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Wednesday, January 29th, 2020

    Time Event
    2:17p
    Thunderbird spun out to a separate corporation
    The Thunderbird email client has been moved
    into a separate company     called "MZLA Technologies Corporation", which
    remains wholly owned by the Mozilla Foundation. "Moving to MZLA Technologies Corporation will not only allow the Thunderbird project more flexibility and agility, but will also allow us to explore offering our users products and services that were not possible under the Mozilla Foundation. The move will allow the project to collect revenue through partnerships and non-charitable donations, which in turn can be used to cover the costs of new products and services.

    Thunderbird’s focus isn’t going to change. We remain committed to creating
    amazing, open source technology focused on open standards, user privacy,
    and productive communication.    "
    2:21p
    LibreOffice 6.4 released
    Version
    6.4     of the LibreOffice productivity suite is out. It is said to be
    "a new major release providing better performance, especially when
    opening and saving spreadsheets and presentations, and excellent
    compatibility with DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files.    "
    3:54p
    Security updates for Wednesday
    Security updates have been issued by CentOS (apache-commons-beanutils, java-1.8.0-openjdk, libarchive, openjpeg2, openslp, python-reportlab, and sqlite), Debian (hiredis, otrs2, and unzip), openSUSE (apt-cacher-ng, git, samba, sarg, and storeBackup), Oracle (openjpeg2), Red Hat (libarchive, openjpeg2, sqlite, and virt:rhel), SUSE (aws-cli and python-reportlab), and Ubuntu (libgcrypt11, linux-aws-5.0, linux-gcp, linux-gke-5.0, linux-oracle-5.0, linux-hwe, linux-hwe, linux-aws-hwe, linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws, and openjdk-8, openjdk-lts).
    4:08p
    Unpleasant vulnerability in OpenSMTPD
    Qualys has put out an advisory regarding a vulnerability in OpenBSD's
    OpenSMTPD mail server. It "allows an attacker to execute arbitrary shell
    commands, as root: either locally, in OpenSMTPD's default configuration (which listens on
    the loopback interface and only accepts mail from localhost);
    or locally and remotely, in OpenSMTPD's 'uncommented' default
    configuration (which listens on all interfaces and accepts external
    mail).    " OpenBSD users would be well advised to update quickly.
    9:32p
    [$] Fedora gathering requirements for a Git forge
    Fedora currently uses Pagure to host
    many of its Git repositories and to handle things like documentation and
    bug tracking. But Pagure is maintained by the Red Hat Community Platform
    Engineering (CPE) team, which is currently straining under the load of
    managing the infrastructure and tools for Fedora and CentOS, while also maintaining
    the tools used by the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) team. That has led
    to a discussion about identifying the requirements for a "Git forge" and
    possibly moving away from Pagure.

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