Wednesday, March 8th, 2017

Time	Event
10:33a	[$] An update to GitHub's terms of service On February 28th, GitHub published a brand new version of its Terms of Service (ToS). While the first draft announced earlier in February didn't generate much reaction, the new ToS raised concerns that they may break at least the spirit, if not the letter, of certain free-software licenses. Digging in further reveals that the situation is probably not as dire as some had feared. (Comment on this)
4:40p	Security updates for Wednesday Security updates have been issued by Debian (texlive-base), Fedora (cacti, drupal7-metatag, freeipa, mingw-gtk-vnc, suricata, and xen), Oracle (kvm), Red Hat (java-1.8.0-ibm and kvm), Scientific Linux (kvm), Slackware (firefox and thunderbird), SUSE (qemu), and Ubuntu (firefox, imagemagick, kernel, linux, linux-gke, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon, linux, linux-raspi2, linux, linux-ti-omap4, linux-hwe, linux-lts-trusty, linux-lts-xenial, and network-manager-applet). (Comment on this)
7:23p	Samba 4.6.0 Available for Download Samba 4.6 has been released with many new features and changes. New features include Kerberos client encryption types, a new option for owner inheritance, multi-process Netlogon support, new options for controlling TCP ports used for RPC services, and more. (Comment on this)

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