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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017

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    1:50p
    Garrett: A new Shim review process
    Matthew Garrett announces a new,
    hopefully more efficient process for reviewing bootloaders to be used with
    Shim in UEFI secure boot
    systems. "To that end, we're adopting a new model. A mailing list
    has been created at shim-review@lists.freedesktop.org, and members of this
    list will review submissions and provide a recommendation to Microsoft on
    whether these should be signed or not.    "
    2:32p
    [$] Unaddressable device memory
    In a morning plenary session on the first day of the 2017 Linux Storage,
    Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit, Jérôme Glisse led a discussion on
    memory that cannot be addressed by the CPU because it lives in devices like
    GPUs or FPGAs. There is often a substantial pile of memory on these
    devices and it can be accessed much more quickly by the devices than the
    system RAM can be. Making it easier for user-space programmers to use that
    memory transparently is the goal of the heterogeneous memory management (HMM) patches
    that Glisse has been working on.
    3:46p
    Security updates for Wednesday
    Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (irssi), Fedora (qemu), openSUSE (mbedtls), and Ubuntu (eglibc, glibc).
    3:52p
    Stable kernel updates
    Greg Kroah-Hartman has released stable kernels 4.10.5, 4.9.17, and 4.4.56. All of them contain important fixes
    and users should upgrade.
    5:43p
    GNOME 3.24 released
    The GNOME Project has announced the release of GNOME 3.24, "Portland".
    "This release is the result of 6 months’ hard work by the GNOME community.
    It contains major new features such as night light, as well as many smaller
    improvements and bug fixes. GNOME's existing applications have been
    improved and there is also a new Recipes app. Improvements to our platform
    include refined notifications and several revamped settings panels.    "
    6:10p
    NTPsec Project announces 0.9.7
    The NTPsec Project has announced the 0.9.7 release of NTPsec, with
    assistance from the Mozilla Foundation's "Secure Open Source" initiative.
    NTPsec is an implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP).
    "NTPsec 0.9.7 incorporates significant improvements in security, accuracy,
    precision, visualization, and usability, with assistance, contributions,
    and audits provided by infosec researchers and other technical contributors.

    For this release, the NTPsec Project worked particularly closely with the
    Mozilla Foundation's "Secure Open Source" initiative, who funded an infosec
    audit, and with Cure53.de, who provided the audit.    "
    7:43p
    GitLab 9.0 Released with Subgroups and Deploy Boards
    GitLab 9.0 has been released
    with many new features and improvements. "In the last several releases, GitLab has transformed how development teams get from idea to production. In just a few minutes, you can deploy GitLab to a container scheduler, add CI/CD with auto deployed review apps, utilize ChatOps, and analyze your cycle time. With 9.0 you can now watch your deploys with deploy boards and monitor application performance with Prometheus."

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