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Friday, February 15th, 2019
| Time |
Event |
| 3:20p |
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr and unbound), Fedora (docker, libexif, and runc), openSUSE (mozilla-nss, python, rmt-server, and thunderbird), Slackware (mozilla), and SUSE (couchdb, dovecot23, kvm, nodejs6, php53, podofo, python-PyKMIP, rubygem-loofah, util-linux, and velum). | | 3:43p |
| | 4:25p |
[$] Per-vector software-interrupt masking Software interrupts (or "softirqs") are one of the oldest deferred-execution mechanisms in the kernel, and that age shows at times. Some developers have occasionally been heard to mutter about removing them, but softirqs are too deeply embedded into how the kernel works to be easily ripped out; most developers just leave them alone. So the recent per-vector
softirq masking patch set from Frederic Weisbecker is noteworthy as an exception to that rule. Weisbecker is not getting rid of softirqs, but he is trying to reduce their impact and improve their latency. | | 4:47p |
Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS released
The Ubuntu team has announced the release of Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS for its
Desktop, Server, and Cloud products, as well as other flavors of Ubuntu
with long-term support. Support periods vary for different flavors.
"Like previous LTS series, 18.04.2 includes hardware enablement stacks
for use on newer hardware. This support is offered on all architectures
and is installed by default when using one of the desktop images."
Ubuntu Server installs the GA kernel, however the HWE kernel may be
selected from the installer bootloader. |
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