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Thursday, August 27th, 2015
| Time |
Event |
| 12:34a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 27, 2015
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 27, 2015 is available. | | 4:29a |
Grsecurity stable patches to be limited to sponsors The developers of the Grsecurity kernel-hardening patch set have announced that, due to claimed ongoing GPL and trademark violations, the public distribution of the "stable" series of patches will stop. " We decided that it is unfair
to our sponsors that the above mentioned unlawful players can get away with
their activity. Therefore, two weeks from now, we will cease the public
dissemination of the stable series and will make it available to sponsors
only. The test series, unfit in our view for production use, will however
continue to be available to the public to avoid impact to the Gentoo
Hardened and Arch Linux communities." | | 5:30p |
Security updates for Thursday Debian has updated php5 (multiple vulnerabilities).
Debian-LTS has updated pykerberos
(authentication botch) and python-django
(two vulnerabilities).
Fedora has updated mariadb (F21: unspecified).
Mageia has updated cgit (code
execution from 2014).
Ubuntu has updated qemu, qemu-kvm
(multiple vulnerabilities, including one from 2014). | | 11:21p |
KDE Sprints - who wins? (KDE.News) KDE.News looks at KDE sprints and their benefits. The organization is doing some fundraising to help support its sprints, so it is trying get the word out about these code-focused events: " To start with, KDE sprints are intensive sessions centered around coding. They take place in person over several days, during which time skillful developers eat, drink and sleep code. There are breaks to refresh and gain perspective, but mostly sprints involve hard, focused work. All of this developer time and effort is unpaid. However travel expenses for some developers are covered by KDE. KDE is a frugal organization with comparatively low administrative costs, and only one paid person who works part time. So the money donated for sprints goes to cover actual expenses. Who gets the money? Almost all of it goes to transportation companies." |
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