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Tuesday, August 11th, 2015
| Time |
Event |
| 1:13p |
Ubuntu One file-syncronization code released Ubuntu has announcedthe release of the file-synchronization code behind its "Ubuntu One" service. The release is about as "over-the-wall" as it gets, though: " Will you take patches? In general, no. We won’t have anybody
assigned to reviewing and accepting code. We’d encourage interested
maintainers to fork the code and build out a community around it." | | 2:00p |
OpenSSH 7.0
The OpenSSH 7.0 release is out. It fixes a number of problems and adds a
few new configuration features, but the main focus of 7.0 is taking things
out: "This focus of this release is primarily to deprecate weak, legacy
and/or unsafe cryptography." More old crypto is slated for removal
in 7.1; see the announcement for the list. | | 4:17p |
Security updates for Tuesday Arch Linux has updated ppp (denial of service).
Debian has updated subversion (two vulnerabilities).
Debian-LTS has updated opensaml2 (denial of service).
Fedora has updated elasticsearch
(F22: multiple vulnerabilities), lxc (F22; F21: two
vulnerabilities), and rubygems (F22: DNS hijacking). | | 4:38p |
Kali Linux 2.0 released Kali Linux is a Debian-based distribution oriented toward penetration testing and related tasks; the 2.0
release is now available. " There’s a new 4.0 kernel, now based on
Debian Jessie, improved hardware and wireless driver coverage, support for
a variety of Desktop Environments (gnome, kde, xfce, mate, e17, lxde,
i3wm), updated desktop environment and tools – and the list goes on. But
these bulletpoint items are essentially a side effect of the real changes
that have taken place in our development backend. Ready to hear the real
news? Take a deep breath, it’s a long list." At the top of that list is that Kali is now a rolling distribution. | | 5:56p |
Firefox 40 is available Mozilla has released Firefox 40. There are several new features listed in the release notes such as; improved scrolling, graphics, and video playback performance with off main thread compositing, added protection against unwanted software downloads, a new style for add-on manager based on the in-content preferences style, and an improved graphic blocklist mechanism. | | 8:04p |
Thor: another free video codec Cisco, it seems, is unhappy with the patent mess around video codecs, so it has launched
a project called "Thor" to make one that can be freely distributed. " The effort is being staffed by some of the world’s most foremost
codec experts, including the legendary Gisle Bjøntegaard and Arild
Fuldseth, both of whom have been heavy contributors to prior video
codecs. We also hired patent lawyers and consultants familiar with this
technology area. We created a new codec development process which would
allow us to work through the long list of patents in this space, and
continually evolve our codec to work around or avoid those patents." |
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