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Friday, January 22nd, 2016

    Time Event
    2:24p
    Zemlin on the Linux Foundation's by-law changes
    Linux Foundation leader Jim Zemlin explains
    the recent changes     in the organization's by-laws. "First, The
    Linux Foundation Board structure has not changed. The same individuals
    remain as directors, and the same ratio of corporate to community directors
    continues as well. What we did do was to act on a long-discussed perception
    that the value we provide to individual supporters could be improved, for
    the first time in a decade. And that the process for recruiting community
    directors should be changed to be in line with other leading organizations
    in our community and industry.    " He also speaks out against the
    personal attacks that have appeared in conversations about this change.
    4:18p
    LWN reaches voting age
    Just a quick note to point out that the very first LWN Weekly Edition came out on
    January 22, 1998. So we have now been at it for eighteen years. To
    say we would have been surprised by that idea in 1998 is a serious
    understatement. Many thanks to LWN's reader community for keeping us going
    for all this time!
    5:32p
    Friday's security updates

    CentOS has updated java-1.7.0-openjdk (C7; C6; C5: multiple vulnerabilities) and java-1.8.0-openjdk (C7; C6: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Debian has updated fuse (privilege escalation).

    Fedora has updated libsndfile (F22: two vulnerabilities), python-rsa (F23: signature forgery), and rsync (F22: file overwrite from 2014).

    Mageia has updated dhcpcd (denial of service).

    openSUSE has updated bind (42.1; 13.2: denial of service), cgit (42.1, 13.2: three vulnerabilities), giflib (13.2: code execution), and libxml2 (42.1: denial of service).

    Oracle has updated java-1.7.0-openjdk (OL7; OL6; OL5: multiple vulnerabilities) and java-1.8.0-openjdk (OL6: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Scientific Linux has updated java-1.7.0-openjdk (SL6; SL5&7: multiple vulnerabilities) and java-1.8.0-openjdk (SL7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated perl (15.10, 15.04: taint botch) and rsync (file overwrite from 2014).

    6:14p
    Hutterer: Is Wayland ready yet?
    On his blog, Peter Hutterer answers the perennial "is Wayland ready yet?" question by pointing out that it really is not the right question. "The protocol is stable and has been for a while. But not every compositor and/or toolkit/application speak Wayland yet, so it may not be sufficient for your use-case. So rather than asking 'Is Wayland ready yet', you should be asking: 'Can I run GNOME/KDE/Enlightenment/etc. under Wayland?' That is the right question to ask, and the answer is generally 'It depends what you expect to work flawlessly.' This also means 'people working on Wayland' is often better stated as 'people working on Wayland support in ....'. "

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