Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

Time	Event
3:05p	Wayland development plans posted Wayland developer Kristian Høgsberg has sent out a message detailing his plans for Wayland 1.2 and beyond. "What I'd like to do is to release a new major version every quarter. So we'll be aiming for 1.2 end of June, 1.3 end of September and so on. The motivation for this is that we have a lot of new features and new protocol in the works and a time-based release schedule is a good way to flush out those features. Instead of dragging out a release while waiting for a feature to become ready, we release on a regular schedule to make sure the features that did land get released on time." See the full text for details on the desired features for the 1.2 release. (Comment on this)
4:45p	Security updates for Tuesday Debian has updated strongswan (authentication bypass). Fedora has updated mediawiki (F18; F17: multiple vulnerabilities) and qemu (host file disclosure). Mandriva has updated apache-mod_security (file disclosure, denial of service), krb5 (ES 5.0; BS 1.0: denial of service), and clamav (multiple vulnerabilities). openSUSE has updated curl (cookie information disclosure) and libxml2 (use after free). (Comment on this)
7:03p	Open Build Service version 2.4 released Open Build Service (OBS) 2.4 has been released. "With OBS 2.4 it is now possible to build packages in the PKGBUILD format used for instance by the popular Arch Linux distribution. This is the third package format, after RPM and DEB, supported by the OBS which makes it feasible to build and ship software for all the major Linux distributions that use a binary package format. Another popular demand for build servers these days is the support for signing individual files (bootloader, driver etc.) inside packages with a cryptographic key to support standards like UEFI secure boot. In version 2.4 the OBS sign daemon has been extend to handle this security feature. And with the rise of App-Stores as means to distribute software to end users this OBS release brings support for the cross-distribution application metadata standard AppStream." (Comment on this)
7:21p	[$] LFCS: The value of FOSS fiscal sponsorship As open source becomes more popular and mature, questions of formalizing the governance and corporate structures of projects are becoming of increasing importance, as can been seen by the rising visibility of various FOSS foundations. At the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in San Francisco, Tony Sebro shared his insights about the value that fiscal sponsors bring as umbrella organizations for FOSS projects. Sebro is the General Counsel of Software Freedom Conservancy, which is the home of about 30 free and open source projects, including Samba, Git, and BusyBox.</p> Click below (subscribers only) for the full report by Martin Michlmayr. (Comment on this)

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