Wednesday, October 31st, 2018

Time	Event
1:30p	Apache Subversion 1.11.0 released Version 1.11.0 of the Subversion source-code management system is out. Changes include improvements to the shelving feature, better resolution of merge conflicts, an experimental checkpointing feature, and more; see the release notes for details. (Comment on this)
1:54p	Bison 3.2 released Version 3.2 of the Bison parser generator is out. "Massive improvements were brought to the deterministic C++ skeleton, lalr1.cc. When variants are enabled and the compiler supports C++11 or better, move-only types can now be used for semantic values. C++98 support is not deprecated." (Comment on this)
3:09p	Security updates for Wednesday Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (gitlab), Debian (gnutls28), Fedora (audiofile, coreutils, firefox, hesiod, kernel, kernel-headers, kernel-tools, libssh, lighttpd, mosquitto, opencc, patch, php-horde-nag, sos-collector, strongswan, and thunderbird), Gentoo (libxkbcommon, mutt-1.10, postgresql, systemd, xen, and xorg-server), Mageia (curl, libtiff, samba, spamassassin, and unzip), Oracle (java-1.7.0-openjdk and python-paramiko), Red Hat (git, glusterfs, java-1.7.0-openjdk, libvirt, python-paramiko, qemu-kvm, thunderbird, and xorg-x11-server), SUSE (apache2, apache2-mod_nss, audiofile, libarchive, and ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs), and Ubuntu (curl, ghostscript, and openjdk-8, openjdk-lts). (Comment on this)
3:55p	[$] Solid: a new way to handle data on the web The development of the web was a huge "sea change" in the history of the internet. The web is what brought the masses to this huge worldwide network—for good or ill. It is unlikely that Tim Berners-Lee foresaw all of that when he came up with HTTP and HTML as part of his work at CERN, but he has been in a prime spot to watch the web unfold since 1989. His latest project, Solid, is meant to allow users to claim authority over the personal data that they provide to various internet giants. (Comment on this)
9:08p	[$] Init system support in Debian The "systemd question" has roiled Debian multiple times over the years, but things had mostly been quiet on that front of late. The Devuan distribution is a Debian derivative that has removed systemd; many of the vocal anti-systemd Debian developers have switched, which helps reduce the friction on the Debian mailing lists. But that seems to have led to support for init system alternatives (and System V init in particular) to bitrot in Debian. There are signs that a bit of reconciliation between Debian and Devuan will help fix that problem. (Comment on this)

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