Monday, December 1st, 2014

Time	Event
1:13p	Kernel prepatch 3.18-rc7 The 3.18-rc7 prepatch is out. Linus seems happy enough, despite the persistent lockup problem that has defied all debugging attempts so far. "At the same time, with the holidays coming up, and the problem _not_ being a regression, I suspect that what will happen is that I'll release 3.18 on time in a week, because delaying it will either mess up the merge window and the holiday season, or I'd have to delay it a *lot*." (Comment on this)
5:37p	Security advisories for Monday CentOS has updated ruby (C7; C6: multiple vulnerabilities). Debian has updated flac (multiple vulnerabilities), libvncserver (multiple vulnerabilities), mutt (denial of service), openjdk-7 (multiple vulnerabilities), and ppp (privilege escalation). Mageia has updated flac (multiple vulnerabilities) and geary (TLS certificate issues). SUSE has updated IBM Java (SLE11 SP3: multiple vulnerabilities). Ubuntu has updated ppp (privilege escalation). (Comment on this)
6:43p	[$] A preview of darktable 1.6 The darktable project recently announced the first release-candidate (RC) builds for its upcoming version 1.6 release. The new version will add a slideshow presentation tool to darktable's primary photo-editing features, plus several new image operations and support for new digital cameras. This time, several of the additions add to darktable's automatic adjustment capabilities, making the application a bit more friendly for users who are new to high-end photo editing. (Comment on this)
7:02p	Rocket, a new container runtime from CoreOS CoreOS has announced that it is moving away from Docker and toward "Rocket," a new container runtime that it has developed. "Unfortunately, a simple re-usable component is not how things are playing out. Docker now is building tools for launching cloud servers, systems for clustering, and a wide range of functions: building images, running images, uploading, downloading, and eventually even overlay networking, all compiled into one monolithic binary running primarily as root on your server. The standard container manifesto was removed. We should stop talking about Docker containers, and start talking about the Docker Platform. It is not becoming the simple composable building block we had envisioned." (Comment on this)
8:00p	Firefox 34 released Mozilla has released Firefox 34. This version changes the default search engine, includes the Firefox Hello real-time communication client, implements HTTP/2 (draft14) and ALPN, disables SSLv3, and more. See the release notes for details. (Comment on this)

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