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Friday, August 16th, 2019

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    1:52p
    Security updates for Friday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (freetype, libreoffice, and openjdk-7), Fedora (edk2, mariadb, mariadb-connector-c, mariadb-connector-odbc, python-django, and squirrelmail), Gentoo (chromium, cups, firefox, glibc, kconfig, libarchive, libreoffice, oracle-jdk-bin, polkit, proftpd, sqlite, wget, zeromq, and znc), openSUSE (bzip2, chromium, dosbox, evince, gpg2, icedtea-web, java-11-openjdk, java-1_8_0-openjdk, kconfig, kdelibs4, mariadb, mariadb-connector-c, nodejs8, pdns, polkit, python, subversion, and vlc), Oracle (ghostscript and kernel), Red Hat (mysql:8.0 and subversion:1.10), SUSE (389-ds, libvirt and libvirt-python, and openjpeg2), and Ubuntu (nginx).
    2:43p
    Stable kernels 5.2.9, 4.19.67, and 4.14.139
    Three new stable kernels have been announced by Greg Kroah-Hartman: 5.2.9, 4.19.67, and 4.14.139. There are important fixes in each;
    users should upgrade.
    2:58p
    kdevops: a devops framework for Linux kernel development
    Luis Chamberlain has announced
    the "kdevops" kernel-development framework. "I'm announcing the
    release of kdevops which aims at making setting up and testing the Linux
    kernel for any project as easy as possible. Note that setting up testing
    for a subsystem and testing a subsystem are two separate operations,
    however we strive for both. This is not a new test framework, it allows you
    to use existing frameworks, and set those frameworks up as easily can
    humanly be possible. It relies on a series of modern hip devops frameworks,
    it relies on ansible, vagrant and terraform, ansible roles through the
    Ansible Galaxy, and terraform modules.    "
    3:11p
    [$] Reconsidering unprivileged BPF
    The BPF virtual machine within the kernel has seen a great deal of work
    over the last few years; as that has happened, its use has expanded to many
    different kernel subsystems. One of the objectives of that work in the
    past has been
    to make it safe to allow unprivileged users to load at least some types of
    BPF programs into the kernel. A recent discussion has made it clear,
    though, that the goal of opening up BPF to unprivileged users has been
    abandoned as unachievable, and that further work in that direction will not
    be accepted by the BPF maintainer.

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