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Monday, March 23rd, 2020
| Time |
Event |
| 3:39a |
Kernel prepatch 5.6-rc7 The 5.6-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing; this may be the last one before the final release. " The world around us may be going through strange times, but at least
so far kernel development looks normal." | | 1:04p |
Git v2.26.0 released Version 2.26.0 of the Git source-code management system is out. Significant changes include a reimplementation of the "rebase" mechanism, improvements to sparse checkouts, performance improvements, and more. See this GitHub
blog entry for more information. | | 2:43p |
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (amd64-microcode, chromium, graphicsmagick, jackson-databind, phpmyadmin, python-bleach, and tor), Gentoo (exim and nodejs), openSUSE (chromium and thunderbird), Oracle (tomcat), Red Hat (devtoolset-8-gcc, libvncserver, runc, samba, thunderbird, and tomcat6), and SUSE (ruby2.5). | | 3:38p |
Parrot OS 4.8 released Parrot OS is a security and privacy focused distribution, with tools for cyber security operations. Parrot 4.8follows Debian testing and has many updates from the Debian repositories. Parrot Docker containers allow you to use Parrot tools on docker-supported operating systems. Since the previous release last September the Parrot team has put some effort into re-organizing its internal structure, from the operations and workflow of developers, up to the infrastructure. " After such a huge work, we have finally moved to the new workflow, and Parrot 4.8 is the proof of how hard we wanted such changes to take place in the project and how smooth development and cooperation became after achieving this goal." | | 6:46p |
MythTV 31 For those stuck at home looking for something to do, version 31 of the MythTV DVR and home media center hub, has been released. Features include, significant changes to video decoding and playback, improved channel scanning, and Python 3 support. See the release notes for more information. | | 7:20p |
Announcing Season of Docs 2020 Google Open Source has announcedthe 2020 edition of Season of Docs, a program to connect open source projects with technical writers to improve documentation. Open source organizations may apply from April 14-May 4. Once mentoring organizations and technical writers are connected, there will be a month long community bonding period, beginning August 11. Writers will then work with mentors to complete documentation projects by the December 6 deadline. |
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