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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019
| Time |
Event |
| 1:47p |
Tor Browser 8.5 released Version
8.5 of the Tor Browser is out. " Tor Browser 8.5 is the first
stable release for Android. Since we released the first alpha version in
September, we've been hard at work making sure we can provide the
protections users are already enjoying on desktop to the Android
platform. Mobile browsing is increasing around the world, and in some
parts, it is commonly the only way people access the internet. In these
same areas, there is often heavy surveillance and censorship online, so we
made it a priority to reach these users." | | 3:01p |
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (ruby and wget), Debian (proftpd-dfsg), Fedora (firefox, mupdf, nss, and wavpack), openSUSE (evolution, GraphicsMagick, graphviz, libxslt, openssl-1_0_0, ovmf, and sqlite3), Red Hat (dotnet, python27-python and python27-python-jinja2, and rh-mariadb102-mariadb and rh-mariadb102-galera), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (gnutls, java-1_7_1-ibm, and java-1_8_0-ibm), and Ubuntu (curl, firefox, php5, and webkit2gtk). | | 3:13p |
| | 3:20p |
openSUSE Leap 15.1 released The openSUSE project has announced
the release of openSUSE Leap 15.1. " Leap releases are scalable and both the desktop and server are equally important for professional’s workloads, which is reflected in the installation menu as well as the amount of packages Leap offers and hardware it supports. Leap is well suited and prepared for usage as a Virtual Machine (VM) or container guest, allowing professional users to efficiently run network services no matter whether it’s a single server or a data center." | | 7:58p |
[$] Lazy file reflink
Amir Goldstein has a use case for a feature that could be called a "lazy
file reflink", he said, though it might also be described as "VFS-level
snapshots". He went through the use case, looking for suggestions, in a
session at the 2019 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit
(LSFMM). He has already implemented parts of the solution, but would like
to get something upstream, which would mean shifting from the
stacked-filesystem approach he has taken so far. | | 8:21p |
[$] Transparent huge pages for filesystems
One thing that is known about using transparent huge pages (THPs) for
filesystems is that it is a hard problem to solve, but is there a solid first
step that
could be taken toward that goal? That is the question Song Liu asked to
open his combined
filesystem and memory-management session at
the 2019 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit (LSFMM).
His employer, Facebook, has a solid use case for using THPs on files in
the page cache, which may provide a starting point. |
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