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Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
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| 1:12a |
[$] Video conferencing with Jitsi Spring is coming to the northern hemisphere, and one's thoughts naturally turn to ... being locked up inside the house and not allowed to go anywhere. That has, in turn, led to an increasing interest in alternative mechanisms for keeping up with family and coworkers, especially video conferencing. There are a number of proprietary video-conferencing services out there; your editor decided to look into what solutions exist in the free-software realm. It turns out that there are a few; the first to be looked at is Jitsi. | | 2:51p |
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (tomcat8), Fedora (chromium and okular), openSUSE (texlive-filesystem), Oracle (tomcat6), Scientific Linux (libvncserver, thunderbird, and tomcat6), Slackware (gd), SUSE (cloud-init, postgresql10, python36, and strongswan), and Ubuntu (ibus and vim). | | 5:23p |
PSF: New pip resolver to roll out this year The Python Software Foundation blog looks
at some changes to pip, the Python Package installer, in the process of
developing a new resolver. The new resolver will reduce inconsistency and be
stricter, refusing to install two packages with incompatible requirements.
Also, this is a major change to a key part of pip - it's quite
possible there will initially be bugs. We would like to make sure that
those get caught before people start using the new version in
production. [...]
We recognize that everyone's work is being disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and that many data scientists and medical researchers use Python and pip in their work. We want to make the upgrade process as smooth and bug-free as possible for our users; if you can help us, you'll be helping each other.
| | 8:43p |
LLVM 10.0.0 released Version 10.0.0 of the LLVM compiler suite is out. New features include support for C++
concepts, Windows
control flow guard support, and much more; click below for pointers to a set of language-specific release notes. |
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