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Monday, June 16th, 2014
| Time |
Event |
| 1:36p |
The 3.16 merge window has closed Linus Torvalds has released the 3.16-rc1 kernel prepatch, thus closing the merge window. In the end, Torvalds picked up 11,364 non-merge commits for inclusion, making 3.16 the third busiest merge window ever (after 3.15 and 3.10). " It also looks fairly usual from a statistics standpoint: about two
thirds of the changes are to drivers (and one third of *that* is to
staging), and half of the remainder is architecture updates (with arm
dominating, dts files leading - but there's mips, powerpc, x86 and
arm64 there too).
Outside of drivers and architecture updates, there's the usual mixture
of changes elsewhere: filesystems (mainly reiserfs, xfs, btrfs, nfs),
networking, "core" kernel (mm, locking, scheduler, tracing), and
tooling (perf and power, also new self-tests)." | | 2:15p |
The history of Android (ars technica) Ars technica has put together a
detailed history of Android so far. " Thanks to this 'cloud rot,'
an Android retrospective won’t be possible in a few years. Early versions
of Android will be empty, broken husks that won't function without cloud
support. While it’s easy to think of this as a ways off, it's happening
right now. While writing this piece, we ran into tons of apps that no
longer function because the server support has been turned off. Early
clients for Google Maps and the Android Market, for instance, are no longer
able to communicate with Google." | | 4:38p |
Security advisories for Monday Debian has updated chromium-browser (multiple vulnerabilities).
Fedora has updated firefox (F19:
multiple vulnerabilities), nspr (F19:
multiple vulnerabilities), thunderbird
(F20: multiple vulnerabilities), and xulrunner (F19: multiple vulnerabilities).
Gentoo has updated freeradius
(code execution), gnutls (multiple vulnerabilities), kdirstat (command execution), libXfont (multiple vulnerabilities), lighttpd (multiple vulnerabilities), memcached (multiple vulnerabilities), and opera (multiple vulnerabilities).
Mageia has updated flash-player-plugin (multiple vulnerabilities).
Mandriva has updated kernel
(BS1.0: multiple vulnerabilities) and nspr
(BS1.0, ES5.0: code execution).
openSUSE has updated flash-player (11.4; 12.3, 13.1:
multiple vulnerabilities) and Mozilla
(11.4: multiple vulnerabilities).
SUSE has updated GnuTLS (SLES10:
multiple vulnerabilities) and kernel
(SLE RTE11 SP3: privilege escalation). | | 9:44p |
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