Friday, December 30th, 2016

Time	Event
4:11p	Security updates for Friday Debian has updated dcmtk (code execution from 2015). Debian-LTS has updated curl (code execution) and libxi (regression in previous update). Fedora has updated js-jquery (F24: cross-site scripting), js-jquery1 (F25; F24: cross-site scripting), smack (F25: TLS bypass), and tracker (F24: adding sandboxing). Gentoo has updated mod_wsgi (privilege escalation from 2014). Mageia has updated game-music-emu (multiple vulnerabilities), gstreamer1.0-plugins-good (multiple vulnerabilities), hdf5 (multiple vulnerabilities), kernel, kmod (three vulnerabilities), libgsf (denial of service), openjpeg2 (multiple vulnerabilities), roundcubemail (code execution), and samba (authentication bypass). openSUSE has updated irc-otr (42.2: information disclosure). Slackware has updated python (two vulnerabilities) and samba (three vulnerabilities). SUSE has updated gstreamer-plugins-bad (SLE12: multiple vulnerabilities) and gstreamer-plugins-good (SLE12: multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
8:45p	[$] New features in Python 3.6 The Python 3.6 release occurred on December 23, only one week later than planned all the way back in October 2015. Python 3.6 adds a number of new features, including more support for asynchronous operations (generators and comprehensions), a filesystem path protocol, a new literal string formatting option, two random-number-related features, a frame evaluation API for debuggers and just-in-time (JIT) compilation, and more. Some of these features have been described in LWN articles along the way, but many haven't, so an overview of the highlights of the new release is in order. Subscribers can click below to see the article that will appear in next week's edition. (Comment on this)

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