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Thursday, October 18th, 2018
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Event |
| 12:29a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 18, 2018
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 18, 2018 is available. | | 2:20p |
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (chromium, libssh, and net-snmp), Debian (libssh and xen), Fedora (audiofile), openSUSE (axis, GraphicsMagick, ImageMagick, kernel, libssh, samba, and texlive), Oracle (java-1.8.0-openjdk), Red Hat (java-1.8.0-openjdk, rh-nodejs6-nodejs, and rh-nodejs8-nodejs), SUSE (binutils and fuse), and Ubuntu (paramiko). | | 2:35p |
Stable kernels 4.18.15, 4.14.77, and 4.9.134 Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 4.18.15, 4.14.77, and 4.9.134 stable kernels. As usual, there are important fixes throughout the tree and users should upgrade. | | 3:22p |
[$] Making the GPL more scary
For some years now, one has not had to look far to find articles
proclaiming the demise of the GNU General Public License. That license, we
are told, is too frightening for many businesses, which prefer to use
software under the far weaker permissive class of license. But there is a
business model that is based on the allegedly scary nature of
the GPL, and there are those who would like to make it more lucrative; the
only problem is that the GPL isn't quite scary enough yet. | | 5:05p |
PostgreSQL 11 released The PostgreSQL 11 release is out. " PostgreSQL 11 provides users with improvements to overall performance of
the database system, with specific enhancements associated with very
large databases and high computational workloads. Further, PostgreSQL 11
makes significant improvements to the table partitioning system, adds
support for stored procedures capable of transaction management,
improves query parallelism and adds parallelized data definition
capabilities, and introduces just-in-time (JIT) compilation for
accelerating the execution of expressions in queries." See this article for a detailed overview of what is in this release. | | 6:33p |
Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) released Ubuntu has announced the release of its latest version, 18.10 (or "Cosmic Cuttlefish"). It has lots of updated packages and such, and is available in both a desktop and server version; there are also multiple flavors that were released as well. More information can be found in the release notes. " The Ubuntu kernel has been updated to the 4.18 based Linux kernel,
our default toolchain has moved to gcc 8.2 with glibc 2.28, and we've
also updated to openssl 1.1.1 and gnutls 3.6.4 with TLS1.3 support.
Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 LTS brings a fresh look with the community-driven
Yaru theme replacing our long-serving Ambiance and Radiance themes. We
are shipping the latest GNOME 3.30, Firefox 63, LibreOffice 6.1.2, and
many others.
Ubuntu Server 18.10 includes the Rocky release of OpenStack including
the clustering enabled LXD 3.0, new network configuration via netplan.io,
and iteration on the next-generation fast server installer. Ubuntu Server
brings major updates to industry standard packages available on private
clouds, public clouds, containers or bare metal in your datacentre." | | 10:31p |
OpenBSD 6.4 OpenBSD 6.4 has been released. This release features improved hardware support, adding a number of new drivers. Notable security improvements include the new unveil() system
call to restrict file system access. |
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