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Thursday, July 16th, 2015

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    12:22a
    [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 16, 2015
    The LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 16, 2015 is available.
    8:30a
    Rkt 0.7.0 released
    Version
    0.7.0 of the rkt container runtime system     is available. "This
    release includes new subcommands for a rkt image to manipulate images from
    the local store, a new build system based on autotools and integration with
    SELinux. These new capabilities improve the user experience, make it easier
    to build future features and improve security isolation between
    containers.    "
    2:52p
    Security updates for Thursday

    CentOS has updated java-1.7.0-openjdk (C7; C6; C5: many vulnerabilities), java-1.8.0-openjdk (C7; C6: many vulnerabilities), and kernel (C6: multiple vulnerabilities, one from 2011).

    Debian-LTS has updated python-django (three vulnerabilities).

    Fedora has updated cryptopp (F22; F21: information disclosure), drupal7-feeds (F22; F21: three vulnerabilities), rsyslog (F22: denial of service), and springframework (F22; F21: denial of service).

    openSUSE has updated bind (13.2; 13.1: three vulnerabilities, one from 2014).

    Oracle has updated java-1.7.0-openjdk (OL7; OL6: unspecified), java-1.8.0-openjdk (OL7; OL6: unspecified), kernel 3.8.13 (OL7; OL6: two vulnerabilities), kernel 2.6.39 (OL6; OL5: two vulnerabilities), and kernel 2.6.32 (OL6; OL5: denial of service).

    Scientific Linux has updated java-1.7.0-openjdk (SL5; SL6&7: many vulnerabilities), java-1.8.0-openjdk (SL6&7: many vulnerabilities), and kernel (SL6: multiple vulnerabilities, one from 2011).

    10:03p
    Calculating the "truck factor" for GitHub projects
    The idea of a truck or bus factor (or number) has been—morbidly, perhaps—bandied about in development projects for many years. It is a rough measure of how many developers would have to be lost (e.g. hit by a bus) to effectively halt the project. A new paper [PDF] outlines a method to try to calculate this number for various GitHub projects. Naturally, it has its own GitHub project with a description of the methodology used and some of the results. It was found that 46% of the projects looked at had a truck factor of 1, while 28% were at 2. Linux scored the second highest at 90, while the Mac OS X Homebrew package manager had the highest truck factor at 159.

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