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Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
| Time |
Event |
| 1:43p |
LibreOffice 7.0 released Version 7.0 of the LibreOffice office suite is out. It brings a long list of new features, including: " support for OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.3; Skia graphics engine and Vulkan
GPU-based acceleration for better performance; and carefully improved
compatibility with DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files". The plan to create a differentiated "enterprise edition" that was discussed in July has been deferred and is not part of this release. | | 2:47p |
Another set of stable kernels The 5.7.13, 5.4.56, 4.19.137, and 4.14.192stable kernel updates have been released; each contains another set of important fixes. | | 2:48p |
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (net-snmp), Fedora (mingw-curl), openSUSE (firefox, ghostscript, and opera), Oracle (libvncserver and postgresql-jdbc), Scientific Linux (postgresql-jdbc), SUSE (firefox, kernel, libX11, xen, and xorg-x11-libX11), and Ubuntu (apport, grub2, grub2-signed, libssh, libvirt, mysql-8.0, ppp, tomcat8, and whoopsie). | | 4:11p |
[$] "Structural pattern matching" for Python, part 1 We last looked at the idea of a Python "match" or "switch" statement back in 2016, but it is something that has been circulating in the Python community both before and since that coverage. In June it was raised again, with a Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) supporting it: PEP 622(" Structural Pattern Matching"). As that title would imply, the match statement proposed in the PEP is actually a pattern-matching construct with many uses. While it may superficially resemble the C switch statement, a Python match would do far more than simply choose a chunk of code to execute based on the value of an expression. | | 7:44p |
Firefox extended tracking protection This
Mozilla Security Blog entry describes the new redirect-tracking protections soon to be provided by the Firefox browser. " ETP 2.0
clears cookies and site data from tracking sites every 24 hours, except for
those you regularly interact with. We’ll be rolling ETP 2.0 out to all
Firefox users over the course of the next few weeks." | | 7:56p |
[$] Checking out FreeCAD Our look at running a CNC milling machine using open-source software led me to another tool worth looking at: FreeCAD. I wasn't previously familiar with the program, so I decided to check it out. In this article I will walk through my experiences with using FreeCAD for the first time to do a variety of CNC-related tasks I normally would have used a commercial product for. I had varying degrees of success in my endeavors, but in the end came away with a positive opinion. |
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