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Thursday, October 17th, 2019
| Time |
Event |
| 12:25a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 17, 2019
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 17, 2019 is available. | | 1:27p |
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (sudo), Debian (libsdl1.2 and libsdl2), Mageia (e2fsprogs, kernel, libpcap and tcpdump, nmap, and sudo), openSUSE (GraphicsMagick and sudo), Oracle (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, jss, and kernel), Red Hat (java-1.8.0-openjdk and java-11-openjdk), Scientific Linux (jss), SUSE (gcc7 and libreoffice), and Ubuntu (leading to a double-free, libsdl1.2, and tiff). | | 2:23p |
Bazel 1.0 released Google has announced
version 1.0 of its Bazel build system. " A growing list of Bazel
users attests to the widespread demand for scalable, reproducible, and
multi-lingual builds. Bazel helps Google be more open too: several large
Google open source projects, such as Angular and TensorFlow, use
Bazel. Users have reported 3x test time reductions and 10x faster build
speeds after switching to Bazel." | | 5:08p |
[$] Really fixing getrandom() The final days of the 5.3 kernel development cycle included an extensive discussion of the
getrandom() API and the reversion of an ext4 improvement that was indirectly causing boot hangs due to a lack of entropy. Blocking filesystem improvements because they are too effective is clearly not a good long-term development strategy for the kernel, so there was a consensus that some sort of better solution had to be found. What was lacking was an idea of what that solution should be. It is thus surprising that the problem appears to have been dealt with in 5.4 with little in the way of dissent or disagreement. | | 10:09p |
Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) released Ubuntu has announced the release of 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" in desktop and server editions as well as all of the different flavors: Ubuntu Budgie, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu. " The Ubuntu kernel has been updated to the 5.3 based Linux kernel, and
our default toolchain has moved to gcc 9.2 with glibc 2.30. Additionally,
the Raspberry Pi images now support the new Pi 4 as well as 2 and 3.
Ubuntu Desktop 19.10 introduces GNOME 3.34 the fastest release yet with
significant performance improvements delivering a more responsive
experience. App organisation is easier with the ability to drag and drop
icons into categorised folders and users can select light or dark Yaru
theme variants. The Ubuntu Desktop installer also introduces installing
to ZFS as a root filesystem as an experimental feature." More information can also be found in the release notes. |
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