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Thursday, November 5th, 2020
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Event |
| 1:05a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 5, 2020
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 5, 2020 is available. | | 2:24p |
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (bouncycastle, gdm3, and libonig), Fedora (arpwatch, thunderbird, and trousers), openSUSE (chromium, gn), Red Hat (freetype, libX11, thunderbird, and xorg-x11-server), and SUSE (ImageMagick, java-11-openjdk, salt, and wireshark). | | 2:24p |
New stable kernels Four new stable kernels have been released: 5.9.5, 5.4.75,
4.19.155, and 4.14.204. They are fairly large updates with
lots of important fixes throughout the kernel tree; users should upgrade.
Update: 5.9.6 has been released to
fix a build problem with 5.9.5: "if 5.9.5 built properly for you, wonderful,
no need to upgrade". | | 8:25p |
[$] Deprecating scp The scpcommand, which uses the SSH protocol to copy files between machines, is deeply wired into the fingers of many Linux users and developers — doubly so for those of us who still think of it as a more secure replacement for rcp. Many users may be surprised to learn, though, that the resemblance to rcp goes beyond the name; much of the underlying protocol is the same as well. That protocol is showing its age, and the OpenSSH community has considered it deprecated for a while. Replacing scp in a way that keeps users happy may not be an easy task, though. |
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