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Tuesday, December 15th, 2015
| Time |
Event |
| 3:56p |
Collabora and ownCloud release CODE for LibreOffice Online developers Collabora and ownCloud have announced a partnership, and, as an opening move, have released the "Collabora Online Development Edition." This is a combined distribution consisting of LibreOffice Online and ownCloud Server. " The purpose of CODE is to give
interested developers from any field an easy way to get early access
to the very latest untested feature additions and updates to
LibreOffice Online, in order to enable them to develop, test, and
contribute." See this page for more information and screenshots. | | 5:06p |
Security updates for Tuesday CentOS has updated libreoffice (C7; C6: multiple vulnerabilities) and openssl (C7; C6; C5: multiple vulnerabilities).
Debian has updated chromium-browser (multiple vulnerabilities).
Oracle has updated libreoffice (OL7; OL6:
multiple vulnerabilities) and openssl (OL5:
multiple vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated grub2 (RHEL7:
code execution) and kernel (RHEL6; RHEL6.5: multiple vulnerabilities). | | 5:13p |
Stable kernel updates Greg KH has released stable kernels 4.3.3,
4.2.8, and 4.1.15. All of them contain important fixes.
This will be the last 4.2.y kernel. Users of the 4.2 kernel should upgrade
to the 4.3.y kernel series.
Update: Canonical's kernel team will pick up
stable maintenance of 4.2 where Greg left off. | | 7:16p |
AMD's 2016 Linux driver plans (AnandTech) AnandTech reports
on AMD's plans for Linux graphics driver support. In short: more open code, but some proprietary components will remain. " The significant
change here is that by having the RTG closed source driver based around the
open source driver, the company is now only maintaining a single code base,
is pushing as much as possible into open source, and that the open source
driver is receiving these features far sooner than it was previously. This
greatly improves the quality of life for open source driver users, but it’s
also reciprocal for RTG: it’s a lot easier to keep up to date with Linux
kernel changes with an open source kernel mode driver than a closed source
driver, and quickly integrate improvements submitted by other
developers." | | 7:47p |
Firefox 43 released Mozilla has released Firefox 43. This version features improvements to Private Browsing and Tracking Protection, search suggestions, improved API support for m4v video playback, and more. The release
notes contain more information. |
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