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Monday, June 8th, 2015
| Time |
Event |
| 1:15p |
Kernel prepatch 4.1-rc7 The 4.1-rc7 prepatch is out. " Normally rc7 tends to be the last rc release, and there's not a lot
going on to really merit anything else this time around. However, we do
still have some pending regressions, and as mentioned last week I also have
my yearly family vacation coming up, so we'll have an rc8 and an extra week
before 4.1 actually gets released." | | 1:37p |
Some stable kernel updates The 4.0.5,
3.14.44, and
3.10.80
stable kernels have been released. These contain a number of important bug
fixes, including the fixes for the ext4 and RAID 0 data corruption issues
discussed in this article.
At LinuxCon Japan last week it was announced that the next long-term stable
release, to be maintained for two years, will be 4.1. | | 4:14p |
Security advisories for Monday Debian has updated php5 (multiple vulnerabilities), redis (code execution), and strongswan (information disclosure).
Debian-LTS has updated fuse (privilege escalation).
Fedora has updated dcraw (F22; F21; F20: denial of service), fuse (F22: privilege escalation),
ipsec-tools (F21; F20: denial of service), less (F22: information leak), ntfs-3g (F21: privilege escalation), php-symfony (F22; F21; F20: restriction bypass), ufraw (F22; F21; F20: denial of service), and zarafa (F21; F20: file overwrites).
Scientific Linux has updated openssl (SL6,7: cipher-downgrade attacks).
SUSE has updated cups (SLE11SP3: privilege escalation). | | 10:50p |
As open source code, Apple's Swift language could take flight (ITWorld) ITWorld reportsthat Apple will release its Swift programming language under an open source license. " When Swift becomes open source later this year, programmers will be able to compile Swift programs to run on Linux as well as on OS X and iOS, said Craig Federighi, Apple’s head of software engineering, during the opening keynote of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference Monday in San Francisco.
The source code will include the Swift compiler and standard library, and community contributions will be “accepted—and encouraged,” Apple said." |
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