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Tuesday, May 5th, 2015

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    3:28p
    Tuesday's security updates

    Debian has updated wordpress (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Fedora has updated mingw-curl (F21: multiple vulnerabilities), mingw-libgcrypt (F21: multiple vulnerabilities), mingw-openssl (F21: multiple vulnerabilities), and mingw-qt5-qtbase (F21: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Mageia has updated clamav (multiple vulnerabilities), gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad (code execution), hiawatha (multiple vulnerabilities), net-snmp (code execution), nodejs (privilege escalation), pdns, pdns-recursor (denial of service), and squid (certificate validation bypass).

    Mandriva has updated cherokee (MBS1.0: authentication bypass), clamav (MBS2.0, MBS1.0: multiple vulnerabilities), directfb (MBS2.0, MBS1.0: two vulnerabilities), fcgi (MBS1.0: denial of service), mariadb (MBS2.0, MBS1.0: multiple unspecified vulnerabilities), ppp (MBS2.0, MBS1.0: denial of service), and ruby (MBS2.0, MBS1.0: man-in-the-middle attack).

    Ubuntu has updated dnsmasq (15.04, 14.10, 14.04, 12.04: information disclosure) and libxml-libxml-perl (15.04, 14.10, 14.04, 12.04: information disclosure).

    5:45p
    App Container spec gains new support as a community-led effort
    CoreOS looks at
    community adoption     of the App Container spec (appc). "In order to ensure the specification remains a community-led effort, the appc project has established a governance policy and elected several new community maintainers unaffiliated with CoreOS: initially, Vincent Batts of Red Hat, Tim Hockins of Google and Charles Aylward of Twitter. This new set of maintainers brings each of their own unique points of view and allows appc to be a true collaborative effort. Two of the initial developers of the spec from CoreOS, Brandon Philips and Jonathan Boulle, remain as maintainers, but now are proud to have the collective help of others to make the spec what it is intended to be: open, well-specified and developed by a community."
    10:53p
    Git code hosting beta (launchpadblog)
    Early support for hosting Git repositories directly on Launchpad has been
    announced. "This has been by far the single most commonly requested feature from Launchpad code hosting for a long time; we’ve been working hard on it for several months now, and we’re very happy to be able to release it for general use.

    This is distinct from the facility to import code from Git (and some other systems) into Bazaar that Launchpad has included for many years.    "
    11:41p
    International Day Against DRM
    This year the International Day Against DRM will be held on May 6. The Free Software Foundation focuses on community with a wide variety of community groups, activist organizations, and businesses all taking part in the ninth International Day Against DRM.

    The FSF's DefectiveByDesign campaign looks at how DRM affects people with disabilities. "DRM is especially bad for those of us that face additional hurdles using computers. It's beastly for blind people, who are dependent on an audiobook market heavily laden with DRM."

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