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Thursday, March 12th, 2020

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    1:25a
    [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 12, 2020
    The LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 12, 2020 is available.
    3:00p
    Security updates for Thursday
    Security updates have been issued by CentOS (kernel), Debian (dojo, firefox-esr, sleuthkit, and wpa), Fedora (cacti, cacti-spine, and python-psutil), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (kernel), Scientific Linux (kernel), SUSE (ardana-ansible, ardana-cinder, ardana-cobbler, ardana-db, ardana-horizon, ardana-input-model, ardana-monasca, ardana-mq, ardana-nova, ardana-octavia, ardana-osconfig, ardana-tempest, ardana-tls, crowbar-core, crowbar-ha, crowbar-openstack, crowbar-ui, keepalived, openstack-barbican, openstack-ceilometer, openstack-cinder, openstack-dashboard, openstack-dashboard-theme-SUSE, openstack-designate, openstack-heat, openstack-horizon-plugin-designate-ui, openstack-horizon-plugin-ironic-ui, openstack-horizon-plugin-neutron-lbaas-ui, openstack-horizon-plugin-octavia-ui, openstack-ironic, openstack-ironic-python-agent, openstack-keystone, openstack-magnum, openstack-monasca-agent, openstack-neutron, openstack-neutron-fwaas, openstack-neutron-gbp, openstack-neutron-vpnaas, openstack-nova, openstack-octavia, openstack-octavia-amphora-image, openstack-sahara, openstack-swift, python-amqp, python-ironic-lib, python-keystoneauth1, python-keystoneclient, python-keystonemiddleware, python-ovs, supportutils-plugin-suse-openstack-cloud, rubygem-crowbar-client, rubygem-puma, venv-openstack-horizon, ardana-cinder, ardana-cobbler, ardana-designate, ardana-extensions-example, ardana-extensions-nsx, ardana-glance, ardana-heat, ardana-input-model, ardana-ironic, ardana-keystone, ardana-logging, ardana-monasca, ardana-monasca-transform, ardana-mq, ardana-neutron, ardana-nova, ardana-octavia, ardana-osconfig, ardana-tempest, crowbar-core, crowbar-ha, crowbar-openstack, crowbar-ui, keepalived, mariadb, openstack-cinder, openstack-dashboard, openstack-dashboard-theme-SUSE, openstack-heat, openstack-heat-templates, openstack-horizon-plugin-designate-ui, openstack-horizon-plugin-neutron-lbaas-ui, openstack-ironic, openstack-keystone, openstack-monasca-agent, openstack-neutron, openstack-neutron-gbp, openstack-neutron-vsphere, openstack-nova, openstack-octavia, openstack-octavia-amphora-image, openstack-resource-agents, openstack-sahara, openstack-trove, python-cinderlm, python-congressclient, python-designateclient, python-ironic-lib, python-ne tworking-cisco, python-osc-lib, python-oslo.context, python-oslo.rootwrap, python-oslo.serialization, python-oslo.service, python-stevedore, python-taskflow, rubygem-crowbar-client, rubygem-pumavenv-openstack-swift, firefox, ipmitool, kernel, and php72), and Ubuntu (firefox).
    8:14p
    [$] Dentry negativity
    Back in 2017, Waiman Long posted a patch
    set
    placing limits on the number of "negative dentries" stored by the
    kernel. The better part of three years later, that work continues with,
    seemingly, no better prospects for getting into the mainline. It would be
    understandable, though, if many people out there don't really know what
    negative dentries are or why kernel developers care about them. That, at
    least, can be fixed, even if the underlying problem seems to be more
    difficult.
    10:22p
    Stable kernels for everyone
    As expected, the
    5.5.9,
    5.4.25,
    4.19.109,
    4.14.173,
    4.9.216, and
    4.4.216
    stable kernels have all been released; each contains another set of
    important fixes.

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