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Thursday, December 1st, 2016

    Time Event
    12:02a
    [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 1, 2016
    The LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 1, 2016 is available.
    3:50p
    Trouble at Cyanogen
    Cyanogen Inc. has put out a terse press release
    announcing the departure of founder (and CyanogenMod creator) Steve
    Kondik. See this
    rather less terse Android Police article
    for Kondik's view of the
    matter. The future of the CyanogenMod distribution seems unclear at this
    point; if it goes forward, it may have to do so with a different name.
    4:24p
    Thursday's security advisories

    Debian has updated firefox-esr (code execution).

    Debian-LTS has updated gst-plugins-good0.10 (three code execution flaws).

    Gentoo has updated imagemagick (multiple vulnerabilities) and php (multiple vulnerabilities, one from 2015).

    openSUSE has updated bash (42.1: multiple vulnerabilities, two from 2014) and libcares2 (13.2: code execution).

    Slackware has updated firefox (code execution) and thunderbird (code execution).

    Ubuntu has updated c-ares (code execution), firefox (two vulnerabilities), imagemagick (multiple vulnerabilities), kernel (16.10; 16.04; 14.04; 12.04: multiple vulnerabilities), linux-lts-trusty (12.04: two vulnerabilities), linux-lts-xenial (14.04: multiple vulnerabilities), linux-ti-omap4 (12.04: code execution), and thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities).

    5:34p
    Ardour 5.5 released
    Version 5.5 of the Ardour
    audio editor
    has been released. "Among the notable new features
    are support for VST 2.4 plugins on OS X, the ability to have MIDI input
    follow MIDI track selection, support for Steinberg CC121, Avid Artist &
    Artist Mix Control surfaces, 'fanning out' of instrument outputs to new
    tracks/busses and the often requested ability to do horizontal zoom via
    vertical dragging on the rulers.
    "
    5:52p
    Exploring free and open web fonts (opensource.com)
    Nathan Willis looks
    beyond open web fonts
    on opensource.com. "For starters, it's critical to understand that Google Fonts and Open Font Library offer a specialized service—delivering fonts in web pages—and they don't implement solutions for other use cases. That is not a shortcoming on the services' side; it simply means that we have to develop other solutions.

    There are a number of problems to solve. Probably the most obvious example is the awkwardness of installing fonts on a desktop Linux machine for use in other applications. You can download any of the web fonts offered by either service, but all you will get is a generic ZIP file with some TTF or OTF binaries inside and a plaintext license file. What happens next is up to you to guess.
    "

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