Tuesday, April 28th, 2015

Time	Event
4:35p	Tuesday's security updates Fedora has updated curl (F20: multiple vulnerabilities), firefox (F21: code execution), icu (F21; F20: multiple vulnerabilities), java-1.8.0-openjdk (F20: multiple vulnerabilities), ntp (F21: multiple vulnerabilities), ruby (F21: man-in-the-middle attack), and xulrunner (F21: code execution). Mandriva has updated java-1.7.0-openjdk (MBS1.0: multiple vulnerabilities). Red Hat has updated qemu-kvm-rhev (RHELOSP: privilege escalation). Ubuntu has updated network-manager (15.04, 14.10, 14.04: information disclosure) and oxide-qt (15.04, 14.10, 14.04: multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
5:18p	KDE Ships Plasma 5.3 KDE has announced the release of Plasma 5.3. This release features improved power management, better Bluetooth capabilities, improved Plasma widgets, a tech preview of the Plasma Media Center, big steps towards Wayland support, and more. (Comment on this)
11:27p	[$] The programming talent myth Jacob Kaplan-Moss is known for his work on Django but, as he would describe in his PyCon 2015 keynote, many think he had more to do with its creation than he actually did. While his talk ranged quite a bit, the theme covered something that software development organizations—and open source projects—may be grappling with: a myth about developer performance and how it impacts the industry. It was a thought-provoking talk that was frequently punctuated by applause; these are the kinds of issues that the Python community tries to confront head on, so the talk was aimed well. (Comment on this)
11:52p	GNU Mailman 3.0 released GNU Mailman 3.0 has been released. "Over seven years in development, Mailman 3 represents a major new version, redesigned as a suite of cooperating components which can be used to mix and match however you want. The core engine is now backed by a relational database and exposes its functionality to other components via an administrative REST+JSON API. Our new web user interface, Postorius is Django-based, as is our new archiver HyperKitty. The core requires Python 3.4 while Postorius and HyperKitty require Python 2.7. LWN looked at Mailman 3.0 in March, and at HyperKitty in April 2014. (Comment on this)

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