Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015

Time	Event
6:03a	LLVM 3.7 released Version 3.7 of the LLVM compiler suite is out. "This release contains the work of the LLVM community over the past six months: full OpenMP 3.1 support (behind a flag), the On Request Compilation (ORC) JIT API, a new backend for Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF), Control Flow Integrity checking, as well as improved optimizations, new Clang warnings, many bug fixes, and more." See the release notes for LLVM and Clang for details. (Comment on this)
4:36p	Security updates for Wednesday Arch Linux has updated chromium (multiple vulnerabilities). CentOS has updated gdk-pixbuf2 (C7; C6: code execution), jakarta-taglibs-standard (C7; C6: code execution), nss-softokn (C7; C6: signature forgery), and pcs (C7; C6: privilege escalation). Debian has updated pdns (denial of service). Scientific Linux has updated nss-softokn (SL6,7: signature forgery) and pcs (SL6,7: privilege escalation). Slackware has updated gdk (code execution). SUSE has updated kvm (SLE11SP3: code execution) and firefox, nss (SLE12: multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
9:03p	[$] Debsources as a platform Debsources is a project that provides a web-based interface into the source code of every package in the Debian software archive—not a small task by any means. But, as Stefano Zacchiroli and Matthieu Caneill explained in their DebConf 2015 session, Debsources is far more than a source-code browsing tool. It provides a searchable viewport into 20 years of free-software history, which makes it viable as a platform for many varieties of research and experimentation. (Comment on this)

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