Monday, October 19th, 2015

Time	Event
12:18a	Kernel prepatch 4.3-rc6 Linus has released 4.3-rc6 for testing. "Things continue to be calm, and in fact have gotten progressively calmer. All of which makes me really happy, although my suspicious nature looks for things to blame. Are people just on their best behavior because the Kernel Summit is imminent, and everybody is putting their best foot forward?" (Comment on this)
4:01p	Security updates for Monday Arch Linux has updated flashplugin (multiple vulnerabilities), miniupnpc (code execution), and spice (multiple vulnerabilities). Debian has updated owncloud (multiple vulnerabilities). Debian-LTS has updated freeimage (integer overflow) and postgresql-8.4 (denial of service). Fedora has updated firefox (F22: multiple vulnerabilities) and lxdm (F22; F21: two vulnerabilities). Gentoo has updated bind (denial of service). Mageia has updated flash-player-plugin (multiple vulnerabilities). openSUSE has updated docker (13.2: two vulnerabilities). Red Hat has updated flash-plugin (RHEL6: multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
11:27p	Sonic Pi uses code to compose a dance party (Opensource.com) Opensource.com has an interview with Sam Aaron, creator of Sonic Pi. "Sonic Pi is a musical instrument that happens to use code as its interface. It's also a programming environment that happens to be very capable of making sophisticated sounds. It's actually many things—a tool for learning how to program, for exploring new notations for music, for improvising electronic music, for collaborating on musical ideas via text, for researching new programming techniques related to time and liveness. Most of all, it's a lot of fun." (Comment on this)

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