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Monday, December 16th, 2019

    Time Event
    3:00a
    Kernel prepatch 5.5-rc2
    The second 5.5 kernel prepatch is out.
    "Things look normal - rc2 is usually fairly calm, and so it was this
    week too.    "
    3:25p
    Security updates for Monday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (davical, intel-microcode, libpgf, php-horde, spamassassin, spip, and thunderbird), Mageia (clementine, dnsmasq, git, jasper, kdelibs4, kernel, libcroco, libgit2, libvirt, ncurses, openafs, proftpd, qbittorrent, signing-party, squid, and wireshark), openSUSE (java-1_8_0-openjdk and postgresql), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (chromium-browser and openslp), and SUSE (kernel, libssh, and xen).
    3:32p
    Stable kernel updates
    Stable kernels 5.4.3, 5.3.16, and 4.19.89 have been released. They all contain
    important fixes throughout the tree and users should upgrade.
    5:51p
    Wong: XFS - 2019 Development Retrospective
    XFS filesystem maintainer Darrick Wong summarizes
    the significant XFS developments     from the last year. "The year
    2038 poses a special problem for Linux -- any signed 32-bit seconds counter
    will overflow back to 1901. Work is underway in the kernel to extend all of
    those counters to support 64-bit counters fully. In 2020, we will begin
    work on extending XFS's metadata (primarily inode timestamps and quota
    expiration timer) to support timestamps out to the year 2486. It should be
    possible to upgrade to existing V5 filesystems.    "

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