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Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
| Time |
Event |
| 2:39p |
OpenSSH 8.1 released
OpenSSH 8.1 is out. It includes some security fixes, including the
encryption of keys at rest to defend them against speculative-execution
attacks. There is also an experimental new signature and verification
mechanism for public keys. | | 2:57p |
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (chromium), openSUSE (rust and sqlite3), SUSE (dnsmasq, firefox, and kubernetes, patchinfo), and Ubuntu (python2.7, python3.5, python3.6, python3.7). | | 4:05p |
[$] Free software support for virtual and augmented reality A talk at the recent X.Org Developers Conference in Montréal, Canada looked at support for "XR" in free software. XR is an umbrella term that includes both virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). In the talk, Joey Ferwerda and Christoph Haag from Collabora gave an overview of XR and the Monado project that provides support for those types of applications. | | 6:46p |
Stallman: No radical changes in GNU Project
Richard Stallman has issued a brief statement saying that there will not be
any radical changes in the GNU Project's goals, principles and
policies. "I would like to make incremental changes in how some
decisions are made, because I won't be here forever and we need to ready
others to make GNU Project decisions when I can no longer do so. But these
won't lead to unbounded or radical changes." | | 9:59p |
[$] An update on the input stack
The input stack for Linux is an essential part of interacting with our
systems, but it is also an area that is lacking in terms of developers.
There has been progress over the last few years, however; Peter Hutterer
from Red Hat came to the 2019 X.Org
Developers Conference to talk about some
of the work that has been done. He gave a status report on the input
stack that covered development work that is going on now as well as things
that have been completed in the last two years or so. Overall, things are
looking pretty good for input on Linux, though the "bus factor" for the
stack is alarmingly low. |
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