Tuesday, October 18th, 2016

Time	Event
2:25p	[$] Graphics world domination may be closer than it appears The mainline kernel has support for a wide range of hardware. One place where support has traditionally been lacking, though, is graphics adapters. As a result, a great many people are still using proprietary, out-of-tree GPU drivers. Daniel Vetter went before the crowd at Kernel Recipies 2016 to say that the situation is not as bad as some think; indeed, he said, in this area as well as others, world domination is proceeding according to plan. (Comment on this)
4:22p	Tuesday's security updates Debian-LTS has updated libarchive (three vulnerabilities), libxrandr (insufficient validation), libxrender (insufficient validation), and quagga (stack overrun). openSUSE has updated ffmpeg (Leap42.1; SPH for SLE12: multiple vulnerabilities) and kcoreaddons (Leap42.1, 13.2; SPH for SLE12: HTML injection). Red Hat has updated atomic-openshift (RHOSCP: authentication bypass), kernel (RHEL6.5: privilege escalation), and openssl (RHEL6.7: multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
7:36p	Kügler: Plasma’s road ahead Sebastian Kügler reports on KDE's Plasma team meeting. "We took this opportunity to also look and plan ahead a bit further into the future. In what areas are we lacking, where do we want or need to improve? Where do we want to take Plasma in the next two years?" Specific topics include release schedule changes, UI and theming improvements, feature backlog, Wayland, mobile, and more. (Thanks to Paul Wise) (Comment on this)

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