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Friday, November 22nd, 2013

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    12:24a
    [$] ACPI for ARM?
    The "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface" (ACPI) was not an obvious
    win when support for it was first merged into the mainline kernel. The
    standard was new, actual implementations were unreliable, and supporting it
    involved bringing a large virtual machine into the kernel. For years,
    booting with ACPI disabled was the first response to a wide range of
    problems; one can still find web sites advising readers to do that. But,
    for the most part, ACPI has settled in as a mandatory part of the PC
    platform standard. Now, however, it appears that a similar story may be
    about to play out in the ARM world.
    4:23p
    Friday's security updates

    Debian has updated libhttp-body-perl (code execution) and nginx (security restriction bypass).

    Gentoo has updated qtcore (two vulnerabilities, one from 2011).

    Mandriva has updated samba (BS1: file restriction bypass).

    openSUSE has updated nginx (12.3, 13.1: security restriction bypass) and samba (13.1: two vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated IBM Java 7 (multiple vulnerabilities), kernel (SLE11SP3; SLE11SP2: denial of service), and Real Time Linux Kernel (SLE11SP3; SLE11SP2: denial of service).

    Ubuntu has updated openjdk-6 (10.04, 12.04: multiple vulnerabilities).

    9:42p
    The 3.13 merge window is closed
    Linus has released 3.13-rc1 and closed the
    merge window for this development cycle. In the end, 10,518 non-merge
    changesets were pulled into the mainline during this merge window. Now the
    stabilization period starts, with the final 3.13 release due around the end
    of the year.

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