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Friday, April 7th, 2017
| Time |
Event |
| 3:29p |
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (tigervnc) and openSUSE (clamav-database and ffmpeg). | | 4:22p |
Pandavirtualization: Exploiting the Xen hypervisor (Project Zero) The latest installment
from Google's Project Zero covers the development of an exploit for this unpleasant Xen
vulnerability. " To demonstrate the impact of the issue, I
created an exploit that, when executed in one 64-bit PV guest with root
privileges, will execute a shell command as root in all other 64-bit PV
guests (including dom0) on the same physical machine." | | 5:24p |
The new contribution workflow for GNOME The GNOME Project has announced a
streamlined contribution system built around a Flatpak-based build system. " No specific distribution required. No specific version
required. No dependencies hell. Reproducible, if it builds for me it will
build for you. All with an UI and integrated, no terminal required. Less
than five minutes of downloading plus building and you are
contributing." | | 10:37p |
Open Build Service 2.8 Released Open Build Service 2.8 has been released. " We’ve
been hard at work to bring you many new features to the UI, the API and the
backend. The UI has undergone several handy improvements including the
filtering of the projects list based on a configurable regular expression
and the ability to download a project’s gpg key and ssl certificate (also
available via the API). The API has been fine-tuned to allow more control
over users including locking or deleting them from projects as well as
declaring users to be sub-accounts of other users. The backend now includes
new features such as mulibuild - the ability to build multiple jobs from a
single source package without needing to create local links. Worker
tracking and management has also been enhanced along with the new
obsservicedispatch service which handles sources in an asynchronous
queue. Published packages can now be removed using the osc unpublish
command." The reference server http://build.opensuse.org is available for all developers to build packages for the most popular distributions. |
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