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Monday, December 7th, 2015
| Time |
Event |
| 12:52a |
Kernel prepatch 4.4-rc4 The 4.4-rc4 prepatch is out. " Another week, another rc. We had a few more commits than last week
(mostly due to the networking fixes merge), but on the whole it's been
pretty calm." | | 4:49p |
Unicode, Perl 6, and You Day
7 in the ongoing Perl 6 advent calendar is concerned with how the language handles Unicode. " However, Perl 6 does this work for you,
keeping track of these collections of codepoints internally, so that you
just have to think in terms of what you would see the characters as. If
you’ve ever had to dance around with substring operations to make sure you
didn’t split between a letter and a diacritic, this will be your happiest
day in programming." | | 5:24p |
Security advisories for Monday Fedora has updated lxdm (F23: two vulnerabilities), openssl (F23: multiple vulnerabilities), p7zip (F23: directory traversal), php-symfony (F23; F22: two vulnerabilities), php-twig (F23; F22: two vulnerabilities), and rubygem-flexmock (F23: unspecified vulnerability).
Red Hat has updated libxml2 (RHEL7; RHEL6: multiple vulnerabilities).
Scientific Linux has updated libxml2 (SL6: multiple vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated cups-filters (15.10, 15.04, 14.04: code execution), foomatic-filters (12.04: code execution), and openssl (multiple vulnerabilities). | | 9:41p |
Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" Cinnamon released Version 17.3 of the Ubuntu-based Linux Mint Cinnamon distribution has been released. This is a long-term support release, with support planned until 2019. There is a long list
of new features for this release, many of which come with the Cinnamon 2.8 desktop environment. | | 11:07p |
Apple releases Swift Apple has released its Swift programming language under the Apache 2.0 license, and it's available for Linux. The code can be found on GitHub. " Swift makes it easy to write software that is incredibly fast and safe by design. Now that Swift is open source, you can help make the best general purpose programming language available everywhere." |
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