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Monday, January 27th, 2020

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    2:38p
    The 5.5 kernel is out
    In the end, Linus decided to release the 5.5
    kernel     rather than going for another prepatch. "So despite the
    slight worry that the holidays might have affected the schedule, 5.5 ended
    up with the regular rc cadence and is out now.    " Some of the significant
    features in this release are
    iopl() emulation,
    many new io_uring commands,
    live-patch
    state tracking    ,
    type checking for BPF tracepoint programs,
    a new CPU
    load-balancing algorithm    ,
    the KUnit unit-testing framework,
    airtime queue limits for WiFi,
    and much more. See the
    KernelNewbies 5.5 changelog     for more information.
    3:08p
    Security updates for Monday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (jsoup and slirp), Fedora (community-mysql, elog, fontforge, libuv, libvpx, mingw-podofo, nodejs, opensc, podofo, thunderbird-enigmail, transfig, and xfig), openSUSE (arc, libssh, and libvpx), Red Hat (git, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, python-reportlab, and sqlite), Slackware (thunderbird), and SUSE (java-1_8_0-openjdk, python, and samba).
    3:12p
    Stable kernel 5.4.15
    Stable kernel 5.4.15 has been released with
    important fixes throughout the tree. Users should upgrade.
    5:00p
    Two more stable kernels
    Stable kernels 4.19.99 and 4.14.168. As usual, there are important fixes
    and users should upgrade.
    7:47p
    Qt offering changes 2020
    The Qt blog has announced some
    changes     in how the Qt toolkit is offered to consumers. Notably,
    installation of Qt binaries will require a Qt Account and
    long-term-supported (LTS) releases and the offline installer will become
    available to commercial licensees only. "From February onward, everyone, including open-source Qt users, will require valid Qt accounts to download Qt binary packages. We changed this because we think that a Qt account lets you make the best use of our services and contribute to Qt as an open-source user.

    We want open-source users to help improve Qt in one form or another, be that through bug reports, forums, code reviews, or similar. These are currently only accessible from a Qt account, which is why having one will become mandatory.    "

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