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Wednesday, May 21st, 2014
| Time |
Event |
| 10:31a |
Robyn Bergeron stepping down as Fedora leader Fedora project leader Robyn Bergeron has announced
her intention to step down from the position. " With Fedora 20
well behind us, and Fedora.next on the road ahead, it seems like a natural
time to step aside and let new leadership take the reins. Frankly, I
shouldn’t even say 'the road ahead' since we’re well-entrenched in the
process of establishing the Fedora.next features and processes, and it’s a
rather busy time for us all in Fedora-land — but this is precisely why make
the transition into new leadership as smooth as possible for the Fedora
Project community is so important. It’s a good time for change, and fresh
ideas and leadership will be an asset to the community as we go forward,
but I also want to make sure it’s not going to distract us from all the
very important things we have in the works." | | 11:24a |
Wayland and Weston 1.5.0 released
The 1.5.0 releases of the Wayland display manager and Weston compositor are
available. It has been a relatively quiet cycle, especially on the Wayland
side, but there are still numerous improvements, including a transition to
the new Xwayland server. "The Xwayland code was
refactored to be its own X server in the Xorg tree, similar to how
Xwin and Xquartz and Xnest work. A lot of the complexity and hacks
in the old Xorg based Xwayland was about fighting Xorg trying to be
a native display server, discovering input devices and driving the
outputs. The goal was to be able to reuse the 2D acceleration code
from the various Xorg DDX drivers. With glamor becoming a credible
acceleration architecture, we no longer need to jump through those
hoops and the new code base is much simpler and cleaner as a
result."
There is also a change in the maintainer model, with Kristian Høgsberg
giving commit privileges to a number of top-level developers. | | 2:21p |
Bacon: Goodbye Canonical, Hello XPRIZE Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon has announced that he is leaving that position to become the Senior Director of Community at the XPRIZE Foundation. " Now, I won’t actually be going anywhere. I will still be hanging out on IRC, posting on my social media networks, still responding to email, and will continue to do Bad Voltage and run the Community Leadership Summit. I will continue to be an Ubuntu Member, to use Ubuntu on my desktop and server, and continue to post about and share my thoughts about where Ubuntu is moving forward. I am looking forward in many ways to experiencing the true Ubuntu community experience now I will be on the other side of the garden." | | 3:55p |
Security advisories for Wednesday Fedora has updated botan (F20; F19:
insufficiently random cryptographic base), dpkg (F20: unauthorized file creation), and python-fmn-web (F20; F19: covert redirect).
SUSE has updated Linux kernel
(SLERTE11 SP3: privilege escalation) and nagios-nrpe, nagios-nrpe-debuginfo,
(SLES11 SP3: code execution).
Ubuntu has updated libgadu
(13.10, 12.04 LTS: code execution) and pidgin (14.04 LTS, 13.10, 12.04 LTS:
code execution). | | 6:09p |
[$] PostgreSQL 9.4 beta: Binary JSON and Data Change Streaming It's May, which means that it's time for a new PostgreSQL beta
release. As with each annual release, PostgreSQL 9.4 has a
few dozen new features addressing the various ways people use the database
system. While users all have
their own favorites among the new features, this article will focus on two
features that have received the most attention: the new JSONB type, and
Data Change Streaming.
Subscribers can click below for guest author Josh Berkus's look at these
two new PostgreSQL features. | | 11:30p |
Kernel prepatch 3.15-rc6 A bit off his normal schedule, due to chasing fish in the Pacific, Linus Torvalds has released the 3.15-rc6prepatch. " With rc5 being a couple of days early, and rc6 being several days
late, we had almost two weeks in between them. The size of the result
is not twice as large, though, hopefully partially because it's
getting late in the rc series and things are supposed to be calming
down, but presumably also because some submaintainers just didn't send
their pull requests because they knew I was off-line. Whatever the
reason, things don't look bad." He plans to return to the normal Sunday schedule for rc7, presumably on June 1, which might be the last rc for 3.15. |
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