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Monday, November 18th, 2019

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    2:06p
    Kernel prepatch 5.4-rc8
    As expected, 5.4-rc8 was released on
    November 17 rather than the final 5.4 release.
    "I'm not entirely sure we need an rc8, because last week was pretty
    calm despite the Intel hw workarounds landing. So I considered just
    making a final 5.4 and be done with it, but decided that there's no
    real downside to just doing the rc8 after having a release cycle that
    took a while to calm down.    "
    3:53p
    Security updates for Monday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (angular.js, libapache2-mod-auth-openidc, mosquitto, postgresql-common, and thunderbird), Fedora (chromium, djvulibre, freetds, ghostscript, java-1.8.0-openjdk-aarch32, samba, thunderbird-enigmail, wpa_supplicant, and xen), openSUSE (go1.12, ImageMagick, and ucode-intel), Oracle (ghostscript and kernel), Red Hat (libcomps and sudo), Slackware (kernel), SUSE (microcode_ctl, slurm, and ucode-intel), and Ubuntu (mysql-5.7, mysql-8.0 and python-ecdsa).
    4:04p
    Two stable kernels
    Stable kernels 4.9.202 and 4.4.202 have been released. They both contain
    important fixes and users should upgrade.
    6:36p
    [$] Some near-term arm64 hardening patches
    The arm64 architecture is found at the core of many, if not most, mobile
    devices; that means that arm64 devices are destined to be the target of
    attackers worldwide. That has led to a high level of interest in
    technologies that can harden these systems. There are currently several
    such technologies, based in both hardware and software, that are being
    readied for the arm64 kernel; read on for a survey on what is
    coming.

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