Wednesday, April 30th, 2014

Time	Event
2:26p	Red Hat acquires Inktank Red Hat has announced that it has signed a deal to acquire Inktank, the company formed around the Ceph filesystem, for $175 million. "Combined with Red Hat's existing GlusterFS-based storage offering, the addition of Inktank positions Red Hat as the leading provider of open software-defined storage across object, block and file system storage." (Comment on this)
3:41p	[$] A preview of HyperKitty's reimagined mailing list interface The first beta for version 3 of the GNU Mailman suite was released on April 24. The upcoming version of the mailing-list management program will bring a host of new features, among them a completely new web-based front end called HyperKitty that is designed to bring list archiving up to modern user-interaction standards. HyperKitty looks more like a web discussion forum than Mailman 2's list-of-links archive pages, and it integrates better with other web applications, all while retaining the features expected of mailing lists. (Comment on this)
3:55p	Security updates for Wednesday CentOS has updated firefox (C6; C5: multiple vulnerabilities) and thunderbird (C6; C5: multiple vulnerabilities). Debian has updated iceweasel (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated bugzilla (F20; F19: cross-site request forgery), cups (F20: cross-site scripting), elfutils (F19: code execution), json-c (F19: denial of service), and stunnel (F20; F19: information disclosure). Mageia has updated flash-player-plugin (code execution). openSUSE has updated flash-player (13.1, 12.3: code execution) and thunderbird, seamonkey (13.1, 12.3: multiple vulnerabilities). Red Hat has updated firefox (RHEL5&6: multiple vulnerabilities), flash-plugin (RHEL5&6 Supplementary: code execution), and thunderbird (RHEL5&6: multiple vulnerabilities). Scientific Linux has updated firefox (SL5&6: multiple vulnerabilities) and thunderbird (SL5&6: multiple vulnerabilities). Slackware has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities) and thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities). Ubuntu has updated firefox (14.04 LTS, 13.10, 12.10, 12.04 LTS: multiple vulnerabilities) and indicator-datetime (13.10: unexpected access to applications). (Comment on this)
5:56p	Wheeler: How to Prevent the next Heartbleed David A. Wheeler has written a lengthy article delving into why Heartbleed was not found sooner and how similar vulnerabilities can be prevented in the future. "There are several approaches that could have found Heartbleed, and vulnerabilities like it, before the vulnerable software was released. This is not a ding on the OpenSSL developers; they appear to have worked hard to reduce the number of vulnerabilities, including multi-person review and the use of various tools. Instead, this is an effort to help identify what could be better, so that OpenSSL and other important projects can prevent future similar vulnerabilities." (Comment on this)
11:19p	[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 1, 2014 The LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 1, 2014 is available. (Comment on this)

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