Monday, February 10th, 2014

Time	Event
1:57p	Kernel prepatch 3.14-rc2 The 3.14-rc2 prepatch is out; Linus notes that the patch volume has been light, but worries that kernel developers are lurking in the background waiting to dump more stuff on him. "Because I know kernel developers, and they are sneaky. I suspect Davem (to pick somebody not at random) is giggling to himself, waiting for this release message, planning to send me some big-ass pull request tomorrow." (Comment on this)
6:37p	Security advisories for Monday Debian has updated iceweasel (multiple vulnerabilities), libcommons-fileupload-java (denial of service), and libspring-java (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated chicken (F20: code execution), ghdl (F19; F20: remote denial of service), ikiwiki (F19; F20: javascript code injection), and libyaml (F19; F20: code execution). Gentoo has updated djvu (code execution), icu (denial of service), links (denial of service), mod_fcgid (code execution), pam_skey (information disclosure), and pulseaudio (denial of service from 2009). Mageia has updated chromium-browser-stable (multiple vulnerabilities), kernel (MG3: multiple vulnerabilities), kernel (MG4: privilege escalation), mupdf (denial of service), and yaml (code execution). openSUSE has updated firefox (13.1, 12.3: multiple vulnerabilities), mozilla (11.4: multiple vulnerabilities). Slackware has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities), thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities), and seamonkey (multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
8:04p	Russ Allbery's perspective on the Debian technical committee impasse LWN has backed off on moment-to-moment coverage of events in Debian's technical committee because it seems that a moment of relative calm is called for. But a note posted by committee member Russ Allbery on the situation is worth reading in its entirety, despite the fact that it's rather long. "In short, you can certainly disagree with the relative weights of the various features or drawbacks of any of the init systems. But I think at the point at which one goes beyond 'I disagree' to 'and therefore you must be biased,' one has lost the plot. This is a hard decision with a lot of subjective judgement, and reasonable people can arrive at opposite conclusions." (Comment on this)
11:08p	[$] Systemd programming part 2: activation and language issues This is the second half of a pair of articles looking at systemd as a programming language for the specification and management of system services. Part 1 was concerned with modularity issues and how services can be configured. This part continues with a look at the various ways to control the activation of services before getting into an overall look at issues with systemd's language. While systemd has been extensively discussed as an init system, there is value in regarding it from a language point of view as well. (Comment on this)

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