Monday, April 27th, 2015

Time	Event
1:36a	Kernel prepatch 4.1-rc1 The 4.1-rc1 prepatch is out. Linus says: "No earth-shattering new features come to mind, even if initial support for ACPI on arm64 looks funny. Depending on what you care about, your notion of 'big new feature' may differ from mine, of course. There's a lot of work all over, and some of it might just make a big difference to your use cases." What he doesn't mention is that, in the end, kdbus was not merged for this development cycle. (Comment on this)
5:18p	Security advisories for Monday Arch Linux has updated curl (multiple vulnerabilities) and wpa_supplicant (code execution). Debian has updated chromium-browser (multiple vulnerabilities), kernel (multiple vulnerabilities), libreoffice (code execution), openjdk-6 (multiple vulnerabilities), openjdk-7 (multiple vulnerabilities), and wpa (code execution). Fedora has updated cherokee (F21; F20: authentication bypass), chrony (F20: multiple vulnerabilities), php (F20: multiple vulnerabilities), qt5-qtbase (F21; F20: multiple vulnerabilities), resteasy (F20: XML eXternal Entity (XXE) attacks), spatialite-tools (F20: multiple vulnerabilities), sqlite (F20: multiple vulnerabilities), wesnoth (F21; F20: information leak), wpa_supplicant (F21: code execution), and zarafa (F21; F20: denial of service). Mageia has updated php (three vulnerabilities) and wordpress (multiple vulnerabilities). Mandriva has updated asterisk (MBS1.0: SSL server spoofing), glusterfs (MBS2.0: denial of service), librsync (MBS1.0: file checksum collision), perl-Module-Signature (MBS1.0: multiple vulnerabilities), php (MBS1.0, MBS2.0: multiple vulnerabilities), qemu (MBS1.0, MBS2.0: denial of service), setup (MBS2.0: information disclosure), and tor (MBS1.0: denial of service). openSUSE has updated java-1_7_0-openjdk (13.2: multiple vulnerabilities), java-1_8_0-openjdk (13.2: multiple vulnerabilities), and ntp (13.2, 13.1: two vulnerabilities). Ubuntu has updated autofs (14.10: privilege escalation), libreoffice (14.10, 14.04, 12.04: two vulnerabilities), and tcpdump (14.10, 14.04, 12.04: multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
8:44p	Garrett: Reducing power consumption on Haswell and Broadwell systems Matthew Garrett looked into why Linux systems consume too much power on recent Intel chipsets and wrote up his results — a reduction of idle power use on his laptop from 8.5W to 5W. "This trend is likely to continue. As systems become more integrated we're going to have to pay more attention to the interdependencies in order to obtain the best possible power consumption, and that means that distribution vendors are going to have to spend some time figuring out what these dependencies are and what the appropriate default policy is for their users." (Comment on this)

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