Tuesday, February 4th, 2020

Time	Event
3:42p	Security updates for Tuesday Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (salt), CentOS (git), Debian (qtbase-opensource-src), Fedora (java-11-openjdk), Mageia (kernel and openjpeg2), openSUSE (mailman, python-reportlab, ucl, and upx), Oracle (git), Red Hat (container-tools:rhel8, go-toolset:rhel8, grub2, kernel, kernel-rt, php:7.2, and sudo), SUSE (crowbar-core, crowbar-openstack, openstack-neutron-fwaas, rubygem-crowbar-client and python36), and Ubuntu (python-django). (Comment on this)
9:45p	[$] Postponing some feature removals in Python 3.9 Python 2 was officially "retired" on the last day of 2019, so no bugs will be fixed or changes made in that version of the language, at least by the core developers—distributions and others will continue for some time to come. But there are lots of Python projects that still support Python 2.7 and may not be ready for an immediate clean break. Some changes that were made for the upcoming Python 3.9 release (which is currently scheduled for October) are causing headaches because support for long-deprecated 2.7-compatibility features is being dropped. That led to a discussion on the python-dev mailing list about postponing those changes to give a bit more time to projects that want to drop Python 2.7 support soon, but not immediately. (Comment on this)

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