way that works. […] Anyway, go out and test regardless
    of the PAE issue    "
    5:46a
    Debian Project Leader Election 2013 Results
    Debian Project Secretary, Kurt Roeckx, has announced the results of the 2013 Debian Project Leader elections. Lucas Nussbaum is the winner. His term will start on April 17, 2013.
    2:37p
    A new life for Fuduntu
    The developers of the Fuduntu
    distribution have announced
    the end of development on Fuduntu, but also the possibility of a new
    distribution rising from the ashes. "Following that decision,
    however, most of the team members then discussed the idea of creating a
    'new' Fuduntu. Andrew Wyatt, however will not be a part of the new distro
    in an official capacity. After the decision to EOL, Andrew, the founder and
    lead developer of Fuduntu, announced his plans to retire after the final
    Fuduntu release. Andrew will be missed and his hard work and dedication is
    appreciated by all. While he will not be serving in an official capacity,
    Andrew will be serving as an advisor to the leadership and team of the new
    distro.    " Fuduntu was reviewed by LWN
    in 2011.
    4:04p
    Security updates for Monday
    Fedora has updated libarchive (F18; F17: denial of service), clamav (F18; F17: unspecified vulnerabilities), drupal7-ctools (F18; F17: access bypass), xen (F18; F17: /usr/libexec/xendomains is not executable), and mod_security (F18; F17: file disclosure, denial of service).

    Mandriva has updated poppler (multiple vulnerabilities).

    openSUSE has updated flashplayer (11.4: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Oracle has updated enterprise kernel (OL6; OL5: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Scientific Linux has updated subversion (multiple vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated flash-player (multiple vulnerabilities) and kernel (multiple vulnerabilities).

    6:43p
    "Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python" released
    Hacking
    Secret Ciphers with Python     is a new full-length book on Python programming
    that uses cryptography as the underlying subject matter. It is available
    under the Creative Commons noncommercial sharealike license.
    8:26p
    Xen becomes a Linux Foundation project
    The Linux Foundation has announced
    that the Xen project has come under the Foundation's "collaborative
    project" umbrella. "The Xen Project is an open source virtualization
    platform licensed under the GPLv2 with a similar governance structure to
    the Linux kernel. Designed from the start for cloud computing, the project
    has more than a decade of development and is being used by more than 10
    million users. As the project experiences contributions from an
    increasingly diverse group of companies, it is looking to The Linux
    Foundation to be a neutral forum for providing guidance and facilitating a
    collaborative network.    "

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