Monday, October 21st, 2019

Time	Event
1:31p	Kernel prepatch 5.4-rc4 The 5.4-rc4 kernel prepatch is out for testing. "This release cycle remains pretty normal. In fact, the rc's have been a bit on the smaller side of the average of the last few releases, and rc4 continues this, if only barely." (Comment on this)
2:47p	Security updates for Monday Security updates have been issued by Debian (aspell, graphite-web, imagemagick, mediawiki, milkytracker, nfs-utils, and openjdk-11), Fedora (kernel, kernel-headers, kernel-tools, mediawiki, and radare2), openSUSE (dhcp, libpcap, lighttpd, and tcpdump), Scientific Linux (java-1.8.0-openjdk), Slackware (python), SUSE (bluez, kernel, and python-xdg), and Ubuntu (aspell). (Comment on this)
10:26p	[$] "git request-pull" and confusing diffstats When a kernel subsystem maintainer has a set of commits to send up the chain toward the mainline, the git request-pull command is usually the right tool for the job. But various maintainers have noticed over the years that this command can sometimes generate confusing results when confronted with anything but the simplest of histories. A brief conversation on the linux-kernel mailing list delved into why this situation comes about and what maintainers can do in response. (Comment on this)

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