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Thursday, December 18th, 2014
| Time |
Event |
| 12:16a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 18, 2014
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 18, 2014 is available. | | 3:28p |
PostgreSQL 9.4 released Version 9.4 of the PostgreSQL relational database management system is out. " This
release adds many new features which enhance PostgreSQL's flexibility,
scalability and performance for many different types of database users,
including improvements to JSON support, replication and index
performance." See this article for a lot more information on what's in this release. | | 4:43p |
Security updates for Thursday CentOS has updated kernel (C5:
privilege escalation).
Fedora has updated bind (F20: two
denial of service flaws), cpio (F21: denial
of service), pam (F20: two vulnerabilities,
one from 2013), and tcpdump (F20: three vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated kernel (RHEL7; RHEL6;
RHEL5: privilege escalation).
Scientific Linux has updated kernel (SL7; SL5:
privilege escalation). | | 7:19p |
Klapper: Good bye Bugzilla, welcome Phabricator. On his blog, André Klapper describes Wikimedia's move from Bugzilla to Phabricator, which is described as an " open source software engineering platform". After ten years and 70,000+ bugs, there was a lot of data to migrate, which went well overall, though there were a few surprises along the way. " We had to work around an unresolved upstream XML-RPC API bug in Bugzilla by applying a custom hack when exporting comments in a first step and removing the hack when exporting attachments (with binary data) in a second step. Though we did, it took us a while to realize that Bugzilla attachments imported into Phabricator were scrambled as the hack got still applied for unknown reasons (some caching?). Rebooting the Bugzilla server fixed the problem but we had to start from scratch with importing attachments." (Thanks to Paul Wise.) | | 9:13p |
KDE Applications 14.12 released The KDE project has announced the release of KDE Applications 14.12, which has the first set of applications that have been ported to KDE Frameworks 5. Most of the applications are still based on KDE Development Platform 4, but some have been moved to the new Qt5-based Frameworks. " The release includes the first KDE Frameworks 5-based versions of Kate and
KWrite, Konsole, Gwenview, KAlgebra, Kanagram, KHangman, Kig, Parley,
KApptemplate and Okteta. Some libraries are also ready for KDE Frameworks 5
use: analitza and libkeduvocdocument.
Libkface is new in this release; it is a library to enable face detection and
face recognition in photographs." More information on the new features and fixes that came in the release can be found in the change log and a KDE.News article. | | 9:45p |
Git v2.2.1 (security release) available
There is a new version of the Git client out with an important security
fix: with vulnerable versions of the Git client on a case
insensitive filesystem, it is possible for a pull from a repository
to overwrite the .git directory and cause the execution of
arbitrary commands. Linux systems running normal filesystems are not
affected by this problem, but Windows and Mac OS systems are. |
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