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Monday, February 18th, 2019

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    3:38a
    Kernel prepatch 5.0-rc7
    The 5.0-rc7 kernel prepatch has been
    released. Linus says: "Nothing particularly odd stands out, and
    everything is pretty small. Just the way I like it.    "
    4:19p
    Security updates for Monday
    Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (cairo, firefox, flatpak, hiawatha, and webkit2gtk), Debian (gsoap, mosquitto, php5, thunderbird, and tiff), Fedora (elfutils, ghostscript, gsi-openssh, kernel, kernel-headers, kernel-tools, kf5-kauth, mingw-podofo, mingw-poppler, mosquitto, podofo, and python-markdown2), Mageia (firefox, flash-player-plugin, lxc, and thunderbird), openSUSE (avahi, docker, libu2f-host, LibVNCServer, nginx, phpMyAdmin, and pspp, spread-sheet-widget), Red Hat (rhvm-appliance), and SUSE (python-numpy).
    6:37p
    [$] The case of the supersized shebang
    Regressions are an unavoidable side effect of software development; the
    kernel is no different in that regard. The 5.0 kernel introduced a change
    in the handling of the "#!" (or "shebang") lines used to indicate
    which interpreter should handle an executable text file. The problem has
    been duly fixed, but the incident shows how easy it can be to introduce
    unexpected problems and highlights some areas where the kernel's
    development process does not work as well as we might like.
    7:10p
    Debian 9.8 released
    The Debian project has announced the eighth update of Debian 9
    "stretch". As a stable point release, this version mainly adds bugfixes for
    security issues and other serious problems. Click below for a list of changes.

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