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Friday, October 14th, 2016

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    1:39p
    KDE celebrates 20 years
    KDE.news notes the 20th anniversary of the KDE project. "In the 20 years since then so much has happened. We released great software, fought for software freedom and empowered people all over the world to take charge of their digital life. In many ways we have achieved what we set out to do 20 years ago - 'a consistent, nice looking free desktop-environment' and more."

    For those feeling nostalgic, there is a new version of the KDE 1.1.2 desktop ported to contemporary systems.

    4:05p
    Friday's security advisories

    Arch Linux has updated gdk-pixbuf2 (denial of service).

    Debian has updated freeimage (two vulnerabilities).

    Debian-LTS has updated libxfixes (integer overflow).

    Fedora has updated dbus (F24: code execution) and xen (F24; F23: three vulnerabilities).

    openSUSE has updated compat-openssl098 (Leap42.1: multiple vulnerabilities), derby (13.2: information leak), libreoffice (Leap42.1: code execution), php5 (Leap42.1: multiple vulnerabilities), go1.4 (SPH for SLE12: denial of service), systemd (Leap42.1: denial of service), and unzip (13.2: two vulnerabilities).

    Oracle has updated kernel 4.1.12 (OL7; OL6: stack corruption).

    Red Hat has updated mariadb-galera (RHOSP9; RHELOSP7 for RHEL7; RHELOSP6 for RHEL7; RHELOSP5 for RHEL7; RHELOSP5 for RHEL6: SQL injection/privilege escalation).

    SUSE has updated xen (SLE12; SLES11-SP2: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated linux-ti-omap4 (12.04: three vulnerabilities).

    6:05p
    [$] PostgreSQL 9.6 improves synchronous replication and more
    The PostgreSQL project released version 9.6 on
    September 29th. This new major release has an assortment of new goodies
    for PostgreSQL fans, including parallel query and
    phrase search    , new options for synchronous replication, remote query
    execution using foreign data wrappers, "crosstab" data transformations in
    psql, and more.
    Together with version 9.6, the community released a completely rewritten
    version of the pgAdmin database graphical interface.

    We'll explore multiple synchronous replicas, foreign data
    wrapper changes, crosstabs and the new pgAdmin here.
    7:04p
    Celebrating open standards around the world
    Opensource.com celebrates
    World Standards Day     on October 14. "Whether in the world of software, where without standards we would have been unable to connect the world through the Internet and the World Wide Web, or the physical world, where standards make nearly everything you buy easier, more useful, and safer, the world would be a difficult place to navigate without standards. And critical to the useful of standards is making them available to all in an accessible, free format, unencumbered by legal or other hurdles."

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