| 3:28a |
The 5.4 kernel has been released Linus has released the 5.4 kernel. " Not a lot happened this last week, which is just how I like
it". Significant features in this release include the haltpollCPU governor, the iocost (formerly io.weight) I/O controller, the EROFS filesystem, an implementation of the exFAT filesystemthat may yet be superseded by a better version, the fs-verity file integrity mechanism, support for the BPF
compile once, run everywhere mechanism, the dm-clonedevice mapper target, the virtiofsfilesystem, kernel lockdown support (at last), kernel symbol namespaces, and a new random-number generator meant to solve the early-boot entropy problem. See the KernelNewbies 5.4
page for a lot more details. |
| 3:33p |
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, enigmail, isc-dhcp, libice, libofx, and pam-python), Fedora (chromium, ghostscript, mingw-cfitsio, mingw-gdal, mingw-libidn2, and rsyslog), Gentoo (adobe-flash, chromium, expat, and firefox), openSUSE (apache2-mod_perl, haproxy, java-11-openjdk, and ncurses), Oracle (ghostscript, kernel, php:7.2, php:7.3, and sudo), Red Hat (chromium-browser, python27-python, and SDL), and Ubuntu (dpdk and libvpx). |