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Monday, November 4th, 2019

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    12:46a
    Kernel prepatch 5.4-rc6
    The 5.4-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for
    testing. "There's no particular area or outstanding issue that is
    worrisome, but if things don't calm down this week, I suspect we'll be
    looking at one of those releases when we have an rc8. We'll see how things
    evolve here over the next couple of weeks.    "
    3:50p
    Security updates for Monday
    Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (chromium and qt5-webengine), CentOS (firefox and php), Fedora (file, java-latest-openjdk, nspr, nss, php, t1utils, and webkit2gtk3), Mageia (ansible, aspell, golang, libsoup, and libxslt), openSUSE (chromium and chromium, re2), Oracle (php), and Ubuntu (apport and file).
    5:19p
    [$] Identifying buggy patches with machine learning
    The stable kernel releases are meant to contain as many important fixes as
    possible; to that end, the stable maintainers have been making use of a
    machine-learning system     to identify patches that should be considered for a
    stable update. This exercise has had some success but, at the 2019 Open
    Source Summit Europe, Sasha Levin asked whether this process could be
    improved further. Might it be possible for a machine-learning system to
    identify patches that create bugs and intercept them, so that the
    fixes never become necessary?

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