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Monday, August 26th, 2013
| Time |
Event |
| 1:07a |
Kernel prepatch 3.11-rc7 The 3.11-rc7 prepatch has been tagged and released. As of this writing, there is no announcement on linux-kernel, but Linus did post a brief item on Google+. " I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, even if
it's big and professional) for 486+ AT clones and just about anything else
out there under the sun. This has been brewing since april 1991, and is
still not ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in
Linux 3.11-rc7." He is, of course, celebrating the 22nd anniversary of his
original "hello everybody" mail. | | 1:48p |
OSTree 2013.6 released OSTree
2013.6 has been released. " It’s a tool for parallel installation
and atomic upgrades of general-purpose Linux-kernel based operating
systems, and designed to integrate well with a systemd/GNU userspace. You
can use it to safely upgrade client machines over plain HTTP, and longer
term, underneath package systems." See the announcement for a long discussion of the motivation behind this project, along with this LWN article from August 2012. | | 4:09p |
Security advisories for Monday Debian has updated chromium-browser (multiple vulnerabilities) and python-django (cross-site scripting).
Fedora has updated php (F19:
multiple vulnerabilities), and python (F19:
man in the middle attack).
Gentoo has updated puppet (multiple vulnerabilities). | | 8:54p |
Garfield: A Look at PHP's Continuing Evolution Larry Garfield introduces
some recent changes to the PHP language. " PHP 5.5 added a
feature called generators. Generators are in some sense a greatly
abbreviated syntax for iterators, but being so simple makes them
considerably more powerful. Essentially, a generator is just a function
that returns-and-pauses rather than returns-and-ends, and what is returned
is not a value but an iterator." |
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