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Wednesday, March 30th, 2016

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    7:35a
    OpenBSD 5.9 released
    The OpenBSD 5.9 release is available. There are a lot of enhancements and
    improvements. Perhaps most significant is the addition of the
    pledge() system call, which can be used by a process to limit its
    future capabilities. LWN looked at an early
    version of this work    , back when it was called tame().
    1:45p
    KDE's "Kirigami UI"
    The KDE project has announced
    a new framework called the Kirigami UI; it appears to be oriented toward
    the needs of mobile applications. "Kirigami UI isn't just a set of
    components, it's also a philosophy: It defines precise UI/UX patterns to
    allow developers to quickly develop intuitive and consistent apps that
    provide a great user experience.    "
    4:00p
    Security advisories for Wednesday

    Arch Linux has updated jdk8-openjdk (sandbox bypass), jre8-openjdk (sandbox bypass), and jre8-openjdk-headless (sandbox bypass).

    Debian has updated dhcpcd (multiple vulnerabilities) and kamailio (code execution).

    Fedora has updated openssh (F22: command injection) and webkitgtk (F22: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Oracle has updated kernel-uek (OL7; OL6: unspecified).

    Red Hat has updated chromium-browser (RHEL6: multiple vulnerabilities) and openvswitch (RHELOSP6 for RHEL7; RHELOSP5 for RHEL7: code execution).

    SUSE has updated firefox, nspr, nss (SLE11-SP2: multiple vulnerabilities) and kernel (SLE11-SP4: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated pcre3 (multiple vulnerabilities).

    5:24p
    Ubuntu on Windows
    Dustin Kirkland announces
    the availability of the Ubuntu user space on Windows 10 — a
    cooperative project with Microsoft. "Finally, I imagine some of you
    -- long time Windows and Ubuntu users alike -- are still wondering,
    perhaps, 'Why?!?' Having dedicated most of the past two decades of my
    career to free and open source software, this is an almost surreal
    endorsement by Microsoft on the importance of open source to developers.
    Indeed, what a fantastic opportunity to bridge the world of free and open
    source technology directly into any Windows 10 desktop on the
    planet.    "
    6:32p
    MIT Media Lab defaults to free & open source software (NetworkWorld)
    NetworkWorld reports
    that software developed at MIT Media Lab will be open source by default. "This effort does away with developers having to get such licenses approved first by an internal committee, which [Lab Director Joi Ito] says "always allowed our developers to open-source their work" anyway."
    8:38p
    [$] A single Node of failure

    The web-development community was briefly thrown into chaos in late March when a lone Node.js developer suddenly unpublished a short but widely used package from the Node Package Manager (npm) repository. The events leading up to that developer's withdrawal are controversial in their own right, but the chaotic effects raise even more serious questions for the Node.js and npm user communities.

    11:54p
    [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 31, 2016
    The LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 31, 2016 is available.

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