LWN.net's Journal
 
 [Most Recent Entries] [Calendar View]

Tuesday, August 6th, 2019

    Time Event
    2:40p
    Security updates for Tuesday
    Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (chromium), Debian (glib2.0 and python-django), Fedora (gvfs, kernel, kernel-headers, kernel-tools, and subversion), Oracle (icedtea-web, nss and nspr, and ruby:2.5), Red Hat (advancecomp, bind, binutils, blktrace, compat-libtiff3, curl, dhcp, elfutils, exempi, exiv2, fence-agents, freerdp and vinagre, ghostscript, glibc, gvfs, http-parser, httpd, kde-workspace, keepalived, kernel, kernel-rt, keycloak-httpd-client-install, libarchive, libcgroup, libguestfs-winsupport, libjpeg-turbo, libmspack, libreoffice, libsolv, libssh2, libtiff, libvirt, libwpd, linux-firmware, mariadb, mercurial, mod_auth_openidc, nss, nss-softokn, nss-util, and nspr, ntp, opensc, openssh, openssl, ovmf, patch, perl-Archive-Tar, polkit, poppler, procps-ng, python, python-requests, python-urllib3, qemu-kvm, qemu-kvm-ma, qt5, rsyslog, ruby, samba, sox, spice-gtk, sssd, systemd, tomcat, udisks2, unixODBC, unzip, uriparser, Xorg, zsh, and zziplib), SUSE (ardana packages, ceph, mariadb, postgresql10, python-requests, and python3), and Ubuntu (bash and glib2.0).
    2:53p
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 released
    Red Hat has announced
    the release     of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7. "Beyond new capabilities, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 also marks the transition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to Maintenance Phase I within the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10-year lifecycle. Maintenance Phase I emphasizes maintaining infrastructure stability for production environments and enhancing the reliability of the operating system. Future minor releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 will now focus solely on retaining and improving this stability rather than net-new features."
    6:42p
    [$] The Compact C Type Format in the GNU toolchain
    The Compact C Type Format (CTF) is a way of representing information about
    a binary program; it can be seen as a simpler alternative to the widely
    used DWARF
    format. While CTF has been around for some years, it has not seen much use
    in the Linux world. According to Elena Zannoni, who talked about CTF at
    the 2019 Open Source Summit Japan, that situation may be about to change;
    work is underway to bring CTF support to the GNU tools shipped universally
    with Linux systems.
    8:05p
    A set of stable kernels
    Stable kernels 5.2.7, 4.19.65, 4.14.137, 4.9.188, and 4.4.188 have been released. They all contain
    important fixes and users should upgrade.
    10:03p
    FFmpeg 4.2 released
    Version 4.2 of the FFmpeg
    multimedia framework is out. It features a long list of new filters and
    decoders, including a long-awaited AV1 decoder.
    10:52p
    [$] Racket: Lisp for learning
    Lisp is one of the oldest programming languages still in
    use today—Fortran is older by a year, but the Lisp community (or
    communities) seems to be the more dynamic of the two. In any case, the Lisp
    landscape has a lot of nooks and crannies to explore; I recently ran into a
    dialect that I had not encountered before: Racket. That may simply reflect
    ignorance on my part, but, while I was introduced to Lisp (too) many moons
    ago, I had not really paid it much mind until I sat in on a talk about Lisp at linux.conf.au earlier this
    year. Something about Racket caught my eye, so I did some poking around to
    see what it is all about.

    << Previous Day 2019/08/06
    [Calendar]     		Next Day >>

LWN.net   About LJ.Rossia.org