Monday, June 1st, 2020

Time	Event
2:25a	The 5.7 kernel is out Linus has released the 5.7 kernel right on schedule. Headline features in 5.7 include x86 split-lock detection, thermal-pressure management, frequency invariance in the load-tracking code, coexistence between BPF and realtime preemption, support for BPF security hook programs (formerly called the KRSI security module), a new, Microsoft-blessed exFAT filesystem implementation, and more. The final patch to be merged was this one deprecating the long-standing 80-column limit for kernel source. See the KernelNewbies 5.7 page for lots of details. (Comment on this)
2:49p	Security updates for Monday Security updates have been issued by Debian (bind9, dosfstools, gst-plugins-good0.10, gst-plugins-ugly0.10, json-c, php-horde, php-horde-gollem, salt, and sane-backends), Fedora (drupal7, marked, NetworkManager, and wireshark), Mageia (gdb, jasper, and json-c), openSUSE (freetds, jasper, libmspack, mariadb-connector-c, sysstat, and trousers), Red Hat (bind), Scientific Linux (bind and freerdp), and SUSE (file-roller and java-11-openjdk). (Comment on this)
3:23p	[$] A possible end to the FSGSBASE saga The FSGSBASE patch series is up to its thirteenth version as of late May. It enables some "new" instructions for the x86 architecture, opening the way for a number of significant performance improvements. One might think that such a patch series would be a shoo-in, but FSGSBASE has had a troubled history; meanwhile, the delays in getting it merged may have led to a number of users installing root holes on their Linux systems in the hope of improving security. (Comment on this)

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