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Monday, November 23rd, 2015
| Time |
Event |
| 2:54p |
Kernel prepatch 4.4-rc2 The second 4.4 prepatch is out for testing. Linus says: " Things are looking fairly normal in 4.4-land, with no
huge surprises in rc2. There were a couple of late features: parisc
hugepage support and some late slub bulk allocator patches were not only
merged at the end of the week, but they strictly speaking should have been
merge window things." | | 3:19p |
GIMP is 20 Years Old, What’s Next? (Libre Graphics World) This
Libre Graphics World article looks at the challenges faced by the 20-year-old GIMP project. " If you've been following GIMP's progress
over recent years, you couldn't help yourself noticing the decreasing
activity in terms of both commits (a rather lousy metric) and amount of
participants (a more sensible one).
'GIMP is dying', say some. 'GIMP developers are slacking', say
others. 'You've got to go for crowdfunding' is yet another popular
notion. And no matter what, there's always a few whitebearded folks who
would blame the team for not going with changes from the FilmGIMP branch.
So what's actually going on and what's the outlook for the project?" | | 3:44p |
Gräßlin: Looking at the security of Plasma/Wayland Martin Gräßlin looks
at the security of the Plasma desktop running under Wayland; it's better than X11, but with some ground yet to cover. " Now imagine you want to write a key logger in a Plasma/Wayland
world. How would you do it? I asked myself this question recently, thought
about it, found a possible solution and had a key logger in less than 10
minutes: ouch." | | 5:42p |
Security advisories for Monday Debian has updated openjdk-7 (unspecified vulnerability).
Fedora has updated cyrus-imapd
(F21: largely unspecified), gdm (F23:
denial of service), jenkins (F23: multiple
vulnerabilities), jenkins-remoting (F23:
multiple vulnerabilities), kernel (F21:
multiple vulnerabilities), libpng (F23:
denial of service), m2crypto (F21: denial
of service), pdns (F21: denial of service),
perl-IPTables-Parse (F21: predictable
temporary file names), postgresql (F22: two
vulnerabilities), python-rauth (F23:
unspecified vulnerability), and xen (F23; F22; F21: denial of service).
openSUSE has updated Chromium (SUSE Package Hub for SLE12; Leap42.1, 13.2, 13.1: information leak), docker (Leap42.1: two vulnerabilities), and miniupnpc (Leap42.1, 13.2, 13.1: code execution).
Red Hat has updated abrt,
libreport (RHEL7: multiple vulnerabilities), java-1.6.0-ibm (RHEL5,6: multiple
vulnerabilities), java-1.7.0-ibm (RHEL5:
multiple vulnerabilities), java-1.7.1-ibm
(RHEL6,7: multiple vulnerabilities), java-1.8.0-ibm (RHEL7: multiple
vulnerabilities), and libreport (RHEL6: data leak). | | 8:34p |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Red Hat has announced
the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2. " New features and capabilities focus on security, networking, and system administration, along with a continued emphasis on enterprise-ready tooling for the development and deployment of Linux container-based applications. In addition, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 includes compatibility with the new Red Hat Insights, an add-on operational analytics offering designed to increase IT efficiency and reduce downtime through the proactive identification of known risks and technical issues." |
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