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Tuesday, July 9th, 2019

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    12:39p
    [$] Destaging ION
    The Android system has shipped a couple of allocators for DMA buffers
    over the years; first came PMEM, then its
    replacement ION. The ION allocator has
    been in use since around 2012, but it remains stuck in the kernel's staging
    tree. The
    work to add ION to the mainline started in 2013;
    at that time, the allocator had multiple issues that made inclusion
    impossible. Recently, John Stultz posted
    a patch set     introducing DMA-BUF heaps, an evolution of ION, that is
    designed to do exactly that — get the Android DMA-buffer allocator to
    the mainline Linux kernel.
    1:22p
    Miller: Red Hat, IBM, and Fedora
    Fedora project leader Matthew Miller reassures the community that IBM's
    acquisition of Red Hat,
    which just closed, will not affect Fedora. "In Fedora, our mission, governance, and objectives remain the same. Red
    Hat associates will continue to contribute to the upstream in the same
    ways they have been.    "
    2:47p
    Security updates for Tuesday
    Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (irssi, python-django, and python2-django), Debian (libspring-security-2.0-java and zeromq3), Red Hat (python27-python), SUSE (ImageMagick, postgresql10, python-Pillow, and zeromq), and Ubuntu (apport, Docker, glib2.0, gvfs, whoopsie, and zeromq3).
    3:13p
    Software in the Public Interest board elections
    Software in the Public Interest (SPI) has announced
    that nominations are open until July 15 for 3 seats on the SPI
    board. "The ideal candidate will have an existing involvement in the
    Free and Open Source community, though this need not be with a project
    affiliated with SPI.    "
    5:06p
    Firefox 68.0 released
    Firefox 68.0 has been released, with an Extended Support Release (ESR)
    version available, in addition to the usual rapid release version. The
    rapid release version features a dark mode in reader view, improved
    extension security and discovery, and more. See the release
    notes     for details. The ESR
    release notes     list some additional policies and other improvements.
    10:07p
    GnuPG 2.2.17 released
    GnuPG 2.2.17 has been released to mitigate attacks on keyservers. In particular, GPG will
    now ignore all key-signatures received from keyservers by default.
    10:29p
    [$] Mucking about with microframeworks
    Python does not lack for web frameworks, from all-encompassing frameworks like Django to "nanoframeworks" such as WebCore. A recent "spare time" project caused me to look into options in the middle of this range of choices, which is where the Python "microframeworks" live. In particular, I tried out the Bottle and Flask microframeworks—and learned a lot in the process.

    Subscribers can read on for the full report by Jake Edge from this week's edition.

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