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Monday, August 15th, 2016

    Time Event
    12:46p
    Kernel prepatch 4.8-rc2
    The second 4.8 prepatch has been released.
    Linus says: "Nothing really strange seems to be going on, so please
    just go out and test it and report any problems you encounter. It's
    obviously fairly early in the rc series, but I don't think there was
    anything particularly worrisome this merge window, so don't be shy.    "
    4:16p
    Monday's security advisories

    Arch Linux has updated kernel (information disclosure), linux-grsec (information disclosure), and postgresql (two vulnerabilities).

    Debian has updated wireshark (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Debian-LTS has updated openssh (denial of service) and wireshark (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Fedora has updated chromium (F24: multiple vulnerabilities) and drupal7-entity_translation (F24; F23: cross-site scripting).

    openSUSE has updated GraphicsMagick (Leap42.1: multiple vulnerabilities), ImageMagick (13.2: three vulnerabilities), and php5 (13.2: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Scientific Linux has updated php (SL6: proxy injection).

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

    Ubuntu has updated qemu, qemu-kvm (regression in previous update).

    7:22p
    Google is developing an OS called “Fuchsia,” runs on All the Things (Android Police)
    Android Police takes
    a look     at a new OS from Google. "Enter “Fuchsia.” Google’s own
    description for it on the project’s GitHub page is simply, “Pink + Purple == Fuchsia (a new Operating System)”. Not very revealing, is it? When you begin to dig deeper into Fuchsia’s documentation, everything starts to make a little more sense.

    First, there’s the Magenta
    kernel     based on the ‘LittleKernel’ project. Just
    like with Linux and Android, the Magenta kernel powers the larger Fuchsia
    operating system. Magenta is being designed as a competitor to commercial
    embedded OSes, such as FreeRTOS or
    ThreadX.    " Fuchsia
    also uses the Flutter user interface, the
    Dart programming language, and
    Escher, "a renderer that supports light diffusion, soft shadows, and
    other visual effects, with OpenGL or Vulkan under the hood    ".

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