Thursday, September 17th, 2015

Time	Event
1:03a	[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 17, 2015 The LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 17, 2015 is available. (Comment on this)
1:49p	Harrington: Wayland: Atomics Ahead! Bryce Harrington writes about the current and future state of Wayland. "A lot of people are anticipating Wayland on their desktops. For now, we remain in a holding pattern while the DE developers roll out their Wayland support, but some of these efforts are reasonably mature enough now. The question starts to become whether there is an adequate ecosystem of Wayland enabled client applications. For things that can’t simply be moved to Wayland, the question is if Xwayland will be up to snuff. Exploring this space will take some pioneering spirits." (Comment on this)
3:09p	Thursday's security updates Fedora has updated vorbis-tools (F22: denial of service). Mageia has updated ganglia-web (M4, M5: authentication bypass). openSUSE has updated spice (13.2: code execution). Oracle has updated kernel (O7; O6: multiple vulnerabilities). Red Hat has updated rubygem-openshift-origin-console (RHOSE2.2: code execution). Ubuntu has updated icu (12.04, 14.04, 15.04: multiple vulnerabilities), openldap (12.04, 14.04, 15.04: multiple vulnerabilities), and unity-settings-daemon (14.04, 15.04: lock-screen bypass). (Comment on this)
10:10p	Rust 1.3 is available Version 1.3 of the Rust language has been released. The announcement API stabilization and increased performance work as the most notable changes. Specifically, there is a new substring-matching algorithm, a faster zero-filling method for initializing and resizing vectors, and speed-ups to the Read::read_to_end function. The release notes provide more detail. Also new in this release is the first edition of a new Rust programming guide, the Rustinomicon. (Comment on this)

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