Tuesday, December 18th, 2018

Time	Event
3:48p	Security updates for Tuesday Security updates have been issued by Debian (libapache-mod-jk and sleuthkit), Fedora (kernel, kernel-headers, mbedtls, php, php-symfony, php-symfony3, php-symfony4, and wireshark), openSUSE (pdns, pdns-recursor, and salt), Oracle (firefox and ghostscript), Red Hat (ansible, firefox, ghostscript, and kernel), Scientific Linux (firefox and ghostscript), and SUSE (ovmf). (Comment on this)
6:25p	HardenedBSD 12 released HardenedBSD has released version 12 of its security-enhanced fork of FreeBSD. Improvements in this release include Non-Cross-DSO Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) for applications on amd64 and arm64; jailed bhyve; per-jail toggles for unprivileged process debugging; Spectre v2 mitigation with retpoline applied to the entirety of base and ports; Symmetric Multi-Threading (SMT) disabled by default; and more. (Comment on this)
8:01p	[$] Python gets a new governance model Back in late October, when we looked in on the Python governance question, which came about due to the resignation of Guido van Rossum, things seemed to be mostly set for a vote in late November. There were six Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) under consideration that would be ranked by voters in a two-week period ending December 1; instant-runoff voting would be used to determine the winner. In the interim, though, much of that changed; the voting period, winner-determination mechanism, and number of PEPs under consideration are all different. But the voting concluded on December 16 and a winner has been declared; PEP 8016 ("The Steering Council Model"), which was added to the mix in early November, came out on top. (Comment on this)

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