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Thursday, October 2nd, 2014
| Time |
Event |
| 12:12a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 2, 2014
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 2, 2014 is available. | | 2:26p |
Security updates for Thursday Oracle has updated libvirt (OL7:
two vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated libvirt
(RHEL7: two vulnerabilities). | | 2:39p |
OpenWRT "Barrier Breaker" 14.07 released
The long-awaited OpenWRT 14.07 release is out. It includes an update to
the 3.10 kernel, a new init system (procd), improved IPv6 support, support
for system snapshots and rollbacks, support for dynamic firewall rules, a
new MDNS daemon, DNSSEC validation support, and more. | | 3:21p |
Zalewski on the other bash RCEs (CVE-2014-6277 and CVE-2014-6278)
Those interested in the more recently discovered bash vulnerabilities will
likely want to have a look at this detailed posting from Michal Zalewski.
Then make sure your systems are updated. "I initially shared the findings privately with vendors, but because of
the intense scrutiny that this codebase is under, the ease of
reproducing these results with an open-source fuzzer, and the
now-broad availability of upstream mitigations, there seems to be
relatively little value in continued secrecy." | | 5:52p |
Karlitschek: A possible future for PHP On his blog, ownCloud founder Frank Karlitschek ponders the future of PHP. He doesn't regret choosing PHP for ownCloud, but does note that the language suffers from its mid-1990s roots, which he would like to see cleaned up and fixed at some point—in a fully compatible way. " I wish PHP would do something that makes it possible to evolve and improve the language significantly but still provides a smooth migration experience not like Perl and Python did with introducing completely new backward incompatible releases.
So a good solution would be if PHP 6 or 7 [would] introduce a new tag to start a php file. For example
<?PHPNEXT instead of <?PHP. Both modes are fully supported by the new PHP version and can be used in parallel in the same application or even in the same file. In the NEXT section the new and improved syntax is used." He goes on to list the changes he would like to see in the language. | | 10:12p |
Schaller: Fedora Workstation Progress Report (Wayland and more) Christian Schaller has a lengthy update on the progress of Fedora 21. He looks at a number of different features, including Wayland, GNOME 3.14, software installation (dnf and "Software"), and more. " This also highlights one of the advantages of the new Fedora product model where we have one clear desktop product we are targeting, that we can define operating system standards for things like application metadata and apply them to the system as a whole. So for Fedora 22 we expect to make appdata metadata a mandatory part of the application packaging for Fedora, ensuring that any desktop application packaged for Fedora is easily discover able by our users. In the old ‘bucket of parts’ model these things would in practice not happen as there was no clear target that everyone was expected to aim for." |
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