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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
| Time |
Event |
| 2:49p |
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (libssh, python35, and xen), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (librepo and mysql:8.0), SUSE (perl-DBI), and Ubuntu (Apache Log4j, Apache XML-RPC, bsdiff, libdbi-perl, luajit, milkytracker, OpenJPEG, ruby-loofah, and ruby-websocket-extensions). | | 2:58p |
GNOME 3.38 released Version 3.38 of the GNOME desktop environment is out. " This release brings a new Welcome tour, improved grouping and reordering
of applications in the overview, better fingerprint enrollment, deeper
systemd integration, and more." See the release
notes for details. | | 11:19p |
[$] Key signing in the pandemic era
The pandemic has changed many things in our communities, even though distance
has always played a big role in free software development. Annual in-person
gatherings for conferences and the like are generally paused at the moment,
but even after travel and congregating become reasonable again,
face-to-face meetings may be less frequent. There are both positives and
negatives to that outcome, of course, but some rethinking will be in order
if that comes to pass. The process of key signing is something that may need
to change as well; the Debian project, which uses signed keys,
has been discussing the subject. | | 11:25p |
[$] News from PHP: releases, features, and syntax
As the PHP project nears its 8.0 release, which is currently slated for late
November, there are a number of interesting things to report from its
development mailing list. For one, the syntax of the attributes feature has
finally been settled on after an acrimonious debate largely over the minutiae
of the voting process. In addition, some releases were made and a new
proposal to add any() and all() as core library functions
was discussed. |
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