Monday, December 31st, 2018

Time	Event
3:26p	Security updates for Monday Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (go, go-pie, and webkit2gtk), Debian (c3p0, debian-security-support, libextractor, and tar), Fedora (electron-cash, leptonica, LibRaw, mingw-leptonica, mingw-openjpeg2, mingw-poppler, nettle, openjpeg2, php-pear, sqlite, and vcftools), Gentoo (GKSu and rust), Mageia (keepalived and libtiff), openSUSE (containerd, docker, go, go, GraphicsMagick, libraw, mozilla-nspr and mozilla-nss, netatalk, polkit, wireshark, and xen), and SUSE (containerd, docker, go, libqt5-qtbase, mailman, wireshark, and xen). (Comment on this)
5:08p	Lawrence Roberts, Who Helped Design Internet’s Precursor, Dies at 81 (New York Times) The New York Times reports the death of Dr. Lawrence G. Roberts, who was heavily involved in Arpanet. "Dr. Roberts was considered the decisive force behind packet switching, the technology that breaks data into discrete bundles that are then sent along various paths around a network and reassembled at their destination. He decided to use packet switching as the underlying technology of the Arpanet; it remains central to the function of the internet." (Thanks to Paul Wise.) (Comment on this)
5:43p	[$] What's coming in the next kernel release (part 1) When the 4.20 kernel was released on December 23, Linus Torvalds indicated that he would try to keep to the normal merge window schedule despite the presence of the holidays in the middle of it. Thus far, he seems to be trying to live up to that; just over 8,700 changesets have been merged for the next release, which seems likely to be called 5.0. A number of long-awaited features are finally landing in the kernel with this release. (Comment on this)

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