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Tuesday, June 25th, 2019
| Time |
Event |
| 2:00p |
Changes at the Apache Software Foundation Here's a
statement from the Apache Software Foundation regarding changes in its leadership: " It is with a mix of sadness and appreciation that the
ASF Board accepted the resignations of Board Member Jim Jagielski, Chairman
Phil Steitz, and Executive Vice President Ross Gardler last month." There is no indication of why all these people decided to leave at the same time. | | 2:10p |
Introducing people.kernel.org Konstantin Ryabitsev has announceda new public blogging platform for kernel developers. " Ever since the demise of Google+, many developers have expressed a desire to have a service that would provide a way to create and manage content in a format that would be more rich and easier to access than email messages sent to LKML.
Today, we would like to introduce people.kernel.org, which is an
ActivityPub-enabled federated platform powered by WriteFreely and hosted by
very nice and accommodating folks at write.as." (LWN looked at WriteFreely back in March). | | 2:26p |
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (python), Debian (bzip2, libvirt, python2.7, python3.4, rdesktop, and thunderbird), Fedora (thunderbird and tomcat), openSUSE (aubio, docker, enigmail, GraphicsMagick, and python-Jinja2), SUSE (kernel, libvirt, postgresql96, and tomcat), and Ubuntu (ceph, firefox, imagemagick, libmysofa, linux, linux-hwe, neutron, and policykit-desktop-privileges). | | 2:35p |
Three stable kernel updates Stable kernels 5.1.15, 4.19.56, and 4.14.130 have been released. The all contain important fixes and users should upgrade. | | 6:04p |
GitLab 12.0 GitLab 12.0 has been released. " GitLab
gives users the ability to automatically create review apps for each merge request. This allows anyone to see how the design or UX has been changed.
In GitLab 12.0, we are expanding the ability to discuss those changes by
bringing the ability to insert visual review
tools directly into the Review App itself. With a small code snippet,
users can enable designers, product managers, and other stakeholders to
quickly provide feedback on a merge request without leaving the
app." Other features include the ability to easily access a project's Dependency List, restrict access by IP address, and much more. | | 8:49p |
[$] CVE-less vulnerabilities More bugs in free software are being found these days, which is good for many reasons, but there are some possible downsides to that as well. In addition, projects like OSS-Fuzz are finding lots of bugs in an automated fashion—many of which may be security relevant. The sheer number of bugs being reported is overwhelming many (most?) free-software projects, which simply do not have enough eyeballs to fix, or even triage, many of the reports they receive. A discussion about that is currently playing out on the oss-security mailing list. |
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