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Wednesday, July 6th, 2016
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| 3:13a |
[$] Kernel documentation with Sphinx, part 1: how we got here The last time LWN looked at formatted kernel documentation
in January, it seemed like the merging of AsciiDoc support for the
kernel's structured source-code documentation ("kernel-doc") comments, was
imminent. As Jonathan Corbet, in the capacity of the kernel documentation
maintainer, wrote: "A good-enough solution that exists now
should not be held up overly long in the hopes that vague ideas for
something else might turn into real, working code." Sometimes,
however, the threat that something not quite perfect might be merged
is enough to motivate people to turn those vague ideas into something
real.
Subscribers can click below to see the full story by guest author (and the developer behind most of the Sphinx work) Jani Nikula. | | 4:37p |
Security advisories for Wednesday Arch Linux has updated libarchive (code execution), libreoffice-fresh (code execution), and xerces-c (denial of service).
Debian-LTS has updated sqlite3 (information leak).
Fedora has updated mingw-xerces-c (F23; F22:
three vulnerabilities) and xerces-c (F23; F22: two vulnerabilities).
Mageia has updated gimp (use-after-free), iperf (denial of service), libarchive (multiple vulnerabilities), libgd (multiple vulnerabilities), libtorrent-rasterbar (denial of service), php (multiple vulnerabilities), phpmyadmin (multiple vulnerabilities), pidgin (multiple vulnerabilities), squidguard (cross-site scripting), and xerces-c (denial of service).
openSUSE has updated cronic
(Leap42.1, 13.2: predictable temporary files), libircclient (Leap42.1; 13.2: insecure cipher suites), and xerces-c (13.2: code execution).
SUSE has updated xen (SLE11-SP3:
multiple vulnerabilities - some from 2013).
Ubuntu has updated gimp (15.10,
14.04, 12.04: use-after-free), libimobiledevice (16.04, 15.10, 14.04: sockets
listening on INADDR_ANY), libusbmuxd
(16.04, 15.10: sockets listening on INADDR_ANY), and tomcat6, tomcat7 (multiple vulnerabilities). | | 4:51p |
LWN weekly edition one day late this week
Those who are anxiously awaiting this week's edition later today (or tomorrow, depending on time zone) will have to wait another day. The US Independence Day holiday fell on Monday, so LWN staff took that day off for barbecues, fireworks, and other festivities. That means the edition will go out sometime in the early morning hours UTC on Friday, July 8. For those who celebrated the holiday, we hope you had a great one; for those who didn't, we certainly hope you had a great day too! We will be back on our normal schedule next week. | | 5:36p |
digiKam 5.0.0 is published The digiKam team has announced
the release of digiKam Software Collection 5.0.0. " This release marks almost complete port of the application to Qt5. All Qt4/KDE4 code has been removed and many parts have been re-written, reviewed, and tested. Porting to Qt5 required a lot of work, as many important APIs had to be changed or replaced by new ones.
In addition to code porting, we introduced several changes and optimizations, especially regarding dependencies on the KDE project. Although digiKam is still a KDE desktop application, it now uses many Qt dependencies instead of KDE dependencies. This simplifies the porting job on other operating systems, code maintenance, while reducing the sensitivity of API changes from KDE project." | | 5:41p |
Debian Edu / Skolelinux Jessie
The Debian Edu team has announced Debian Edu 8+edu0 "Jessie", the latest
Debian Edu / Skolelinux release. Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux,
provides a complete solution for schools. Debian Edu 8 is based on Debian
8 "Jessie", update 8.5. "Do you have to administrate a computer lab
or a whole school network?
Would you like to install servers, workstations and laptops which will
then work together? Do you want the stability of Debian with network
services already preconfigured? Do you wish to have a web-based tool to
manage systems and several hundred or even more user accounts? Have you
asked yourself if and how older computers could be used?
Then Debian Edu is for you. The teachers themselves or their technical
support can roll out a complete multi-user multi-machine study
environment within a few days. Debian Edu comes with hundreds of
applications pre-installed, but you can always add more packages from
Debian." |
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