Monday, April 13th, 2015

Time	Event
7:32a	The 4.0 kernel has been released Linus has released the 4.0 kernel right on schedule. "Feature-wise, 4.0 doesn't have all that much special. Much have been made of the new kernel patching infrastructure, but realistically, that not only wasn't the reason for the version number change, we've had much bigger changes in other versions. So this is very much a 'solid code progress' release." Beyond the (incomplete) live-patching mechanism, this release includes the removal of the remap_file_pages() system call, improved persistent memory support, the lazytime mount option, and the kernel address sanitizer. (Comment on this)
12:08p	Hubička: Link time and inter-procedural optimization improvements in GCC 5 Jan Hubička has posted a lengthy discussion of the optimization improvements found in the upcoming GCC 5.0 release. "Identical code folding is a new pass (contributed by Martin Liška, SUSE) looking for functions with the same code and variables with the same constructors. If some are found, one copy is removed and replaced one by an alias to another where possible. This is especially important for C++ code bases that tend to contain duplicated functions as a result of template instantiations." (Comment on this)
5:06p	Security advisories for Monday Arch Linux has updated icecast (denial of service). CentOS has updated xorg-x11-server (C6: information leak). Debian has updated chrony (multiple vulnerabilities), das-watchdog (privilege escalation), libdbd-firebird-perl (buffer overflow), libtasn1-3 (denial of service), libx11 (code execution), ntp (two vulnerabilities), and wesnoth-1.10 (information leak). Debian-LTS has updated chrony (multiple vulnerabilities), das-watchdog (privilege escalation), libtasn1-3 (denial of service), and ntp (two vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated arj (F20: multiple vulnerabilities), ca-certificates (F21; F20: certificate update), ImageMagick (F21: multiple vulnerabilities), libxml2 (F20: denial of service), openldap (F21: denial of service), qemu (F21: multiple vulnerabilities), varnish (F21: heap buffer overflow), and xen (F21; F20: multiple vulnerabilities). Gentoo has updated apache (multiple vulnerabilities), mysql (multiple unspecified vulnerabilities), sudo (information disclosure), and xen (multiple vulnerabilities). Mandriva has updated batik (MBS1,2: information leak). openSUSE has updated kernel (13.2; 13.1: multiple vulnerabilities) and tor (13.2, 13.1: denial of service). Red Hat has updated openssl (RHEL5: multiple vulnerabilities). Scientific Linux has updated openssl (SL5: multiple vulnerabilities). SUSE has updated firefox (SLES12; SLED12: multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
6:05p	Stable kernel updates Greg KH has released stable kernels 3.19.4, 3.14.38, and 3.10.74. All of them contain the usual set of important fixes. (Comment on this)
7:35p	The Document Liberation, one year after The Document Foundation's project Document Liberation looks at its progress during the past year. "During 2014, members of the project released a new framework library, called librevenge, which contains all the document interfaces and helper types, in order to simplify the dependency chain. In addition, they started a new library for importing Adobe PageMaker documents, libpagemaker, written as part of Google Summer of Code 2014 by Anurag Kanungo. Existing libraries have also been extended with the addition of more formats, like libwps with the addition of Microsoft Works Spreadsheet and Database by Laurent Alonso. He is now working on adding support for Lotus 1-2-3, which is one of the most famous legacy applications for personal computers. Laurent has also added support for more than twenty legacy Mac formats to libmwaw." (Comment on this)

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