Thursday, January 30th, 2020

Time	Event
12:32a	[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 30, 2020 The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 30, 2020 is available. (Comment on this)
2:43p	Security updates for Thursday Security updates have been issued by Debian (graphicsmagick, opensmtpd, webkit2gtk, wget, and zlib), openSUSE (apt-cacher-ng, GraphicsMagick, java-1_8_0-openjdk, mailman, mumble, rubygem-excon, sarg, and shadowsocks-libev), Oracle (libarchive and openjpeg2), Red Hat (firefox, fribidi, openjpeg2, SDL, and thunderbird), Scientific Linux (openjpeg2), SUSE (glibc, java-1_8_0-openjdk, and rmt-server), and Ubuntu (Apache Solr and webkit2gtk). (Comment on this)
3:01p	A new stable kernel crop Five new stable kernels have been released: 5.4.16, 4.19.100, 4.14.169, 4.9.212, and 4.4.212. As usual, each contains important fixes throughout the kernel tree. Users should upgrade. (Comment on this)
4:13p	Lars Kurth RIP Ian Jackson posted a note to the xen-announce mailing list with the sad news that Xen community manager and project advisory board member Lars Kurth has died. "I'm very sad to inform you that Lars Kurth passed away earlier this week. Many of us regarded Lars as a personal friend, and his loss is a great loss to the Xen Project. We plan to have a tribute to Lars on the XenProject blog in the near future. Those who are attending FOSDEM may wish to attend the short tribute we plan for Sunday morning: https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/vai_memory_of_lars_kurth/" (Comment on this)
4:18p	[$] The 5.6 merge window opens As of this writing, 4,726 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline repository for the 5.6 development cycle. That is a relatively slow start by contemporary kernel standards, but it still is enough to bring a number of new features, some of which have been pending for years, into the mainline. Read on for a summary of the changes pulled in the early part of the 5.6 merge window. (Comment on this)

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