Saturday, January 26th, 2019

Time	Event
12:36a	[$] Snowpatch: continuous-integration testing for the kernel Many projects use continuous-integration (CI) testing to improve the quality of the software they produce. By running a set of tests after every commit, CI systems can identify problems quickly, before they find their way into a release and bite unsuspecting users. The Linux kernel project lags many others in its use of CI testing for a number of reasons, including a fundamental mismatch with how kernel developers tend to manage their workflows. At linux.conf.au 2019, Russell Currey described a CI system called Snowpatch that, he hopes, will bridge the gap and bring better testing to the kernel development process. (Comment on this)
4:29p	A set of stable kernels for the weekend Stable kernels 4.20.5, 4.19.18, 4.14.96, 4.9.153, 4.4.172, and 3.18.133 have been released. They all contain important fixes and users should upgrade. (Comment on this)
9:00p	Bison 3.3 released Version 3.3 of the Bison parser generator is out. "The new option --update replaces deprecated features with their modern spelling, but also applies fixes such as eliminating duplicate directives, etc. It is now possible to annotate rules with their number of expected conflicts. Bison can be made relocatable. The symbol declaration syntax was overhauled, and in particular, %nterm, that exists since the origins of Bison, is now an officially supported (and documented!) feature. C++ parsers now feature genuine symbol constructors, and use noexcept/constexpr. The GLR parsers in C++ now support the syntax_error exceptions. There are also many smaller improvements, including a fix for a bug which is at least 31 years old." (Comment on this)

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