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Monday, February 11th, 2019
| Time |
Event |
| 1:33a |
Kernel prepatch 5.0-rc6 The 5.0-rc6 kernel prepatch is out. " So while I would have wished for less at this point, nothing in there
looks all that odd or scary. I think we're still solidly on track for
a normal release." | | 2:25p |
PyPy 7.0.0 released
Version 7.0.0 of the PyPy Python interpreter is out. This release supports
no less than three upstream Python versions: 2.7, 3.5, and 3.6 (as an alpha
release). "All the interpreters are based on much the same codebase, thus the triple
release." | | 3:31p |
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (ghostscript, spice, spice-server, and thunderbird), Debian (coturn, freerdp, ghostscript, libreoffice, libu2f-host, mosquitto, and openssh), Fedora (buildbot, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, phpMyAdmin, slurm, and spice), openSUSE (python3 and rsyslog), Red Hat (docker and runc), SUSE (avahi, fuse, and LibVNCServer), and Ubuntu (poppler). | | 6:09p |
[$] France enters the Matrix
Matrix is an open platform
for secure, decentralized, realtime communication. Matthew Hodgson,
the Matrix project leader, came to FOSDEM to describe Matrix and report on
its progress. Attendees learned
that it was within days
of having
a 1.0 release and found out how it got there. He also shed some light on
what happened when the French reached out to them to see if Matrix could
meet the internal messaging requirements of an entire national government. | | 9:02p |
FSF Annual Report now available The Free Software Foundation has announcedthat its annual report for fiscal year 2017 is available. " The Annual Report reviews the FSF's activities, accomplishments, and financial picture from October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017. It is the result of a full external financial audit, along with a focused study of program results. It examines the impact of the FSF's events, programs, and activities, including the annual LibrePlanet conference, the Respects Your Freedom (RYF) hardware certification program, and the fight against Digital Restrictions Management (DRM)." |
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