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Tuesday, October 4th, 2016
| Time |
Event |
| 3:58p |
Tuesday's security advisories Arch Linux has updated hostapd (two vulnerabilities) and systemd (denial of service).
CentOS has updated thunderbird (C7; C6; C5: code execution).
Debian has updated libdbd-mysql-perl (denial of service).
Fedora has updated bind99 (F24:
denial of service), mariadb (F23: SQL
injection/privilege escalation), and mongodb (F23: information disclosure).
Mageia has updated bind (denial of service), chromium-browser-stable (multiple vulnerabilities), freerdp (denial of service), libcryptopp (information disclosure), and python-django (cross-site request forgery).
openSUSE has updated chromium (Leap42.1, 13.2; SPH for SLE12: multiple
vulnerabilities), glibc (13.2: denial of
service), and php5 (13.2: multiple vulnerabilities).
Oracle has updated thunderbird (OL7; OL6: code
execution).
Red Hat has updated thunderbird
(RHEL5,6,7: code execution).
SUSE has updated firefox (SLE12-SP1; SLE11-SP2: multiple vulnerabilities). | | 4:35p |
Mageia thanks long time contributor and friend The Mageia project remembers
Thomas Spuhler who died in September. " Thomas had been
contributing to Mageia, and Mandriva before that, since 2009 as a packager,
and much earlier already partaking in email discussions and bug
reports. His packaging interests were mostly web and server-related components, for which his contributions were invaluable. He had to step back from his Mageia responsibilities in early August due to his health condition." | | 8:24p |
Plasma 5.8 LTS is out KDE has releasedPlasma 5.8. " This marks the point where the developers and designers
are happy to recommend Plasma for the widest possible audience be they
enterprise or non-techy home users. If you tried a KDE desktop previously
and have moved away, now is the time to re-assess, Plasma is simple by
default, powerful when needed." Plasma 5.8 is KDE's first Long Term Support release. The changeloghas the details. | | 9:35p |
MOSS supports four more open source projects The Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program has awarded
$300,000 to four projects this quarter. " On the Foundational
Technology track, we awarded $100,000 to Redash, a tool for building
visualizations of data for better decision-making within organizations, and
$50,000 to Review Board,
software for doing web-based source code review. Both of these pieces of
software are in heavy use at Mozilla. We also awarded $100,000 to Kea, the successor to the venerable ISC
DHCP codebase, which deals with allocation of IP addresses on a
network. Mozilla uses ISC DHCP, which makes funding its replacement a
natural move even though we haven’t deployed it yet. On the Mission
Partners track, we awarded $56,000 to Speech Rule Engine,
a code library which converts mathematical markup into vocalised form
(speech) for the sight-impaired, allowing them to fully appreciate
mathematical and scientific content on the web." (Thanks to Paul Wise) |
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