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Tuesday, January 28th, 2020

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    2:59a
    [$] Some 5.5 kernel development statistics
    The 5.5 kernel was released on
    January 26. Over the course of this development cycle, it was
    occasionally said that the holidays were slowing contributions. At the
    end, though, 5.5 saw the merging of 14,350 non-merge changesets from 1,885
    developers — not exactly a slow-moving cycle. Indeed, 5.5 just barely
    edged out 5.4 as the kernel with the most developers ever. Read on for our
    traditional look at where the contributions to 5.5 came from, along with a
    digression into the stable-update process.
    3:56p
    Security updates for Tuesday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (iperf3, openjpeg2, and tomcat7), Mageia (ansible, c3p0, fontforge, glpi, gthumb, libbsd, libmediainfo, libmp4v2, libqb, libsass, mbedtls, opencontainers-runc, php, python-pip, python-reportlab, python3, samba, sysstat, tomcat, virtualbox, and webkit2), openSUSE (java-11-openjdk, libredwg, and sarg), Oracle (sqlite), Red Hat (libarchive, nss, and openjpeg2), Scientific Linux (sqlite), SUSE (nodejs6), and Ubuntu (cyrus-sasl2, linux, linux-aws, linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon, linux, linux-aws, linux-oem, mysql-5.7, mysql-8.0, tcpdump, and tomcat8).
    10:17p
    [$] Cryptography and elections
    Transparent and verifiable electronic elections are technically feasible,
    but for a variety of reasons, the techniques used are not actually viable for
    running most elections—and definitely not for remote voting. That was one of the
    main takeaways from a keynote at this year's linux.conf.au given by University of
    Melbourne Associate
    Professor Vanessa Teague. She is a cryptographer who, along with her
    colleagues, has investigated
    several kinds of e-voting software; as is
    probably not all that much of a surprise, what they found is buggy
    implementations. She described some of that work in a
    talk that was a mix of math with software-company and government missteps; the latter may
    directly impact many of the Australian locals who were in attendance.

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