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Monday, February 3rd, 2014
| Time |
Event |
| 3:28a |
Kernel prepatch 3.14-rc1 The 3.14-rc1 prepatch is out, and the merge window is closed for this development cycle. Everybody hoping for a π-oriented codename for this release will be disappointed: " I
realize that as a number, 3.14 looks familiar to people, and I had naming
requests related to that. But that's simply not how the nonsense kernel
names work. You can console yourself with the fact that the name doesn't
actually show up anywhere, and nobody really cares. So any pi-related name
you make up will be *quite* as relevant as the one in the main Makefile, so
don't get depressed." Instead, this kernel is named "Shuffling zombie juror." | | 5:23p |
Security advisories for Monday CentOS has updated kernel (C5: denial of service).
Debian has updated drupal6
(account hijacking) and libyaml (code execution).
Fedora has updated curl (F20: information disclosure), memcached (F20; F19: multiple vulnerabilities), and xen (F20; F19: denial of service).
Gentoo has updated libmicrohttpd
(multiple vulnerabilities), nvidia-drivers (privilege escalation), and pixman (denial of service).
openSUSE has updated libpoppler
(13.1, 12.3: denial of service), java-1_7_0-openjdk (13.1; 13.1; 12.3: multiple vulnerabilities), and libqt5-qtbase (13.1; 13.1: denial of service). | | 7:08p |
kGraft — live kernel patching from SUSE SUSE has announcedthe existence of kGraft, a mechanism for applying kernel patches without the need to reboot the system. It is similar to ksplice in functionality, but the implementation appears to be rather different and the developers plan to try to get it merged into the mainline kernel. " kGraft builds on technologies and
ideas that are already present in the kernel: ftrace and its mcount-based
reserved space in function headers, the INT3/IPI-NMI patching also used in
jumplabels, and RCU-like update of code that does not require stopping the
kernel. A kGraft patch is a kernel module and fully relies on the
in-kernel module loader to link the new code with the kernel. Thanks to
all that, the design can be nicely minimalistic." The first code release is planned for March. | | 8:38p |
Update on Scientific Linux Scientific Linux takes
a look at what the Red Hat/CentOS merger means for them. " There
are still many questions to pursue as the details of CentOS Special
Interest Groups continue to evolve. The anticipated release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7 presents an opportunity to consider forming/joining a CentOS Special Interest
Group and producing Scientific Linux 7 as a CentOS variant The variant
structure may allow greater flexibility in adapting the distribution to
scientific needs. The framework and relationship structure of CentOS
Special Interest Groups is still under heavy discussion on the CentOS
development list. This is only being evaluated for Scientific Linux version
7." (Thanks to Scott Dowdle) |
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