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Tuesday, September 17th, 2019

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    5:39a
    Richard Stallman resigns from the FSF
    With a brief announcement,
    the Free Software Foundation has let it be known that founder Richard
    Stallman has resigned both as president and from the board of directors.
    "The board will be conducting a search for a new president, beginning
    immediately. Further details of the search will be published on
    fsf.org    ".
    5:57a
    [$] Maintainers Summit topics: pull depth, hardware vulnerabilities, etc.
    The final sessions at the 2019 Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit covered a
    number of relatively quick topics, including the "pull depth" for code
    going into the mainline, the handling of hardware vulnerabilities, the ABI
    status of tracepoints, and more.
    2:50p
    Security updates for Tuesday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (dino-im, python2.7, python3.4, and wpa), Fedora (kmplayer), openSUSE (podman and samba), Oracle (thunderbird), Red Hat (thunderbird), Slackware (expat), SUSE (curl), and Ubuntu (apache2).
    4:46p
    CentOS Linux 7 (1908) released
    A new release of CentOS Linux 7 is available. This release is tagged as
    1908 and derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 source code. The release
    notes     have the details. CentOS Linux 7 (1908) is also available for several alternate
    architectures.
    9:03p
    [$] The properties of secure IoT devices
    At Open
    Source Summit North America 2019    , David Tarditi from Microsoft gave a talk on
    seven different properties for highly secure Internet of Things (IoT)
    devices. The properties are based on a Microsoft Research white
    paper [PDF]     from 2017. His high-level summary of the talk was that if
    you are creating a device that will be connecting to the internet and you
    don't want it to get "owned", you should pay attention to the properties he
    would be describing.
    Overall, it was an interesting talk, with good analysis of the areas where
    effort needs to be focused to produce secure IoT devices, but it was
    somewhat marred by an advertisement for a proprietary product
    (which, naturally, checked all the boxes) at
    the end of the talk.
    9:07p
    Moving Firefox to a faster 4-week release cycle
    The Mozilla blog has an announcement
    that Firefox will be moving to 4-week release cycle, starting in 2020.
    "Shorter release cycles provide greater flexibility to support
    product planning and priority changes due to business or market
    requirements. With four-week cycles, we can be more agile and ship features
    faster, while applying the same rigor and due diligence needed for a
    high-quality and stable release. Also, we put new features and
    implementation of new Web APIs into the hands of developers more
    quickly.    " The Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) release cadence
    will remain the same.

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