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Thursday, November 29th, 2018
| Time |
Event |
| 12:51a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 29, 2018
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 29, 2018 is available. | | 2:12p |
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Gentoo (openssl and rpm), Mageia (icecast and yaml-cpp), Oracle (kernel and sos-collector), Red Hat (rh-ruby23-ruby, rh-ruby24-ruby, and rh-ruby25-ruby), Slackware (samba), SUSE (tomcat6), and Ubuntu (ghostscript). | | 4:11p |
[$] Taming STIBP
The Spectre class of hardware vulnerabilities was apparently so-named
because it can be expected to haunt us for some time. One aspect of that
haunting can be seen in the fact that, nearly one year after Spectre was
disclosed, the kernel is still unable to prevent one user-space process
from attacking another in some situations. An attempt to provide that
protection using a new x86 microcode feature called STIBP has run into
trouble once its performance impact was understood; now a more nuanced
approach may succeed in providing protection where it is needed without
slowing down everybody else. | | 8:18p |
Go 2, here we come (Go Blog) The Go Blog looks
forward to version 2 of the Go language. " A major difference
between Go 1 and Go 2 is who is going to influence the design and how
decisions are made. Go 1 was a small team effort with modest outside
influence; Go 2 will be much more community-driven. After almost 10 years
of exposure, we have learned a lot about the language and libraries that we
didn’t know in the beginning, and that was only possible through feedback
from the Go community." | | 9:38p |
SFC: Appeal Moving Forward in GPL Compliance Suit Against VMware The Software Freedom Conservancy reportsthat the first hearing in the appeal of the GPL
enforcement lawsuit against VMware has been held in Germany. " The hearing yesterday was a tiny step in a long process toward
resolving this issue, and, as we understand the situation, nothing is yet
decided." |
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