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Thursday, April 2nd, 2020
| Time |
Event |
| 12:54a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 2, 2020
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 2, 2020 is available. | | 2:21p |
LineageOS 17.1 released LineageOS 17.1 is out. This release of the Android-based distribution once known as CyanogenMod includes a rebase onto the Android 10 release of the Android Open Source Project, improved theme support, support for on-screen fingerprint sensors, the ability to use biometric sensors to control access to apps, and more. " On the whole, we feel that the
17.1 branch has reached feature and stability parity with 16.0 and is ready
for initial release. With 17.1 being the most recent and most actively
developed branch, on April 1st, 2020 it will begin receiving nightly builds
and 16.0 will be moved to weekly builds." | | 2:55p |
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (chromium, kernel, linux-hardened, linux-lts, and pam-krb5), Debian (haproxy, libplist, and python-bleach), Fedora (tomcat), Gentoo (ghostscript-gpl, haproxy, ledger, qtwebengine, and virtualbox), Red Hat (haproxy, nodejs:12, qemu-kvm-rhev, and rh-haproxy18-haproxy), SUSE (memcached and qemu), and Ubuntu (apport). | | 3:23p |
Stable kernel 5.6.2 The 5.6.2 stable kernel has been released with some important fixes, including one for the 5.6 wireless regression. Users should upgrade. | | 3:45p |
[$] Frequency-invariant utilization tracking for x86 The kernel provides a number of CPU-frequency governors to choose from; by most accounts, the most effective of those is "schedutil", which was merged for the 4.7 kernel in 2016. While schedutil is used on mobile devices, it still doesn't see much use on x86 desktops; the intel_pstategovernor is generally seen giving better results on those processors as a result of the secret knowledge embodied therein. A set of patches merged for 5.7, though, gives schedutil a better idea of what the true utilization of x86 processors is and, as a result, greatly improves its effectiveness. | | 7:21p |
Guix deprecating support for the Linux kernel GNU Guix is a transactional package manager and an advanced distribution of the GNU system which uses the Linux-libre kernel. The project has announcedthat Guix now runs natively on GNU/Hurd and the Linux-libre kernel is deprecated. " Running on the Hurd was always a goal for Guix, and supporting multiple kernels is a huge maintenance burden. As such it is expected that the upcoming Guix 1.1 release will be the last version featuring the Linux-Libre kernel. Future versions of Guix System will run exclusively on the Hurd, and we expect to remove Linux-Libre entirely by Guix 2.0." | | 8:38p |
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