LWN.net's Journal
[Most Recent Entries]
[Calendar View]
Thursday, August 6th, 2020
| Time |
Event |
| 12:43a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 6, 2020
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 6, 2020 is available. | | 4:11p |
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (clamav and json-c), Fedora (python2, python36, and python37), Red Hat (thunderbird), Scientific Linux (thunderbird), SUSE (java-11-openjdk, kernel, rubygem-actionview-4_2, wireshark, xen, and xrdp), and Ubuntu (openjdk-8 and ppp). | | 4:26p |
The GNU C Library version 2.32 is now available Version 2.32 of the GNU C
Library (glibc) has been released. It contains support for Unicode 13.0.0, a new Kurdish/Sorani locale ( ckb_IQ), support for audit modules listed in ELF sections of the executable, support for Synopsys ARC HS cores, new signal abbreviation and descriptive text functions ( sigabbrev_np() and sigdescr_np()), similar functions for errno values ( strerrorname_np() and strerrordesc_np()), branch protection security hardening for arm64, and more. There are also lots of bug fixes, deprecations, and removals, as well as four security fixes. More information can be found in the release notes. | | 11:31p |
[$] PHP struggles with attributes syntax PHP 8.0 is on the horizon, and the project has imposed a feature-freeze for the release. There's one exception to the feature-freeze, though: the new attributes syntax. An attribute is syntactical metadata for PHP code, identical to what is called an "annotation" in other languages. Even though attributes have been voted on multiple times by the community, major contributor and creator of XDebug Derick Rethans threw a wrench into the works days before the feature-freeze by challenging the current syntax. The ensuing discussion lead to the fourth attributes proposal for the year, with a special feature-freeze exception being made by release manager Sara Golemon. This exception gives Rethans one more opportunity to convince the community to change how attributes work up to the Beta 3 release, scheduled for September 3. |
|