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Wednesday, May 20th, 2015

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    1:26p
    20 years of Qt
    Lars Knoll marks the
    20th anniversary of the Qt toolkit
    on the Qt blog. "From the
    beginning, Qt has been released with both open source and commercial
    licensing options. Over the years, we have worked on expanding this model,
    and nowadays, Qt is actually developed as an open source project. In this
    sense Qt is actually in a rather unique position, having a strong ecosystem
    with passionate people, as well as a commercial entity behind it, which
    backs up and funds most of the development.
    "
    3:01p
    [$] PostgreSQL: the good, the bad, and the ugly
    The PostgreSQL development community is working toward the 9.5 release,
    currently planned for the third quarter of this year. Development activity
    is at peak levels as the planned feature freeze for this release approaches.
    While this activity is resulting in the merging of some interesting
    functionality, including the long-awaited "upsert" feature,
    it is also
    revealing some fault lines within the community. The fact that PostgreSQL
    lacks the review resources needed to keep up with its natural rate of
    change has been understood for years; many other projects suffer from the
    same problem. But the pressures on PostgreSQL seem to be becoming more
    acute, leading to concerns about fairness in the community and the
    durability of the project's cherished reputation for high-quality software.
    4:50p
    Security advisories for Wednesday

    Debian has updated icedove (multiple vulnerabilities), proftpd-dfsg (unauthenticated copying of files), and zendframework (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Fedora has updated dovecot (F21; F20: denial of service), firefox (F20: multiple vulnerabilities), libtasn1 (F21: denial of service), php-ZendFramework2 (F21; F20: CRLF injection), and thunderbird (F20: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated kernel (14.10; 14.04; 12.04: multiple vulnerabilities), linux-lts-trusty (12.04: multiple vulnerabilities), linux-lts-utopic (14.04: multiple vulnerabilities), and linux-ti-omap4 (12.04: two vulnerabilities).

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