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Thursday, June 20th, 2019
| Time |
Event |
| 12:00a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 20, 2019
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 20, 2019 is available. | | 1:06p |
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, gvfs, intel-microcode, and python-urllib3), Fedora (advancecomp, firefox, freeradius, kubernetes, pam-u2f, and rubygem-jquery-ui-rails), openSUSE (elfutils and sssd), Red Hat (chromium-browser), SUSE (doxygen and samba), and Ubuntu (evince, firefox, Gunicorn, libvirt, and sqlite3). | | 2:53p |
Kubernetes 1.15 released The Kubernetes container orchestrator team has announced the release of Kubernetes 1.15; the main themes of this release are " extensibility and continuous improvement". One of the focus areas was on usability and lifecycle stability for clusters: " Work on making Kubernetes installation, upgrade and configuration even more robust has been a major focus for this cycle for SIG Cluster Lifecycle (see our last Community Update). Bug fixes across bare metal tooling and production-ready user stories, such as the high availability use cases have been given priority for 1.15.
kubeadm, the cluster lifecycle building block, continues to receive features and stability work required for bootstrapping production clusters efficiently. kubeadm has promoted high availability (HA) capability to beta, allowing users to use the familiar kubeadm init and kubeadm join commands to configure and deploy an HA control plane. An entire new test suite has been created specifically for ensuring these features will stay stable over time." More information can be found in the release notes. | | 3:16p |
[$] C, Fortran, and single-character strings The calling interfaces between programming languages are, by their nature, ripe for misunderstandings; different languages can have subtly different ideas of how data should be passed around. Such misunderstandings often have the effect of making things break right away; these are quickly fixed. Others can persist for years or even decades before jumping out of the shadows and making things fail. A problem of the latter variety recently turned up in how some C programs are passing strings to Fortran subroutines, with unpleasant effects on widely used packages like LAPACK. |
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