Wednesday, March 9th, 2016

Time	Event
3:29p	LLVM 3.8 released Version 3.8 of the LLVM compiler suite has been released. "This release contains the work of the LLVM community over the past six months: deprecated autoconf build, shrink-wrapping on by default, overhauled MSVC-compatible exception handling, updated Kaleidoscope tutorial, emutls, OpenMP supported by default, as well as improved optimizations, many bug fixes, and more." See the LLVM release notes and the Clang release notes for lots of details. (Comment on this)
5:32p	Security advisories for Wednesday CentOS has updated firefox (C7; C6; C5: multiple vulnerabilities), nss (C5: code execution), nss-util (C7; C6: code execution), and openssl098e (C7; C6: multiple vulnerabilities). Gentoo has updated roundcube (two vulnerabilities). Oracle has updated nss (OL5: code execution), nss-util (OL7: code execution), and openssl098e (OL7: two vulnerabilities). Red Hat has updated firefox (RHEL5,6,7: multiple vulnerabilities), nss (RHEL5: code execution), nss-util (RHEL6,7: code execution), openssl098e (RHEL6,7: multiple vulnerabilities), openstack-nova (RHELOSP7 for RHEL7; RHELOSP6 for RHEL7; RHELOSP5 for RHEL7; RHELOSP5 for RHEL6: information exposure), and rabbitmq-server (RHELOSP7 for RHEL7; RHELOSP5 for RHEL7; RHELOSP5 for RHEL6: two vulnerabilities). Scientific Linux has updated firefox (SL5,6,7: multiple vulnerabilities), nss (SL5: code execution), nss-util (SL6,7: code execution), and openssl098e (SL6,7: multiple vulnerabilities). Slackware has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities) and samba (two vulnerabilities). SUSE has updated bsh2 (SLESDK12-SP1; SLESDK11-SP4: code execution). Ubuntu has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
6:17p	Firefox 45.0 released Firefox 45.0 has been released. This release features instant browser tab sharing through Hello, Tabs synced via Firefox Accounts from other devices are now shown in dropdown area of Awesome Bar when searching, Synced Tabs button in button bar, introduces a new preference (network.dns.blockDotOnion) to allow blocking .onion at the DNS level, and more. See the release notes for details. (Comment on this)
7:05p	[$] Outreachy: an intern's perspective Last year, guest author Linda Jacobson participated as an intern in the Outreachy program. She shares her experiences along with those of other participants in this project that is targeted at helping to increase diversity in the open-source world. Subscribers can click below for the full article from this week's edition. (Comment on this)

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