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Tuesday, March 15th, 2016

    Time Event
    8:26a
    A (nearly) mainline kernel running on the Nexus 7
    As was discussed at the 2015 Kernel Summit,
    there are essentially no commercial Android devices running mainline
    kernels. At the recently concluded Linaro Connect event, though, John
    Stultz demonstrated
    a Nexus 7 tablet     running mainline with just a few patches. It
    even has accelerated graphics via the freedreno driver.
    "This is really great, because we now have a very-close to mainline
    test bed on a actual consumer device. So we can make sure upstream doesn't
    introduce any regressions (just recently, two ABI breaks that affected
    android were recently caught) and allows us to make sure when we push
    Android functionality upstream, that any interface changes required by
    maintainers can be properly tested to make sure what lands upstream really
    works.    "
    2:31p
    NetDev 1.1 videos now available
    Videos from the NetDev 1.1 conference are now available
    on YouTube. "It took us a while to edit and to upload these ~100 Gbytes of videos,
    so thanks for your patience.    " LWN covered
    several sessions     from this event.
    4:20p
    Security updates for Tuesday

    Arch Linux has updated dropbear (information disclosure).

    openSUSE has updated python-Pillow (Leap42.1, 13.2: denial of service) and webkit2gtk3 (Leap42.1: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Red Hat has updated samba (RHEL6,7: arbitrary file access) and samba4 (RHEL6: arbitrary file access).

    SUSE has updated bind (SLE12-SP1: multiple vulnerabilities), sles12sp1-docker-image (SLEM12: multiple vulnerabilities), and tomcat (SLES12-SP1: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated exim4 (two vulnerabilities), kernel (15.10; 14.04; 12.04: multiple vulnerabilities), linux-lts-trusty (12.04: multiple vulnerabilities), linux-lts-utopic (14.04: multiple vulnerabilities), linux-lts-vivid (14.04: multiple vulnerabilities), linux-lts-wily (14.04: multiple vulnerabilities), and linux-ti-omap4 (12.04: code execution).

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