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Thursday, June 2nd, 2016
| Time |
Event |
| 1:26p |
Nextcloud launches For those who have been wondering about the exodus from ownCloud, the announcement of a company called "Nextcloud" should make things clear. " Started by the well known
open source file sync and share developer Frank Karlitschek and joined by
the most active contributors to his previous project, building on its
mature code base, we offer a more reliable and sustainable solution for
users and customers. We will develop a drop-in replacement for that legacy
code base over the coming weeks, providing the bug fixes and security
hardening all users need and the Enterprise Subscription capabilities
enterprise customers require." See also this
blog post from Jos Poortvliet. | | 4:13p |
[$] PostgreSQL 9.6 Beta and PGCon 2016 PostgreSQL's annual developer conference, PGCon, took place in May, which made it a good place to get a look at the new PostgreSQL features coming in version 9.6. The first 9.6
beta was released just the week before and several contributors demonstrated key changes at the conference in Ottawa. For many users, this was the first time to see the finished versions of features that had been under development for months or years. | | 7:04p |
Security advisories for Thursday Arch Linux has updated nginx (denial of service) and nginx-mainline (denial of service).
Debian has updated nginx (denial of service).
Debian-LTS has updated gdk-pixbuf (buffer overflows), graphicsmagick (command execution), and imagemagick (command execution).
Fedora has updated compat-nettle27 (F23: improper cryptographic
calculations), dosfstools (F22: two
vulnerabilities), gd (F23: two
vulnerabilities), kernel (F23; F22: multiple vulnerabilities), libimobiledevice (F22: sockets listening on
INADDR_ANY), libusbmuxd (F22: sockets
listening on INADDR_ANY), and phpMyAdmin
(F23: three vulnerabilities).
SUSE has updated java-1_8_0-ibm
(SLE12-SP1: multiple vulnerabilities) and ntp (SOSC5, SMP2.1, SM2.1, SLE11-SP2,3: multiple vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated imagemagick (multiple vulnerabilities). | | 7:05p |
[$] Patents and the open-source community At OSCON
2016 in Austin, a panel of invited experts debated the
always-thorny subject of how open-source software projects deal with
patents. The panel was packed, featuring representatives from the
free-software world, commerce, and the legal community, so there was
scarcely enough time to move through the prepared topics in the time
allotted, much less to take questions from the audience. But the
discussion was able to highlight a number of current issues, including
patent abolition, implicit patent licenses, and where the
open-source community should focus its efforts to improve matters. |
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