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Friday, February 8th, 2019
| Time |
Event |
| 1:33a |
Google releases ClusterFuzz Google has announcedthe release of its ClusterFuzz fuzz-testing system as free software. " ClusterFuzz has found more than 16,000 bugs in Chrome and more than
11,000 bugs in over 160 open source projects integrated with OSS-Fuzz. It
is an integral part of the development process of Chrome and many other
open source projects. ClusterFuzz is often able to detect bugs hours after
they are introduced and verify the fix within a day." | | 2:34p |
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (dovecot and libarchive), Fedora (gvfs and poppler), openSUSE (openssl-1_1 and subversion), Oracle (kernel), Slackware (php), SUSE (avahi, docker, libunwind, LibVNCServer, and spice), and Ubuntu (linux-azure and openssh). | | 4:14p |
GTK+ renamed to GTK
The GTK+ toolkit project has, after extensive deliberation, decided to
remove the "+" from its name. "Over the years, we had discussions
about removing the '+' from the project name. The 'plus' was added to 'GTK'
once it was moved out of the GIMP sources tree and the project gained
utilities like GLib and the GTK type system, in order to distinguish it
from the previous, in-tree version. Very few people are aware of this
history, and it's kind of confusing from the perspective of both newcomers
and even expert users; people join the wrong IRC channel, the URLs on wikis
are fairly ugly, etc." | | 5:20p |
The OpenStack Foundation's 2018 annual report The OpenStack Foundation has issued its
2018 annual report. " 2018 was a productive year for the
OpenStack community. A total of 1,972 contributors approved more than
65,000 changes and published two major releases of all components, code
named Queens and Rocky. The component project teams completed work on
themes related to integrating with other OpenStack components, other
OpenStack Foundation Open Infrastructure Projects, and projects from
adjacent communities. They also worked on stability, performance, and
usability improvements. In addition to that component-specific work, the
community continued to expand our OpenStack-wide goals process, using a few
smaller topics to refine the goal selection process and understand how best
to complete initiatives on such a large scale." | | 5:40p |
Stable kernel 4.4.174 released Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 4.4.174 stable kernel. The patches went out
for review on February 7; the kernel contains a backport of a fix for the FragmentSmack denial-of-service vulnerability. " Many thanks to Ben Hutchings for this release, it's pretty much just his
work here in doing the backporting of networking fixes to help resolve
"FragmentSmack" (i.e. CVE-2018-5391)." As usual, users of the kernel series should upgrade. | | 6:27p |
[$] Blacklisting insecure filesystems in openSUSE The Linux kernel supports a wide variety of filesystem types, many of which have not seen significant use — or maintenance — in many years. Developers in the openSUSE project have concluded that many of these filesystem types are, at this point, more useful to attackers than to openSUSE users and are proposing to blacklist many of them by default. Such changes can be controversial, but it's probably still fair to say that few people expected the massive
discussion that resulted, covering everything from the number of OS/2 users to how openSUSE fits into the distribution marketplace. | | 7:53p |
LibreOffice 6.2 released The LibreOffice 6.2 release is out. The headline feature this time around appears to be "NotebookBar": " a radical new approach to the user
interface - based on the MUFFIN
concept". Other changes include a reworking of the context menus, better change-tracking performance, better interoperability with proprietary file formats, and more. |
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