Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019

Time	Event
2:44p	Security updates for Wednesday Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (go, go-pie, pacman, and xpdf), CentOS (java-1.7.0-openjdk, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, and patch), openSUSE (gcc7), Red Hat (firefox, kernel, and qemu-kvm-rhev), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (kernel, libcaca, openconnect, python, sysstat, and zziplib), and Ubuntu (libxslt, linux-azure, and linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws). (Comment on this)
3:44p	[$] Changing the Python release cadence There has been discussion about the release cadence of Python for a couple of years now. The 18-month cycle between major releases of the language is seen by some core developers as causing too much delay in getting new features into the hands of users. Now there are two competing proposals for ways to shorten that cycle, either to one year or by creating a rolling-release model. In general, the steering council has seemed inclined toward making some kind of release-cycle change—one of those Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) may well form the basis of Python's release cadence moving forward. (Comment on this)
8:52p	[$] BPF and the realtime patch set Back in July, Linus Torvalds merged a patch in the 5.3 merge window that added the PREEMPT_RT option to the kernel build-time configuration. That was meant as a signal that the realtime patch set was moving from its longtime status as out-of-tree code to a fully supported kernel feature. As the code behind the configuration option makes its way into the mainline, some friction can be expected; we are seeing a bit of that now with respect to the BPF subsystem. (Comment on this)

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