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Thursday, November 6th, 2014
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| 1:37a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 6, 2014
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 6, 2014 is available. | | 1:43p |
GnuPG 2.1.0 "modern" released
Version 2.1.0 of the GNU Privacy Guard has been released; this is the first
release in the new "modern" branch. Changes include elliptic curve
cryptography support, better keyserver pool handling, the creation of
revocation certificates by default, the removal of support for PGP2 keys,
and more. | | 3:04p |
Thursday's security updates Debian has updated libxml-security-java (xml signature spoofing
from 2013).
Gentoo has updated mysql
(multiple unspecified vulnerabilities), tigervnc (code execution), and vlc (multiple vulnerabilities from 2010-2013).
Oracle has updated mod_auth_mellon (OL6: two vulnerabilities) and
shim (OL7: three vulnerabilities).
SUSE has updated flash-player
(SLE11SP3: three vulnerabilities), OpenSSL
(SLE11SP3: three vulnerabilities), and wget
(SLE11SP3: code execution).
Ubuntu has updated libreoffice
(14.10, 14.04: code execution). | | 7:18p |
Kügler: Diving into Plasma’s 2015 On his blog, Sebastian Kügler looks at what next year holds for KDE Plasma 5. He looks at high-DPI and Wayland support as well as the plans by distributions ( Kubuntu 15.04 for example) to start shipping Plasma 5 as the default desktop environment. " In terms of user demographic, we’re almost certain to see one thing happening with the new Plasma 5 UI, as distros start to ship it by default, this is what these new users are going to see. Not everybody in this group of users is interested in how cool the technology stack lines up, they just want to get their work done and certainly not feel impeded in their daily workflows. This is the target group which we’ve been focusing our work on in months since summer, since the release of Plasma 5.0. Wider group of users sounds pretty abstract, so let’s take some numbers: While Plasma 5 is run by a group of people already, the number of users who get it via Linux distributions is much larger than the group of early adopters. This means by the end of next year, Plasma 5 will be in the hands of millions of users, probably around 10 million, and increasing." |
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