Friday, May 10th, 2019

Time	Event
1:41p	Rescorla: technical details on the recent Firefox add-on outage Eric Rescorla has written a detailed summary of how the Firefox add-on fiasco happened, how it was addressed, and how a repeat might be avoided. "First, we should have a much better way of tracking the status of everything in Firefox that is a potential time bomb and making sure that we don’t find ourselves in a situation where one goes off unexpectedly. We’re still working out the details here, but at minimum we need to inventory everything of this nature." (Comment on this)
2:00p	Security updates for Friday Security updates have been issued by Debian (bind9, postgresql-9.6, qemu, and symfony), Fedora (kernel, kernel-tools, mod_cluster, rubygem-actioncable, rubygem-actionmailer, rubygem-actionpack, rubygem-actionview, rubygem-activejob, rubygem-activemodel, rubygem-activerecord, rubygem-activestorage, rubygem-activesupport, rubygem-rails, and rubygem-railties), openSUSE (wireshark), Red Hat (freeradius), Scientific Linux (freeradius), and Ubuntu (bind9 and wpa). (Comment on this)
2:05p	[$] The first half of the 5.2 merge window When he released the 5.1 kernel, Linus Torvalds noted that he had a family event happening in the middle of the 5.2 merge window and that he would be offline for a few days in the middle. He appears to be trying to make up for lost time before it happens: over 8,300 non-merge changesets have found their way into the mainline in the first four days. As always, there is a wide variety of work happening all over the kernel tree. (Comment on this)

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