Monday, December 7th, 2020

Time	Event
12:48a	Kernel prepatch 5.10-rc7 Linus has released 5.10-rc7 for testing; he seems happy with how it is coming together. "So unless something odd and bad happens next week, we'll have a final 5.10 release next weekend, and then we'll get the bulk of the merge window for 5.11 over and done with before the holiday season starts." (Comment on this)
3:56p	Security updates for Monday Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (ceph, gitea, matrix-synapse, musl, mutt, neomutt, opensc, and webkit2gtk), Debian (debian-security-support, openldap, salt, xen, and xorg-server), Fedora (fossil, pdfresurrect, tcpdump, thunderbird, and xorg-x11-server), Gentoo (chromium, firefox, mariadb, pam, postgresql, seamonkey, thunderbird, and xorg-server), Mageia (mutt, pdfresurrect, privoxy, and thunderbird), openSUSE (chromium, java-1_8_0-openjdk, kernel, minidlna, neomutt, opera, pngcheck, python, python-cryptography, python-pip, python-setuptools, python3, rclone, thunderbird, xen, and xorg-x11-server), Red Hat (ksh and net-snmp), and SUSE (crowbar-openstack, grafana, influxdb, python-urllib3, fontforge, mariadb, mutt, postgresql12, python-cryptography, and xen). (Comment on this)
5:50p	Bash 5.1 and Readline 8.1 released Bash 5.1 is out. "This release fixes several outstanding bugs in bash-5.0 and introduces several new features. The most significant change is a return to the bash-4.4 behavior of not performing pathname expansion on a word that contains backslashes but does not contain any unquoted globbing special characters. This comes after a long POSIX discussion that resulted in a change to the standard. There are several changes regarding trap handling while reading from the terminal (e.g, for `read' and `select'.) There are a number of bug fixes, including several bugs that caused the shell to crash." The readline library used in bash 5.1 has also been updated to version 8.1. "There are more improvements in the programming interface and new user-visible variables and bindable commands. There are a several new public API functions, but there should be no incompatible changes to existing APIs." (Comment on this)
10:39p	2019-2020 State of Mozilla Mozilla has released its annual report: "Every year in the spirit of openness upon which Mozilla was founded, we share publicly the ways we have protected, fought for and helped advance the internet in service of the people who rely on it every day. We outline how our organization is meeting the challenges of online life through an annual report: the State of Mozilla. This year we’ve changed the format of our report to focus on how we are using our organization’s strength and resources on two fronts: Fighting for People and Building for the Future. This report highlights the impact of our work in 2020 and is accompanied by our most recently filed financials which cover 2019. As the State of Mozilla outlines, Mozilla works to make the promise of a better internet a reality. We can’t and we don’t do it alone. There are myriad ways anyone can join this effort through actions big and small, starting with getting better educated on what’s at stake; pushing companies to operate more transparently and in the interest of communities and people, not just profits; testing new products; and choosing technology made by companies who share your vision for a healthier internet." (Comment on this)
11:52p	[$] Sidestepping kernel memory management with DMEMFS One of the kernel's primary jobs is to manage the memory installed in the system. Over the years, though, there have been various reasons for removing a portion of the system's memory from the kernel's view. One of the latest can be seen in a mechanism called DMEMFS, which is being proposed as a way to get around some inefficiency in how the kernel keeps track of RAM. (Comment on this)

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