Monday, February 24th, 2020

Time	Event
3:39p	Security updates for Monday Security updates have been issued by Debian (libpam-radius-auth, pillow, ppp, proftpd-dfsg, and python-pysaml2), Fedora (firefox, glib2, hiredis, http-parser, libuv, mingw-openjpeg2, nghttp2, nodejs, openjpeg2, python-pillow, skopeo, and webkit2gtk3), Mageia (patch, postgresql, and systemd), Red Hat (ksh, nodejs:10, openjpeg2, python-pillow, systemd, and thunderbird), and SUSE (java-1_7_1-ibm, libsolv, libzypp, zypper, pdsh, slurm_18_08, and php53). (Comment on this)
3:47p	Stable kernel updates Stable kernels 5.5.6, 5.4.22, and 4.19.106 have been released. They all have a large set of important fixes. (Comment on this)
4:47p	Kernel prepatch 5.6-rc3 The 5.6-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus says: "Fairly normal rc3 as far as I can tell. We've seen bigger, but we've seen smaller ones too. Maybe this is slightly on the low side of average at this time, which would make sense since this was a smaller merge window. Anyway, too much noise in the signal to be sure either way." (Comment on this)
10:21p	[$] watch_mount(), watch_sb(), and fsinfo() (again) Filesystems, by design, hide a lot of complexity from users. At times, though, those users need to be able to look inside the black box and extract information about what is going on within a filesystem. Answering this need is David Howells, the creator of a number of filesystem-oriented system calls; in this patch set he tries to add three more, one of which we have seen before and two of which are new. (Comment on this)

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