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Tuesday, January 7th, 2020

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    3:51a
    [$] Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool
    The random-number generation facilities in the kernel have been reworked
    some over the past few months—but problems in that subsystem have been
    addressed over an even longer time frame. The most
    recent changes     were made to stop the getrandom() system call from
    blocking for long periods of time at system boot, but the underlying cause
    was the behavior of the blocking random pool. A recent patch set would
    remove that pool and it would seem to be headed for the mainline kernel.
    4:02p
    Security updates for Tuesday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (nss and pillow), Red Hat (java-1.8.0-ibm and kernel), Slackware (firefox), SUSE (virglrenderer), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.0, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gke-5.0, linux-kvm, linux-oem-osp1, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.0, linux-raspi2, linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, and linux-snapdragon).
    5:23p
    Firefox 72.0
    Firefox 72.0 has been released. In this version Firefox’s Enhanced
    Tracking Protection     now blocks fingerprinting
    scripts    . Also picture-in-picture video is available. See the release
    notes     for the details of these features and other changes.
    7:18p
    Ingebrigtsen: Whatever Happened To news.gmane.org?
    Lars Ingebrigtsen provides
    details     on the current status of the Gmane archive server and asks for
    feedback on whether it is still useful. "Over the past few years,
    people have asked me what happened to Gmane, and I’ve mostly clasped my
    hands over my ears and gone 'la la la can’t hear you', because there’s
    nothing about the story I’m now finally going to tell that I don’t find
    highly embarrassing. I had hoped I could just continue that way until I
    die, but perhaps it would be more constructive to actually tell people
    what’s going on instead of doing an ostrich impression.    " (Thanks to
    Giovanni Gherdovich).
    11:12p
    [$] The trouble with IPv6 extension headers
    It has taken longer than anybody might have liked, but the IPv6 protocol is
    slowly displacing IPv4 across the Internet. A quick, highly scientific
    "grep the access logs" test shows that about 16% of the traffic to
    LWN.net is currently using IPv6, and many large corporate networks are
    using IPv6 exclusively internally. This version of the IP protocol was
    designed to be more flexible than IPv4 in a number of ways; the "extension
    header" mechanism is one way in which that flexibility is achieved. A
    proposal to formalize extension-header processing in the kernel's
    networking stack has led to some concerns, though, about how this feature
    will be used and what role Linux should play in its development.

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