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Wednesday, August 1st, 2018
| Time |
Event |
| 12:45p |
[$] OSCON's 20th anniversary and more The O'Reilly Open Source
Conference (OSCON) returned to Portland, Oregon this July
for the 20th convocation of this venerable gathering. While some of the
program focused on retrospectives, there were also talks and tutorials on
multiple technical topics and open-source community management. To give you
a feel for the whole conference, we will explore it in a
two-part article. This installment will cover a retrospective of open
source and some presentations on releasing projects as open source at your
organization. A second article will include a few of the technical
topics at the conference. | | 12:52p |
GNU C Library 2.28 released Version 2.28 of the GNU C Library is out. Changes include support for Intel's "Control-flow Enforcement Technology", Unicode 11.0.0 support, a wrapper for statx(), ISO C threads support, several security fixes, and more. | | 2:52p |
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ruby2.3), Fedora (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-openjdk, poppler, python-cryptography, and zziplib), Oracle (openslp), Red Hat (Red Hat Virtualization), and SUSE (kernel). | | 3:42p |
[$] Adding None-aware operators to Python?
A PEP that has been around for a while, without being either accepted or
rejected, was reintroduced recently on the python-ideas mailing list.
PEP 505
("None-aware operators") would provide some syntactic sugar, in the form of
new operators, to handle cases where variables
might be the special None value. It is a feature
that other languages support, but has generally raised concerns about being
"un-Pythonic" over the years. At this point, though, the Python project
still needs to figure out how it will be
governed—and how PEPs can be accepted or rejected. | | 5:12p |
OpenWrt 18.06.0 final The OpenWrt community has announcedthe first release of the OpenWrt 18.06 stable version series. " It
incorporates over 4000 commits since branching the previous LEDE 17.01
release and has been under development for well over a year. With this
release, the re-merged OpenWrt project attempts to define a
baseline for future development based on the technological modernization
and refined release processes done by the former LEDE project." | | 8:37p |
[$] Reducing the use of non-glibc allocators in Fedora
Memory allocation for applications is a bit of a balancing act between
various factors including CPU performance, memory efficiency, and how the
memory is actually being allocated and
deallocated by the application. Different programs may have diverse needs,
but it is often
the kind of workload that the application is expected to handle that
determines which memory allocator performs best. That argues for a
diversity of memory allocators (and allocation strategies) but, on the
other hand, that
complicates things for Linux distributions. As a result, Fedora is
discussing ways to
rein in the spread of allocators used by its packages. |
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