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Monday, May 9th, 2016

    Time Event
    6:51a
    Kernel prepatch 4.6-rc7
    Linus has released the 4.6-rc7 kernel
    prepatch. "Nothing particularly scary, and the more people who test
    this out, the more confident we can be that the final 4.6 is all good. So
    please take a moment to try it out.    "
    7:30a
    Second Oracle v. Google trial could lead to huge headaches for developers (ars technica)
    Ars technica reports
    on the restart of Oracle v.Google    , the fight over Google's use
    of the Java APIs in Android. "So now, it's back to a jury. Oracle
    has won its bid to be able to use copyright as a powerful legal sword. But
    Google can still dodge that sword by convincing a jury that Android's use
    of APIs constitutes fair use—in other words, relatively small and
    justified.    "
    5:00p
    Security advisories for Monday

    Arch Linux has updated gd (code execution), latex2rtf (code execution), mencoder (denial of service), mercurial (two vulnerabilities), and mplayer (denial of service).

    CentOS has updated openssl (C7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Debian has updated ikiwiki (cross-site scripting).

    Debian-LTS has updated file (buffer over-write), mercurial (code execution), and nagios3 (denial of service, from 2014).

    Fedora has updated firefox (F22: multiple vulnerabilities), kernel (F22: multiple vulnerabilities), libecap (F22: multiple vulnerabilities), openvas-cli (F22: cross-site scripting), openvas-gsa (F22: cross-site scripting), openvas-libraries (F22: cross-site scripting), openvas-manager (F22: cross-site scripting), openvas-scanner (F22: cross-site scripting), perl (F22: denial of service), quassel (F23; F22: denial of service), and squid (F22: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Mageia has updated openssl (multiple vulnerabilities) and vlc (multiple vulnerabilities).

    openSUSE has updated ImageMagick (Leap42.1; 13.2: multiple vulnerabilities), java-1_7_0-openjdk (Leap42.1: multiple vulnerabilities), java-1_8_0-openjdk (Leap42.1: multiple vulnerabilities), and subversion (Leap42.1; 13.2: two vulnerabilities).

    Oracle has updated openssl (OL7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Red Hat has updated java-1.6.0-openjdk (RHEL5,6,7: multiple vulnerabilities) and openssl (RHEL7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Scientific Linux has updated java-1.6.0-openjdk (SL5,6,7: multiple vulnerabilities) and openssl (SL7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated compat-openssl098 (SLE12-SP1: multiple vulnerabilities), firefox (SLE12-SP1: multiple vulnerabilities), and ImageMagick (SLE12-SP1: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated kernel (16.04: multiple vulnerabilities), linux-lts-xenial (14.04: multiple vulnerabilities), linux-raspi2 (16.04: multiple vulnerabilities), and linux-snapdragon (16.04: multiple vulnerabilities).

    8:52p
    Announcing The Journal of Open Source Software
    The Journal of Open Source Software
    (JOSS) has been announced.
    JOSS is an open source, developer-friendly journal for research software
    packages. "As academics, it's important for us to be able to measure
    the impact of our work, but available tools & metrics are woefully
    lacking when it comes to tracking research output that doesn't look like a
    paper. A 2009 survey of more than 2000 researchers found that > 90% of
    them consider software important or very important to their work — but even
    if you've followed this GitHub guide for archiving a GitHub repository with
    Zenodo (and acquired a DOI in the process), citations to your work probably
    aren't being counted     by the people that matter.    " (Thanks to Paul Wise)

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