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Thursday, April 25th, 2013
| Time |
Event |
| 12:51a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 25, 2013
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 25, 2013 is available. | | 1:02p |
Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) released Ubuntu has announced the release of 13.04, "Raring Ringtail", with versions for both servers and desktops. Many improvements and updates have come with 13.04 and there are also corresponding Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Lubuntu, and Ubuntu Studio releases. " Along with performance improvements to Unity, updates to common desktop
packages, and updated core and toolchain components, Ubuntu 13.04 also
includes the new Friends service, to consolidate all social networking
accounts via Ubuntu Online Accounts. Also included is a tech preview
of Upstart's new user session feature." | | 4:23p |
Thursday's security updates
CentOS has updated curl (C5;
C6: cookie disclosure),
java-1.6.0-openjdk (C5; C6: many vulnerabilities), and glibc (C5: two denial of service flaws).
Fedora has updated libxml2 (F18; F19:
multiple unspecified vulnerabilities), mantis (F17; F18: two
vulnerabilities), owncloud (F19: two
vulnerabilities), mediawiki (F19: multiple
vulnerabilities), icedtea-web (F19: two
vulnerabilities), qemu (F19: host file
disclosure), and java-1.7.0-openjdk (F19:
update to previous security fix).
Oracle has updated java-1.6.0-openjdk (OL5; OL6: many
vulnerabilities), curl (OL5; OL6: cookie disclosure), glibc (OL5: two denial of service flaws), kernel-2.6.39 (OL5; OL6:
multiple vulnerabilities), and kernel-2.6.32 (OL5; OL6:
multiple vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated glibc (RHEL5:
two denial of service flaws), java-1.6.0-openjdk (many vulnerabilities), and
curl (cookie disclosure).
Scientific Linux has updated glibc
(SL5: two denial of service flaws), curl
(cookie disclosure), and java-1.6.0-openjdk (many vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated mysql (many vulnerabilities) and EC2 kernel (10.04:
multiple vulnerabilities). | | 7:04p |
Shuttleworth: The Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Scorpionfish. Not. On his blog, Mark Shuttleworth dashes the hopes of those looking for a Mary Poppins-inspired release name for Ubuntu 13.10. " Slipping the phrase 'ring ring' into the codename of 13.04 was, frankly, a triumph of linguistic engineering. And I thought I might quit on a high ... For a while, there was the distinct possibility that Rick's Rolling Release Rodeo would absolve me of the twice-annual rite of composition that goes into the naming of a new release. That, together with the extent of my travels these past few months, have left me a little short in the research department." No spoilers here, other than: the name is two words, an adjective and an animal, both of which start with "S". | | 8:40p |
Deloget: The SoC GPU driver interview In a lengthy blog post, Emmanuel Deloget interviews nine developers of GPU drivers and tools for ARM system-on-chip (SoC) devices. Questions range from the status of various projects and how the projects got started to intra-project collaboration and the future of the ARM platform. The developers and projects are: Connor Abbot - Open GPU Tools, Eric Faye-Lund - grate (for Tegra GPUs), Herman H. Hermitage - Videocore (for Broadcom GPUs), Luc Verhaegen - lima (for MALI GPUs), Matthias Gottschlag - Videocore (for Broadcom GPUs), Rob Clark - freedreno (for Adreno GPUs), Thierry Reding - grate (for Tegra GPUs), Scott Mansell - Videocore (for Broadcom GPUs), and Wladimir J. van der Laan - etna_viv (for Vivante GPUs). | | 9:04p |
Development Update, Schedule, and Funds (OpenShot blog) Hot on the heels of a successful Kickstarter campaign, the OpenShot video editor project has announced its schedule (still targeting December 2013, more detailed plan coming soon) and a switch to Qt 5. " One of the biggest decisions we have made so far is to switch the user interface toolkit that OpenShot uses from GTK+ to Qt. We have carefully considered our options, and our team believes it is the only reasonable path forward. A few big contributing factors to choosing Qt was the performance of embedding HTML and JavaScript (for our timeline and curve editing widgets), native-looking widget rendering (on Mac, Windows, and Linux), improved tools for designing interfaces, and the easy ability to use OpenGL to display our video preview widget." |
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