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Friday, August 21st, 2015
| Time |
Event |
| 3:52p |
Security updates for Friday Fedora has updated pure-ftpd
(F21: denial of service).
Red Hat has updated openshift
(RHOSE3: privilege escalation).
SUSE has updated xen (SLE11SP1: two vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated subversion
(15.04, 14.04, 12.04: multiple vulnerabilities) and firefox (15.04, 14.04, 12.04: regression in
previous update). | | 4:43p |
The bcachefs filesystem Kent Overstreet, author of the bcacheblock caching layer, has announced that bcache has metamorphosed into a fully featured copy-on-write filesystem. " Well, years ago (going back to when I was still at Google), I and
the other people working on bcache realized that what we were working on
was, almost by accident, a good chunk of the functionality of a full blown
filesystem - and there was a really clean and elegant design to be had
there if we took it and ran with it. And a fast one - the main goal of
bcachefs to match ext4 and xfs on performance and reliability, but with the
features of btrfs/zfs." | | 4:58p |
Mozilla: The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons Mozilla has announceda significant set of changes for authors of Firefox add-ons. These include a new API (and the deprecation of XUL and XPCOM), a process-based sandboxing mechanism, mandatory signing of extensions, and more. " For our add-on development community, these changes will bring
benefits, like greater cross-browser add-on compatibility, but will also
require redevelopment of a number of existing add-ons. We’re making a big
investment by expanding the team of engineers, add-on reviewers, and
evangelists who work on add-ons and support the community that develops
them. They will work with the community to improve and finalize the
WebExtensions API, and will help developers of unsupported add-ons make the
transition to newer APIs and multi-process support." |
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