Monday, September 15th, 2014

Time	Event
1:11p	Kernel prepatch 3.17-rc5 The fifth 3.17 prepatch is out. "So I should probably have delayed this until Wednesday for sentimental reasons: that will be 23 years since I uploaded the 0.01 source tree. But I'm not an overly sentimental person, so screw that. I'm doing my normal Sunday release." Linus noted that this is a relatively large set of changes, so any thoughts of doing an early 3.17 release (to avoid conflicts between the merge window and his travel plans) have to be put aside. (Comment on this)
2:43p	LedgerSMB 1.4.0 released Version 1.4.0 of the LedgerSMB accounting system is out. It features a new contact management subsystem, a reworked report generation subsystem, better integration with other business applications, and more. The announcement left out download information; those who are interested can find the software at ledgersmb.org. (Comment on this)
4:59p	Security advisories for Monday Fedora has updated curl (F20: two cookie-handling vulnerabilities), GraphicsMagick (F19: code execution), libreoffice (F20: file disclosure), and procmail (F20: code execution). Mageia has updated dump (denial of service/possible code execution), glibc (two vulnerabilities), libgadu (missing ssl certificate validation), mariadb (code execution), and moodle (two vulnerabilities). openSUSE has updated LibreOffice (13.1, 12.3: two vulnerabilities). Red Hat has updated axis (RHEL5&6: SSL hostname verification bypass), python-django-horizon (RHEL OSP4.0: multiple vulnerabilities), and qemu-kvm-rhev (RHEL OSP4&5, RHEL6: code execution). SUSE has updated firefox (SLES11 SP1: multiple vulnerabilities), flash-player (SLED11 SP3: multiple vulnerabilities), and glibc (SLE11 SP3: code execution). Ubuntu has updated curl (two cookie-handling vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
7:48p	Freenode server compromised The freenode infrastructure team found a server issue that indicated that an IRC server may have been compromised. "We immediately started an investigation to map the extent of the problem and located similar issues with several other machines and have taken those offline. For now, since network traffic may have been sniffed, we recommend that everyone change their NickServ password as a precaution." (Thanks to Paul Wise) (Comment on this)
11:04p	Intel's Edison Brings Yocto Linux to Wearables (Linux.com) Linux.com takes a look at Intel's Edison computing module. "Linux-based platforms for wearables include Android Wear, Samsung's Tizen SDK for Wearables, and now Intel's Yocto Linux and Intel Atom-based Edison computing module. The Edison was released last week in conjunction with the Intel Developer Forum. Prior to the formal launch, some 70 Intel Edison beta units have been seeded, forming the basis for about 40 Edison-based projects, says Intel." (Comment on this)

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