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Wednesday, August 7th, 2019

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    2:12p
    Knoll: Technical vision for Qt 6
    Lars Knoll describes
    the goals     for the next major version of the Qt graphics toolkit.
    "Qt has been growing a lot over the last years, to the point where
    delivering a new version of it is a major undertaking. With Qt 6 there is
    an opportunity to restructure our product offering and have a smaller core
    product that contains the essential frameworks and tooling. We will use the
    market place to deliver our add-on frameworks and tools, not as a tightly
    coupled bundle with the core Qt product.    "
    2:51p
    Security updates for Wednesday
    Security updates have been issued by Fedora (hostapd), openSUSE (aubio and spamassassin), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (augeas, kernel-rt, libssh2, perl, procps-ng, redis:5, and systemd), SUSE (bzip2, evince, kernel, linux-azure, nodejs4, nodejs8, osc, python, python-Twisted, and python3), and Ubuntu (BWA and Mercurial).
    4:57p
    FSFE releases the REUSE 3.0 copyright/licensing specification
    The Free Software Foundation Europe has an announcement
    about the release of the REUSE 3.0 specification. "The licensing of a
    software project is critical information. Developers set the terms under
    which others can reuse their software, from individuals to giant
    corporations. Authors want to make sure that others adhere to their chosen
    licenses; potential re-users have to know the license of third-party
    software before publication; and companies have to ensure license
    compliance in their products that often build on top of existing
    projects. The REUSE project, led by
    the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), helps all of these
    parties.    "
    7:07p
    [$] Escape sequences in Python strings
    A change for Python 3.8—currently in beta—has produced some
    user-visible warnings, but the problem is often in code that a user cannot
    (or should not) change: third-party modules. The problem that the warning
    is trying to highlight is real, however. The upshot is that the handling of
    escape
    sequences (or non escape sequences, in truth) in
    Python string literals is in a rather messy state at this point.
    10:03p
    [$] Mozilla's WebThings Gateway now available for Turris Omnia router
    The "Web of
    Things    " (WoT) is meant as a way to enable Internet of
    Things     (IoT) devices to appear on the web. Mozilla's entry into the
    WoT world is the WebThings project,
    which consists of both a Framework API and a Gateway software distribution
    to host applications. On July 25, the project announced
    the Gateway 0.9 release with support for the Turris
    Omnia     wireless home router.

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