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Wednesday, December 9th, 2015

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    1:41a
    WordPress 4.4 released

    Version 4.4 of the WordPress blogging platform (and, these days, general content-management system) has been released. Highlights in this update include responsive image displays, integration of a REST API into Wordpress core, improved caching for comment queries, and provider support for the oEmbed content-embedding format. Provider support means that "now you can embed your posts on other WordPress sites. Simply drop a post URL into the editor and see an instant embed preview, complete with the title, excerpt, and featured image if you’ve set one. We’ll even include your site icon and links for comments and sharing." Accompanying the release is a new default theme named "Twenty Sixteen" that was "built to look great on any device. A fluid grid design, flexible header, fun color schemes, and more, will all make your content shine."

    5:28p
    Security advisories for Wednesday

    Arch Linux has updated chromium (multiple vulnerabilities).

    CentOS has updated libpng (C6: code execution).

    Debian-LTS has updated dhcpcd (multiple vulnerabilities), foomatic-filters (code execution), gnutls26 (padding oracle attack), and libphp-phpmailer (header injection).

    Fedora has updated ImageMagick (F23: multiple vulnerabilities) and potrace (F23; F22: denial of service).

    Mageia has updated chromium-browser-stable (multiple vulnerabilities) and flash-player-plugin (multiple vulnerabilities).

    openSUSE has updated kernel (Leap42.1: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Oracle has updated git (OL7: code execution) and kernel (OL7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Red Hat has updated flash-plugin (RHEL5,6: multiple vulnerabilities), kernel (RHEL7.1: multiple vulnerabilities), libpng (RHEL7: code execution), and libpng12 (RHEL7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    8:41p
    Lots of stable kernel updates
    There have been no kernel updates from Greg Kroah-Hartman since early
    November, but that has ended with a bang:
    4.3.1,
    4.2.7,
    4.1.14,
    3.14.58, and
    3.10.94 are all available with the usual
    set of important fixes.

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