Wednesday, October 7th, 2015

Time	Event
9:34a	[$] strscpy() and the hazards of improved interfaces Back in the distant past (May 2015), LWN looked at a couple of efforts to provide improved string-handling primitives to the kernel. One of those two was recently merged, while the other has run into trouble; both cases highlight a fundamental concern Linus has about this type of kernel patch. The end result is that it is possible to evolve the kernel toward safer interfaces, but attempts to do so as a series of mass changes will probably not end well. (Comment on this)
4:03p	Security advisories for Wednesday Debian has updated freetype (denial of service) and zendframework (two vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated openhpi (F22: world writable /var/lib/openhpi directory) and wireshark (F22: multiple vulnerabilities). Ubuntu has updated spice (15.04, 14.04: multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
5:02p	[$] Status updates for three graphics drivers Drivers for graphics hardware are an important part of the graphics stack, so it was not unexpected that the 2015 X.Org Developers Conference had several status updates for free graphics drivers. Three projects had talks: the Nouveau driver for NVIDIA devices, the amdgpu driver for AMD hardware, and the Etnaviv driver for Vivante GPUs. Each presented an update on its progress and plans. (Comment on this)

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