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Monday, June 22nd, 2015
| Time |
Event |
| 12:47p |
The 4.1 kernel is out Linus has releasedthe 4.1 kernel. " It's not like the 4.1
release cycle was particularly painful, and let's hope that the extra
week of letting it sit makes for a great release. Which wouldn't be a
bad thing, considering that 4.1 will also be a LTS release." Headline features in this release include support for encrypted ext4 filesystems, the persistent memory block driver, ACPI support for the ARM64 architecture, and more. | | 1:34p |
Mageia 5 released The Mageia
5 release is now available. The headline feature in this long-awaited distribution release appears to be UEFI BIOS support, but there's more; see the release
notes for details. | | 2:12p |
Shuttleworth: Introducing the Fan Mark Shuttleworth announces "the
Fan", a new mechanism for directing communications between containers. " We recognised that container networking is unusual, and quite unlike
true software-defined networking, in that the number of containers you want
on each host is probably roughly the same. You want to run a couple hundred
containers on each VM. You also don’t (in the docker case) want to live
migrate them around, you just kill them and start them again
elsewhere. Essentially, what you need is an address multiplier – anywhere
you have one interface, it would be handy to have 250 of them
instead." See this page for details on how it works. | | 2:40p |
Three projects funded by CII The Linux Foundation's Critical Infrastructure Initiative has announcedthe funding of three projects to the tune of " nearly
$500,000." " CII's funds will support a new open source
automated testing project, the Reproducible Builds initiative from Debian,
and IT security researcher Hanno Boeck's Fuzzing Project. Additionally, The
Linux Foundation is announcing Emily Ratliff is joining The Linux
Foundation as senior director of infrastructure security for CII. Ratliff
is a Linux, system and cloud security expert with more than 20 years'
experience. Most recently she worked as a security engineer for AMD and
logged nearly 15 years at IBM." | | 4:51p |
The long ARM of Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for ARM Development Preview (Red Hat Blog) In a post on the Red Hat Blog, the company has announced a version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for ARM development. " Today, we are making the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for ARM Development Preview 7.1 available to all current and future members of the Red Hat ARM Partner Early Access Program as well as their end users as an unsupported development platform, providing a common standards-based operating system for existing 64-bit ARM hardware. Beyond this release, we plan to continue collaborating with our partner ISVs and OEMs, end users, and the broader open source community to enhance and refine the platform to ultimately work with the next generation of ARM-based designs." Jon Masters, who is the technical lead for the project, has a lengthy Google+ post about the project and its history over the last 4+ years. | | 5:20p |
Security advisories for Monday Debian has updated pyjwt (accepts arbitrary tokens).
Debian-LTS has updated libclamunrar (double-free error), qemu (code execution), qemu-kvm (code execution), and zendframework (multiple vulnerabilities).
Fedora has updated abrt (F22:
multiple vulnerabilities), cups (F22; F21: two
vulnerabilities), drupal7-views (F22; F21; F20: access bypass), gnome-abrt (F22: multiple vulnerabilities),
kernel (F22; F21: privilege escalation), krb5 (F21: two vulnerabilities), libreport (F22: multiple vulnerabilities), openssl (F22: multiple vulnerabilities), postgresql (F22: multiple vulnerabilities), qemu (F21: denial of service), qpid-cpp (F21: two vulnerabilities), and satyr (F22: multiple vulnerabilities).
Gentoo has updated adobe-flash
(multiple vulnerabilities) and openssl (multiple vulnerabilities).
openSUSE has updated cgit (13.2,
13.1: code execution), xen (13.2; 13.1: multiple vulnerabilities), and XWayland (13.2: permission bypass).
SUSE has updated IBM Java
(SLE11SP3: multiple vulnerabilities). | | 7:01p |
The Open Container Project The Open Container Project has announced its
existence. " Housed under the Linux Foundation, the OCP’s mission
is to enable users and companies to continue to innovate and develop
container-based solutions, with confidence that their pre-existing
development efforts will be protected and without industry
fragmentation. As part of this initiative, Docker will donate the code for
its software container format and its runtime, as well as the associated
specifications. The leadership of the Application Container spec (“appc”)
initiative, including founding member CoreOS, will also be bringing their
technical leadership and support to OCP." |
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