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Thursday, February 6th, 2014
| Time |
Event |
| 1:50a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 6, 2014
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 6, 2014 is available. | | 3:25p |
Security advisories for Thursday CentOS has updated pidgin (C5; C6:
multiple vulnerabilities).
Debian has updated libav
(multiple vulnerabilities, one from 2011).
Fedora has updated chrony (F20:
distributed denial of service via amplification), firefox (F20: multiple vulnerabilities),
mupdf (F19; F20: denial of service), pidgin (F20: multiple vulnerabilities), and xulrunner (F20: multiple vulnerabilities).
Gentoo has updated adobe-flash
(multiple vulnerabilities).
openSUSE has updated flash-player
(12.3, 13.1: multiple vulnerabilities).
Oracle has updated firefox (OL5:
multiple vulnerabilities), librsvg2 (OL6:
two vulnerabilities), and pidgin (OL6:
multiple vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated pidgin
(multiple vulnerabilities).
Scientific Linux has updated pidgin (multiple vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated perl (10.04,
12.04, 12.10: code execution). | | 3:35p |
Docker 0.8 released Version 0.8 of the Docker container-creation system has been announced. This release brings some changes to the development process: " First,
this is the first Docker release where features take the backseat to
quality: dozens and dozens of bugfixes, performance boosts, stability
improvements, code cleanups, extra documentation and improved code coverage
– that’s the primary feature in Docker 0.8." The project will also be doing time-based monthly releases going forward. There are still some new features, including a Btrfs storage driver and Mac OS support; see the
changelog for details. | | 3:49p |
GDB 7.7 released
Version 7.7 of the GDB debugger is out. It features improved Python
scripting support, a number of new commands, support for a few new targets,
and more. | | 9:32p |
Stable kernels 3.13.2, 3.12.10, 3.10.29, and 3.4.79 Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 3.13.2, 3.12.10, 3.10.29, and 3.4.79 stable kernels. Users of those kernel series should upgrade. | | 9:46p |
Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS released
Ubuntu has released an updated version of its 12.04 long term support (LTS)
distribution for the Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products: 12.04.4
LTS. In addition, Kubuntu 12.04.4 LTS, Edubuntu 12.04.4 LTS, Xubuntu 12.04.4 LTS,
Mythbuntu 12.04.4 LTS, and Ubuntu Studio 12.04.4 LTS have also been
released. "As with 12.04.3, 12.04.4 contains an updated kernel and X stack for new
installations on x86 architectures.
As usual, this point release includes many updates, and updated
installation media has been provided so that fewer updates will need to
be downloaded after installation. These include security updates and
corrections for other high-impact bugs, with a focus on maintaining
stability and compatibility with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS." | | 10:04p |
Jones: The EFI System Partition and the Default Boot Behavior On his blog, Peter Jones writes about the boot process for UEFI, looking at the requirements for EFI System Partitions (ESPs), how the BootOrder variable is used, falling back to removable media, and more. It may be more than you wanted to know about UEFI booting. " There’s nothing truly special about an ESP. It isn’t an ESP because of the GPT GUID and label, nor because of the file system type. Those are how the firmware identifies a partition, and the file system it contains, as candidates to treat as the ESP, when it really needs to find one. The only factor in determining if a partition is the ESP is this: is the firmware attempting to use it as the ESP?
At the same time, the requirements for the ESP give us latitude; we know that we can use UEFI’s APIs to find correctly constructed FAT file systems, but there’s no need for those to be the ESP. In fact, even when we create multiple partitions with the ESP’s GUID and label, there’s no requirement that the firmware looks at more than one of them if it needs to find the ESP, and there’s no guarantee as to which one it will pick, either." |
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