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Monday, March 16th, 2020

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    1:44p
    Kernel prepatch 5.6-rc6
    The 5.6-rc6 kernel prepatch has been
    released. "Diffstat looks normal, and the number of commits is right in the
    middle of the usual range too. And I don't think any of the commits
    look all that strange either - it's all pretty small.    "
    2:00p
    Tails 4.4 released
    Version 4.4 of The Amnesic Incognito Live System (or Tails) has been released. It has fixed a bunch of security vulnerabilities in Tails 4.3; users are advised to "upgrade as soon as possible". Tails 4.4 brings new versions of the Tor Browser (9.0.6), Thunderbird (68.5.0), and the Linux kernel (5.4.19). It also fixes some problems with WiFi. Tails is a Linux distribution that runs from removable media; it is focused on privacy, security, and anonymity.
    2:45p
    Security updates for Monday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (graphicsmagick, qemu, and slurm-llnl), Fedora (ansible, couchdb, mediawiki, and python3-typed_ast), Gentoo (atftp, curl, file, gdb, git, gst-plugins-base, icu, libarchive, libgcrypt, libjpeg-turbo, libssh, libvirt, musl, nfdump, ppp, python, ruby-openid, runc, sqlite, squid, sudo, SVG Salamander, systemd, thunderbird, tiff, and webkit-gtk), Mageia (firefox, kernel, and thunderbird), openSUSE (firefox, librsvg, php7, and tomcat), Red Hat (firefox), Slackware (thunderbird), and SUSE (firefox, kernel, salt, and wireshark).
    3:26p
    Stable kernel 4.19.109
    Stable kernel 4.19.109 has been released. "This fixes a problem in 4.19.109 in the KVM subsystem. If you use KVM,
    you are strongly encouraged to upgrade. If not, no big deal, you can
    ignore this release.    "
    3:42p
    FSF: 2019 Free Software Awards
    The Free Software Foundation has announced
    the recipients of the 2019 Free Software Awards. A new category was added
    this year; the Award for
    Outstanding New Free Software Contributor     went to Clarissa Lima Borges,
    "a talented young Brazilian software engineering student whose
    Outreachy internship work focused on usability testing for various GNOME
    applications    ". The Project of social benefit
    award     went to Let's Encrypt, and the Award for the Advancement of
    Free Software     was given to Jim Meyering, "a prolific free software programmer, maintainer, and writer".
    11:12p
    [$] Filesystem-oriented flags: sad, messy and not going away
    Over the last decade, the addition of a "flags"
    argument     to all new system calls, even if no flags are actually needed
    at the
    outset, has been widely adopted as a best practice. The result has
    certainly been greater API extensibility, but we have also seen a proliferation of
    various types of flags for related system calls. For calls related to
    files and filesystems, in particular, the available flags have reached a
    point where some calls will need as many as three arguments for them
    rather than just one.

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