Wednesday, November 13th, 2019

Time	Event
4:07p	Security updates for Wednesday Security updates have been issued by Debian (dpdk, intel-microcode, kernel, libssh2, qemu, and webkit2gtk), Fedora (apache-commons-beanutils, bluez, iwd, kernel, kernel-headers, kernel-tools, libell, and microcode_ctl), openSUSE (gdb), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (kernel and kernel-rt), SUSE (dhcp, evolution, kernel, libcaca, python, python-xdg, qemu, sysstat, ucode-intel, and xen), and Ubuntu (dpdk, intel-microcode, kernel, linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux, linux-lts-trusty, linux-azure, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oem, linux-oracle, linux-kvm, linux-oem-osp1, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws, linux-raspi2, and webkit2gtk). (Comment on this)
5:04p	[$] The 2019 Automated Testing Summit This year saw the second edition of the Automated Testing Summit (ATS) and the first that was open to all. Last year's ATS was an invitation-only gathering of around 35 developers (that was described in an LWN article), while this year's event attracted around 50 attendees; both were held in conjunction with the Embedded Linux Conference Europe (ELCE), in Edinburgh, Scotland for 2018 and in Lyon, France this year. The basic problem has not changed—more collaboration is needed between the different kernel testing systems—but the starting points have been identified and work is progressing, albeit slowly. Part of the problem, of course, is that all of these testing efforts have their own constituencies and customers, who must be kept up and running, even while any of this collaborative development is going on. (Comment on this)
5:47p	Announcing the Bytecode Alliance The Bytecode Alliance is an industry partnership with the aim of forging WebAssembly’s outside-the-browser future by collaborating on implementing standards and proposing new ones. The newly formed alliance has "a vision of a WebAssembly ecosystem that is secure by default, fixing cracks in today’s software foundations". The alliance is currently working on a standalone WebAssembly runtime, two use-case specific runtimes, runtime components, and language tooling. (Comment on this)
10:54p	[$] Analyzing kernel email Digging into the email that provides the cornerstone of Linux kernel development is an endeavor that has become more popular over the last few years. There are some practical reasons for analyzing the kernel mailing lists and for correlating that information with the patches that actually reach the mainline, including tracking the path that patches take—or don't take. Three researchers reported on some efforts they have made on kernel email analysis at the 2019 Embedded Linux Conference Europe (ELCE), held in late October in Lyon, France. (Comment on this)

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