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Tuesday, April 5th, 2016

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    12:35p
    Garrett: There's more than one way to exploit the commons
    Matthew Garrett's
    take     on the Debian-XScreenSaver disagreement is worth a read.
    "Free software doesn't benefit from distributions antagonising their
    upstreams, even if said upstream is a cranky nightclub owner. Debian's
    users are Debian's highest priority, but those users are going to suffer if
    developers decide that not using free licenses improves their quality of
    life. Kneejerk reactions around specific instances aren't helpful, but now
    is probably a good time to start thinking about what value Debian bring to
    its upstream authors and how that can be increased.    "
    4:28p
    Security updates for Tuesday

    Arch Linux has updated optipng (code execution).

    Debian has updated mercurial (three vulnerabilities) and roundcube (code execution).

    Fedora has updated krb5 (F22: null pointer dereference) and vtun (F23; F22: denial of service).

    Gentoo has updated xen (multiple vulnerabilities, some from 2012).

    openSUSE has updated ghostscript (Leap42.1: buffer overflow).

    Red Hat has updated nss, nss-util, nspr (RHEL6: two vulnerabilities).

    Slackware has updated thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated xen (SLE11-SP4: multiple vulnerabilities, some from 2013).

    Ubuntu has updated libav (12.04: multiple vulnerabilities) and xchat-gnome (man-in-the-middle attack).

    7:24p
    KDE Presents its Vision for the Future
    The KDE project has released
    a vision statement    , a single sentence that sums up what the project
    would like to achieve: A world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy.
    "Our vision unites KDE in common purpose. It sets out where we want
    to get to, but it provides no guidance on how we should get there. After
    finalizing our vision (the "what"), we have immediately started the process
    of defining KDE's Mission Statement (the "how"). As with all things KDE,
    you are invited to contribute. You can easily add your thoughts on our mission
    brainstorming     wiki page.    " (Thanks to Paul Wise)

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