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Monday, March 24th, 2014

    Time Event
    2:41p
    A set of stable kernel updates
    The 3.13.7,
    3.10.34, and
    3.4.84 stable kernel updates have been
    released, each containing the usual set of important fixes.
    4:59p
    Security advisories for Monday

    Debian has updated chromium-browser (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Fedora has updated ca-certificates (F20: certificate update), imapsync (F20: information leak), jansson (F20; F19: denial of service), perltidy (F20; F19: insecure temporary file creation), and tigervnc (F20: code execution).

    Mageia has updated python (denial of service), python3 (denial of service), and samba (password guessing attack).

    openSUSE has updated icinga (13.1, 12.3: buffer overflow) and Mozilla (11.4: multiple vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated firefox (SLE11 SP3: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated thunderbird (13.10, 12.10, 12.04 LTS: multiple vulnerabilities).

    5:57p
    FSF gives awards to Matthew Garrett, Outreach Program for Women
    The Free Software Foundation has announced
    that its annual award for the advancement of free software has gone to
    Matthew Garrett for his work making Linux support UEFI secure boot
    systems. The award for projects of social benefit went to the Outreach
    Program for Women.
    7:12p
    Does the Display Server matter?
    Robert Ancell contends that the application toolkit is more important than the display server. "The result of this is the display server doesn't matter much to applications because we have pretty good toolkits that already hide all this information from us. And it doesn't matter much to drivers as they're providing much the same operations to anything that uses them (i.e. buffer management and passing shaders around)."

    Martin Gräßlin counters that by taking a look at issues created by making applications work with multiple display servers. "Also the assumption that the toolkit behaves the same is just wrong. One of the issues I fixed was Qt returning a nullptr from QClipboard::mimeData on platform Wayland while it returned a valid pointer on all other platforms. It’s obviously an application bug but the documentation doesn’t say that there could be nullptr returned or not. There can be hundreds or thousands of such small behavior differences. An application developer is not able to ensure that the application is working correctly on a distro-specific display server."

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