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Thursday, January 29th, 2015

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    1:46a
    [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 29, 2015
    The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 29, 2015 is available.
    3:31p
    Security updates for Thursday

    CentOS has updated kernel (C6: two vulnerabilities) and libyaml (C6: denial of service).

    Debian has updated virtualbox (two denial of service flaws with no details).

    Debian-LTS has updated jasper (two vulnerabilities), libksba (denial of service), privoxy (three vulnerabilities), python-django (multiple vulnerabilities), and rpm (multiple vulnerabilities, some from 2012 and 2013).

    Fedora has updated drupal7-context (F21; F20: open redirect), suricata (F21; F20: denial of service), and unzip (F21: unspecified impact).

    openSUSE has updated flash-player (12.3: multiple vulnerabilities), git (13.2, 13.1: code execution), glibc (11.4: code execution), and libpng16 (13.2, 13.1: two vulnerabilities).

    Oracle has updated kernel (OL7; OL6: multiple vulnerabilities) and libyaml (OL7; OL6: denial of service).

    Red Hat has updated glibc (RHEL4: code execution), kernel (RHEL7: multiple vulnerabilities), libyaml (RHEL6&7: denial of service), and ntp (RHEL6.5: multiple code execution flaws).

    Scientific Linux has updated kernel (SL7: multiple vulnerabilities) and libyaml (SL6&7: denial of service).

    Slackware has updated glibc (code execution).

    SUSE has updated firefox (SLE11SP2, SLE11SP1; SLE10SP4: multiple vulnerabilities) and flash-player (SLE11SP3: multiple vulnerabilities).

    6:50p
    LibreOffice 4.4 released
    The LibreOffice
    4.4 release
    is now available. "We have completed the dialog
    conversion, redesigned menu bars, context menus, toolbars, status bars and
    rulers to make them much more useful. The Sifr monochrome icon theme is
    extended and now the default on OS X. We also developed a new Color
    Selector, improved the Sidebar to integrate more smoothly with menus, and
    reworked many user interface details to follow today’s UX trends.
    "
    See the
    release notes
    and this
    posting from Michael Meeks
    for lots more information.
    7:17p
    Plasma 5.2 Is Beautiful and Featureful (KDE.News)
    We are a bit late in noting that KDE has released Plasma 5.2 on January 27. This KDE.News article gives a tour of the desktop that will be featured in upcoming Kubuntu and Fedora KDE spin releases (and probably other distributions as well). There are lots of new features and bug fixes in the release, see the changelog for all the details. "In the screen locker we improved the integration with logind to ensure the screen is properly locked before suspend. The background of the lock screen can be configured. Internally this uses part of the Wayland protocol which is the future of the Linux desktop.

    There are improvements in the handling of multiple monitors. The detection code for multiple monitors got ported to use the XRandR extension directly and multiple bugs related to it were fixed.
    "

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