Tuesday, April 14th, 2015

Time	Event
3:41p	Tuesday's security updates Arch Linux has updated ruby (man-in-the-middle attack). CentOS has updated openssl (C5: multiple vulnerabilities). Debian-LTS has updated ia32-libs (multiple vulnerabilities). Oracle has updated openssl (OL5: multiple vulnerabilities). Red Hat has updated kernel (RHEL6.4: privilege escalation). Scientific Linux has updated xorg-x11-server (SL7, SL6: information leak/denial of service). Ubuntu has updated apport (14.10, 14.04: privilege escalation), libx11, libxrender (14.10, 14.04, 12.04: code execution), and ntp (14.10, 14.04, 12.04: multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
6:51p	KDE Ships Plasma 5.3 Beta A beta version of Plasma 5.3 has been released. This release features enhanced power management, better Bluetooth capabilities, improved Plasma widgets, a tech preview of Plasma Media Center, big steps towards Wayland support, and lots of bug fixes. (Comment on this)
7:05p	OIN Expands the Linux System Definition Open Invention Network (OIN) has announced that it has updated its Linux System patent non-aggression coverage. "For this update, 115 new packages will be added to the Linux System, out of almost 800 proposed by various parties. Key additions are the reference implementations of the popular Go and Lua programming languages, Nginx, Openshift, and development tools like CMake and Maven. This update will represent an increase of approximately 5% of the total number of packages covered in the Linux System, a reflection of the incremental and disciplined nature of the update process." (Comment on this)
10:25p	[$] Report from the Python Language Summit The first half of our report from the Python Language Summit is now available. Subscribers can click below to access reports from five sessions held before lunch covering topics like the atomicity of Python operations, making Python 3 more attractive to developers, PyParallel, infrastructure for Python development, and Python 3 adoption. We will be adding more reports to this page as they become available. (Comment on this)

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