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Tuesday, June 11th, 2019
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| 2:36p |
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (bind and thunderbird), Mageia (firefox, ghostscript, graphicsmagick, imagemagick, postgresql, and thunderbird), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (Advanced Virtualization and rh-haproxy18-haproxy), SUSE (bind, gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base, thunderbird, and vim), and Ubuntu (elfutils, glib2.0, and libsndfile). | | 2:50p |
| | 3:29p |
[$] Generalized events notification and security policies Interfaces for the reporting of events to user space from the kernel have been a recurring topic on the kernel mailing lists for almost as long as the kernel has existed; LWN covered one 15 years ago, for example. Numerous special-purpose event-reporting APIs exist, but there are none that are designed to be a single place to obtain any type of event. David Howells is the latest to attempt to change that situation with a
new notification interface that, naturally, uses a ring buffer to transfer events to user space without the need to make system calls. The API itself (which hasn't changed greatly since it was posted in 2018) is not hugely controversial, but the associated security model has inspired a few heated discussions. | | 8:31p |
Introducing Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation The Matrix team has announcedthe first stable release of the Matrix protocol and specification across all APIs. The Synapse 1.0 reference implementation, which implements the full Matrix 1.0 API surface, has also been released. " Now, before you get too excited, it’s critical to understand that Matrix 1.0 is all about providing a stable, self-consistent, self-contained and secure version of the standard which anyone should be able to use to independently implement production-grade Matrix clients, servers, bots and bridges etc. It does not mean that all planned or possible features in Matrix are now specified and implemented, but that the most important core of the protocol is a well-defined stable platform for everyone to build on.
On the Synapse side, our focus has been exclusively on ensuring that
Synapse correctly implements Matrix 1.0, to provide a stable and secure
basis for participating in Matrix without risk of room corruption or other
nastinesses." The announcement also covers the launch of the Matrix.org Foundation. |
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