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Tuesday, November 8th, 2016
| Time |
Event |
| 5:05p |
Security updates for Tuesday Debian has updated mat (information leak) and openjdk-7 (multiple vulnerabilities).
Debian-LTS has updated python-imaging (two vulnerabilities).
Fedora has updated ansible (F24:
two vulnerabilities), ghostscript (F24: two
vulnerabilities), icu (F24: code
execution), java-1.8.0-openjdk-aarch32
(F24: multiple vulnerabilities), and kernel
(F24: two vulnerabilities).
openSUSE has updated bind (Leap42.1; 13.2: denial of service).
Oracle has updated java-1.7.0-openjdk (OL6; OL5:
multiple vulnerabilities) and libgcrypt
(OL6: flawed random number generation).
Red Hat has updated chromium-browser (RHEL6: memory leak), libgcrypt (RHEL6,7: flawed random number
generation), pacemaker (RHEL6: privilege escalation), and qemu-kvm-rhev (RHOSP8; RHOSP9: denial of service).
Scientific Linux has updated java-1.7.0-openjdk (SL5,6: multiple vulnerabilities). | | 6:25p |
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 The second service pack for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Desktop and other products, has been released. Highlightsinclude software defined networking and network function virtualization, the new SUSE Package Hub for package updates, the ability to skip service pack releases (e.g. upgrade from SLES 12 to SLES 12-SP2), architecture support for AArch64 and Raspberry Pi, and much more. | | 7:29p |
digiKam 5.3.0 is published The digiKam Software Collection 5.3.0 has been released. This version is available as an AppImage bundle. " AppImage is an open-source project dedicated to provide a simple way to distribute portable software as compressed binary file, that standard user can run as well, without to install special dependencies. All is included into the bundle, as last Qt5 and KF5 frameworks. AppImage use Fuse file-system, which is de-compressed into a temporary directory to start the application. You don't need to install digiKam on your system to be able to use it. Better, you can use the official digiKam from your Linux distribution in parallel, and test the new version without any conflict with one used in production. This permit to quickly test a new release without to wait an official package dedicated for your Linux box. Another AppImage advantage is to be able to provide quickly a pre-release bundle to test last patches applied to source code, outside the releases plan." | | 9:04p |
[$] Making WiFi fast Dave Täht has been working to save the Internet for the last six years (at least). Recently, his focus has been on improving the performance of networking over WiFi — performance that has been disappointing for as long as anybody can remember. The good news, as related in his 2016 Linux Plumbers
Conference talk, is that WiFi can be fixed, and the fixes aren't even all that hard to do. Users with the right hardware and a willingness to run experimental software can have fast WiFi now, and it should be available for the rest of us before too long. |
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