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Wednesday, August 24th, 2016

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    12:31a
    KDevelop 5.0 released

    Version 5.0.0 of the KDevelop integrated development environment (IDE) has been released, marking the end of a two-year development cycle. The highlight is a move to Clang for C and C++ support: "The most prominent change certainly is the move away from our own, custom C++ analysis engine. Instead, C and C++ code analysis is now performed by clang." The announcement goes on to describe other benefits of using Clang, such as more accurate diagnostics and suggested fixes for many syntax errors. KDevelop has also been ported to KDE Frameworks 5 and Qt 5, which opens up the possibility of Windows releases down the line.

    2:56p
    Wednesday's security updates

    CentOS has updated kernel (C6: TCP injection).

    Debian-LTS has updated libgcrypt11 (flawed random number generation).

    Fedora has updated eog (F24: out-of-bounds write), kernel (F23: use-after-free), mariadb (F23: multiple vulnerabilities), mingw-lcms2 (F24: heap memory leak), postgresql (F23: multiple vulnerabilities), and python (F23: proxy injection).

    openSUSE has updated libidn (Leap 42.1: multiple vulnerabilities) and kernel (13.2: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Oracle has updated kernel (O6: TCP injection).

    Red Hat has updated kernel (RHEL 7.1: multiple vulnerabilities; RHEL6: TCP injection) and qemu-kvm-rhev (RHOSP8: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Scientific Linux has updated kernel (SL6: TCP injection).

    Slackware has updated gnupg (flawed random number generation), kernel (14.2: TCP injection), and libgcrypt (flawed random number generation).

    3:52p
    In Memory of Jonathan “avenj” Portnoy
    The Gentoo community is mourning
    the loss of Jonathan Portnoy    . "Jon was an active member of the
    International Gentoo community, almost since its founding in 1999. He was
    still active until his last day. His passing has struck us deeply and with
    disbelief. We all remember him as a vivid and enjoyable person, easy to
    reach out to and energetic in all his endeavors.    "
    4:26p
    [$] 25 Years of Linux — so far
    On August 25, 1991, an obscure student in Finland named Linus Benedict
    Torvalds posted
    a message     to the comp.os.minix Usenet newsgroup saying that he was
    working on a free operating system as a project to learn about the x86
    architecture. He cannot possibly have known that he was launching a
    project that would change the computing industry in fundamental ways.
    Twenty-five years later, it is fair to say that none of us foresaw where
    Linux would go — a lesson that should be taken to heart when trying to
    imagine where it might go from here.

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