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Thursday, March 16th, 2017
| Time |
Event |
| 2:14a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 16, 2017
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 16, 2017 is available. | | 2:33p |
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (thunderbird), Fedora (ettercap, jasper, qbittorrent, and tcpreplay), Oracle (tomcat6), Red Hat (rabbitmq-server), Slackware (pidgin), SUSE (flash-player), and Ubuntu (libxml2, linux, linux-aws, linux-gke, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon, and linux-lts-xenial). | | 3:30p |
A new bcachefs release Kent Overstreet has announced a new major
release of his bcachefs filesystem.
Changes in this release include
whole-filesystem encryption, backup superblocks, better multiple-device
support, a user-space filesystem checker, and more. " We can also now
migrate filesystems to bcachefs in place! The bcache migrate command takes
an existing filesystem, fallocates a big file in it, creates a new
filesystem (in userspace) on the block device but using only the space
reserved by that file it fallocated - and then walks the contents of the
original filesystem creating pointers to all your existing data."
There is an on-disk format change, but there's a chance it's the last one.
| | 5:20p |
GNU Guile 2.2.0 released The GNU Guile project has announced the release of Guile 2.2.0, which is an implementation of the Scheme Lisp dialect. " More than 6 years in the making, Guile 2.2 includes a new optimizing
compiler and high-performance register virtual machine. Compared to
the old 2.0 series, real-world programs often show a speedup of 30% or
more with Guile 2.2.
Besides the compiler upgrade, Guile 2.2 removes limitations on user
programs by lowering memory usage, speeding up the "eval" interpreter,
providing better support for multi-core programming, and last but not
least, removing any fixed limit on recursive function calls.
Not only does Guile 2.2 run fast, it also supports the creation of
user-space concurrency facilities that multiplex millions of
concurrent lightweight "fibers". See
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/news/gnu-guile-220-released.html
for pointers to promising experiments." | | 5:27p |
Linux Plumbers Conference call for refereed presentation proposals The 2017 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) has announced its call for refereed presentations. " Refereed Presentations are 45 minutes in length and should focus on a
specific aspect of the 'plumbing' in the Linux system. Examples of
Linux plumbing include core kernel subsystems, core libraries,
windowing systems, management tools, device support, media
creation/playback, and so on. The best presentations are not about
finished work, but rather problems, proposals, or proof-of-concept
solutions that require face-to-face discussions and debate." Proposals are due by May 6 and LPC will be held in Los Angeles, CA, US on September 13-15 in conjunction
with The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America. |
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